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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 §128.7Spanish Language Arts and Reading, Grade 5, Adopted 2017

      (ii) developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts and 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 and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;

      (ii) irregular verbs;

      (iii) collective nouns;

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

      (v) conjunctive adverbs;

      (vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;

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

      (viii) subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences;

      (ix) capitalization of initials, acronyms, and organizations;

      (x) italics and underlining for titles and emphasis and punctuation marks, including commas in compound and complex sentences, em dash for dialogue, and quotation marks for titles; 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 such as personal narratives, fiction, 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 that requests information.

  (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 and clarify 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) understand credibility of primary and secondary sources;

    (E) demonstrate understanding of information gathered;

    (F) differentiate between paraphrasing and plagiarism when using source materials;

    (G) develop a bibliography; and

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


Source Note: The provisions of this §128.7 adopted to be effective September 25, 2017, 42 TexReg 5096; amended to be effective August 1, 2019, 44 TexReg 3858

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