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title: "6.P.AC.2: Writing for Audience (Georgia English Language Arts standard)"
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# 6.P.AC.2: Writing for Audience

Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose.

- Subject: English Language Arts
- Appears in: Grade 6, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-6.md

## Expectations

- **6.P.AC.2.a**: Integrate literary, expository, and opinion (grades K-5) or rhetorical (grades 6-12) elements to appeal to target audiences and achieve specific purposes. (I/C)
- **6.P.AC.2.b**: Craft words and phrases in order to influence the responses, thoughts, decisions, and questions of the target audience and achieve a specific purpose. (I/C)
- **6.P.AC.2.c**: Make decisions about sentence structure and syntax in order to accommodate and influence the audience and achieve a specific purpose. (I/C)
- **6.P.AC.2.d**: Organize texts by incorporating specific formats, structures, patterns, and features to influence the audience, facilitate accessibility, and support the text’s purpose. (I/C)

## Georgia Milestones coverage

- English Language Arts Grade 6 (EOG). Practices. Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context, author, audience, and purpose. (shared with other standards, so count these points once and never add them up per standard)

## The same standard across grades

- Kindergarten, K.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/K.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 1, 1.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/1.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 2, 2.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/2.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 3, 3.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/3.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 4, 4.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/4.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 5, 5.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/5.P.AC.2.md
- **Grade 6, 6.P.AC.2 (this standard)**: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose.
- Grade 7, 7.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/7.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 8, 8.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/8.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 9, 9.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/9.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 10, 10.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/10.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 11, 11.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/11.P.AC.2.md
- Grade 12, 12.P.AC.2: **Writing like a Reader** Construct texts with the audience’s experience in mind, basing decisions about craft techniques on context and purpose. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/12.P.AC.2.md

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