Asking and Answering Questions
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 & Summarizing Informational Text
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.
Six Syllable Types and Morphology
This set of videos is organized into two topics: Six Syllables Types and Morphology. The videos are edited from a six-hour professional development and may be used as a sequenced set of lessons or individually.
Pilot Grade 2 Math
In this course, students will build understanding of the following modules: Sums and Differences to 100; Sums and Differences to 100; Place Value, Counting, and Comparison of Numbers to 1,200; Addition and Subtraction Within 200 with Word Problems to 100; Addition and Subtraction Within 1,000 with Word Problems Within 1,000; Foundations of Multiplication, Division, and Area; Problem Solving with Length, Money, and Data; and Time, Shapes, and Fractions as Equal Parts of Shapes.
You will find teacher and student materials for each module to guide the instruction and facilitate learning. Each module is broken up into coherent topics that allow students to develop solid conceptual understanding, practice procedural skills and fluency, and apply what they learn in real-world scenarios.
The agency developed these learning resources as a contingency option for school districts during COVID. All resources are optional. Prior to publication, materials go through a rigorous third-party review. Review criteria include TEKS alignment, support for all learners, progress monitoring, implementation supports, and more. Products also are subject to a focus group of Texas Educators.
Pilot Grade 1 Math
In this course, students will build understanding of the following modules: Sums and Differences to 10, Introduction to Place Value Through Addition and Subtraction Within 20, Ordering and Comparing Length Measurements as Numbers, Place Value, Comparison, Addition and Subtraction to 40, Identifying, Composing, and Partitioning Shapes, and Place Value, Comparison, Understanding Income with Addition and Subtraction to 100.
You will find teacher and student materials for each module to guide the instruction and facilitate learning. Each module is broken up into coherent topics that allow students to develop solid conceptual understanding, practice procedural skills and fluency, and apply what they learn in real-world scenarios.
The agency developed these learning resources as a contingency option for school districts during COVID. All resources are optional. Prior to publication, materials go through a rigorous third-party review. Review criteria include TEKS alignment, support for all learners, progress monitoring, implementation supports, and more. Products also are subject to a focus group of Texas Educators.
Pilot Grade 4 Math
In this course, students will build understanding of the following modules: Place Value, Rounding, and Algorithms for Addition and Subtraction; Place Value, Rounding, and Algorithms for Addition and Subtraction; Multi-Digit Multiplication and Division; Angle Measure and Plane Figures; Fraction Equivalence, Ordering, and Operations; Decimal Fractions and Financial Literacy; and Exploring Measurement with Multiplication and Data.
You will find teacher and student materials for each module to guide the instruction and facilitate learning. Each module is broken up into coherent topics that allow students to develop solid conceptual understanding, practice procedural skills and fluency, and apply what they learn in real-world scenarios.
The agency developed these learning resources as a contingency option for school districts during COVID. All resources are optional. Prior to publication, materials go through a rigorous third-party review. Review criteria include TEKS alignment, support for all learners, progress monitoring, implementation supports, and more. Products also are subject to a focus group of Texas Educators.
Pilot Grade 3 Math
In this course, students will build understanding of the following modules: Properties of Multiplication and Division and Solving Problems with Units of 2–5 and 10; Place Value and Problem Solving with Units of Measure; Multiplication and Division with Units of 0, 1, 6–9, and Multiples of 10; Multiplication and Area; Fractions as Numbers on the Number Line; Financial Literacy and Data; and Geometry and Measurement Word Problems.
You will find teacher and student materials for each module to guide the instruction and facilitate learning. Each module is broken up into coherent topics that allow students to develop solid conceptual understanding, practice procedural skills and fluency, and apply what they learn in real-world scenarios.
The agency developed these learning resources as a contingency option for school districts during COVID. All resources are optional. Prior to publication, materials go through a rigorous third-party review. Review criteria include TEKS alignment, support for all learners, progress monitoring, implementation supports, and more. Products also are subject to a focus group of Texas Educators.
