TEKS: Chapter 110. English Language Arts and Reading See All Teacher Resources
110.31.b.17
(17) Oral and Written Conventions/Conventions. Students understand the function of and use the conventions of academic language when speaking and writing. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity. Students are expected to:
- (A) use and understand the function of the following parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking:
- (i) more complex active and passive tenses and verbals (gerunds, infinitives, participles);
- (ii) restrictive and nonrestrictive relative clauses; and
- (iii) reciprocal pronouns (e.g., each other, one another);
- (B) identify and use the subjunctive mood to express doubts, wishes, and possibilities; and
- (C) use a variety of correctly structured sentences (e.g., compound, complex, compound-complex).
Aligned Resources
Teaching Guides
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- Teaching A Christmas Carol: Parable Party
- Teaching Of Mice and Men: Close Reading Steinbeck: Letters vs. Novel
- Teaching Othello: Creating an Insider’s Travel Guide to Othello’s Venice or Cyprus
- Teaching A Christmas Carol: Give a Little, Get a Lot
- Teaching Othello: Paul Robeson’s Historic Performance of Othello
- Teaching Lord of the Flies: What's Your Cover Story?
- Teaching The Tell-Tale Heart: Law and Disorder: Poe and the Insanity Defense