1.3
Knowledge and Skills Statement (Standard Cluster)
The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading
Cluster contents
Student Expectations in This Statement
1.3 is a knowledge and skills statement. These are the student expectations under it.
- 1.3.A
use a resource such as a picture dictionary or digital resource to find words
- 1.3.B
use illustrations and texts the student is able to read or hear to learn or clarify word meanings
- 1.3.C
identify the meaning of words with the affixes -s, -ed, and -ing
- 1.3.D
identify and use words that name actions, directions, positions, sequences, categories, and locations.
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use picture dictionaries, digital tools, illustrations, and text clues to figure out word meanings. They explain how -s, -ed, and -ing change words. They use precise words for actions, directions, positions, sequences, categories, and locations when speaking and writing.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can find a word in a picture dictionary or child-safe digital tool and explain which clue confirms its meaning. The student explains that cats means more than one, marched happened already, and marching is happening now. The student gives clear directions with words such as under, next, first, and there.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may guess from a picture without checking the sentence, or copy a digital definition they do not understand. They may treat -s, -ed, and -ing as part of the base word, or think -s only means more than one. They often mix up before and after, left and right, or category words and item names.
How to Assess It
- Give students a picture dictionary and this exit ticket: Find march and draw its meaning, explain cats, marched, and marching, then write a direction using first and beside.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Place toy animals and a box on tables; students draw direction cards and move each animal above, behind, beside, or inside.
Read a picture book page aloud and ask, "What does scampered mean, and which picture or sentence clue helped you?"
Play Suffix Sort: students place dogs, jumped, and running under more than one, happened already, or happening now.
Give pairs a school map; one student directs the other to the library using left, past, beside, first, and next.
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