TEKS: Chapter 110. English Language Arts and Reading See All Teacher Resources

110.16.b.11

(11) Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Expository Text. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:

• (A) summarize the main ideas and supporting details in a text in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;

• (B) determine the facts in text and verify them through established methods;

• (C) analyze how the organizational pattern of a text (e.g., cause-and-effect, compare-and-contrast, sequential order, logical order, classification schemes) influences the relationships among the ideas;

• (D) use multiple text features and graphics to gain an overview of the contents of text and to locate information; and

• (E) synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres.