Georgia 8.T.C.1

8.T.C.1 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.

• 8.T.C.1.a

  Analyze the development of multiple purposes within a single text and how those purposes target specific audiences. (I)

• 8.T.C.1.b

  Use text mode features to aid comprehension and analysis of a variety of disciplinary texts and their related contexts. (I)

• 8.T.C.1.c

  Construct multimodal texts and/or presentations that serve more than one purpose and target a specific audience, using multiple, clearly identifiable features o...

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What Students Need to Do

Students determine whom a text addresses and what the writer wants that audience to think, feel, know, or do. They explain how specific writing choices serve those goals.

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What Mastery Looks Like

A student can identify a specific audience and purpose, then support both with text evidence. The student can explain how tone, details, structure, and word choice affect that audience.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may confuse the topic with the writer’s purpose. They may name a general audience, such as “everyone,” without using evidence from tone, details, or word choice.

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How to Assess It

Give students a school event announcement written for families. Ask them to identify the audience and purpose, then cite two choices shaped by both.

1. 01

   Sort printed ads, speeches, articles, and posts by likely audience and purpose, then label the clues used for each choice.

2. 02

   Write about how a principal’s message on phone use would change when addressed to students, families, or teachers.

3. 03

   Play Audience Switch, where teams rewrite one sentence for a new audience and classmates guess who should receive it.

4. 04

   Compare a company’s product page with its social media ad, noting how each version targets different readers and goals.

• 6.T.C.1

  The 6th Grade version of this standard.

• 9.T.C.1

  Purposes & Audiences Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts.

• 7.T.C.1

  The 7th Grade version of this standard.

• 12.T.C.1

  Purposes & Audiences Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts.