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title: "2.P.AC.1: Reading Like a Writer (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
code: 2.P.AC.1
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# 2.P.AC.1: Reading Like a Writer

Interpret texts through the author’s lens by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating craft techniques that are connected to the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions triggered by the text.

- Subject: English Language Arts
- Appears in: Grade 2, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-2.md

## Expectations

- **2.P.AC.1.a**: 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)
- **2.P.AC.1.b**: Identify, apply, and analyze important, interesting, or effective uses of language, explaining or evaluating how specific word choices affect the target audience and support the text’s purpose. (I/C)
- **2.P.AC.1.c**: Explain, analyze, and evaluate how the author’s use of sentence structure and syntax affects the target audience and supports the text’s purpose. (I/C)
- **2.P.AC.1.d**: Describe, analyze, and evaluate the design and organization of the text, explaining how specific formats, structures, patterns, and features influence the audience, contribute to the text’s accessibility, and support the text’s purpose. (I/C)

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

## The same standard across grades

- Kindergarten, K.P.AC.1: **Reading like a Writer** Interpret texts through the author’s lens by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating craft techniques that are connected to the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions triggered by the text. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/K.P.AC.1.md
- Grade 1, 1.P.AC.1: **Reading like a Writer** Interpret texts through the author’s lens by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating craft techniques that are connected to the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions triggered by the text. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/1.P.AC.1.md
- **Grade 2, 2.P.AC.1 (this standard)**: **Reading like a Writer** Interpret texts through the author’s lens by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating craft techniques that are connected to the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions triggered by the text.
- Grade 3, 3.P.AC.1: **Reading like a Writer** Interpret texts through the author’s lens by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating craft techniques that are connected to the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions triggered by the text. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/3.P.AC.1.md
- Grade 4, 4.P.AC.1: **Reading like a Writer** Interpret texts through the author’s lens by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating craft techniques that are connected to the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions triggered by the text. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/4.P.AC.1.md
- Grade 5, 5.P.AC.1: **Reading like a Writer** Interpret texts through the author’s lens by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating craft techniques that are connected to the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions triggered by the text. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/5.P.AC.1.md
- Grade 6, 6.P.AC.1: **Reading like a Writer** Interpret texts through the author’s lens by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating craft techniques that are connected to the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions triggered by the text. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/6.P.AC.1.md
- Grade 7, 7.P.AC.1: **Reading like a Writer** Interpret texts through the author’s lens by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating craft techniques that are connected to the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions triggered by the text. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/7.P.AC.1.md
- Grade 8, 8.P.AC.1: **Reading like a Writer** Interpret texts through the author’s lens by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating craft techniques that are connected to the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions triggered by the text. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/8.P.AC.1.md
- Grade 9, 9.P.AC.1: **Reading like a Writer** Interpret texts through the author’s lens by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating craft techniques that are connected to the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions triggered by the text. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/9.P.AC.1.md
- Grade 10, 10.P.AC.1: **Reading like a Writer** Interpret texts through the author’s lens by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating craft techniques that are connected to the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions triggered by the text. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/10.P.AC.1.md
- Grade 11, 11.P.AC.1: **Reading like a Writer** Interpret texts through the author’s lens by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating craft techniques that are connected to the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions triggered by the text. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/11.P.AC.1.md
- Grade 12, 12.P.AC.1: **Reading like a Writer** Interpret texts through the author’s lens by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating craft techniques that are connected to the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions triggered by the text. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/12.P.AC.1.md

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