Grade K-12 ELA (Georgia's K-12 ELA Standards)

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State: Georgia
Course: Grade K-12 ELA
Standards: Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards
Last checked: 2026-10-21

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The standards (our summaries)

Georgia's official codes with our own short summaries (not the official wording). Each code links to the official document.

Engagement, Identity, Comprehension and Composition (P.EICC)

K-12.P.EICC.1 Grow an identity as a reader and writer.
- a. Set, track and adjust personal reading and writing goals.
- b. Talk about personal reading and writing preferences.
- c. Choose and read or write texts of personal and academic interest.
- d. Build and use a toolkit of comprehension and composing strategies.
- e. Join a community of readers and writers through talk and feedback.
- f. Become more independent as a reader and writer.
K-12.P.EICC.2 Use talk and texts to take part as both author and audience.
- a. Share real or imagined experiences as stories.
- b. Use texts to build and share knowledge.
- c. Explain ideas and processes through texts.
- d. Analyze and judge texts and ideas.
- e. Use texts to solve problems or influence decisions.
K-12.P.EICC.3 Use comprehension strategies before, during and after reading.
- a. Set a purpose for reading and adjust it while checking understanding.
- b. Scan and skim to find helpful text structures.
- c. Link background knowledge to the text and fill gaps.
- d. Summarize and picture parts of a text to keep track of meaning.
- e. Make predictions and keep track of them.
- f. Make and support inferences at several levels of meaning.
- g. Work out unfamiliar words from context and word parts.
K-12.P.EICC.4 Plan, draft, judge, revise and edit texts for different purposes.
- a. Set a purpose for writing and name the audience.
- b. Plan the organization using suitable modes, genres and structures.
- c. Generate ideas from what is known, texts read and discussion.
- d. Link ideas to the plan and put the most relevant first.
- e. Draft with chosen words, sentences and craft techniques.
- f. Judge how well the writing works through self-review or feedback.
- g. Revise organization, ideas, word choice and craft.
- h. Edit for the conventions of written English.

Situated Thinking (P.ST)

K-12.P.ST.1 Use knowledge of context when reading and writing.
- a. Pick out the parts of the context that matter most.
- b. Think about how context shapes the purposes of author and audience.
- c. Explore how context affects an author's choices and an audience's response.
K-12.P.ST.2 Use knowledge of the strategies authors use for an audience and purpose.
- a. Set and judge the purpose of a text.
- b. Set a clear point of view or perspective.
- c. Think about how authors choose information, design, words and techniques.

Author's Craft (P.AC)

K-12.P.AC.1 Read like a writer.
- a. Analyze literary and expository elements and their effects.
- b. Analyze word choice and its effects.
- c. Analyze sentence structure and syntax and their effects.
- d. Analyze design and organization and their effects.
K-12.P.AC.2 Write like a reader.
- a. Use literary and expository elements with a target audience in mind.
- b. Craft words and phrases to influence the audience.
- c. Choose sentence structures that suit the audience and purpose.
- d. Organize texts with formats and features that fit the purpose.
K-12.P.AC.3 Think about text design across modes and genres.
- a. Explore and create texts in different modes and genres.
- b. Use how mode and genre shape the ideas that are included.
- c. Use how mode and genre shape structure and arrangement.
- d. Create multimodal texts for particular purposes.

Communication and Presentation (P.CP)

K-12.P.CP.1 Work together to reach shared goals.
- a. Come prepared to take part in group work.
- b. Agree group norms, goals and procedures.
- c. Offer ideas, listen and give feedback.
- d. Work with others to discuss, investigate and create.
K-12.P.CP.2 Present in ways that suit the audience and purpose.
- a. Share ideas clearly.
- b. Choose modes and genres that fit the purpose and audience.
- c. Adjust tone, pace and gestures to suit the setting.
- d. Engage the audience by asking and answering questions.
- e. Recite important poems and speeches suited to the grade.

Tests and key dates

Georgia Milestones End-of-Grade (EOG) – grades 3-8
Georgia Milestones End-of-Course (EOC)

Check the Georgia Department of Education for which grades are tested and this year's testing dates (we have not yet confirmed every detail above on the official site).

Official documents

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Standards codes from Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards, Georgia Department of Education. Summaries are Classfern's own words, not the official text. Classfern is not affiliated with or endorsed by GaDOE.

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