One course for every grade and subject
Each course follows the state's own strands for that grade: the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills from kindergarten through 8th grade, and the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines (2022) for pre-K. Open a course to read every expectation, see which ones have practice activities, and get tips for helping at home.
Reading & Writing
Pre-K reading and writing is listening, talking, and playing with sounds. Your child hears that a sentence is…
Math
Pre-K math is number sense you can touch. Your child counts out loud and counts real things, sees small…
Science
Pre-K science starts with looking closely. Your child talks about what everyday things are like and what a…
Social Studies
Pre-K social studies begins with your child's own world: how people and families are alike and different,…
Reading & Writing
Kindergarten reading is about sounds and stories. Your child learns that spoken words are made of sounds,…
Math
Kindergarten math builds number sense: counting objects and knowing the last number said tells how many,…
Science
Kindergarteners learn to observe carefully and ask questions. They explore what plants and animals need, the…
Social Studies
Kindergarten social studies starts with the child's own world: holidays and traditions, where things are,…
Spanish
Beginning Spanish for the youngest learners is listening, saying, and playing: greetings and names, numbers…
Reading & Writing
First grade is the decoding year. Children map letters to sounds well enough to read simple books, learn a…
Math
First graders count and compare numbers to 120, add and subtract within 20 using strategies they can explain,…
Science
First-grade science explores matter and its properties, how pushes and pulls change motion, sources of light…
Social Studies
First graders learn how customs and holidays began, who helped shape Texas and the nation, how maps and…
Spanish
Beginning Spanish for the youngest learners is listening, saying, and playing: greetings and names, numbers…
Reading & Writing
Second graders become more fluent readers and start reading longer texts with understanding. Word study…
Math
Second grade math extends place value to 1,200, builds fluency adding and subtracting within 100 and…
Science
Second graders classify matter by properties and states, investigate how forces change motion, explore energy…
Social Studies
Second grade social studies looks at landmarks and historical figures, using maps of the community and state,…
Spanish
Beginning Spanish for the youngest learners is listening, saying, and playing: greetings and names, numbers…
Reading & Writing
Third grade is the shift from learning to read to reading to learn. Children decode multisyllable words, grow…
Math
Third grade math centers on multiplication and division facts, fractions with denominators 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8,…
Science
Third graders measure and classify matter, explore forces including gravity and magnetism, trace energy and…
Social Studies
Third graders study how individuals and events shaped their community, map skills with distance and…
Spanish
Beginning Spanish in the upper elementary grades adds reading and short writing to listening and speaking:…
Reading & Writing
Fourth graders read longer literature and informational texts, use word roots and affixes to unlock…
Math
Fourth grade math introduces decimals to the hundredths alongside fractions, multi-digit multiplication and…
Science
Fourth graders investigate energy transfer through motion, waves, sound, and electricity, learn conductors…
Social Studies
Fourth grade is Texas history: American Indian groups, exploration and colonization, the Texas Revolution and…
Spanish
Beginning Spanish in the upper elementary grades adds reading and short writing to listening and speaking:…
Reading & Writing
Fifth graders read complex texts across genres, make inferences and support them with evidence, analyze…
Math
Fifth grade math deepens work with decimals and fractions, including multiplying and dividing them,…
Science
Fifth graders compare matter by measurable properties, investigate balanced and unbalanced forces, trace…
Social Studies
Fifth grade is United States history from European exploration through the 20th century: colonies, the…
Spanish
Beginning Spanish in the upper elementary grades adds reading and short writing to listening and speaking:…
Reading & Writing
Sixth grade reading and writing moves into analysis: plot and conflict, theme, point of view, argument, and…
Math
Sixth grade math introduces ratios and rates, integers and rational numbers, expressions and one-variable…
Science
Sixth grade science covers matter and its structure, forces and motion including Newton's laws in an…
Social Studies
Sixth grade social studies is world cultures: the geography, history, economics, and government of societies…
Spanish
Beginning Spanish in middle school covers the same Level I ground at a quicker pace: conversation and polite…
Reading & Writing
Seventh-grade reading and writing asks for close reading across genres: inferring more than one theme,…
Math
Seventh-grade math is proportional reasoning: rational numbers with signs, unit rates and the constant of…
Science
Seventh-grade science moves from elements and compounds to the periodic table, physical and chemical change,…
Social Studies
Seventh grade is Texas history: the peoples who lived here first, Spanish and Mexican Texas, the Revolution…
Spanish
Beginning Spanish in middle school covers the same Level I ground at a quicker pace: conversation and polite…
Reading & Writing
Eighth-grade reading and writing expects analysis: how themes develop through characters and events,…
Math
Eighth-grade math is the bridge to algebra: real numbers and scientific notation, slope and linear…
Science
Eighth-grade science covers matter and chemical reactions, Newton's three laws, waves and the electromagnetic…
Social Studies
Eighth grade is United States history through 1877: colonies and the Revolution, the Constitution and its…
Spanish
Beginning Spanish in middle school covers the same Level I ground at a quicker pace: conversation and polite…
Curriculum text on this site is reproduced from the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills as published by the Texas Education Agency and codified in Title 19 of the Texas Administrative Code. Baccare is an independent product of Brigade Management, Inc. and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the Texas Education Agency, the State Board of Education, or the Texas Secretary of State. Pre-K outcomes are reproduced from the 2022 Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines (PK4), also published by the Texas Education Agency. See sources and attribution.