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title: "5.T.C.1: Purpose and Audience in Texts (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
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# 5.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 5, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-5.md

## Expectations

- **5.T.C.1.a**: Determine audience and explain multiple purposes found across a text. (I)
- **5.T.C.1.b**: Classify various texts by mode and describe how the author's choice of mode influences audiences and contributes to the overall purpose and effect. (I)
- **5.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 5 (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 5 (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 audience of a text. Classify various texts by mode.
- **Developing**: Identify multiple purposes found across a text. Determine the purpose and audience of a text. Describe how the author’s choice of mode influences the audience. Create multimodal texts for a specific purpose and audience.
- **Proficient**: Determine audience and identify multiple purposes found across a text. Classify various texts by mode and describe how the author’s choice of mode influences audiences and contributes to the overall purpose and effect. Create multimodal texts, using features of the pre-selected modes that are connected to a specific purpose and audience.
- **Distinguished**: Determine the audience and identify multiple purposes found 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: **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/3.T.C.1.md
- 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 (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 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.