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TEKS Connections

The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) directly mandates the incorporation of visual art into such non-art disciplines as Social Studies, Mathematics, and Language Arts and Reading. The following charts explain how art is mandated by TEKS:

Discipline
K
1
2
3
Mathematics
Introduction: Problem solving, language and communication, connections within and outside mathematics, and formal and informal reasoning underlie all content areas in mathematics...Students use these processes together with technology and other mathematical tools...to develop conceptual understanding and solve problems as they do mathematics.
(a)(3)
(a)(3)
(a)(3)
(a)(3)
Underlying Processes and Mathematical Tools: The student is expected to...(C) select or develop an appropriate problem-solving strategy including drawing a picture [and] looking for a pattern...
(13)
(11)
(12)
(15)
Underlying Processes and Mathematical Tools: The student communicates about...mathematics using informal language. The student is expected to (A) explain and record observations using...pictures...
(14)
(12)
(13)
(16)
Language Arts and Reading
Introduction: Students summarize what they read and represent ideas gained from reading with...drawings.
(a)(1)
Listening/Speaking/Communication: The student is able to (C) clarify and support spoken messages using appropriate props such...pictures
(4)
(4)
(4)
(4)
Reading/Literary Response: The student is expected to (C) respond through...art...To a variety of stories and poems in ways that reflect understanding and interpretation; and (D) describe how illustrations contribute to the text.
(10)
(13)
Reading/Literary Response: The student is expected to (A) respond to stories and poems in ways that reflect understanding and interpretation...through art; and (B) demonstrate understanding of informational text...such as through illustrating
(10)
Reading/Inquiry/Research: The student is expected to (B) use pictures...to gather information and answer questions.
(12)
(15)
(12)
Reading/Comprehension: The student is expected to (E) draw and discuss visual images based on text descriptions.
(12)
(9)
(9)
Writing/Inquiry/Research: The student is expected to (B) record or dictate his/her own knowledge of a topic in various ways such as by drawing pictures
(23)
(20)
(20)
Viewing/Representating/Interpretation: The student understands and interprets visual images, message, and meanings.
Viewing/Representing/Interpretation: The student analyzes and critiques the significance of visual images
 
         
       

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