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The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) are the state's standards: what every public-school student is expected to learn in each grade (Texas Education Agency, Curriculum Standards). Each line below names the year's big shift in reading and math, in our own summary of that grade's standards. For every standard and the practice that matches it, open the grade's course page. Browse courses by grade.

Reading: spoken words are made of sounds, letters stand for sounds, and print carries meaning. Math: counting objects, comparing groups, and joining and separating small sets.

Reading: the decoding year, reading simple books and writing sentences with capitals and end marks. Math: numbers to 120, adding and subtracting within 20, coins, and time to the half hour.

Reading: reading longer texts fluently, with prefixes, suffixes, synonyms and antonyms. Math: place value to 1,200, adding and subtracting within 100, and fractions as equal parts.

Reading: from learning to read to reading to learn, with summarizing, inferring and organized paragraphs. Math: multiplication and division facts to 10 × 10, fractions, and area and perimeter.

Reading: longer texts, figurative language, and multi-paragraph writing with evidence. Math: decimals to hundredths alongside fractions, multi-digit multiplication and division, and angles.

Reading: inferences supported by evidence, point of view, and essays that cite sources. Math: multiplying and dividing fractions and decimals, order of operations, and volume.

Reading: analysis of plot, theme, point of view, argument and research. Math: ratios and rates, integers, and one-variable equations.

Reading: close reading across genres, argument and evidence, and real revision. Math: proportional reasoning, with unit rates, percent change, scale drawings and two-step equations.

Reading: how themes develop, irony and extended metaphor, and defending or challenging a claim. Math: the bridge to algebra, with slope, functions, the Pythagorean theorem and scientific notation.

Each standard has a citation such as 19 TAC 111.5(b)(4)(F): Title 19 of the Texas Administrative Code, then the section for the grade and subject, the strand, and the specific expectation. What the TEKS are, and how to read them explains it step by step. Every Baccare activity names the standard it practices, so when the teacher sends home this week's focus, you can find matching practice in seconds.