Texas Administrative Code
Title 19 - EDUCATION
Part 2 - TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY
Chapter 110 - TEXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS AND READING
Subchapter C - HIGH SCHOOL
Section 110.54 - Practical Writing Skills (One-Half to One Credit)
Universal Citation: 19 TX Admin Code ยง 110.54
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) Introduction.
(1) The study of writing allows high school
students to earn one-half to one credit while developing skills necessary for
practical writing. This course emphasizes skill in the use of conventions and
mechanics of written English, the appropriate and effective application of
English grammar, the reading comprehension of informational text, and the
effective use of vocabulary. Students are expected to understand the recursive
nature of reading and writing. Evaluation of students' own writing as well as
the writing of others ensures that students completing this course are able to
analyze and evaluate their writing.
(2) For high school students whose first
language is not English, the students' native language serves as a foundation
for English language acquisition and language learning.
(3) Statements that contain the word
"including" reference content that must be mastered, while those containing the
phrase "such as" are intended as possible illustrative examples.
(4) The essential knowledge and skills as
well as the student expectations for Practical Writing Skills, an elective
course, are described in subsection (b) of this section.
(b) Knowledge and skills.
(1) The student uses the conventions and
mechanics of written English to communicate clearly. The student is expected
to:
(A) employ written conventions
appropriately such as capitalizing and punctuating for various forms;
(B) use correct spelling;
(C) produce error-free writing by
demonstrating control over grammatical elements such as subject-verb agreement,
pronoun-antecedent agreement, and appropriate verb forms;
(D) use varied sentence structures to express
meanings and achieve desired effect; and
(E) use appropriate vocabulary.
(2) The student uses recursive
writing processes as appropriate for self-initiated and assigned writing. The
student is expected to:
(A) apply prewriting
strategies to generate ideas and plan;
(B) develop drafts by organizing ideas such
as paragraphing, outlining, adding, and deleting;
(C) use vocabulary, sentence structure,
organization, and rhetorical devices appropriate to audience and
purpose;
(D) use effective sequence
and transitions to achieve coherency;
(E) revise drafts by rethinking content,
organization, and style to better accomplish the task;
(F) edit as appropriate for the conventions
of standard written English such as grammar, spelling, punctuation,
capitalization, and sentence structure in the final draft;
(G) use resources such as texts and other
people as needed for proofreading, editing, and revising; and
(H) use available technology for creating,
revising, editing, and publishing texts.
(3) The student reads and writes for a
variety of audiences and purposes. The student is expected to:
(A) read a variety of informational
text;
(B) write informational text;
and
(C) practice effective,
efficient note taking.
(4) The student evaluates his/her own writing
and the writing of others. The student is expected to:
(A) evaluate how well writing achieves its
purposes;
(B) analyze and discuss
published pieces as writing models; and
(C) review written work to determine its
strengths and weaknesses and to set goals as a writer.
(5) The student analyzes informational text.
The student is expected to:
(A) use effective
reading strategies to determine a written work's purpose and intended
audience;
(B) identify explicit and
implicit textual information, including main ideas and author's
purpose;
(C) draw and support
complex inferences from text to distinguish facts from opinions;
(D) analyze the author's quality of evidence
for an argument;
(E) evaluate the
use of both literal and figurative language;
(F) analyze the audience and purpose of
informational and persuasive text;
(G) analyze how an author's use of language
creates imagery and mood; and
(H)
analyze insights gained from text to text, text to self, and text to
world.
(6) The student
understands new vocabulary and concepts and uses them accurately in reading,
speaking, and writing. The student is expected to:
(A) apply knowledge of roots and affixes to
infer the meanings of new words; and
(B) use reference guides to confirm the
meanings of new words and concepts.
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