Language Essentials for Texas

Grades K–8

Prepare Emergent Bilinguals for success on assessments such as TELPAS while building the academic language, confidence, and English proficiency needed to support reclassification.

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At a Glance

Explore the key components and features of Language Essentials for Texas.

Assessment Familiarity: Builds student understanding of language prompts, task types, and expectations found on assessments such as TELPAS.
Guided Practice: Provides guided, partner, and independent practice to build confidence and independence.
Teacher Guidance and Flexible Implementation: Helps teachers identify language needs and deliver targeted instruction across small groups and designated ESL/ELD settings.
Reclassification Goals: Enables Emergent Bilinguals to demonstrate their language proficiency and make progress toward reclassification.
Differentiated Support: Addresses varied proficiency levels through flexible scaffolding and targeted language practice.

What are the key benefits of Language Essentials for Texas?

Support stronger student outcomes by providing targeted practice that helps learners build proficiency and progress toward reclassification.
Build confidence by giving students repeated opportunities to practice, apply feedback, and demonstrate their learning with ease.
Connect language to meaningful content through engaging fiction, nonfiction, and content-area texts that support academic language use.
Empower teachers to differentiate instruction with clear insights into student language needs and flexible tools that support targeted teaching across a variety of settings.
Clarify language expectations by helping students understand academic language demands in both classroom instruction and assessment contexts.

What’s Included in Language Essentials for Texas?

1 Teacher's Guide
1 Student Book (21 copies)
2 Read-Aloud Books (1 fiction, 1 nonfiction; 6 copies each)
Access to TCM Content Cloud® for digital versions of all program components, plus audio recordings for tasks, read-along ebooks, and fillable PDFs

Explore the Series

Teacher Materials
Teacher’s Guide

Support effective language instruction with structured guidance, flexible implementation options, and built-in scaffolds that reduce planning time and improve student outcomes
Provides step-by-step instructional guidance with modeled strategies to support consistent, effective teaching.

Helps identify common language challenges and misconceptions so teachers can target instruction and provide meaningful feedback.

Includes scaffolds, prompts, and teacher guidance to support student responses across proficiency levels.

Makes language expectations visible, enabling differentiation and clearer instructional decision-making.

Enables flexible implementation across whole-group, small-group, intervention, or extended learning settings.

Reduces planning time with ready-to-use lessons, pacing guidance, and structured activity progression.
Student Materials
Student Book

Develop language proficiency through structured, scaffolded practice that builds skills over time and prepares students to navigate assessment-style tasks, prompts, and academic language demands
Builds foundational language skills before progressing to assessment-style tasks that mirror real testing experiences.

Delivers structured practice across listening, speaking, reading, and writing in a clear progression.

Supports guided, partner, and independent learning to build confidence and ownership.

Connects language development to meaningful, content-area learning across subjects.

Reinforces academic language through repeated, scaffolded practice that supports long-term skill transfer.

Transitions students from skill-building to application through a two-part structure that supports both instruction and assessment readiness.
Read-Aloud Books

Provide additional context for language tasks through structured read-aloud experiences that support comprehension and language development
Builds academic language through one fiction and one nonfiction read-aloud reader integrated into instruction.

Deepens understanding of unit topics by connecting texts to language tasks and content.

Guides instruction with built-in teacher-led read-aloud activities.

Supports collaboration through small-group read-along opportunities.

Strengthens listening skills through consistent exposure to structured language input.
Digital Resources
Digital Learning Resources

Extend learning beyond the classroom with TCM Content Cloud^®, providing flexible access to instruction and practice to support multimodal learning and reinforce language development across a variety of settings.
Includes audio recordings of activities to model language and support comprehension.

Offers read-along eBooks that allow students to follow along with texts and strengthen fluency.

Provides fillable, projectable PDFs that support interactive instruction and flexible classroom use.

Expands access to program components, enabling students to revisit and practice skills independently.

Supports differentiated instruction and flexible implementation across classroom, small-group, and extended learning environments.
Use Cases
School Implementation & Use Cases

Flexible instructional support for a variety of school programs and settings
Core classroom language development

Designated ESL/ELD instruction

Assessment readiness such as TELPAS preparation

Small-group instruction and intervention

Emergent Bilingual program integration

Before- and after-school programs

Summer learning and summer bridge programs

Title III, Immigrant, and Migrant-funded programs

Teacher’s Guide

Support effective language instruction with structured guidance, flexible implementation options, and built-in scaffolds that reduce planning time and improve student outcomes

Provides step-by-step instructional guidance with modeled strategies to support consistent, effective teaching.
Helps identify common language challenges and misconceptions so teachers can target instruction and provide meaningful feedback.
Includes scaffolds, prompts, and teacher guidance to support student responses across proficiency levels.
Makes language expectations visible, enabling differentiation and clearer instructional decision-making.
Enables flexible implementation across whole-group, small-group, intervention, or extended learning settings.
Reduces planning time with ready-to-use lessons, pacing guidance, and structured activity progression.

