TEKS ELAR 6.5

6.5 is a knowledge and skills statement. These are the student expectations under it.

• 6.5.A

  establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected text

• 6.5.B

  generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information

• 6.5.C

  make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures

• 6.5.D

  create mental images to deepen understanding

• 6.5.E

  make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society

• 6.5.F

  make inferences and use evidence to support understanding

• 6.5.G

  evaluate details read to determine key ideas

• 6.5.H

  synthesize information to create new understanding

• 6.5.I

  monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students read with a goal and track whether the text makes sense. They ask questions, revise predictions, make connections, infer from evidence, identify key ideas, and combine learning across texts.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student reads with a clear purpose and notices when meaning breaks down. They identify key ideas, support inferences with relevant evidence, combine ideas across texts, and explain how a reading strategy improved understanding.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may treat a prediction as a random guess rather than using clues from the text. They may copy one detail as the key idea or make an inference without evidence. They also may keep reading when confused instead of stopping and choosing a repair strategy.

04

How to Assess It

Give students two short passages on the same topic. Ask them to state a purpose, make one supported inference, name a shared key idea, and explain one repair strategy they used.

1. 01

   Give pairs a printed article and sticky notes to mark predictions, questions, connections, key details, and places where meaning breaks down.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: Which idea changed after reading, and which two details caused the change?

3. 03

   Play Evidence Match: teams pair inference cards with supporting sentence strips, then reject one weak match and explain why.

4. 04

   Compare a cafeteria menu with a nutrition article, then write one lunch recommendation using details from both sources.

• 8.5

  The 8th Grade version of this standard.

• 4.6

  The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.

• K.5

  The Kindergarten version of this standard.

• 3.6

  The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.