--- title: "7.T.SS.2: Craft and Language Overview (Georgia English Language Arts standard)" code: 7.T.SS.2 cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, English Language Arts, 7.T.SS.2 subject: ela grades: - grade-7 language: en canonical_url: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/7.T.SS.2 md_url: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/7.T.SS.2.md alternate_language_url: https://georgiahomeroom.org/es/standards/code/7.T.SS.2.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-7.md index: https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/index.md --- # 7.T.SS.2: Craft and Language Overview Interpret and use language to craft engaging texts. - Subject: English Language Arts - Appears in: Grade 7, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/ela/grade-7.md ## Expectations - **7.T.SS.2.a**: Explain how figurative language, connotative language, and/or literary device choices contribute to meaning, mood, or tone in a wide variety of texts. (I) - **7.T.SS.2.b**: Use figurative language, literary devices, or connotative language for intentional effects when creating texts to achieve specific purposes or appeal to the target audience. (C) - **7.T.SS.2.c**: Determine situational use for formal or informal style and apply that determination to choices when writing or speaking. (C) ## Georgia Milestones coverage - English Language Arts Grade 7 (EOG). Texts — Constructing Texts. Structure & Style Students analyze and use organizational structures and style to shape ideas and information. (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 7 (EOG). Texts — Interpreting Texts. Structure & Style Students analyze and use organizational structures and style to shape ideas and information. (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 and/or connotative language and/or literary device choices in a text that contribute to meaning, mood, or tone. Determine the mood or tone in a text. Determine situational use for formal or informal style. - **Developing**: Describe the meaning of a provided excerpt of figurative language and/or connotative language and/or literary device choices in a text that is used to convey meaning, mood, or tone. Use figurative language, literary devices, or connotative language for intentional effect(s) in a section of text. Apply formal or informal style by identifying sentence(s) that deviate from the style and tone appropriate to the purpose and/or target audience. - **Proficient**: Explain how figurative language, connotative language, and/or literary device choices contribute to meaning, mood, or tone in text(s). Use figurative language, literary devices, or connotative language for intentional effect(s) when creating a section of text to achieve specific purpose(s) or appeal to the target audience. Determine situational use for formal or informal style and apply that determination to choices when writing or speaking. - **Distinguished**: Explain how figurative language, connotative language, and literary device choices contribute to meaning, mood, or tone in text(s) and support that explanation with textual evidence. Uses a variety of figurative language, literary devices, or connotative language throughout a text for intentional effects when creating texts to achieve specific purposes or appeal to the target audience. ## 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: **Craft** Use language to interpret meaning and craft engaging texts. https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/code/3.T.SS.2.md - 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 (this standard)**: **Craft** Interpret and use language to craft engaging texts. - 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.