TEKS: Chapter 110. English Language Arts and Reading See All Teacher Resources
110.31.b.8
(8) Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Culture and History. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about the author's purpose in cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to explain the controlling idea and specific purpose of an expository text and distinguish the most important from the less important details that support the author's purpose.
Aligned Resources
Courses
- Course: ELA 9: Introduction to Literature, Unit 3: Shmoop's Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird Lesson 6: That’s James Crow to You
- Course: ELA 9: Introduction to Literature, Unit 3: Shmoop's Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird Lesson 4: The Great Depression
Teaching Guides
- Teaching The Wave: You are Getting Very Sleepy: Cults Throughout the Ages
- Teaching Things Fall Apart: Ibo Art and Culture in Things Fall Apart
- Teaching The Scarlet Letter: Create a Travel Guide to the Puritan Settlement in New England
- Teaching The Diary of a Young Girl: National School-A-Graphic
- Teaching The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank's History in Action
- Teaching The Diary of a Young Girl: Perspectives on a Tragedy
- Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird: A Dream Deferred
- Teaching Night: Tragedy Times Two
- Teaching Number the Stars: Friends, Danes, Countrymen…
- Teaching Julius Caesar: John Wilkes Booth: An "American Brutus"?
- Teaching Julius Caesar: Adaptation: From Plutarch's Biography to Shakespeare's Play
- Teaching A Christmas Carol: From Victorian England to Modern America
- Teaching A Separate Peace: Blitzball for All
- Teaching Animal Farm: Corruption Makes the World Go Round
- Teaching Antigone: On the Hunt for Civil Disobedience
- 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 The Wave: The Third Reich and the Third Wave: Two Peas in a Poisonous Pod
- Teaching Animal Farm: To Ban or Not to Ban; That Is the Question
- Teaching Number the Stars: What Does It Mean to Be Human?
- Teaching Othello: Paul Robeson’s Historic Performance of Othello
- Teaching The Importance of Being Earnest: Tabloid Time
- Teaching Wide Sargasso Sea: Setting