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

110.54.b.5

(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.