Texas parent guides and free practice sheets
Plain-language guides for parents following the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), plus free printable practice sheets. Every guide follows the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), and each practice sheet has an answer key.
Understand your child’s school year
- Understanding Texas report cards
What Beginning, Approaching, Meeting and Exceeding mean.
- Process skills
The thinking skills the TEKS build in every grade: solving problems, investigating, researching and explaining.
- The state tests explained
STAAR reading and math (grades 3 to 8), science (grades 5 and 8) and social studies (grade 8), and what's changing.
What kids learn in each grade
Common questions
In 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade and 8th grade. It is separate from the report card. STAAR reading and math (grades 3 to 8), science (grades 5 and 8) and social studies (grade 8), and what's changing.
The thinking skills the TEKS build in every grade: solving problems, investigating, researching and explaining.
About 10 minutes a day in Kindergarten and Grade 1, and 15 minutes from Grade 2. Short, regular practice on the skills the teacher flags works better than long sessions.
Yes. Each grade has one free printable sheet per subject, with an answer key. Print it or work through it on screen.
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