Writing/Writing Process

Writing/ Literary Texts

Writing/Expository and

Procedural Texts

Oral and Written Conventions/ Conventions

background readingcause and effect

coherentcomplex sentence

controlling ideadevelop

discussiondraftedit

enhancefeedbackgenre

grammarinterview

personal interestsprocesspublish

purposerevise

sequence of eventssimple sentence

spellingstrategy

stylethesis

dialogueelement

figurative languagefocus

graphicimaginative story

metaphormeter poem

point of viewsensory details

settingsimilesstory

story linewrite

closing/closureconcluding paragraph

conventionsconvey

demonstrate understanding

detailsessay

expositoryfact

formalguide

inconsistencyinform

informationintroduction

key idealetter

multimediaparagraph

presentpresentation

responserhetorical device

salutationsentence structure

soundtopic

transition

active voiceadjectiveadverb

antecedentappositive phrasecollective nouns

comparative adjective

compound sentence

conjunctive adverb

contextfunction

indefinite pronounirregular verb

modifierparallel structure

participle

parts of speechpassive voiceperfect tense

phrasepredicate

prepositionprepositional

phraseprogressive tenserelative pronoun

subjectsubject-verb agreementsubordinate

clausesubordinating conjunctionsuperlative adjective

tenseverb

BOLD high-frequency word in the TEKS

Oral and Written Conventions/Handwriting,

Capitalization, and Punctuation

Listening and

Speaking/ Speaking

Listening and Speaking/ Listening

Research/ Gathering Sources

Research/ Synthesizing Information

abbreviationacronymbrackets

capitalizationclausecolon

commacomposition

ellipsesemphasishyphen

initialsitalicslegible

mechanicsorganizationparenthesespunctuation

punctuation markquotationsemicolon

title

enunciationeye contact

gesture

instructionsmessage

nonverbal/ verbalperspective

bibliographychart

cite/citationdata

differentiateelectronic

onlineparaphraseperiodical plagiarism

primary sourcerecord

referenceresearch plan

resourcesecondary source

technologyvisual

relevant/irrelevant

reliable/reliabilitysource

valid/validity

Writing (Personal) Oral and Written

Conventions/ Spelling

Writing/ Persuasive

Texts

Research/ Research

Plan

Research/ Organizing

and Presenting

Ideas

actioncommunicate

consonantGreek suffix

alternative/ alternate

brainstormconsult

compileconclusion

consequencepersonal narrative

BOLD high-frequency word in the TEKS

Latin suffixspelling pattern

suffixvowel

word processing

audienceconsider

counter-argumentestablish

persuasiveposition

decideopen-ended

questionresearch

research question

documentationevidencefindingsformat

topic sentence

Writing/Writing Process

Writing/ Literary Texts

Writing/Expository and Procedural Texts

Oral and Written Conventions/ Conventions

Oral and Written Conventions/Handwriting,

Capitalization, and Punctuation

Listening and Speaking/ SpeakingListening and Speaking/ Listening

Research/ Gathering Sources

Research/ Synthesizing Information

Writing (Personal)

Oral and Written Conventions/ Spelling

Writing/ Persuasive Texts

Research/ Research Plan

Research/ Organizing and Presenting Ideas