TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(C)

Knowledge & Skills 110.4(b)(2)

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning reading and writing

The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell. The student is expected to:

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Other expectations under 110.4(b)(2)

• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(A) demonstrate phonological awareness by:
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(A)(i) producing a series of rhyming words;
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(A)(ii) distinguishing between long and short vowel sounds in one-syllable and multi-syllable words;
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(A)(iii) recognizing the change in spoken word when a specified phoneme is added, changed, or removed; and
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(A)(iv) manipulating phonemes within base words;
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(B) demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by:
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(B)(i) decoding words with short, long, or variant vowels, trigraphs, and blends;
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(B)(ii) decoding words with silent letters such as knife and gnat;
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(B)(iii) decoding multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables; and final stable syllable…
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(B)(iv) decoding compound words, contractions, and common abbreviations;
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(B)(v) decoding words using knowledge of syllable division patterns such as VCCV, VCV, and VCCCV;
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(B)(vi) decoding words with prefixes, including un-, re-, and dis-, and inflectional endings, including -s, -es, -ed, -ing, -er, and -est; and
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(B)(vii) identifying and reading high-frequency words from a research-based list;
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(C)(i) spelling one-syllable and multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables; and fina…
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(C)(ii) spelling words with silent letters such as knife and gnat;
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(C)(iii) spelling compound words, contractions, and common abbreviations;
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(C)(iv) spelling multisyllabic words with multiple sound-spelling patterns;
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(C)(v) spelling words using knowledge of syllable division patterns, including words with double consonants in the middle of the word; and
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(C)(vi) spelling words with prefixes, including un-, re-, and dis-, and inflectional endings, including -s, -es, -ed, -ing, -er, and -est;
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(D) alphabetize a series of words and use a dictionary or glossary to find words; and
• TEKS 110.4(b)(2)(E) develop handwriting by accurately forming all cursive letters using appropriate strokes when connecting letters.

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