Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) - ELA - Grade 3

Compose argumentative texts, including opinion essays, using genre characteristics and craft

Compose correspondence such as thank you notes or letters.

The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.

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;

Develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by:

Organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction and a conclusion

Developing an engaging idea with relevant details;

Revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity;

Edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:

Complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement;

Past, present, and future verb tense;

Singular, plural, common, and proper nouns;

Adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;

Adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey manner;

Prepositions and prepositional phrases;

Pronouns, including subjective, objective, and possessive cases;

Coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences;

Capitalization of official titles of people, holidays, and geographical names and places;

Punctuation marks, including apostrophes in contractions and possessives and commas in compound sentences and items in a series

Correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words

Publish written work for appropriate audiences.

The student uses genre characteristics and craft to compose multiple texts that are meaningful.

Compose literary texts, including personal narratives and poetry, using genre characteristics and craft;

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

Composition

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