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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 BMIDDLE SCHOOL
RULE §128.23English Learners Language Arts (ELLA), Grade 8, Adopted 2017

    (D) compose correspondence that reflects an opinion, registers a complaint, or requests information in a business or friendly structure.

  (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. Based on the student's language proficiency level, the student is expected to:

    (A) generate student-selected and teacher-guided questions for formal and informal inquiry;

    (B) develop and revise a plan;

    (C) refine the major research question, if necessary, guided by the answers to a secondary set of questions;

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

    (E) differentiate between primary and secondary sources;

    (F) synthesize information from a variety of sources;

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

    (H) examine sources for:

      (i) reliability, credibility, and bias, including omission; and

      (ii) faulty reasoning such as bandwagon appeals, repetition, and loaded language;

    (I) display academic citations and use source materials ethically; and

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


Source Note: The provisions of this §128.23 adopted to be effective September 25, 2017, 42 TexReg 5096; amended to be effective August 1, 2019, 44 TexReg 3858

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