Overview
Bluebonnet Learning are state-developed instructional materials that provide teachers with the tools to foster student success. Developed using the latest cognitive science, Bluebonnet Learning instructional materials cover 100% of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and provide a full suite of resources including scope and sequence, daily lesson plans, and student materials. All Bluebonnet Learning instructional materials are designed to be high-quality, suitable, and grade-level appropriate.
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Components
The materials are designed to strongly reinforce phonics and foundational literacy skills while also building background knowledge, covering the entirety of the ELAR (and SLAR) TEKS. Multiple components of the OER can be used individually or together:
K-2 Foundational Skills (Phonics) units that cover the Developing and Sustaining Foundational Literacy strand in the ELAR TEKS. Daily lessons are designed to take 60 minutes each day.
K-2 Spanish Skills (Phonics) units that cover the Developing and Sustaining Foundational Literacy strand in the SLAR TEKS. Daily lessons are designed to take 40 minutes each day.
K-5 Knowledge units that cover ELAR TEKS with an emphasis on building vocabulary and background knowledge. In grades K-2, these are structured as units separate from skills, are designed to take 60 minutes each day, and would be used alongside the K-2 Skills units. In grades 3-5, these are structured to cover all of the ELAR TEKS, designed to take 120 minutes for grade 3 and 90 minutes for grades 4 and 5.
K-5 Knowledge Spanish version units are available to support dual language instruction.
K–5 Knowledge
Through daily exercises that feature text with growing complexity, an emphasis on classroom interactivity, oral comprehension, contextual vocabulary, and with speaking and writing in response to the reading, students develop mastery of ELAR TEKS while building background knowledge and rich vocabulary that is a key to literacy. The product is designed around research that shows new vocabulary is more likely to be remembered when offered in a knowledge-coherent context. This serves to dual function of full TEKS coverage and creates a coherently sequenced set of knowledge units within each grade level, and across all K–5 units. The unit outlines are as follows:
