3.T.C.1Purpose and Audience in Texts

Expectations

• 3.T.C.1.a

  Determine the purpose (e.g., entertain, inform, persuade) and target audience of a text. (I)

• 3.T.C.1.b

  Determine common text features of print, digital, auditory, spoken, and visual modes and describe how they contribute to the overall purpose and effect. (I)

• 3.T.C.1.c

  Create multimodal texts, using features of pre-selected modes for a specific purpose and audience. (C)

Georgia Milestones coverage

• English Language Arts Grade 3 (EOG) · Texts — Constructing Texts

  Context Students describe the influences of purpose and audience on texts.

  about 10% of the test · 6 points These points are shared with other standards, so count them once and never add them up per standard.

• English Language Arts Grade 3 (EOG) · Texts — Interpreting Texts

  Context Students describe the influences of purpose and audience on texts.

  about 10% of the test · 6 points These points are shared with other standards, so count them once and never add them up per standard.

What mastery looks like

Georgia's Achievement Level Descriptors. The levels are cumulative: each includes the ones before it. Proficient is on grade level.

Beginning

Determine the purpose (e.g., entertain, inform, persuade) when given the target audience of a text. Identify common text features in texts of various text modes. Create multimodal texts.

Developing

Determine the target audience of a text. Describe how the text feature(s) of various text modes contribute to the overall purpose or effect. Create multimodal texts with minimal connection between features of pre-selected modes and purpose and audience.

Proficient

Determine the purpose and target audience of a text. Determine common text features various text modes and describe how they contribute to the overall purpose and/or effect. Create multimodal texts, using features of pre-selected modes that are connected to a specific purpose and audience.

Distinguished

Determine the purpose (e.g., entertain, inform, persuade) and target audience across two texts. Create multimodal texts, intentionally using multiple features of pre-selected modes to support a specific purpose and audience.

The same standard across grades

1. Kindergarten · K.T.C.1

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

2. Grade 1 · 1.T.C.1

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

3. Grade 2 · 2.T.C.1

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

4. Grade 3 · 3.T.C.1 (this standard)

   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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Grade 6 · 6.T.C.1

   Purpose & Audience Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts.

8. Grade 7 · 7.T.C.1

   Purpose & Audience Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts.

9. Grade 8 · 8.T.C.1

   Purpose & Audience Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts.

10. Grade 9 · 9.T.C.1

    Purposes & Audiences Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts.

11. Grade 10 · 10.T.C.1

    Purposes & Audiences Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts.

12. Grade 11 · 11.T.C.1

    Purposes & Audiences Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts.

13. Grade 12 · 12.T.C.1

    Purposes & Audiences Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts.