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title: "5.T.C.2: Authors, Speakers & Perspective (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
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# 5.T.C.2: Authors, Speakers & Perspective

Make connections between authors of texts, speakers in texts, varying perspectives, and the circumstances in which texts are produced.

- Subject: English Language Arts
- Appears in: Grade 5, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-5.md

## Expectations

- **5.T.C.2.a**: Describe how a narrator or speaker’s perspective influences the text. (I)
- **5.T.C.2.b**: This progression begins in 6th grade.
- **5.T.C.2.c**: Make inferences about the context in which the text is written (e.g., time period, individual, situational). (I)
- **5.T.C.2.d**: This progression begins in 6th grade.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

- 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**: Identify a narrator or speaker’s perspective. Identify one way the author indicates the context in which a text is written.
- **Developing**: Describe a narrator or speaker’s perspective. Identify more than one way the author indicates the context in which a text is written.
- **Proficient**: Describe how a narrator or speaker’s perspective influences the text. Make inferences about the context in which the text is written.
- **Distinguished**: Describe how a narrator or speaker’s perspective influences the text and support the description with evidence. Make an inference about the context in which the text is written and support the inference with evidence.

## The same standard across grades

- Kindergarten, K.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Investigate the relationships between authors and speakers in texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/K.T.C.2.md
- Grade 1, 1.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Investigate the relationships between authors and speakers in texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/1.T.C.2.md
- Grade 2, 2.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Investigate the relationships between authors and speakers in texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/2.T.C.2.md
- Grade 3, 3.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Make connections between authors of texts, speakers in texts, varying perspectives, and the circumstances in which texts are produced. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/3.T.C.2.md
- Grade 4, 4.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Make connections between authors of texts, speakers in texts, varying perspectives, and the circumstances in which texts are produced. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/4.T.C.2.md
- **Grade 5, 5.T.C.2 (this standard)**: **Authors & Speakers** Make connections between authors of texts, speakers in texts, varying perspectives, and the circumstances in which texts are produced.
- Grade 6, 6.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Analyze how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/6.T.C.2.md
- Grade 7, 7.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Analyze how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/7.T.C.2.md
- Grade 8, 8.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Analyze how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/8.T.C.2.md
- Grade 9, 9.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Evaluate how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/9.T.C.2.md
- Grade 10, 10.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Evaluate how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/10.T.C.2.md
- Grade 11, 11.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Evaluate how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/11.T.C.2.md
- Grade 12, 12.T.C.2: **Authors & Speakers** Evaluate how authors’ and/or speakers’ perspectives influence texts and how circumstances shape their creation. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/12.T.C.2.md

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