This resource links to the Write for Texas online resources and includes a short video overview.

You will learn how to write an expository/procedural text with a variety of sentence structures, rhetorical devices, transitions, appropriate facts, and details.

You will learn how to make connections between and across texts, including other media (e.g., film, play), and provide textual evidence.

You will learn the importance of graphical elements (e.g., capital letters, line length, word position) in the meaning of a poem.

You will learn how to analyze different points of view, including first-person, third-person omniscient, and third-person limited.

You will learn how to write an expository/procedural text that synthesizes ideas from several sources.

You will learn how the internal and external responses of the characters, including their motivations and conflicts, contribute to the development of the story’s plot.

You will learn how to explain a playwright’s use of dialogue and stage directions.

Grade 5 additional resources

You will learn how the setting in a story can influence the development of the plot.

The Asking and Answering Professional Development provides strategies to teach students how to ask and answer questions more effectively to improve comprehension in the classroom and on standardized assessments such as the STAAR. 

Determining importance and summarizing is a complicated task for many readers. This professional development provides participants with instructional scaffolds that will help students comprehend informational text. 

In these two lesson plans, students will learn to identify issues of importance, form their opinions, and support those opinions with evidence and reason. They will also learn how to state their feelings in a persuasive manner.

A relative adverb is a word that talks about a place, time, or reason for something. Remember the three "w's": where, when, and why.
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Pronoun case is determined by how we use the pronoun in a sentence. There are three ways: subjective, when the pronoun does something; objective, when something is done to our pronoun;

Verb tense is used to show when an action occurs, whether it is in the past, the present, or the future.