Georgia K.T.C.2

K.T.C.2 is a Georgia English Language Arts standard. These are the expectations under it.

• K.T.C.2.a

  Identify the authors and illustrators of picture books and explain their roles. (I)

01

What Students Need to Do

Students identify who wrote a text and whose voice they hear in it. They use pictures, names, dialogue, and story details to tell the author from the speaker.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students name the author as the person who wrote the text and identify the speaker as the voice telling or saying the words. They explain that the author can create a speaker who is different from the author.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think the person reading aloud is the author. They may also assume the author is always the speaker or confuse the illustrator with the author.

04

How to Assess It

Read a short first-person poem and show the author’s name. Ask, “Who wrote the poem, who is speaking, and what clue helped you decide?”

1. 01

   Match book-cover author cards to speech bubbles showing the character or narrator who speaks in each familiar text.

2. 02

   After a read-aloud, ask, “Is the author speaking as themselves or through a character, and what makes you think so?”

3. 03

   Play Author or Speaker by reading names and text lines while students hold up the matching author or speaker card.

4. 04

   Compare a school announcement writer with the student who reads it aloud, then discuss how their roles differ.

• 2.T.C.2

  The 2nd Grade version of this standard.

• 1.T.C.2

  The 1st Grade version of this standard.

• 3.T.C.2

  Authors & Speakers Make connections between authors of texts, speakers in texts, varying perspectives, and the circumstances in which texts are produced.

• 4.T.C.2

  Authors & Speakers Make connections between authors of texts, speakers in texts, varying perspectives, and the circumstances in which texts are produced.