Kindergarten Computer Science Curriculum: Every Texas TEKS §126.1 Standard, No Prep
Kindergarten Computer Science Curriculum: Every Texas TEKS §126.1 Standard, No Prep
Teaching a full kindergarten computer science curriculum in Texas is a tall order — the TEKS §126.1 Technology Applications standards span eight strands and 18 individual knowledge-and-skills statements, and few teachers have a single resource that covers all of them without stitching together products built for other states or another grade. This bundle solves that: it is a complete, no-prep kindergarten computer science curriculum that covers every Texas TEKS §126.1 standard, authored directly from Texas's own TEKS text — not relabeled from the Grade 1 bundle — in a format you can print and teach.
What Texas's Kindergarten CS Standards Cover
Texas TEKS §126.1 spans eight strands:
- Computational Thinking — Foundations — Breaking a Big Job Into Small Pieces; Spotting Patterns and Guessing What Comes Next; First, Next, Then, Last: Steps in Order (§126.1(c)(1)(A)–(C)).
- Computational Thinking — Applications — Making a Sequence of Code (§126.1(c)(2)).
- Creativity & Innovation — Innovative Design Process — Following Directions Like a Helper; Ask, Brainstorm, and Draw a Solution (§126.1(c)(3)(A)–(B)).
- Data Literacy — Collect Data — Data Is Information We Collect; Devices Can Search and Find (§126.1(c)(4)(A)–(B)).
- Digital Citizenship — Social Interactions — Being Kind and Careful Online (§126.1(c)(5)).
- Digital Citizenship — Ethics & Laws — Our Rules for Using Devices; Digital Things Have Owners (§126.1(c)(6)(A)–(B)).
- Digital Citizenship — Privacy, Safety & Security — Keep Your Login Safe; What Is Safe to Share Online (§126.1(c)(7)(A)–(B)).
- Practical Technology Concepts — Skills & Tools — Using Apps, Devices, and Online Places to Learn; Naming Computer Parts: Input, Output, and Software; Opening, Changing, Printing, and Saving Your Work; Sit Tall, Hands Ready: Comfortable Typing; Finding Letter, Number, and Special Keys (§126.1(c)(8)(A)–(E)).
Most "coding worksheet" packs only touch one or two strands. A real early-elementary curriculum covers the whole picture — and that is exactly what this bundle does, with all 18 standards built as their own complete unit, written fresh for five- and six-year-olds.
What's Inside the Kindergarten Texas Computer Science Bundle
Every standard in the bundle comes as its own complete, TEKS-aligned unit:
- No-prep lessons — teach real CS concepts without requiring a coding background or a full lab.
- A full content lesson for each standard, written for young readers and listeners with embedded comprehension checkpoints.
- Activities — group and individual activities per unit, with all printable materials included.
- A 12-question assessment with answer key — six multiple choice, four true/false, plus two short-answer prompts, tagged to the exact standard.
- Teacher guides — pacing, common misconceptions and how to fix them, discussion questions, and a 4-level standard mastery rubric.
- A crossword and word search, a Family Connection Letter, and a Certificate of Achievement for every unit.
- Standards-verification pages showing exactly where each unit sits in the Texas TEKS progression.
- A bonus file with Standards at a Glance, a full-year pacing calendar, an answer-key compilation, and every unit's mastery rubric.
Every TEKS citation in this bundle has been verified verbatim against the official 19 TAC Chapter 126 source document — no guessed citations, no content carried over from another state or grade. The complete bundle totals 587 pages across 18 units.
Aligned to CSTA, Honestly
Of the 18 units, 13 show a correlation to the CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards (7 strong matches, 6 partial). The other 5 have no CSTA equivalent and are labeled that way rather than force-matched.
Why It Works: Built on the Science of Learning
These are not busywork worksheets. Each unit is engineered with what cognitive science says actually makes learning stick: retrieval practice, spaced and interleaved review, and concrete-first instruction that turns abstract computer science ideas — algorithms, digital citizenship, data literacy — into something a child can reason about. Difficult early-elementary CS concepts become approachable, and they last.
Authored From Texas's Own Standards — Not Adapted From Another State or Grade
Every unit is built directly from the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Technology Applications (TEKS §126.1, 19 TAC Chapter 126, Subchapter A), with the standard text verified rather than paraphrased from memory or relabeled from another state's or grade's content. The materials are print-ready and LMS-ready, work fully offline, and collect no student data — so they fit a one-device classroom, a full lab, or a homeschool table equally well.
See the Bundle in Action
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Skip months of lesson-building and cover your entire year of Texas kindergarten Technology Applications with one no-prep resource — all 18 standards, all eight strands, 587 pages.
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Every Sooner Standards resource is built directly from the official state standards document — standard text verified, never paraphrased from memory. Aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Technology Applications (TEKS §126.1); not a state-adopted or state-approved curriculum.
