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

110.19.b.19

(19) Oral and Written Conventions/Conventions. Students understand the function of and use the conventions of academic language when speaking and writing. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater complexity. Students are expected to:

• (A) identify, use, and understand the function of the following parts of speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking:
  • (i) verbs (perfect and progressive tenses) and participles;
  • (ii) appositive phrases;
  • (iii) adverbial and adjectival phrases and clauses;
  • (iv) conjunctive adverbs (e.g., consequently, furthermore, indeed);
  • (v) prepositions and prepositional phrases and their influence on subject-verb agreement;
  • (vi) relative pronouns (e.g., whose, that, which);
  • (vii) subordinating conjunctions (e.g., because, since); and
  • (viii) transitions for sentence to sentence or paragraph to paragraph coherence;

• (B) write complex sentences and differentiate between main versus subordinate clauses; and

• (C) use a variety of complete sentences (e.g., simple, compound, complex) that include properly placed modifiers, correctly identified antecedents, parallel structures, and consistent tenses.