Student Book

Develop language proficiency through structured, scaffolded practice that builds skills over time and prepares students to navigate assessment-style tasks, prompts, and academic language demands

Builds foundational language skills before progressing to assessment-style tasks that mirror real testing experiences.
Delivers structured practice across listening, speaking, reading, and writing in a clear progression.
Supports guided, partner, and independent learning to build confidence and ownership.
Connects language development to meaningful, content-area learning across subjects.
Reinforces academic language through repeated, scaffolded practice that supports long-term skill transfer.
Transitions students from skill-building to application through a two-part structure that supports both instruction and assessment readiness.

Read-Aloud Books

Provide additional context for language tasks through structured read-aloud experiences that support comprehension and language development

Builds academic language through one fiction and one nonfiction read-aloud reader integrated into instruction.
Deepens understanding of unit topics by connecting texts to language tasks and content.
Guides instruction with built-in teacher-led read-aloud activities.
Supports collaboration through small-group read-along opportunities.
Strengthens listening skills through consistent exposure to structured language input.

Digital Learning Resources

Extend learning beyond the classroom with TCM Content Cloud^®, providing flexible access to instruction and practice to support multimodal learning and reinforce language development across a variety of settings.

Includes audio recordings of activities to model language and support comprehension.
Offers read-along eBooks that allow students to follow along with texts and strengthen fluency.
Provides fillable, projectable PDFs that support interactive instruction and flexible classroom use.
Expands access to program components, enabling students to revisit and practice skills independently.
Supports differentiated instruction and flexible implementation across classroom, small-group, and extended learning environments.

School Implementation & Use Cases

Flexible instructional support for a variety of school programs and settings

Core classroom language development
Designated ESL/ELD instruction
Assessment readiness such as TELPAS preparation
Small-group instruction and intervention
Emergent Bilingual program integration
Before- and after-school programs
Summer learning and summer bridge programs
Title III, Immigrant, and Migrant-funded programs

Supporting Resources

Evidence-Based Research

Evidence-Based Research for Language Essentials for Texas

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Testimonials

Students scoring a 4 on the ELPAC (English Language Proficiency Assessments for California) went up by 75% after district-wide implementation during designated ELD. Our district will continue to use Language Essentials because it’s an effective tool for supporting English learner success.

Christa Van Orden, Director of Elementary Education

Alhambra Unified School District, CA

They [teachers] have been able to be more explicit and intentional with their planning and facilitation of learning for their English learners. Administration has expressed an excitement for the increase of student achievement by observing effective teaching of language development using Language Power and Language Essentials that has resulted in increasing proficiency rates across our District.

Gail Miller, EL Coordinator

Peoria Unified School District, AZ

Frequently Asked Questions

Who are Emergent Bilingual students?

Emergent Bilingual (EB) students are learners who are developing English proficiency while also building on the language and cultural knowledge they already bring to the classroom. These students benefit from instruction that supports listening, speaking, reading, and writing while helping them grow academic language for school success.

How does Language Essentials for Texas support Emergent Bilingual Learners?

Language Essentials for Texas supports Emergent Bilingual learners with instruction, practice, and preparation across listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students build academic language, gain confidence with language prompts and task types, and become familiar with language proficiency assessments such as TELPAS.

Is Language Essentials for Texas aligned to Texas standards?

Yes. Language Essentials for Texas lessons are correlated to the 2024 Texas English Language Proficiency Standards, ELPS. The series supports instruction across the four language domains and helps Texas Emerging Bilingual learners build the language skills needed for classroom learning and assessment readiness.

Can Language Essentials for Texas be used for more than assessment preparation?

Yes. Language Essentials for Texas supports year-round language development, not just assessment preparation. Educators can use it for classroom instruction, designated ELD, small-group support, intervention, and focused preparation before language proficiency assessments such as TELPAS.

How can teachers effectively support Emergent Bilingual students?

Teachers can support Emergent Bilingual students by providing explicit instruction, frequent language practice, meaningful academic conversations, and targeted feedback. Language Essentials for Texas helps teachers identify common language challenges, model expectations, and provide guided, partner, and independent practice.

Who is Language Essentials for Texas for?

Language Essentials for Texas is designed for Grades K–8 Emergent Bilingual (EB) students and educators in Texas. It is especially useful for teachers, interventionists, ELD/ESL educators, and school teams focused on educating Emergent Bilinguals, building language proficiency, and supporting progress toward reclassification.

What is included in each Language Essentials for Texas kit?

Each Language Essentials for Texas kit includes 21 Student Books, 1 Teacher’s Guide, 2 readers with 6 copies of each, audio task recordings, read-along eBooks, and fillable PDFs. These materials support instruction, practice, and preparation across listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

How can Language Essentials for Texas be used in the classroom?

Language Essentials for Texas can be used in whole-group instruction, small groups, one-on-one support, intervention, designated ELD, and focused preparation before language proficiency assessments. Lessons can support year-round language growth or targeted practice based on student needs.

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