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Free Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa informational text resources for GATE
FREE Close Reading Bookmarks - Annotating Text & Post-it Note Strategy
Print these bookmarks for your students and they will never forget how to close read! I print mine double-sided and students use one side for when we can write on the text and the other (post-it) side for when we're close reading something we can't write on!*****************************************************************************CCSS Aligned Interactive Reading NotebooksI use interactive notebooks in my classroom on a daily basis. I've created my own interactive notebook pages that are align
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4th - 12th
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Black History - Jamestown - Leveled passage - Reading Comprehension Questions
Are you looking for a leveled text with comprehension questions that teaches students about important history? This 3-page text tells the important story of the first Africans to arrive in Jamestown. It makes a great supplement to a unit about Black History, Jamestown, Colonial America, the Civil War or Civil Rights. You get the article and the activities as a pdf printable AND they are ready to use in Easel!This free sample is part of my larger, differentiated resource, The First Africans -
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5th - 7th
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FREE Christmas and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenge Passport
Looking for a FREE Christmas and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenge Passport? Are you planning to do some Christmas and/or Holidays Around the World STEM challenges? If yes, then here's a great FREEBIE just for you! Use this FREE Christmas and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenge Passport to track your students' progress! It works well with my Christmas Around the World STEM Challenges BUNDLE and Holidays Around the World STEM Challenges BUNDLE.Included are five pages that you can use
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2nd - 5th
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CRITICAL THINKING SQUARE PUZZLES Christmas Activity Brain Teasers Logic GATE
CHRISTMAS SQUARE PUZZLERS are fun, yet challenging brain teasers. They exercise critical thinking & problem solving, build perseverance & stamina, and stimulate the brain while disguising it all as fun. Similar to Scrambled Squares, these differentiated, logic puzzles must be reconstructed so that the images match on every interior side. Use them for centers, stations, rotations, fast finishers, enrichment, GATE (gifted & talented education), and/or a class reward. Adored by all ages
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: CRITICAL THINKING SQUARE PUZZLES BUNDLE Holidays Brain Teasers
Weekly Reading Log with Depth and Complexity Icons Bundle
Help your readers stay on track with this weekly reading log. We use this as homework but it could easily be used in the classroom as well.Students track their daily reading, including title, time spent reading, and pages read. On the back, there is space for a text response. At the end of the week, readers add up their pages and time spent reading. A space for a parent signature is the final piece.The icons of depth and complexity (often called GATE Icons) are added so that students may thi
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3rd - 8th
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Holiday Theme Logic Puzzles (3 included)
This free set of three logic puzzles will challenge and engage your students while letting them have fun. Students will use their critical thinking skills. The holiday-related stories are fun to read and solve using deductive reasoning skills. A grid is used to find the solution.
Answer keys included
If you are looking for additional seasonal activities for your students, take a look at my Winter Math Bundle for Upper Elementary OR the bundled items are sold individually in my store (the bu
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Minecraft STEM Activities and Challenges Freebie
Here’s a creative and fun STEM Activity FREEBIE to share and show just how exciting STEM Challenges can be in a Competitive Classroom Setting! These Outta the Box Classroom Competition Challenges can be done on a Fun Friday or within the week during your science block. This hands on building challenge is part of GATER Educator's "Outta the Box Classroom Competitions". The theme of the full OTB Classroom Competion is “MINECRAFT: Survival Mode”. For this activity students will read tidbits of info
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: MINECRAFT Activities Bundle
Christmas STEM Challenge Freebie - Winter STEM Freebie
This STEM pack has everything you need to implement a fun Christmas themed STEM challenge. Your students will be engaged and learning while having fun seeing who can stack the most mini cups in the shape of a Christmas tree.
This is just a small sample of one of my many STEM challenges. For the complete Christmas STEM challenge set please visit:
Christmas STEM Challenges for the Month of December
STEM challenges work best with groups and encourages design and construction, while working thr
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Growth Mindset Free Student Survey
This free student survey is a great way to help students identify growth mindset! I use this along with the Growth Mindset Project-Based Learning the first weeks of school to create a mindset change in our school. This is great in conjunction with character education!
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4th - 6th
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Gift of the Magi - Adapted Text Version (Narrative/Short Story Study)
A perfect tale for the winter season, this classic short story, "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry, makes the perfect holiday text for my gifted 4th grade students. Since this version of the text is a freebie, feel free to download and assess the reading level for the needs of your students! The text has been rewritten to suit the reading level of upper elementary students and includes a wide variety of vocabulary words, intentional literary elements, and loads of figurative language. The litera
Grades:
4th - 7th
Financial Literacy | Writing Prompt | Personal Finance | Opinon Writing
Help your students become proficient persuasive writers with this FREEBIE! Persuasive language is everywhere! Commercials, social media, movie ads and political speeches. Teaching persuasive writing and language is important and takes time and practice. Here’s an activity that supports persuasive writing by giving students a topic they can relate to, Financial Intelligence!What do your students already know about Financial Intelligence?If you’d like to give them a head start, check out this fun
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Grades:
5th - 9th
Project Based Learning - Holiday Tea
Project Based Learning - Holiday TeaThis Freebie is taken from a complete Project Based Learning Unit. The complete unit contains a research component where students research a country and share a sweet treat or sample of a favorite food. - Resources for your holiday tea- Gingerbread Man design- Holiday Tea invitation or design your own- Organizing your tea (decorations, paper goods, additional food, favors)- Spice Tea recipe with shopping list- Cocoa Mix Recipe- Gingerbread Man Recipe with doub
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3rd - 6th
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Christmas Song Titles in Gobbledygook
Gobbledygook, high-sounding language that confuses and amuses, is the subject of this fun Christmas activity. Students are challenged to identify the titles of twenty-six popular Christmas tunes written in extreme gobbledygook. The activity is organized into two handouts--Set One with twelve titles and Set Two with fourteen. An introductory page for students explains the nature and origin of the term.
