---
title: "1.T.C.1: Author's Purpose and Audience (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
code: 1.T.C.1
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, English Language Arts, 1.T.C.1
subject: ela
grades:
  - grade-1
language: en
canonical_url: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/1.T.C.1
md_url: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/1.T.C.1.md
alternate_language_url: https://georgiahomeroom.org/es/standards/code/1.T.C.1.md
source_url: https://case.georgiastandards.org/ims/case/v1p0/CFDocuments/391c3abe-c1ec-4a4a-a942-c9e152b35102
source_last_changed: 2025-11-14
data_built: 2026-09-18
publisher: Georgia Homeroom, a free public-interest project of Georgia Civic Data. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Georgia Department of Education or any school district.
up: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-1.md
index: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/index.md
---

# 1.T.C.1: Author's Purpose and Audience

Explain how authors of texts use language for a specific purpose and a target audience.

- Subject: English Language Arts
- Appears in: Grade 1, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-1.md

## Expectations

- **1.T.C.1.a**: Identify the general purpose (e.g., to tell stories, to provide information, to share opinions, to explain ideas) and target audience in a variety of texts. (I)
- **1.T.C.1.b**: Identify different modes of communication: print, digital, auditory, and visual. (I)
- **1.T.C.1.c**: Create texts in teacher-selected modes (e.g., print, digital, auditory, and/or visual). (C)

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

## The same standard across grades

- Kindergarten, K.T.C.1: **Purpose & Audience** Explain how authors of texts use language for a specific purpose and a target audience. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/K.T.C.1.md
- **Grade 1, 1.T.C.1 (this standard)**: **Purpose & Audience** Explain how authors of texts use language for a specific purpose and a target audience.
- Grade 2, 2.T.C.1: **Purpose & Audience** Explain how authors of texts use language for a specific purpose and a target audience. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/2.T.C.1.md
- Grade 3, 3.T.C.1: **Purpose & Audience** Use knowledge of purposes and audiences, as well as the language that develops those relationships, to make meaning of texts in multiple modes. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/3.T.C.1.md
- Grade 4, 4.T.C.1: **Purpose & Audience** Use knowledge of purposes and audiences, as well as the language that develops those relationships, to make meaning of texts in multiple modes. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/4.T.C.1.md
- Grade 5, 5.T.C.1: **Purpose & Audience** Use knowledge of purposes and audiences, as well as the language that develops those relationships, to make meaning of texts in multiple modes. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/5.T.C.1.md
- Grade 6, 6.T.C.1: **Purpose & Audience** Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/6.T.C.1.md
- Grade 7, 7.T.C.1: **Purpose & Audience** Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/7.T.C.1.md
- Grade 8, 8.T.C.1: **Purpose & Audience** Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/8.T.C.1.md
- Grade 9, 9.T.C.1: **Purposes & Audiences** Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/9.T.C.1.md
- Grade 10, 10.T.C.1: **Purposes & Audiences** Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/10.T.C.1.md
- Grade 11, 11.T.C.1: **Purposes & Audiences** Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/11.T.C.1.md
- Grade 12, 12.T.C.1: **Purposes & Audiences** Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/12.T.C.1.md

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.