---
title: "3.T.SS.2: Craft and Language Use (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
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# 3.T.SS.2: Craft and Language Use

Use language to interpret meaning and craft engaging texts.

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

## Expectations

- **3.T.SS.2.a**: Identify and describe the use of figurative language, such as similes, metaphors, and idioms in a wide variety of texts. (I)
- **3.T.SS.2.b**: Use figurative language, such as similes, metaphors, and idioms, to show relationships between ideas and information. (C)
- **3.T.SS.2.c**: This progression begins in 6th grade.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

- English Language Arts Grade 3 (EOG). Texts — Constructing Texts. Structure & Style Students build and apply knowledge about language and organizational structures and elements used to convey and arrange ideas and information in 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. Structure & Style Students build and apply knowledge about language and organizational structures and elements used to convey and arrange ideas and information in 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**: Identify figurative language, in a text.
- **Developing**: Describe how figurative language creates meaning in a text. Use figurative language within a sentence to show a relationship between ideas and information.
- **Proficient**: Identify and describe one use of figurative language, such as similes, metaphors, and idioms in a text. Use figurative language in a section of text, such as similes, metaphors, and idioms, to show relationships between ideas and information.
- **Distinguished**: Identify and describe the use of more than one use of figurative language in a text. Use figurative language throughout a text to show relationships between ideas and information.

## The same standard across grades

- Kindergarten, K.T.SS.2: **Craft** Identify and use descriptive and engaging language. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/K.T.SS.2.md
- Grade 1, 1.T.SS.2: **Craft** Identify and use descriptive and engaging language. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/1.T.SS.2.md
- Grade 2, 2.T.SS.2: **Craft** Identify and use descriptive and engaging language. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/2.T.SS.2.md
- **Grade 3, 3.T.SS.2 (this standard)**: **Craft** Use language to interpret meaning and craft engaging texts.
- Grade 4, 4.T.SS.2: **Craft** Use language to interpret meaning and craft engaging texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/4.T.SS.2.md
- Grade 5, 5.T.SS.2: **Craft** Use language to interpret meaning and craft engaging texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/5.T.SS.2.md
- Grade 6, 6.T.SS.2: **Craft** Interpret and use language to craft engaging texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/6.T.SS.2.md
- Grade 7, 7.T.SS.2: **Craft** Interpret and use language to craft engaging texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/7.T.SS.2.md
- Grade 8, 8.T.SS.2: **Craft** Interpret and use language to craft engaging texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/8.T.SS.2.md
- Grade 9, 9.T.SS.2: **Craft** Analyze, evaluate, and craft language to produce intended effects in a wide variety of texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/9.T.SS.2.md
- Grade 10, 10.T.SS.2: **Craft** Analyze, evaluate, and craft language to produce intended effects in a wide variety of texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/10.T.SS.2.md
- Grade 11, 11.T.SS.2: **Craft** Analyze, evaluate, and craft language to produce intended effects in a wide variety of texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/11.T.SS.2.md
- Grade 12, 12.T.SS.2: **Craft** Analyze, evaluate, and craft language to produce intended effects in a wide variety of texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/12.T.SS.2.md

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