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Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:

• 5.T.C.1.a — Determine audience and explain multiple purposes found across a text. (I)
• 5.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)
• 5.T.C.1.b — Classify various texts by mode and describe how the author's choice of mode influences audiences and contributes to the overall purpose and effect. (I)
• 5.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)
• 5.P.AC.3.b — Apply knowledge of how mode and genre impact what kinds of ideas and information are included in texts. (I/C)
• 5.T.T.3.a — Discuss and evaluate techniques used to present and design opinion and argumentative texts, including author’s opinion or claim, supporting reasons, and evidence. (I)
• 5.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)
• 5.T.T.3.c — Apply opinion techniques to create opinion pieces that introduce the topic, state an opinion about the topic, supply reasons and evidence 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)
• 5.T.SS.1.c — Use conjunctions and transition words or phrases, such as similarly and in contrast, to show relationships between ideas and information. (C)
• 5.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.
• 5.T.T.4.a — Discuss and explain techniques used to present and design poetry, including rhyme and structure. (I)
• 5.P.AC.1.c — Explain, analyze, and evaluate how the author’s use of sentence structure and syntax affects the target audience and supports the text’s purpose. (I/C)
• 5.T.T.4.b — Apply poetic techniques (e.g., rhyme, rhyme scheme, structure) to produce different types of poetry (e.g., free verse, rhymed verse, haiku, limerick). (C)
• 5.F.F.1.c — Read a wide range of grade-level texts aloud with accurate and automatic prosody (phrasing, expression, juncture/pause, and intonation) to aid comprehension.
• 5.P.CP.2.e — Build background knowledge by reciting all or part of significant poems and speeches as appropriate by grade level. (I/C)
• 5.T.SS.2.b — Use figurative language for intentional effects when expressing ideas or conveying information. (C)

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