English I (Texas TEKS)

110.36(c)(1) Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language

• 110.36(c)(1) Builds oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.
• 110.36(c)(1)(A) Engages in respectful discourse, listens actively, responds appropriately, and adapts communication to audience and purpose.
• 110.36(c)(1)(B) Follows and gives complex oral instructions to complete tasks, answer questions, or solve problems.
• 110.36(c)(1)(C) Delivers presentations in language suited to audience, purpose, and occasion, using effective delivery techniques.
• 110.36(c)(1)(D) Collaborates by building on others' ideas, contributing information, planning consensus, and setting decision-making ground rules.

110.36(c)(2) Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary

• 110.36(c)(2) Uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively in speaking and writing.
• 110.36(c)(2)(A) Uses print or digital glossaries and technical dictionaries to confirm precise meanings of discipline-specific words.
• 110.36(c)(2)(B) Uses context to distinguish denotative and connotative word meanings.
• 110.36(c)(2)(C) Determines meanings of common foreign words and phrases used in English.

110.36(c)(3) Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustained reading

• 110.36(c)(3) Chooses own texts and reads independently for sustained periods.

110.36(c)(4) Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

• 110.36(c)(4) Uses metacognitive skills to build and deepen understanding of increasingly complex texts.
• 110.36(c)(4)(A) Sets a purpose for reading both assigned and self-selected texts.
• 110.36(c)(4)(B) Generates questions before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gather information.
• 110.36(c)(4)(C) Makes predictions using text features, genre traits, and structures, then checks or confirms them.
• 110.36(c)(4)(D) Creates mental images to deepen understanding.
• 110.36(c)(4)(E) Connects texts to personal experiences, other texts, and society.
• 110.36(c)(4)(F) Makes inferences and supports understanding with evidence.
• 110.36(c)(4)(G) Evaluates details to identify key ideas.
• 110.36(c)(4)(H) Synthesizes information from two texts to form new understanding.
• 110.36(c)(4)(I) Monitors comprehension and adjusts through rereading, background knowledge, questioning, or annotating when confused.

110.36(c)(5) Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

• 110.36(c)(5) Responds to increasingly challenging sources that are read, heard, or viewed.
• 110.36(c)(5)(A) Describes personal connections to varied sources, including self-selected texts.
• 110.36(c)(5)(B) Writes responses showing understanding, including comparisons of texts within and across genres.
• 110.36(c)(5)(C) Uses text evidence and original commentary to support a comprehensive response.
• 110.36(c)(5)(D) Paraphrases and summarizes texts while preserving meaning and logical order.
• 110.36(c)(5)(E) Interacts with sources through notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
• 110.36(c)(5)(F) Uses acquired content and academic vocabulary in responses as appropriate.
• 110.36(c)(5)(G) Discusses and writes about explicit and implicit meanings of texts.
• 110.36(c)(5)(H) Responds orally or in writing with suitable register, vocabulary, tone, and voice.
• 110.36(c)(5)(I) Reflects on and revises responses when valid evidence warrants.
• 110.36(c)(5)(J) Defends or challenges authors' claims using relevant text evidence.

110.36(c)(6) Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements

• 110.36(c)(6) Recognizes and analyzes literary elements in increasingly complex literary texts.
• 110.36(c)(6)(A) Analyzes how characterization and plot develop themes across varied literary texts.
• 110.36(c)(6)(B) Analyzes how authors create complex, believable characters through devices such as character foils.
• 110.36(c)(6)(C) Analyzes nonlinear plot devices and compares them with linear plot development.
• 110.36(c)(6)(D) Analyzes how setting influences theme.

110.36(c)(7) Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres

• 110.36(c)(7) Recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes in increasingly complex texts.
• 110.36(c)(7)(A) Reads and responds to American, British, and world literature.
• 110.36(c)(7)(B) Analyzes poetic structure, sound, and graphic elements across poetic forms.
• 110.36(c)(7)(C) Analyzes how dramatic conventions such as asides, soliloquies, dramatic irony, and satire function.
• 110.36(c)(7)(D) Analyzes characteristics and structural elements of informational texts.
• 110.36(c)(7)(D)(i) Examines clear thesis, supporting evidence, examples, and conclusion.
• 110.36(c)(7)(D)(ii) Examines multiple organizational patterns used to develop the thesis.
• 110.36(c)(7)(E) Analyzes characteristics and structural elements of argumentative texts.
• 110.36(c)(7)(E)(i) Examines clear arguable claim, appeals, and convincing conclusion.
• 110.36(c)(7)(E)(ii) Evaluates diverse evidence and how counterarguments, such as concessions and rebuttals, are handled.
• 110.36(c)(7)(E)(iii) Identifies the intended audience or reader.
• 110.36(c)(7)(F) Analyzes characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.

