Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to:
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.8
Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts. The student is expected to:
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.10
Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances. The student is expected to:
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.11
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:
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.13
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:
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.3.C.1.3
Write opinions about a topic or text, include reasons supported by details from one or more sources, use transitions, and provide a conclusion.
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.3.V.1.1
Use grade-level academic vocabulary appropriately in speaking and writing.