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Texas TEKS · Grade 4 · English

74 curriculum codes

English

Author's purpose and craft

TEKS-ELAR-G4-10 — opens in a new tab

Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances. The student is expected to:

16 resources

TEKS-ELAR-G4-10A — opens in a new tab

explain the author's purpose and message within a text;

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TEKS-ELAR-G4-10B — opens in a new tab

explain how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;

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TEKS-ELAR-G4-10C — opens in a new tab

analyze the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;

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TEKS-ELAR-G4-10D — opens in a new tab

describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile and metaphor, and sound devices such as alliteration and assonance achieves specific purposes;

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TEKS-ELAR-G4-10E — opens in a new tab

identify and understand the use of literary devices, including first-or third-person point of view;

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