110.36(c)(8) Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

• 110.36(c)(8) Uses critical inquiry to analyze authors' choices and how they shape meaning.
• 110.36(c)(8)(A) Analyzes the author's purpose, audience, and message within a text.
• 110.36(c)(8)(B) Analyzes how text structure achieves the author's purpose.
• 110.36(c)(8)(C) Evaluates how print and graphic features achieve specific purposes.
• 110.36(c)(8)(D) Analyzes how the author's language achieves specific purposes.
• 110.36(c)(8)(E) Analyzes literary devices such as irony and oxymoron and their purposes.
• 110.36(c)(8)(F) Analyzes how diction and syntax shape mood, voice, and tone.
• 110.36(c)(8)(G) Explains rhetorical devices such as understatement and overstatement, and effects of fallacies such as straw man.

110.36(c)(9) Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process

• 110.36(c)(9) Uses the recursive writing process to compose legible texts with appropriate conventions.
• 110.36(c)(9)(A) Plans writing for purposes and audiences by generating ideas through brainstorming, journaling, reading, or discussing.
• 110.36(c)(9)(B) Develops focused, structured, coherent drafts in timed and open-ended situations.
• 110.36(c)(9)(B)(i) Using an organizing structure suited to purpose, audience, topic, and context.
• 110.36(c)(9)(B)(ii) Developing an engaging idea with specific details, examples, and commentary.
• 110.36(c)(9)(C) Revises drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, diction, and sentence effectiveness.
• 110.36(c)(9)(D) Edits drafts using standard English conventions.
• 110.36(c)(9)(D)(i) Writing varied, controlled sentences and avoiding splices, run-ons, and fragments.
• 110.36(c)(9)(D)(ii) Keeping verb tense consistent and using active and passive voice appropriately.
• 110.36(c)(9)(D)(iii) Ensuring pronoun-antecedent agreement.
• 110.36(c)(9)(D)(iv) Applying correct capitalization.
• 110.36(c)(9)(D)(v) Using commas, semicolons, colons, and dashes to set off phrases and clauses.
• 110.36(c)(9)(D)(vi) Spelling words correctly.
• 110.36(c)(9)(E) Publishes written work for appropriate audiences.

110.36(c)(10) Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres

• 110.36(c)(10) Uses genre characteristics and craft to compose meaningful texts.
• 110.36(c)(10)(A) Composes literary texts such as fiction and poetry using genre traits and craft.
• 110.36(c)(10)(B) Composes informational texts such as explanatory essays, reports, and personal essays.
• 110.36(c)(10)(C) Composes argumentative texts using genre traits and craft.
• 110.36(c)(10)(D) Composes professional or friendly correspondence.

110.36(c)(11) Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

• 110.36(c)(11) Engages in short- and long-term recursive inquiry for varied purposes.
• 110.36(c)(11)(A) Develops questions for formal and informal inquiry.
• 110.36(c)(11)(B) Critiques the research process at each step and makes changes as needs arise.
• 110.36(c)(11)(C) Develops and revises a research plan.
• 110.36(c)(11)(D) Modifies the major research question to refocus the research plan when needed.
• 110.36(c)(11)(E) Locates relevant sources.
• 110.36(c)(11)(F) Synthesizes information from a variety of sources.
• 110.36(c)(11)(G) Examines sources for credibility, bias, and faulty reasoning.
• 110.36(c)(11)(G)(i) Assesses credibility and bias, including omitted information.
• 110.36(c)(11)(G)(ii) Identifies faulty reasoning such as ad hominem, loaded language, and slippery slope.
• 110.36(c)(11)(H) Displays academic citations for paraphrased and quoted text and uses sources ethically to avoid plagiarism.
• 110.36(c)(11)(I) Presents results in an appropriate written, oral, or multimodal format.