Georgia 9.P.AC.3.a
The Standard
Explore and create texts in various modes and genres, developing and applying knowledge of how specific features impact meaning, tone, style, purpose, and audience. (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 examine how wording, structure, layout, images, and sound affect a text. They create and revise texts so their choices fit a clear purpose, audience, genre, and tone.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students compare how two texts on the same topic use structure, wording, images, or sound differently. They create a text with deliberate choices and explain how those choices shape the reader’s response.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may name a feature without explaining its effect on the reader. They may confuse tone with mood or add images, sound, and formatting as decoration rather than purposeful choices.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short news paragraph. Ask them to redesign it as a three-panel social media post for teenagers and annotate two choices that suit the audience.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups a cut-up article to rearrange, then add a headline, image, and caption that create a clear tone.
Ask students to compare a print advertisement and video advertisement, then write which craft choices best reach the intended audience.
Play Craft Choice Match by pairing purpose cards with feature cards, then require students to defend each match in one sentence.
Have students redesign a school announcement as an email for families and a social media post for students. Translate contrasting craft choices into revised language.
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