TEKS ELAR 5.11
Knowledge and Skills Statement (Standard Cluster)
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student is expected to: plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as brainstorming, freewriting, and mapping; develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by: organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, and a conclusion; and developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts and details; revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity; edit drafts using standard English conventions, including: complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments; past tense of irregular verbs; collective nouns; adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms; capitalization of abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations; conjunctive adverbs; prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement; pronouns, including indefinite; subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences; italics and underlining for titles and emphasis and punctuation marks, including quotation marks in dialogue and commas in compound and complex sentences; and correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and publish written work for appropriate audiences.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading
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Student Expectations in This Statement
5.11 is a knowledge and skills statement. These are the student expectations under it.
- 5.11.A
plan a first draft by selecting a genre for a particular topic, purpose, and audience using a range of strategies such as brainstorming, freewriting, and mappin...
- 5.11.B.i
organizing with purposeful structure, including an introduction, transitions, and a conclusion
- 5.11.B.ii
developing an engaging idea reflecting depth of thought with specific facts and details
- 5.11.C
revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity
- 5.11.D.i
complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments
- 5.11.D.ii
past tense of irregular verbs
- 5.11.D.iii
collective nouns
- 5.11.D.iv
adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms
- 5.11.D.v
conjunctive adverbs
- 5.11.D.vi
prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement
- 5.11.D.vii
pronouns, including indefinite
- 5.11.D.viii
subordinating conjunctions to form complex sentences
- 5.11.D.ix
capitalization of abbreviations, initials, acronyms, and organizations
- 5.11.D.x
punctuation marks, including commas in compound and complex sentences, quotation marks in dialogue, and italics and underlining for titles and emphasis
- 5.11.D.xi
correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words
- 5.11.E
publish written work for appropriate audiences.
- 5.11.Bdevelop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing by:
- 5.11.Dedit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
Teacher's field guide
What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students choose a genre that fits the topic, purpose, and audience, then plan and draft a focused piece. They reorganize and strengthen ideas, improve sentences and words, correct conventions, and publish a readable final version.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can produce a clear piece with an engaging introduction, logical organization, specific details, transitions, and a conclusion suited to the audience. The student revises ideas and sentences, edits grade-level conventions, and prepares a legible final copy.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often treat revision as fixing spelling and punctuation instead of improving ideas, order, and clarity. They may use fragments, run-ons, comma splices, weak transitions, or pronouns and verbs that do not agree.
How to Assess It
- Give students a six-sentence draft with a weak opening, one run-on, a vague detail, and a verb error. Ask them to revise two ideas, edit two errors, and label each change.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups color-coded sentence strips from a draft, then have them arrange an introduction, supporting details, transitions, and conclusion.
Ask students to explain in writing how the same topic would change for a principal, a friend, and a younger student.
Run an editing relay where teams correct fragments, run-ons, verb agreement, pronouns, commas, capitalization, dialogue punctuation, and spelling on task cards.
Have students write and publish a letter proposing one realistic school improvement, using facts, clear organization, and language suited to the principal.
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Related Standards
- 2.11
The 2nd Grade version of this standard.
- 8.10
The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.
- 6.10
The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.
- 3.11
The 3rd Grade version of this standard.
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