Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) - ELA - Grade 5

Pronouns, including indefinite;

Subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences;

Capitalization of abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations;

Punctuation marks, including commas in compound and complex sentences, quotation marks in dialogue, and italics and underlining for titles and emphasis

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 such as personal narratives, fiction, 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;

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

Compose correspondence that requests information.

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, transitions, and a conclusion

Developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts and 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 and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;

Past tense of irregular verbs;

Collective nouns;

Adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;

Conjunctive adverbs;

Prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;

Composition

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