5th Grade English Language Arts and Reading (Texas TEKS)

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

• 110.7(b)(1) Builds speaking and listening skills through discussion and interaction.
• 110.7(b)(1)(A) Listen attentively, interpret verbal and nonverbal cues, ask relevant questions, and comment pertinently.
• 110.7(b)(1)(B) Follow, restate, and give multi-step spoken directions.
• 110.7(b)(1)(C) Deliver organized presentations using eye contact, pacing, volume, gestures, and language conventions.
• 110.7(b)(1)(D) Collaborate with peers to create a plan that divides responsibilities.

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

• 110.7(b)(2) Uses word-structure knowledge to decode, spell, and handwrite.
• 110.7(b)(2)(A) Apply phonetic knowledge to decode words.
• 110.7(b)(2)(A)(i) Decoding words where consonant sounds shift, such as t to sh or k to sh.
• 110.7(b)(2)(A)(ii) Decoding multisyllabic words using common syllable types.
• 110.7(b)(2)(A)(iii) Decoding words using advanced syllable division patterns.
• 110.7(b)(2)(A)(iv) Decoding words by applying how prefixes and suffixes change base words.
• 110.7(b)(2)(A)(v) Identifying and reading high-frequency words from a research-based list.
• 110.7(b)(2)(B) Spell words using phonetic and morphological patterns.
• 110.7(b)(2)(B)(i) Spelling multisyllabic words with common syllable types.
• 110.7(b)(2)(B)(ii) Spelling words with consonant sound shifts such as t to sh.
• 110.7(b)(2)(B)(iii) Spelling multisyllabic words with multiple sound-spelling patterns.
• 110.7(b)(2)(B)(iv) Spelling words using advanced syllable division patterns.
• 110.7(b)(2)(B)(v) Spelling words using knowledge of prefixes.
• 110.7(b)(2)(B)(vi) Spelling words using suffixes, including base-word changes like dropping e.
• 110.7(b)(2)(C) Write legibly in cursive.

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

• 110.7(b)(3) Expands vocabulary through resources, context, word parts, and figurative expressions.
• 110.7(b)(3)(A) Use print or digital tools to find a word's meaning, syllables, pronunciation, and origin.
• 110.7(b)(3)(B) Use context clues to determine unfamiliar and multiple-meaning words.
• 110.7(b)(3)(C) Use words with affixes such as trans- and -logy and roots such as geo and photo.
• 110.7(b)(3)(D) Identify, use, and explain adages and puns.

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

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

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

• 110.7(b)(5) Choose texts and read independently for sustained periods of time.

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

• 110.7(b)(6) Uses metacognitive strategies to build and deepen comprehension of complex texts.
• 110.7(b)(6)(A) Set a purpose for reading both assigned and self-selected texts.
• 110.7(b)(6)(B) Ask questions before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding.
• 110.7(b)(6)(C) Make and check predictions using text features and genre traits.
• 110.7(b)(6)(D) Form mental images to deepen understanding.
• 110.7(b)(6)(E) Connect texts to personal experience, other texts, and society.
• 110.7(b)(6)(F) Make inferences and support them with evidence.
• 110.7(b)(6)(G) Identify key ideas by evaluating details.
• 110.7(b)(6)(H) Combine information into new understanding.
• 110.7(b)(6)(I) Monitor understanding and adjust through rereading, background knowledge, questions, or annotation.

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

• 110.7(b)(7) Responds to a growing range of texts through connections, evidence, and retelling.
• 110.7(b)(7)(A) Describe personal connections to varied sources, including self-selected texts.
• 110.7(b)(7)(B) Write responses showing understanding, including comparing ideas across sources.
• 110.7(b)(7)(C) Support responses with text evidence.
• 110.7(b)(7)(D) Retell, paraphrase, or summarize while keeping meaning and logical order.
• 110.7(b)(7)(E) Engage with texts through notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
• 110.7(b)(7)(F) Use newly learned vocabulary in responses.
• 110.7(b)(7)(G) Discuss key ideas that are important to the text's meaning.

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

• 110.7(b)(8) Analyzes literary elements across increasingly complex texts.
• 110.7(b)(8)(A) Infer multiple themes using text evidence.
• 110.7(b)(8)(B) Analyze relationships and conflicts among characters.
• 110.7(b)(8)(C) Analyze rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
• 110.7(b)(8)(D) Analyze how historical and cultural settings influence the plot.

