4th Grade English Language Arts and Reading (Texas TEKS)

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

• 110.6(b)(1) Builds oral language through active listening, clear speaking, and collaborative discussion.
• 110.6(b)(1)(A) Listens closely, asks clarifying questions, and makes relevant comments.
• 110.6(b)(1)(B) Follows, restates, and gives multi-step oral directions involving related actions.
• 110.6(b)(1)(C) Shares opinions backed by accurate information, using clear delivery and language conventions.
• 110.6(b)(1)(D) Collaborates with peers to create a plan of shared responsibilities.

110.6(b)(2) Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning reading and writing

• 110.6(b)(2) Builds word structure knowledge for decoding, spelling, and cursive handwriting.
• 110.6(b)(2)(A) Applies phonetic knowledge to decode words accurately.
• 110.6(b)(2)(A)(i) Decodes words with regular and irregular plural spelling patterns.
• 110.6(b)(2)(A)(ii) Decodes multisyllabic words with common syllable types, such as closed, open, and r-controlled.
• 110.6(b)(2)(A)(iii) Decodes words using advanced syllable division patterns, such as VV.
• 110.6(b)(2)(A)(iv) Decodes words by applying knowledge of prefixes.
• 110.6(b)(2)(A)(v) Decodes words by applying suffix knowledge and base-word changes.
• 110.6(b)(2)(A)(vi) Reads high-frequency words from a research-based list.
• 110.6(b)(2)(B) Applies spelling knowledge to write words accurately.
• 110.6(b)(2)(B)(i) Spells multisyllabic words with common syllable types.
• 110.6(b)(2)(B)(ii) Spells homophones correctly.
• 110.6(b)(2)(B)(iii) Spells multisyllabic words that have multiple sound-spelling patterns.
• 110.6(b)(2)(B)(iv) Spells words using advanced syllable division knowledge.
• 110.6(b)(2)(B)(v) Spells words using prefix knowledge.
• 110.6(b)(2)(B)(vi) Spells words using suffix knowledge and base-word changes.
• 110.6(b)(2)(C) Writes legibly in cursive to complete assignments.

110.6(b)(3) Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary

• 110.6(b)(3) Uses new vocabulary expressively and builds skills for determining word meanings.
• 110.6(b)(3)(A) Uses print or digital resources to find word meaning, syllables, and pronunciation.
• 110.6(b)(3)(B) Uses context clues to determine meanings of unfamiliar and multiple-meaning words.
• 110.6(b)(3)(C) Determines meanings of affixes like mis-, sub-, -ment, and roots like auto and graph.
• 110.6(b)(3)(D) Identifies, uses, and explains homophones such as reign and rain.

110.6(b)(4) Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--fluency

• 110.6(b)(4) Reads grade-level text with appropriate rate, accuracy, and expression.

110.6(b)(5) Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--self-sustained reading

• 110.6(b)(5) Chooses texts and reads them independently for an extended time.

110.6(b)(6) Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

• 110.6(b)(6) Uses metacognitive strategies to deepen understanding of increasingly complex texts.
• 110.6(b)(6)(A) Sets a purpose for reading both assigned and self-selected texts.
• 110.6(b)(6)(B) Asks questions before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding.
• 110.6(b)(6)(C) Makes predictions and checks them using text features, genre traits, and structures.
• 110.6(b)(6)(D) Creates mental images to deepen understanding.
• 110.6(b)(6)(E) Connects texts to personal experiences, other texts, and society.
• 110.6(b)(6)(F) Makes inferences and supports them with evidence from the text.
• 110.6(b)(6)(G) Evaluates details to identify key ideas.
• 110.6(b)(6)(H) Synthesizes information to form new understanding.
• 110.6(b)(6)(I) Monitors comprehension and adjusts through rereading, background knowledge, and questions.

110.6(b)(7) Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

• 110.6(b)(7) Responds to varied texts through connections, evidence, retelling, and meaningful interaction.
• 110.6(b)(7)(A) Describes personal connections to a range of sources, including self-selected texts.
• 110.6(b)(7)(B) Writes responses showing understanding, including comparing and contrasting sources.
• 110.6(b)(7)(C) Uses text evidence to support appropriate responses.
• 110.6(b)(7)(D) Retells, paraphrases, or summarizes texts while keeping meaning and logical order.
• 110.6(b)(7)(E) Engages with texts through notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
• 110.6(b)(7)(F) Uses newly acquired vocabulary in responses where appropriate.
• 110.6(b)(7)(G) Discusses specific ideas in a text that are important to its meaning.

110.6(b)(8) Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements

• 110.6(b)(8) Analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex literary texts.
• 110.6(b)(8)(A) Infers basic themes supported by text evidence.
• 110.6(b)(8)(B) Explains how characters interact with one another and how they change.
• 110.6(b)(8)(C) Analyzes plot elements: rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
• 110.6(b)(8)(D) Explains how setting, including historical and cultural contexts, shapes the plot.

