New SLAR TEKS Documents

ELAR / SLAR Vertical Alignment K-12

Pre-K Guidelines Aligned to New ELAR TEKS

Revised Resources (including Side-by-Side Docmuments)

Assessed Curriculum by Grade

Released Test from Spring 2019 (Coming Soon)

New ELAR Strand Series (K-5)*

Strand 1 (Developing & Sustaining Foundational Language Skills) – October 4

Strand 2 and 3 (Comprehension and Response Skills) – October 28

Strand 4 (Multiple Genres) – Online Course November 1-29

Strand 5 (Author’s Purpose & Craft) – November 18

Strand 6 (Composition) – December 9

Strand 7 (Inquiry and Research) – Online Course December 1 - 31

*Strand Series will repeat in the Spring.

Below is a response from CREST concerning the proposed amendments to the New ELAR Standards:

A Message from Coalition of Reading and English Supervisors of Texas (CREST):

Update on TEKS Changes

At the State Board of Education meeting on June 12, 2019, TCTELA and CREST testified in opposition to amending the 2017 ELAR TEKS.

At the conclusion of that testimony, members of the SBOE requested additional explanation and resource citations regarding several proposed amendments. English language arts subject matter experts and ELAR TEKS revision work group members were contacted for their feedback and the SBOE was given the best advice possible in a very short time frame.

A final vote on the proposed amendments was held on June 14. As a result of that vote, no new Student Expectations (SEs) were added, and no SEs were revised to include additional concepts. Only technical changes were made.

The Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts (TCTELA), Kelly E. Tumy—President The Coalition of Reading and English Supervisors of Texas (CREST), Dr. Beth Egmon— President

TEKSGUIDE.org (TEA Resource)

PD2Teach - TCTELA

Assessed Curriculum One Pagers