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TITLE 19EDUCATION
PART 2TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY
CHAPTER 128TEXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR SPANISH LANGUAGE ARTS AND READING AND ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
SUBCHAPTER AELEMENTARY
RULE §128.5Spanish Language Arts and Reading, Grade 3, Adopted 2017

    (G) identify and explain the use of hyperbole.

  (11) Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student is expected to:

    (A) plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as brainstorming, freewriting, and mapping;

    (B) develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by:

      (i) organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction and a conclusion; and

      (ii) developing an engaging idea with relevant details;

    (C) revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity;

    (D) edit drafts using standard Spanish conventions, including:

      (i) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement;

      (ii) verb tense such as simple past, present, and future and imperfect past, past participle, perfect, and conditional, including the difference between ser and estar;

      (iii) singular, plural, common, and proper nouns, including gender-specific articles;

      (iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;

      (v) adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey manner;

      (vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases;

      (vii) pronouns, including personal, possessive, objective, and reflexive pronouns;

      (viii) coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences;

      (ix) capitalization of proper nouns, geographical names and places, historical periods, and official titles of people;

      (x) punctuation marks, including commas in a series and dates that include the day of the week, and correct mechanics, including indentations; and

      (xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules; and

    (E) publish written work for appropriate audiences.

  (12) Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres. The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful. The student is expected to:

    (A) compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry, using genre characteristics and craft;

    (B) compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft;

    (C) compose argumentative texts, including opinion essays, using genre characteristics and craft; and

    (D) compose correspondence such as thank you notes or letters.

  (13) 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:

    (A) generate questions on a topic for formal and informal inquiry;

    (B) develop and follow a research plan with adult assistance;

    (C) identify and gather relevant information from a variety of sources;

    (D) identify primary and secondary sources;

    (E) demonstrate understanding of information gathered;

    (F) recognize the difference between paraphrasing and plagiarism when using source materials;

    (G) create a works cited page; and

    (H) use an appropriate mode of delivery, whether written, oral, or multimodal, to present results.


Source Note: The provisions of this §128.5 adopted to be effective September 25, 2017, 42 TexReg 5096; amended to be effective August 1, 2019, 44 TexReg 3858

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