Specifications include, but are not limited to: Instructional Materials and Classroom Supplies will/may: ● Align to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) to promote student mastery of grade level standards. ● Contain standard and learning target support, instructional activities, progress monitoring, assessments, and other valuable resources that support instructional delivery, interventions, and extensions for student achievement. ● Expose students to the rigor, format, and structure of the state assessment for all grade levels and tested subjects. ● Enhance the Balanced Literacy Focus for grades K-6 in English and Spanish. ● Compliment the multi-text approach to Literacy Instruction. ● Support whole-group, small-group, an independent learning opportunities, including: interactive read-aloud, reading mini-lessons, shared reading, phonics/spelling/word study lessons, guided reading, book clubs, and independent reading collections. ● Provide support for Response to Intervention (RtI), both academically and behaviorally, and include targeted student interventions based on specific student deficiencies in both reading and math. ● Facilitate and support the planning and delivery of quality standards-based instruction and/or extend content knowledge or expertise for students such as: o Reading materials, including digital and electronic components, audiobooks, and paper materials in English and Spanish o Project-based, cross-curricular resources o Critical thinking skills materials o Content oriented materials (all subjects) o Program kits, resource materials and consumables o Manipulatives o Specialized programming materials o Graphing Calculators...