110.6(b)(9) Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres

• 110.6(b)(9) Recognizes genre-specific features across children's literature, poetry, drama, and informational, argumentative, and digital texts.
• 110.6(b)(9)(A) Identifies traits of well-known children's stories like folktales, fables, legends, myths, and tall tales.
• 110.6(b)(9)(B) Explains figurative language, such as simile, metaphor, and personification, that creates images in poems.
• 110.6(b)(9)(C) Explains drama structure, including character tags, acts, scenes, and stage directions.
• 110.6(b)(9)(D) Recognizes informational text features, central ideas, and organizational patterns.
• 110.6(b)(9)(D)(i) Identifies the central idea and its supporting evidence.
• 110.6(b)(9)(D)(ii) Recognizes features like pronunciation guides and diagrams that aid understanding.
• 110.6(b)(9)(D)(iii) Recognizes compare-and-contrast organizational patterns.
• 110.6(b)(9)(E) Recognizes argumentative text traits, including claims, use of facts, and audience.
• 110.6(b)(9)(E)(i) Identifies the claim.
• 110.6(b)(9)(E)(ii) Explains how the author uses facts to support an argument.
• 110.6(b)(9)(E)(iii) Identifies the intended audience.
• 110.6(b)(9)(F) Recognizes characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.

110.6(b)(10) Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

• 110.6(b)(10) Analyzes author's choices and how they shape meaning across a variety of texts.
• 110.6(b)(10)(A) Explains the author's purpose and message within a text.
• 110.6(b)(10)(B) Explains how text structure supports the author's purpose.
• 110.6(b)(10)(C) Analyzes how print and graphic features achieve specific purposes.
• 110.6(b)(10)(D) Describes how imagery, figurative language, and sound devices achieve specific purposes.
• 110.6(b)(10)(E) Identifies and understands first- or third-person point of view.
• 110.6(b)(10)(F) Discusses how word choice contributes to the author's voice.
• 110.6(b)(10)(G) Identifies and explains the use of anecdotes.

110.6(b)(11) Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process

• 110.6(b)(11) Uses the writing process and standard conventions to compose legible, clear, and coherent texts.
• 110.6(b)(11)(A) Plans a first draft by selecting a genre and brainstorming, freewriting, or mapping.
• 110.6(b)(11)(B) Develops focused, structured drafts with organization and relevant, engaging ideas.
• 110.6(b)(11)(B)(i) Organizes writing with purposeful structure, including transitions and a conclusion.
• 110.6(b)(11)(B)(ii) Develops an engaging idea with relevant details.
• 110.6(b)(11)(C) Revises drafts by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging for clarity.
• 110.6(b)(11)(D) Edits drafts using standard English conventions.
• 110.6(b)(11)(D)(i) Writes complete sentences with subject-verb agreement, avoiding splices, run-ons, and fragments.
• 110.6(b)(11)(D)(ii) Uses the past tense of irregular verbs correctly.
• 110.6(b)(11)(D)(iii) Uses singular, plural, common, and proper nouns correctly.
• 110.6(b)(11)(D)(iv) Uses adjectives correctly, including comparative and superlative forms.
• 110.6(b)(11)(D)(v) Uses adverbs that convey frequency and degree.
• 110.6(b)(11)(D)(vi) Uses prepositions and prepositional phrases correctly.
• 110.6(b)(11)(D)(vii) Uses reflexive pronouns correctly.
• 110.6(b)(11)(D)(viii) Uses coordinating conjunctions to join subjects, predicates, and sentences.
• 110.6(b)(11)(D)(ix) Capitalizes historical periods, events, titles, languages, races, and nationalities.
• 110.6(b)(11)(D)(x) Uses apostrophes, commas in compound sentences, and quotation marks in dialogue.
• 110.6(b)(11)(D)(xi) Spells grade-appropriate and high-frequency words correctly.
• 110.6(b)(11)(E) Publishes written work for appropriate audiences.

110.6(b)(12) Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--genres

• 110.6(b)(12) Composes literary, informational, argumentative, and correspondence texts using genre characteristics and craft.
• 110.6(b)(12)(A) Composes literary texts, such as personal narratives and poetry, using genre craft.
• 110.6(b)(12)(B) Composes informational texts with a clear central idea and genre craft.
• 110.6(b)(12)(C) Composes argumentative texts, including opinion essays, using genre craft.
• 110.6(b)(12)(D) Composes correspondence that requests information.

110.6(b)(13) Inquiry and research: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts

• 110.6(b)(13) Conducts short-term and sustained inquiry to answer questions using varied sources.
• 110.6(b)(13)(A) Generates and clarifies questions for formal and informal inquiry.
• 110.6(b)(13)(B) Develops and follows a research plan with adult assistance.
• 110.6(b)(13)(C) Identifies and gathers relevant information from a variety of sources.
• 110.6(b)(13)(D) Identifies primary and secondary sources.
• 110.6(b)(13)(E) Demonstrates understanding of the information gathered.
• 110.6(b)(13)(F) Distinguishes paraphrasing from plagiarism when using source materials.
• 110.6(b)(13)(G) Develops a bibliography.
• 110.6(b)(13)(H) Presents results in an appropriate written, oral, or multimodal format.