1.7
Knowledge and Skills Statement (Standard Cluster)
The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading
Cluster contents
Student Expectations in This Statement
1.7 is a knowledge and skills statement. These are the student expectations under it.
- 1.7.A
describe personal connections to a variety of sources
- 1.7.B
write brief comments on literary or informational texts
- 1.7.C
use text evidence to support an appropriate response
- 1.7.D
retell texts in ways that maintain meaning
- 1.7.E
interact with sources in meaningful ways such as illustrating or writing
- 1.7.F
respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate.
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students respond to stories, information, images, and spoken sources through talk, writing, or drawing. They make personal connections, retell key ideas in order, and support responses with details. They also use new words from the source.
What Mastery Looks Like
- After reading, listening, or viewing, the student gives an accurate beginning, middle, and end retell. The student writes a brief response and supports it with a picture or text detail. New vocabulary is used correctly in speech or writing.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may tell a personal story without linking it to the source. They may give an opinion without naming a supporting detail. Retells may skip major events, change the order, or include every small detail.
How to Assess It
- Read a short picture book aloud. Give students an exit slip asking for a three-part retell, one connection, one supporting detail, and one new vocabulary word.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs picture cards from a familiar story to sequence, then have them retell the story using the ordered cards.
Ask, “What did this source remind you of, and which detail created that connection?” Students discuss, then write one sentence.
Play Evidence Match by having students pair opinion cards with picture or sentence details that support each opinion.
Read a school lunch menu, then have students write one fact and one personal connection using a new food word.
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