Pilot Kindergarten Math
In this course, students will build understanding of the following modules: Numbers to 10, Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Shapes; Comparison of Length, Weight, Capacity, and Numbers to 10; Number Pairs, Addition and Subtraction to 10; Numbers 10–20, Counting to 100, and Understanding Work; and Analyzing, Comparing, and Composing Shapes.
You will find teacher and student materials for each module to guide the instruction and facilitate learning. Each module is broken up into coherent topics that allow students to develop solid conceptual understanding, practice procedural skills and fluency, and apply what they learn in real-world scenarios.
The agency developed these learning resources as a contingency option for school districts during COVID. All resources are optional. Prior to publication, materials go through a rigorous third-party review. Review criteria include TEKS alignment, support for all learners, progress monitoring, implementation supports, and more. Products also are subject to a focus group of Texas Educators.
Pilot Grade 5 Math
In this course, students will build understanding of the following modules: Place Value and Decimal Fractions; Multi-Digit Whole Number and Decimal Fraction Operations; Addition and Subtraction of Fractions; Multiplication and Division of Fractions; Addition and Multiplication with Volume and Area; and Problem Solving with the Coordinate Plane and Data.
You will find teacher and student materials for each module to guide the instruction and facilitate learning. Each module is broken up into coherent topics that allow students to develop solid conceptual understanding, practice procedural skills and fluency, and apply what they learn in real-world scenarios.
The agency developed these learning resources as a contingency option for school districts during COVID. All resources are optional. Prior to publication, materials go through a rigorous third-party review. Review criteria include TEKS alignment, support for all learners, progress monitoring, implementation supports, and more. Products also are subject to a focus group of Texas Educators.
Beginning Reading Instruction
This resource outlines the components of research-based programs for beginning reading instruction and is for all educators who want to learn more about how to support beginning reading instruction in students of all ages. Links to videos, handouts, and sample lesson plans are included.
Promoting Vocabulary Development
This resource outlines the components of vocabulary development. Links to videos, handouts, and sample lesson plans are included.
Comprehension Instruction
This resource outlines the components of research-based programs for reading comprehension instruction and is for all educators who want to learn more about how to support reading comprehension for students of all ages. Links to videos, handouts, and sample lesson plans are included.
Content Area Reading Instruction
This resource outlines the components of research-based programs for content area reading instruction and is for all educators who want to learn more about how to support reading instruction in students of all ages. Links to videos, handouts, and sample lesson plans are included.
Understanding Drama
You will learn how to explain a playwright’s use of dialogue and stage directions.
Make Connections Between and Across Literary Texts
You will learn how to make connections between and across texts, including other media (e.g., film, play), and provide textual evidence.
Analyze (Describe) Point of View in Literary Texts/Fiction
You will learn how to analyze different points of view, including first-person, third-person omniscient, and third-person limited.
Building to Measurement with a Ruler
Building to Measurement with a Ruler
Equations: Vertical Alignment Discussion
Discussing the best way to help students understand the process of solving an equation.
Language Arts Resources
LAR utilizes many techniques to help students learn the content. This is done by breaking the concepts down into smaller/targeted concepts, utilizing color coding, charts, mnemonics, graphics, audio clips, easy-to-grasp written and/or auditory explanations that students can internalize with ease; font size for emphasis; practice quizzes for students to self-check for understanding; level quizzes that progress from surface knowledge --> to connecting several concepts --> to applying the content to practical examples.
These learning techniques are especially beneficial for students who are English Language Learners (ELL), Limited English Proficient (LEP), English As Second Language (ESL), Special Education (SPED), and/or Sect. 504 students.
Visit the Language Arts Resources site to access student lessons, quizzes, and more!
Pilot Grade 7 Math
In this course, students will build understanding of the following modules: Thinking Proportionally, Applying Proportionality, Reasoning Algebraically, Analyzing Populations and Probabilities, and Constructing and Measuring.
Each module is broken up into topics where you will find teacher materials to guide the instruction and the student materials both used in the classroom for learning together and learning individually.
The agency developed these learning resources as a contingency option for school districts during COVID. All resources are optional. Prior to publication, materials go through a rigorous third-party review. Review criteria include TEKS alignment, support for all learners, progress monitoring, implementation supports, and more. Products also are subject to a focus group of Texas educators.