Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills

TAKS - Reading

 
 
 

Objective 1
The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts.
a.  Draw on experiences to bring meanings to words in context such as interpreting idioms, multiple-meaning words, and analogies
b. Determine meanings of derivatives by applying knowledge of the meanings of root words such as like, pay, or happy and affixes such as dis-, pre-, or un-
c. Distinguish denotative and connotative meanings
d. Determine a text's main (or major) ideas and how those ideas are supported with details
e. Paraphrase and summarize text to recall, inform, or organize ideas

 
 
Objective 2
The student will apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts.
a. Analyze characters, including their traits, motivations, conflicts, points of view, relationships, and changes they undergo
b. Recognize and analyze story plot, setting, and problem resolution
c. Recognize and interpret literary devices such as flashback, foreshadowing, and symbolism

 
 
 
Objective 3
The student will use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written tests.
a. Use the text's structure or progression of ideas such as cause and effect or chronology to locate and recall information
b. Find similarities and differences across texts such as in treatment, scope, or organization
c. Represent text information in different ways such as in outline, timeline, or graphic organizer
d. Identify the purposes of different types of texts such as to inform, influence, express, or entertain
e. Compare communication in different forms such as comparing story variants
f. Describe how the author's perspective or point of view affects the text

 
 
 
Objective 4
The student will apply critical thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written texts.
a. Draw inferences such as conclusions or generalizations and support them with text evidence
b. Distinguish fact and opinion in various texts
c. Support responses by referring to relevant aspects of text
d. Connect, compare, and contrast ideas, themes, and issues across text
e. Analyze ways authors organize and present ideas such as through cause/effect, compare/contrast, inductively, deductively, or chronologically
f. Recognize how style, tone, and mood contribute to the effect of the text

 

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