--- title: "6.T.C.1: Purpose and Audience in Texts (Georgia English Language Arts standard)" code: 6.T.C.1 cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, English Language Arts, 6.T.C.1 subject: ela grades: - grade-6 language: en canonical_url: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/6.T.C.1 md_url: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/6.T.C.1.md alternate_language_url: https://georgiahomeroom.org/es/standards/code/6.T.C.1.md source_url: https://case.georgiastandards.org/ims/case/v1p0/CFDocuments/391c3abe-c1ec-4a4a-a942-c9e152b35102 source_last_changed: 2025-11-14 data_built: 2026-09-18 publisher: Georgia Homeroom, a free public-interest project of Georgia Civic Data. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Georgia Department of Education or any school district. up: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-6.md index: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/index.md --- # 6.T.C.1: Purpose and Audience in Texts Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts. - Subject: English Language Arts - Appears in: Grade 6, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-6.md ## Expectations - **6.T.C.1.a**: Analyze the development of multiple purposes within a single text and how those purposes target specific audiences. (I) - **6.T.C.1.b**: Use text mode features to aid comprehension and analysis of a variety of disciplinary texts and their related contexts. (I) - **6.T.C.1.c**: Construct multimodal texts and/or presentations for a specific purpose and audience. (C) ## Georgia Milestones coverage - English Language Arts Grade 6 (EOG). Texts — Constructing Texts. Context Students recognize influences on texts and analyze how they shape meaning. (about 13% of the test; 8 points; shared with other standards, so count these points once and never add them up per standard) - English Language Arts Grade 6 (EOG). Texts — Interpreting Texts. Context Students recognize influences on texts and analyze how they shape meaning. (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 multiple purposes within a single text. Determine multiple audiences within a single text. Identify text mode feature(s) that aid comprehension of a disciplinary text. - **Developing**: Explain how multiple purposes target a specific audience within a single text. Determine the audiences and purposes of a single text. Use text mode feature(s) to aid comprehension of a disciplinary text and its related context. Construct multimodal texts for a specific purpose or audience. - **Proficient**: Analyze the development of multiple purposes within a single text and how those purposes target specific audiences. Use text mode feature(s) to aid comprehension and analysis of disciplinary text(s) and related context(s). Construct multimodal texts and/or presentations for a specific purpose and audience. - **Distinguished**: Analyze the development of multiple purposes within two texts and determine how those purposes target specific audiences. ## 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: **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 (this standard)**: **Purpose & Audience** Analyze the impact of purpose and audience on a wide variety of texts. - 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.