TEKS ELAR
View English Language, Arts & Reading resources in the TEKS Curriculum.
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Brainstorming for Essays Worksheet
A worksheet to practice using Venn diagrams, mind maps, and cause and effect maps to brainstorm for various essays.
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What's Your Claim? Worksheet
Identify elements of an argumentative essay and write original claim sentences to support individual reasoning.
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Spot the Prepositional Phrase – Task Cards
Identify the prepositional phrase within a sentence with this set of 16 task cards.
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What's the Genre? Task Cards
Identify literary genres through a set of 12 task cards with short text passages and multiple-choice questions.
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Long and Short Vowel Sounds Dominoes
Distinguish between long and short vowel sounds with this set of 28 dominoes.
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Building Sundaes - Noun Categories
Read and sort nouns while crafting deliciously decodable sundaes.
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Making Connections Worksheet
Practice making connections while reading a piece of text with this graphic organizer.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - ON
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “on” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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What's a Hyperbole? PowerPoint
An editable 20-slide PowerPoint to use when teaching your students about hyperbole.
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Back to School Today! Poem for Kids
Ease back-to-school jitters and launch your students into a love of poetry with a short poem for kids written just for the first day of school!
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10 Fun Facts Writing Template
Use this template to distinguish between fact and opinion when studying informational or biographical texts.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - AT
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “at” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Identifying Hyperbole - Worksheet
A worksheet to practice identifying hyperbole in a piece of text.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - YES
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “yes” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - WANT
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “want” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Sweet Sight Words Worksheet - WELL
Practice reading, writing, and identifying the high-frequency word “well” from the Kindergarten-level Dolch sight words list.
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Pyramid Reading Cards - Dolch Grade 1 Sight Words
Practice and review the Dolch Grade 1 List of high-frequency words with 41 short phrase cards for emergent readers.
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Poetry Task Cards
A set of 20 task cards to practice different elements of peotry.
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Biography Anchor Chart with Annotations
Use this biography anchor chart to introduce your students to the structure and language features of biography writing through an annotated example.
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Writing With Alliteration Worksheet
Identify and create alliteration patterns in texts.
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Readers Theater – Play Writing Template
A template for students to use when writing their own Readers Theater script.
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Antonym Task Cards
Build vocabulary and recognition of antonyms with a set of 24 task cards.
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Sight Word Hunt - Dolch First Grade
Practice reading first grade high frequency words by sight with a set of 7 Dolch Sight Words game boards.
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Sight Word Hunt - Dolch Pre-Primer
Practice reading high frequency words by sight with a set of 6 Dolch Pre-Primer Sight Words game boards.
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Sight Word Hunt - Dolch Primer
Practice reading high-frequency words by sight with a set of 8 Dolch Primer Sight Words game boards.
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Making Text Connections Recording Sheet
Make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections when reading a piece of text with this recording sheet
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Move It! - Long and Short Vowel 'O' PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practice reading and identifying long and short vowel ‘o’ words.
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All About Nouns Worksheet
Identify different types of nouns in sentences, and write sentences containing each kind of noun.
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Let's Rhyme! Worksheet
Match rhyming words and create a list of rhyming words.
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R Blends Dominoes
Practice decoding and spelling words that feature R consonant blends with this set of 28 dominoes.
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Four in a Row Game - Adding Phonemes
Create new words by adding phonemes with this set of 28 cards and game board.
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Capitalization Scoot Activity
Practice capitalizing words at the beginning of a sentence, the personal pronoun I, and the names of people with a set of 20 task cards.