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

• 110.7(b)(9) Analyzes genre-specific features, structures, and purposes across texts.
• 110.7(b)(9)(A) Know traits of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, legends, myths, and tall tales.
• 110.7(b)(9)(B) Explain sound devices and figurative language, and distinguish poet from speaker, across poetic forms.
• 110.7(b)(9)(C) Explain drama structure such as character tags, acts, scenes, and stage directions.
• 110.7(b)(9)(D) Recognize informational text characteristics and structures.
• 110.7(b)(9)(D)(i) Identifying the central idea and supporting evidence.
• 110.7(b)(9)(D)(ii) Using features like insets, timelines, and sidebars to understand text.
• 110.7(b)(9)(D)(iii) Recognizing organizational patterns like logical order and order of importance.
• 110.7(b)(9)(E) Recognize argumentative text characteristics and structures.
• 110.7(b)(9)(E)(i) Identifying the claim.
• 110.7(b)(9)(E)(ii) Explaining how facts are used for or against an argument.
• 110.7(b)(9)(E)(iii) Identifying the intended audience or reader.
• 110.7(b)(9)(F) Recognize characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.

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

• 110.7(b)(10) Analyzes how authors' choices shape meaning, craft, and purpose.
• 110.7(b)(10)(A) Explain the author's purpose and message within a text.
• 110.7(b)(10)(B) Analyze how text structure serves the author's purpose.
• 110.7(b)(10)(C) Analyze the author's use of print and graphic features.
• 110.7(b)(10)(D) Describe how imagery, figurative language, and sound devices achieve specific purposes.
• 110.7(b)(10)(E) Identify literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view.
• 110.7(b)(10)(F) Examine how the author's language contributes to voice.
• 110.7(b)(10)(G) Explain the purpose of hyperbole, stereotyping, and anecdote.

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

• 110.7(b)(11) Uses the writing process and conventions to compose legible, meaningful texts.
• 110.7(b)(11)(A) Plan a draft by choosing genre, purpose, and audience using strategies like brainstorming or mapping.
• 110.7(b)(11)(B) Develop focused drafts.
• 110.7(b)(11)(B)(i) Organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction and conclusion.
• 110.7(b)(11)(B)(ii) Developing an engaging idea with depth and specific facts and details.
• 110.7(b)(11)(C) Revise to improve sentence structure and word choice through adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging.
• 110.7(b)(11)(D) Edit drafts using standard English conventions.
• 110.7(b)(11)(D)(i) Complete simple and compound sentences, avoiding splices, run-ons, and fragments.
• 110.7(b)(11)(D)(ii) Past tense of irregular verbs.
• 110.7(b)(11)(D)(iii) Collective nouns.
• 110.7(b)(11)(D)(iv) Adjectives, including comparative and superlative forms.
• 110.7(b)(11)(D)(v) Conjunctive adverbs.
• 110.7(b)(11)(D)(vi) Prepositions and prepositional phrases, and their effect on subject-verb agreement.
• 110.7(b)(11)(D)(vii) Indefinite pronouns.
• 110.7(b)(11)(D)(viii) Subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences.
• 110.7(b)(11)(D)(ix) Capitalizing abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations.
• 110.7(b)(11)(D)(x) Italics or underlining for titles and emphasis; punctuation like dialogue quotation marks and commas.
• 110.7(b)(11)(D)(xi) Correctly spell grade-appropriate orthographic patterns, rules, and high-frequency words when editing drafts.
• 110.7(b)(11)(E) Publish finished writing so it reaches its intended audiences.

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

• 110.7(b)(12) Write literary, informational, argumentative, and correspondence texts using genre traits, craft, and clear central ideas.
• 110.7(b)(12)(A) Compose personal narratives, fiction, and poems using genre features and craft.
• 110.7(b)(12)(B) Compose informational texts, such as brief pieces, with a clear central idea and genre craft.
• 110.7(b)(12)(C) Compose argumentative texts, such as opinion essays, using genre characteristics and craft.
• 110.7(b)(12)(D) Write correspondence that asks for information.

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

• 110.7(b)(13) Carry out short and sustained recursive inquiry for varied purposes, using multiple texts and sources.
• 110.7(b)(13)(A) Create and refine questions on a topic for formal and informal inquiry.
• 110.7(b)(13)(B) Build and follow a research plan with help from an adult.
• 110.7(b)(13)(C) Find and collect relevant information from a range of sources.
• 110.7(b)(13)(D) Judge the trustworthiness of primary and secondary sources.
• 110.7(b)(13)(E) Show understanding of the information gathered.
• 110.7(b)(13)(F) Tell apart paraphrasing from plagiarism when using source material.
• 110.7(b)(13)(G) Create a bibliography.
• 110.7(b)(13)(H) Present results in written, oral, or multimodal form suited to the purpose.