The last page is a graphic organizer for writing a letter to Santa in gobbledygook.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Informational Text: The American Search for Utopia: Free (CCSS Aligned)
This free, original Informational Text reading resource is taken from my teaching pack for Gordon Korman's popular book SCHOOLED.
The selected informational text--"The American Search for Utopia"-- is designed to provide students with background information that will heighten their understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment for Mr. Korman’s story and its characters. However, the text can also stand alone as a independent reading resource with social studies connections. The ten quest
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6th - 9th
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Giant Holiday Seek-A-Word Puzzle
This free item is for Seek-A-Word enthusiasts of any age. Go on a search for 55 different holiday-related names, words, and phrases all hidden in one puzzle! Not for the faint of heart.
Download, enjoy, and share!
Grades:
6th - 8th
FREE Sample - If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island - Immigration Book Study
The book, If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island, is an introduction to the journey immigrants made when America was young. This free sample of the book study will help guide students in learning what it would be like to be an immigrant coming to America. If you would like the complete packet, click here.Included in the complete packet is:Table of contentsStudent cover page13 worksheets withcomprehension questionstablesmatchingVenn diagramsmapsAnswers for every page4 templates for letter writ
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3rd - 4th
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Holiday Compare/Contrast FREEBIE
This FREEBIE is just 1 of 8 leveled activities from my Holidays Around the World Enrichment Menu packet: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Holidays-Around-the-World-Gifted-or-Enrichment-Menu-for-K-5.
Comparing and contrasting are higher-level thinking skills for any topic. Here’s a simple ready-to-go way to nurture your students’ critical thinking skills at holiday time… great for Gifted, fast finishers, differentiation, and enrichment!
• Choose two holidays to study (Christmas, Kwan
Grades:
K - 6th
Pi Day Video Scavenger Hunt
Learn about the wonders of Pi Day and delight your students with this fill-in-the-blank video scavenger hunt activity. Can be done independently or as a class. Best for grades 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Singing Survey Holiday Math Enrichment for K-5
This product is just one of 8 leveled activities in my Holidays Around the World Enrichment Menu (NOTE! You may want to check out the entire product before purchasing separate items): http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Holidays-Around-the-World-Gifted-or-Enrichment-Menu-for-K-5
Students survey others about favorite holiday songs, tally and graph results, analyze graph, and answer questions about graph. Fun way to keep those wiggly holiday-time bodies engaged in a meaningful activity! St
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K - 5th
Jolly Gingerbread Logic Puzzle
This Christmas-themed logic puzzle refines critical thinking and deductive reasoning skills as students work to deduce various children's rankings in a gingerbread house competition! Perfect for early finishers or gifted and talented students! Student worksheet and answer key included.
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3rd - 4th
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Christmas Literature and Music Missing Letters Puzzles
This free Christmas download takes inspiration from the popular wheel-spinning TV show. Solving these puzzles, however, does not involve losing a turn or going bankrupt!
This activity is presented in two parts with 15 items each, all of which are based on a well known holiday song, story, character, or author. Students are challenged to use the given clues, insert the three missing letters in the correct blanks, and solve the puzzle. Prize delivery is delegated to Santa (aka The Teac
Grades:
6th - 8th
FREE PDF Presentation Christmas Math Grades 7 & up
Get set for a holly-jolly math challenge with your middle school students, or just take a break and laugh with your high school students! Our Christmas-themed presentation features four fun competition problems covering:Logic Puzzles: Apply deductive reasoning and critical thinking.Ratios/proportions: Solving proportion problems involving three quantitiesWorking Backwards: Using the final results of the series of operations to work back one step at a time to get to the beginning.Calendar: Findin
Grades:
6th - 10th
{Christmas} There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell - Holiday Activities
These FUN and INTERACTIVE high-interest task cards of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell are a perfect for Christmas and will keep your students extremely engaged! Dive into these Thanksgiving interactive task cards and captivating book companion that will ignite your students' young minds. Begin your learning adventure today! #EducationMagicPerfect for Morning Work, Fun Fridays, Rewards, AR Testing, Reading Comprehension, phonics, synonyms and so much more!Huge Money-Saving Bundles!Janu
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Not Grade Specific
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Animal Research Choice Board
This simple choice board was created for students in kindergarten through 2nd grade who are ready to decide what to create after researching an animal. I find that offering too many choices at first with younger students is overwhelming so these 4 projects I believe are easiest to accomplish independently. Students will need for you to supply the materials to create their project, but then they should be well on their way to creating their presentation!
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K - 2nd
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