examining the teks
TEKS for 5th Grade
5.3 Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Theme and Genre. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
(A) compare and contrast the themes or moral lessons of several works of fiction from various cultures;
(B) describe the phenomena explained in origin myths from various cultures; and
(C) explain the effect of a historical event or movement on the theme of a work of literature.
5.11 Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Expository Text. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
(A) summarize the main ideas and supporting details in a text in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;
(B) determine the facts in text and verify them through established methods;
(C) analyze how the organizational pattern of a text (e.g., cause-and-effect, compare-and-contrast, sequential order, logical order, classification schemes) influences the relationships among the ideas;
(D) use multiple text features and graphics to gain an overview of the contents of text and to locate information; and
(E) synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or
three texts representing similar or different genres.
5.25 Research/Synthesizing Information. Students clarify research questions and evaluate and
synthesize collected information. Students are expected to:
(A) refine the major research question, if necessary, guided by the answers to a secondary set of questions; and
(B) evaluate the relevance, validity, and reliability of sources for the research
5.8 Geography. The student understands the location and patterns of settlement and the geographic factors that influence where people live. The student is expected to:
(A) identify and describe the types of settlement and patterns of land use in the United States;
(B) explain the geographic factors that influence patterns of settlement and the distribution of population in the United States, past and present; and
(C) analyze the reasons for the location of cities in the United States, including capital cities, and explain their distribution, past and present.
5.7 Earth and space. The student knows Earth's surface is constantly changing and consists of useful resources. The student is expected to:
(A) explore the processes that led to the formation of sedimentary rocks and fossil fuels;
(B) recognize how landforms such as deltas, canyons, and sand dunes are the result of changes to Earth's surface by wind, water, and ice;
(C) identify alternative energy resources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, and biofuels; and
(D) identify fossils as evidence of past living organisms and the nature of the environments at the time using models
5.5 Matter and energy. The student knows that matter has measurable physical properties and those
properties determine how matter is classified, changed, and used. The student is expected to:
(A) classify matter based on physical properties, including mass, magnetism, physical state (solid, liquid, and gas), relative density (sinking and floating), solubility in water, and the ability to conduct or insulate thermal energy or electric energy;
(B) identify the boiling and freezing/melting points of water on the Celsius scale;
(C) demonstrate that some mixtures maintain physical properties of their ingredients such as iron filings and sand; and
(D) identify changes that can occur in the physical properties of the ingredients of solutions such as dissolving salt in water or adding lemon juice to water
5.3 Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Theme and Genre. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about theme and genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
(A) compare and contrast the themes or moral lessons of several works of fiction from various cultures;
(B) describe the phenomena explained in origin myths from various cultures; and
(C) explain the effect of a historical event or movement on the theme of a work of literature.
5.11 Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Expository Text. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:
(A) summarize the main ideas and supporting details in a text in ways that maintain meaning and logical order;
(B) determine the facts in text and verify them through established methods;
(C) analyze how the organizational pattern of a text (e.g., cause-and-effect, compare-and-contrast, sequential order, logical order, classification schemes) influences the relationships among the ideas;
(D) use multiple text features and graphics to gain an overview of the contents of text and to locate information; and
(E) synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or
three texts representing similar or different genres.
5.25 Research/Synthesizing Information. Students clarify research questions and evaluate and
synthesize collected information. Students are expected to:
(A) refine the major research question, if necessary, guided by the answers to a secondary set of questions; and
(B) evaluate the relevance, validity, and reliability of sources for the research
5.8 Geography. The student understands the location and patterns of settlement and the geographic factors that influence where people live. The student is expected to:
(A) identify and describe the types of settlement and patterns of land use in the United States;
(B) explain the geographic factors that influence patterns of settlement and the distribution of population in the United States, past and present; and
(C) analyze the reasons for the location of cities in the United States, including capital cities, and explain their distribution, past and present.
5.7 Earth and space. The student knows Earth's surface is constantly changing and consists of useful resources. The student is expected to:
(A) explore the processes that led to the formation of sedimentary rocks and fossil fuels;
(B) recognize how landforms such as deltas, canyons, and sand dunes are the result of changes to Earth's surface by wind, water, and ice;
(C) identify alternative energy resources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, and biofuels; and
(D) identify fossils as evidence of past living organisms and the nature of the environments at the time using models
5.5 Matter and energy. The student knows that matter has measurable physical properties and those
properties determine how matter is classified, changed, and used. The student is expected to:
(A) classify matter based on physical properties, including mass, magnetism, physical state (solid, liquid, and gas), relative density (sinking and floating), solubility in water, and the ability to conduct or insulate thermal energy or electric energy;
(B) identify the boiling and freezing/melting points of water on the Celsius scale;
(C) demonstrate that some mixtures maintain physical properties of their ingredients such as iron filings and sand; and
(D) identify changes that can occur in the physical properties of the ingredients of solutions such as dissolving salt in water or adding lemon juice to water