Pre-K TEKS

Pre-K TEKS have 5 domains. They are:
1. Social and Emotional Development: This gives the student a sense of who theyare and what they can do. For many kids PreK is the first time to be away from Mom, so the student really experiences for the first time how to socialize.

2. Language and Communication: Teachers need to give opportunities for the student to socialize and communicate with his/her classmates. Children learn to develop language and communicate during activities that are held in the classroom.

3. Emergent Literacy-Reading: Pre-K provides the foundation for learning to read. During this time students are learning letters and sounds.


4. Emergenct Literacy-Writing: During Pre-K students are learning to form letters and they realize that their writing has meaning.


5. Mathematics: Teachers need to develop Math in Pre-K by building Math into their daily activities.


When you look at the Pre-K TEKS you realize that all other grades levels spiral off Pre-K. Pre-K is the first time that many of the children will be exposed to learning opportunities. After Pre-K a layer is built upon the foundation that Pre-K has set for that TEK. Kinder will build upon Pre-K. 1st grade will build upon Kinder and so on. One curriculum that shows spiraling or scaffolding is Reading. The foundation is laid in Pre-K when the student learns the alphabet. In Kinder sounds are put together to join words and those words then join together to form sentences. During 1st grade the curriculum builds upon those things learned in Pre-K and Kinder. It is very important that every teacher becomes very familiar with the TEKS so that they know what their students must learn in that year.