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Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:

• 3.T.C.1.a — Determine the purpose (e.g., entertain, inform, persuade) and target audience of a text. (I)
• 3.P.ST.2.a — Develop and apply knowledge of author, audience, and context to discern and establish the purpose of texts being interpreted or constructed and to evaluate the extent to which those texts achieve those purposes. (I/C)
• 3.T.C.1.b — Determine common text features of print, digital, auditory, spoken, and visual modes and describe how they contribute to the overall purpose and effect. (I)
• 3.T.C.1.c — Create multimodal texts, using features of pre-selected modes for a specific purpose and audience. (C)
• 3.P.AC.3.a — Explore and create texts in various modes and genres, developing and applying knowledge of how specific features impact meaning, tone, style, purpose, and audience. (I/C)
• 3.T.T.3.a — Describe and discuss the techniques used to present and design opinion texts, including author’s opinion statement, supporting reasons, and evidence. (I)
• 3.P.AC.1.a — Identify, apply, and analyze the literary, expository, and opinion (grades K-5) or rhetorical (grades 6-12) elements in texts, explaining or evaluating how specific elements affect the target audience and support the text’s purpose. (I/C)
• 3.T.T.3.c — Apply opinion techniques to create opinion pieces that introduce the topic, state an opinion about the topic, supply reasons to support the opinion with linking words (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect the opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section. (C)
• 3.T.SS.1.c — Use conjunctions and transition words or phrases, such as although and since, to add cohesion and link ideas and information. (C)
• 3.P.EICC.4 — Writing Processes: Compose a range of texts for a variety of purposes and audiences, flexibly engaging in writing processes to plan, draft, evaluate, revise, and edit texts.
• 3.T.T.4.a — Discuss and explain techniques used to present and design poetry, including rhyme scheme. (I)
• 3.T.T.4.b — Apply poetic techniques to produce poetry and engage audiences that use rhyme in at least two stanzas to achieve an intended effect. (C)
• 3.T.SS.2.b — Use figurative language, such as similes, metaphors, and idioms, to show relationships between ideas and information. (C)

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