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title: "2.P.AC.2: Writing Like a Reader (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
code: 2.P.AC.2
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# 2.P.AC.2: Writing Like a Reader

Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose.

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

## Expectations

- **2.P.AC.2.a**: Integrate literary, expository, and opinion (grades K-5) or rhetorical (grades 6-12) elements to appeal to target audiences and achieve specific purposes. (I/C)
- **2.P.AC.2.b**: Craft words and phrases in order to influence the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions of the target audience and achieve a specific purpose. (I/C)
- **2.P.AC.2.c**: Make decisions about sentence structure and syntax in order to accommodate and influence the audience and achieve a specific purpose. (I/C)
- **2.P.AC.2.d**: Organize texts by incorporating specific formats, structures, patterns, and features to influence the audience, facilitate 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.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/K.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 1, 1.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/1.P.AC.2.md
- **Grade 2, 2.P.AC.2 (this standard)**: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose.
- Grade 3, 3.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/3.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 4, 4.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/4.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 5, 5.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/5.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 6, 6.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/6.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 7, 7.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/7.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 8, 8.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/8.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 9, 9.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/9.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 10, 10.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/10.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 11, 11.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/11.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 12, 12.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/12.P.AC.2.md

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