Royse City ISD works to ensure all students engage in high-quality learning experiences that prepare them for their future. In addition to a solid foundation in literacy, math, science and social studies, elementary students have access to a wide variety of future-ready experiences to meet their unique interests and needs.

Literacy

Royse City ISD Elementary English Language Arts and Reading (ELAR) is grounded in a balanced, integrated approach to instruction. Students read, write and communicate on a daily basis. As students read increasingly complex texts across multiple genres, they make real life connections and formulate their own perspectives. Students explore different types and styles of writing and discover their own sense of voice to develop their writing skills. Through the use of multiple learning and instructional strategies, students acquire not only the knowledge and skills they need, but also confidence in their own abilities to learn and to communicate effectively in real-world situations. The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) are the standards in which we base our curriculum and instruction. The TEKS include knowledge and skills for reading, writing, listening, speaking and thinking. Students become critical readers, writers, thinkers and communicators through active participation in authentic classroom experiences.

Elementary Math

Royse City ISD Elementary Mathematics promotes meaningful learning for all students through a comprehensive curriculum. The Royse City ISD curriculum and scope of mathematics instruction are aligned with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). The learning environment is based on the investigative exploration of mathematical concepts that build conceptual understanding before continuing to the procedural process. In student-centered classrooms, math instruction allows students to construct their own understanding through connections to prior knowledge.
- Conceptual Understanding—comprehension of mathematical concepts, operations, and relations. Students must understand why math works.
  Procedural Fluency (Efficiency)—skill in carrying out procedures flexibly, accurately, efficiently, and appropriately. Only after deep conceptual understanding is obtained, should students work toward fluency with procedures/algorithms (both traditional and non-traditional) to promote efficiency and accuracy.
  Strategic Competence (Problem Solving)—ability to formulate, represent, and solve mathematical problems.
  Adaptive Reasoning (Communication) —capacity for logical thought, reflection, explanation, and justification.
  Productive Disposition (Meaningful)—habitual inclination to see mathematics as sensible, useful, and worthwhile, coupled with a belief in diligence and one’s own efficacy. Productive Disposition empowers students to use math reasoning, concepts, and skills in all areas of life.

Elementary Science

Royse City ISD Elementary Science cultivates an understanding that science is a way of knowing and not merely a collection of knowledge. Science instruction is grounded in curiosity about and inquiry into real-world phenomena. Science should not be about getting the right answers, but instead about learning from experiences.

Elementary Social Studies

Social Studies instruction begins with a focus on our state standards called TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) and incorporates literacy skills. These skills provide students with an opportunity to develop critical thinking skills as they deepen their understanding of concepts in Social Studies related to history, government, economics and the world.

ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION

SECONDARY INSTRUCTION

AMY HOPKINS

Executive Director of Elementary Schools

SEAN WALKER, ED.D.

Executive Director of Secondary Schools