TEKS:
English Language Arts and Reading
Strand 3 – Response skills: listening, speaking, reding, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to:
- Describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts;
- Write responses that demonstrate analysis of texts, including comparing texts within and across genres;
- Use text evidence and original commentary to support an evaluative response;
- Paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;
- Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating;
- Respond using acquired content and academic vocabulary as appropriate;
- Discuss and write about the explicit and implicit meaning of texts;
Strand 7 – Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student engages in both short-term and sustained recursive inquiry processes for a variety of purposes. The student is expected to:
- Develop questions for formal and informal inquiry;
- Critique the research process at each step to implement changes as needs occur and are identified;
- Develop and revise a plan;
- Modify the major research questions as necessary to refocus the research plan;
- Locate relevant sources;
- Synthesize information from a variety of sources;
- Examine sources for:
- Credibility, bias, and accuracy and
- Faulty reasoning such as straw man, false dilemma, faulty analogies and non-sequitur;
- Display academic citations, including for paraphrased and quoted text, and use source materials ethically to avoid plagiarism;
- Use an appropriate mode of delivery, whether written, oral, or multimodal, to present results.
