1.7.B
The Standard
write brief comments on literary or informational texts
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students write a brief response after reading, hearing, or viewing a source. They share a relevant thought, question, fact, reaction, or connection.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student writes one or two clear sentences connected to a story, article, read-aloud, image, or video. The comment may give a reaction, question, fact, or personal connection.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may retell the whole text instead of sharing one focused thought. They may copy a sentence, draw only a picture, or write an idea unrelated to the source.
How to Assess It
- Read a short passage, then ask: “Write one sentence that tells a thought, question, or connection you have about the passage.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students sticky notes to place beside a page, then write one thought or question about that part.
After a read-aloud, ask students to write: “I think ___ because ___.”
Play Comment Sort by having students sort sentence cards into connected comments and unrelated comments.
Show a simple weather report, then have students write one fact they learned and one question they still have.
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Related Standards
- 2.7.B
write brief comments on literary or informational texts that demonstrate an understanding of the text;
- K.6.B
provide an oral, pictorial, or written response to a text;
- 5.12.B
compose informational texts, including brief compositions that convey information about a topic, using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft;
- 3.7.B
write a response to a literary or informational text that demonstrates an understanding of a text;
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