Find resources aligned to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

Citizenship. The student identifies customs, symbols, and celebrations that represent American beliefs and principles that contribute to our national identity. The student is expected to:

Data literacy, management, and representation--collect data. The student uses digital strategies to collect and identify data. The student is expected to:

past and present verb tense;

apply mathematics to problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace;

Child can identify some conventional features of print that communicate meaning including end punctuation and case.

Government. The student understands the impact of constitutional issues on American society. The student is expected to:

recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States Flag and the Pledge to the Texas Flag;

classify numerical and non-numerical data; and

singular, plural, common, and proper nouns;

use a problem-solving model that incorporates analyzing given information, formulating a plan or strategy, determining a solution, justifying the solution and evaluating the problem-solving process and the reasonableness of the solution;

analyze the effects of landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions, including Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Hernandez v. Texas, Tinker v. Des Moines, and Wisconsin v. Yoder; and

identify selected patriotic songs, including "The Star Spangled Banner" and "America the Beautiful";

identify and collect data by using various search strategies, including two or more keywords within specific parameters.

adjectives, including articles;

select tools, including real objects, manipulatives, paper and pencil, and technology as appropriate, and techniques, including mental math, estimation, and number sense as appropriate, to solve problems;

Motivation to Write

communicate mathematical ideas, reasoning, and their implications using multiple representations, including symbols, diagrams, graphs, and language as appropriate;

Child intentionally uses marks, letters, or symbols to record language and verbally shares meaning.

explain why landmark constitutional amendments have been proposed and ratified from 1877 to the present.

identify selected symbols such as state and national birds and flowers and patriotic symbols such as the U.S. and Texas flags and Uncle Sam; and

Data literacy, management, and representation--organize, manage, and analyze data. The student uses data to answer questions. The student is expected to use digital tools to transform and make inferences about data to answer a question.

adverbs that convey time;

create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas;

Child independently draws and writes for many purposes to communicate ideas, using a variety of writing tools.

Citizenship. The student understands the concept of American exceptionalism as identified by Alexis de Tocqueville. The student is expected to:

identify how selected customs, symbols, and celebrations reflect an American love of individualism, inventiveness, and freedom.

Data literacy, management, and representation--communicate and publish results. The student communicates data through the use of digital tools to inform an audience. The student is expected to use digital tools to communicate results of an inquiry to inform an intended audience.

prepositions;

Digital citizenship--social interactions. The student understands different styles of digital communication and that a student's actions online can have a long-term impact. The student is expected to:

pronouns, including subjective, objective, and possessive cases;

analyze mathematical relationships to connect and communicate mathematical ideas; and

Writing as a Process

discuss values crucial to America's success as a constitutional republic, including liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire; and

Culture. The student understands the significance of works of art in the local community. The student is expected to:

identify selected stories, poems, statues, paintings, and other examples of the local cultural heritage; and

History. The student understands traditional historical points of reference in U.S. history through 1877. The student is expected to:

describe how information retained online creates a permanent digital footprint;

capitalization for the beginning of sentences and the pronoun "I";

display, explain, and justify mathematical ideas and arguments using precise mathematical language in written or oral communication.

Child discusses and contributes ideas for drafts composed in whole/small group writing activities.

describe how American values are different and unique from those of other nations.

explain the significance of selected stories, poems, statues, paintings, and other examples of the local cultural heritage.

identify the major eras in U.S. history through 1877, including colonization, revolution, creation and ratification of the Constitution, early republic, the Age of Jackson, westward expansion, reform movements, sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction, and describe their causes and effects; and

describe appropriate digital etiquette for various forms of digital communication such as text, email, and online chat; and

punctuation marks at the end of declarative, exclamatory, and interrogative sentences; and

Number and operations. The student applies mathematical process standards to represent and compare whole numbers and understand relationships related to place value. The student is expected to:

Child interacts and provides suggestions for revisions (add, take out, change order) and edits (conventions) in whole/small group writing activities.

Citizenship. The student understands the promises of the Declaration of Independence and the protections of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The student is expected to:

Culture. The student understands ethnic and/or cultural celebrations. The student is expected to:

explain the significance of the following dates: 1607, founding of Jamestown; 1620, arrival of the Pilgrims and signing of the Mayflower Compact; 1776, adoption of the Declaration of Independence; 1787, writing of the U.S. Constitution; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; and 1861-1865, Civil War.