TEKS: Chapter 110. English Language Arts and Reading See All Teacher Resources

110.13.b.23

(23) Oral and Written Conventions/Spelling. Students spell correctly. Students are expected to:

• (A) use phonological knowledge to match sounds to letters to construct unknown words;

• (B) spell words with common orthographic patterns and rules:
  • (i) complex consonants (e.g., hard and soft c and g, ck);
  • (ii) r-controlled vowels;
  • (iii) long vowels (e.g., VCe-hope); and
  • (iv) vowel digraphs (e.g., oo-book, fool, ee-feet), diphthongs (e.g., ou-out, ow-cow, oi-coil, oy-toy);

• (C) spell high-frequency words from a commonly used list;

• (D) spell base words with inflectional endings (e.g., -ing and -ed);

• (E) spell simple contractions (e.g., isn't, aren't, can't); and

• (F) use resources to find correct spellings.