Georgia 9.P.AC.1.a
The Standard
Identify, apply, and analyze the literary, expository, and opinion (grades K-5) or rhetorical (grades 6-12) elements in texts, explaining or evaluating how specific elements affect the target audience and support the text’s purpose. (I/C)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P) · Author’s Craft
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students locate meaningful craft choices in literary, informational, and argumentative texts. They explain how each choice affects an intended audience and serves a purpose, then apply similar choices in writing.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students cite a specific word, structure, image, or device and explain how it shapes a likely audience response. They also use a chosen technique effectively in their own paragraph.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often name a device without explaining what it does. They may confuse the author’s purpose with the topic, or assume every reader reacts the same way.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short advertisement and ask: “Identify one rhetorical choice, explain its effect on the intended audience, and connect it to the creator’s purpose.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups a printed speech and three highlighters to mark repetition, appeals, and charged language, then annotate each effect.
Ask students to compare two headlines and write which audience each targets, using specific wording as evidence.
Play Craft Choice Match by pairing technique cards with purpose and audience-effect cards, then require students to defend each match.
Analyze a school flyer or social media post, then revise one element to appeal to a different audience.
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