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title: "3.T.C.1: Purpose and Audience in Texts (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
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# 3.T.C.1: Purpose and Audience in Texts

Use knowledge of purposes and audiences, as well as the language that develops those relationships, to make meaning of texts in multiple modes.

- Subject: English Language Arts
- Appears in: Grade 3, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-3.md

## 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; shared with other standards, so count these points 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; shared with other standards, so count these points 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

- 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: **Purpose & Audience** Explain how authors of texts use language for a specific purpose and a target audience. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/1.T.C.1.md
- 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 (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.
- 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.