10th Grade ELA (Oklahoma Academic Standards)

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State: Oklahoma
Grade: Grade 10
Standards: Oklahoma Academic Standards for English Language Arts (OAS-ELA)
Last checked: 2026-10-21

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The standards (our summaries)

Oklahoma's official codes with our own short summaries (not the official wording). Each code links to the official document.

Standard 1: Listening and Speaking

10.1.L.1 Listens actively within agreed rules and controls own spoken and body-language signals.
10.1.L.2 Listens to analyze and evaluate a speaker's purpose, perspective, and verbal and nonverbal messages.
10.1.S.1 Works respectfully in diverse groups, compromising and crediting contributions.
10.1.S.2 Discusses respectfully within agreed rules, building on and challenging the ideas of others.
10.1.S.3 Presents in different settings, supporting the message with evidence and suitable cues.

Standard 2: Reading and Writing Process

10.2.R.1 Summarizes main ideas and paraphrases key parts of complex texts.
10.2.R.2 Identifies features of genres and how they help understanding.
10.2.W.1 Prewrites regularly, developing and organizing ideas.
10.2.W.2 Drafts using organizing structures such as cause and effect or compare and contrast.
10.2.W.3 Revises for organization, transitions, sentence variety, tone, and point of view.
10.2.W.4 Edits for grammar, usage, mechanics, and format using resources.
10.2.W.5 Publishes final drafts for real audiences, including professional ones.

Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing

10.3.R.1 Analyzes how historical, cultural, or global perspectives shape an author's style.
10.3.R.2 Evaluates authors' perspectives and how they shape the meaning of a text.
10.3.R.3 Evaluates how literary elements shape theme, mood, and tone.
10.3.R.4 Evaluates how literary devices shape theme, mood, and tone.
10.3.R.5 Evaluates arguments by type of evidence, claims, appeals, bias, and fallacies.
10.3.R.6 Analyzes how the structure of an informational text serves the author's purpose.
10.3.R.7 Analyzes how two or more texts treat similar themes or topics.
10.3.W.1 Writes stories with engaging plots, complex characters, and deliberate sequencing.
10.3.W.2 Writes objective informational pieces with a defensible thesis and clear structure.
10.3.W.3 Writes argumentative essays, reviews, or opinion pieces with balanced, evidence-based claims.
10.3.W.4 Blends narrative, informational, and argumentative writing to suit audience and purpose.

Standard 4: Vocabulary

10.4.R.1 Analyzes how synonyms, antonyms, and analogies relate.
10.4.R.2 Uses context, connotation, and denotation to clarify word meanings.
10.4.R.3 Uses Anglo-Saxon, Greek, and Latin word parts to define words.
10.4.R.4 Uses reference resources to clarify word meanings, forms, and origins.
10.4.W.1 Uses precise vocabulary to express complex ideas in writing.
10.4.W.2 Chooses language to create intended effects for purpose and audience.

Standard 5: Language

10.5.R.1 Analyzes how parallel structure, voice, and phrases or clauses convey meaning.
10.5.R.2 Explains how noun, verb, adjective, and adverb phrases work in sentences.
10.5.W.1 Uses or revises active and passive voice and parallel words, phrases, and clauses for effect.
10.5.W.2 Uses parts of speech, phrases, and clauses for clarity, variety, and style.
10.5.W.3 Uses Standard American English and departs from it on purpose when it works.
10.5.W.4 Uses capital letters correctly.
10.5.W.5 Uses end punctuation correctly.
10.5.W.6 Uses apostrophes correctly.
10.5.W.7 Uses commas correctly.
10.5.W.8 Uses a colon to reveal information.
10.5.W.9 Uses ellipses for omissions and brackets for clarifications in quotations.
10.5.W.10 Uses italics correctly.
10.5.W.11 Uses semicolons correctly.

Standard 6: Research

10.6.R.1 Finds and understands information using own workable research questions.
10.6.R.2 Synthesizes relevant sources, following ethical and legal rules for citation.
10.6.R.3 Evaluates the relevance, reliability, and validity of information found.
10.6.W.1 Writes and refines a workable research question.
10.6.W.2 Writes a clear, concise, defensible thesis statement.
10.6.W.3 Blends quotations, paraphrases, and summaries into writing with consistent citations.
10.6.W.4 Presents research in long and short formats for different audiences.

Standard 7: Multimodal Literacies

10.7.R Analyzes and evaluates multimodal techniques and how they create meaning.
10.7.W Creates engaging multimodal content aimed at a chosen audience and purpose.

Standard 8: Independent Reading and Writing

10.8.R Chooses texts for particular purposes and reads them for extended periods.
10.8.W Writes on their own, choosing and combining modes and genres for a purpose.

Tests and key dates

Oklahoma School Testing Program (OSTP) – grades 3–8
College- and Career-Readiness Assessment (CCRA) – grades 11

Check the Oklahoma State Department of Education for which grades are tested and this year's testing dates.

Official documents

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Standards codes from the Oklahoma Academic Standards for English Language Arts, Oklahoma State Department of Education. Summaries are Classfern's own words, not the official text.

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