TEKS: Chapter 110. English Language Arts and Reading See All Teacher Resources
110.31.b.5
(5) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Fiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
- (A) analyze non-linear plot development (e.g., flashbacks, foreshadowing, sub-plots, parallel plot structures) and compare it to linear plot development;
- (B) analyze how authors develop complex yet believable characters in works of fiction through a range of literary devices, including character foils;
- (C) analyze the way in which a work of fiction is shaped by the narrator's point of view; and
- (D) demonstrate familiarity with works by authors from non-English-speaking literary traditions with emphasis on classical literature.
Aligned Resources
Teaching Guides
- Teaching A Streetcar Named Desire: The Sound Track of Our Lives
- Teaching Life of Pi: From Text to Pictures and Back Again
- Teaching Life of Pi: Book vs. Movie
- Teaching The Call of the Wild: Survive and Thrive
- Teaching The Story of an Hour: One Hour Literary Analysis
- Teaching The Catcher in the Rye: Judging a Book by Its Cover
- Teaching Antigone: Motif Slideshow
- Teaching Heart of Darkness: Orson Welles Did It, and So Can You
- Teaching An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: Lights! Camera! Action!
- Teaching An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: Timing is Everything
- Teaching Number the Stars: Friends, Danes, Countrymen…
- Teaching Oedipus the King: Character Masks
- Teaching One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: "19th Nervous Breakdown": Music, Poetry, or Fiction Inspired by One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Teaching A Separate Peace: Blitzball for All
- Teaching A Rose for Emily: Dramatizing "A Rose for Emily"
- Teaching Antigone: On the Hunt for Civil Disobedience
- Teaching Life of Pi: Cast Away
- Teaching Slaughterhouse-Five: The Art of the Epigram
- Teaching Night: Survivors Unite
- Teaching One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: Law and Order in the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Teaching The Story of an Hour: One Hour Fiction
- Teaching A Separate Peace: Lost in Translation? (Mapping a Community)
- Teaching Number the Stars: What Does It Mean to Be Human?
- Teaching Oedipus the King: Music Video
- Teaching Lord of the Flies: What's Your Cover Story?