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Free reading strategies 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
Grades:
4th - 12th
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Western Expansion Logic Puzzle FREEBIE!! Chuckwagon Chili Challenge
Looking to engage your students with some fun deductive logic and critical thinking challenges?Explore the Wild West and Chuckwagon Cooking with this Westward Expansion-themed logic puzzle from GATER Educator.This logic puzzle is designed to challenge upper elementary students and is perfect for Literacy Center seat work, homework, early finishers or sub plans.Looking for specific GIFTED and TALENTED ACTIVITIES? Click the link belowGifted and Talented Activities for the ClassroomDo your students
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Taskcards to Analyze Poetry Using Grammar
This Free resource can be used with any poem to get them to think about grammar and poetry in a new way.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Westing Game Wanted Posters
Directions and rubric to make Wanted Posters for The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin. This will work well for 5th thru 9th grade. These can be passed out directly to students to use as directions and then scored by the teacher for a grade. Can be adapted for other books. Excellent for GATE students. Standards covered: Drawing Conclusions, Character Analysis, Noting Details
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5th - 8th
QAR Bulletin Board Poster
QAR Poster describing Question Answer Relationships: Right There, On My Own, Think and Search, and Author and Me
QAR Poster by Sarah Emerson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
2nd - 6th
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Depth and Complexity Chart for Scholastic News/Magazine/Newspaper
Depth and complexity chart for any article
Grades:
3rd - 10th
Picasso Puzzle | FREE Depth and Complexity Activity and Puzzle
Go to new depths of learning with this open-ended critical thinking activity and Picasso QUOTE puzzle. A perfect addition to the Picasso's Perspective Workshop.This resource uses the elements of depth and complexity so that students can further enhance learning by:•Defining the Language Associated with Art or Pablo Picasso with Depth and Complexity•Completing a Quote Puzzle and evaluating it from their perspectiveThis FREE packet contains a small snippet of what many of my workshops include. I s
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â Project Based Learning BUNDLE | Fibonacci | Wright | Rube Goldberg | Picasso
FREE Teachers' Workday Script Drama Club Readers' Theater
I think the subject matter may have been a bit too sarcastic for some people's tastes, so I just converted this to a freebie in the hopes that you might enjoy my writing style and consider other readers' theater scripts for your elementary drama club or intermediate classroom. Of course, please do feel free to use this script if you wish. It may have been a personal vent, but it turned out to be a real hit with the children!This script is a comedic jab at all of the so-called educational exper
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Literature Circles Rubric and Reflection With Depth and Complexity
This Literature Circle Rubric and Reflection With Depth and Complexity will be a great resource when implementing literature circles in your classroom. A literature circle is a small group instructional approach with structure, high expectations, and rigor. I recommending implementing Literature Circles with Depth and Complexity. Depth and Complexity will help your students dig deeper in their learning and think in more complex ways. The 11 elements of Depth and Complexity were developed by Sa
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in:Â Literature Circles Bundle With Depth and Complexity
Facts and Opinions: Intro To Debate for Gifted & Talented Students
Gifted students have an opinion on just about everything! In this activity, they challenge their creativity by debating silly questions like: what happens in your fridge at night? High ability learners apply their knowledge of fact and opinion to prove their perspective of silly debate topics. The debate topics are intended to be creative and thought provoking with students realizing there is no right or wrong answer; but instead learn ways to prove their unique perspective to an audience.Includ
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2nd - 8th
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Figurative Language Learning Menu
This is a learning menu for figurative language based on Bloom's. The menu may be used with a lesson or unit for figurative language. Teachers may decide to make this an assignment or use it for early finishers. The printable includes directions and all of the activities.
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5th - 8th
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FREE Depth Complexity Icons Mini Posters
These are 5 x 7 inch mini posters of the Depth and Complexity Icons. Frame them to display around your classroom, or have students glue them in an interactive reading notebook. Check out byrdseed.com for videos, printables, and many Depth and Complexity Icon resources.
Grades:
4th - 8th
The Indian in the Cupboard Summary Packet with GATE-CCSS
This summary packet for The Indian in the Cupboard gives students an opportunity to review the material from the book in addition to practicing their summarizing skills. For each section, students are given lines to summarize the most important elements of the chapter, and a box to draw a picture of the most important scene in that section. The last two pages allow students to focus on the problem and solution of the book, in addition to unanswered questions, ethics, and rules of the book in the
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4th - 5th
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Identities by W.D. Valgardson Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify the strategies an author uses and explain why he uses them. A vocabulary chart asks students to use context clues to define words and a literary device identification chart has students identify the literary device used or find the example and determine the author's purpose for using it. A short constructed response question is included for writing purposes. Answers are provided for all activities.
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Catwalk of Controversy: Informational Text Lesson from Serena Williams' Attire
Editable CommonLit POV Lesson: "Serena Williams' catsuit controversy evokes the battle over women wearing shorts" from www.commonlit.com.In this lesson, students analyze the author’s point of view about female tennis players being judged or what they wear. Point of view is how someone views something.Key Concepts:- Informational Text- Point of View- Author´s CraftAll lesson resources are in the speaker notes and are hyperlinked in the included Google Slides document.***Product also available at
Grades:
8th - 10th
Character-- Critical Thinking short activity (warmup)
This is a warmup activity with a lesson on character. Looking at the character of 3 girls from a brief description, students make generalizations about what they do.
First students generate a list of traits for each girl. Then, they figure out, based on the traits, which girl would most likely fit each of 5 scenarios.
It creates great classroom discussion. My goal was always to have student see character beyond the classroom and to understand how we make inferences about people.
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5th - 8th
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Engaging iGen GENERATION Z with Visuals Videos Toolkit and Lessons - FREE! GATE
Free tools to help you reach and teach, engage and motivate Generation Z who is: PragmaticConnectedGlobalEducatedSocialVisualIndependentThese tools will engage critical thinking through visual channels and finally will appeal Generation Z’s love of gadgets … self-made products in this case. You get:Visual Inference Guides with sample lessonsCommercials for Critical Thinking with sample lessonsJingles – a Musical Critical Thinking ToolThe Piano – a mini-lesson using Animation for Critical Thinkin
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Hunger Games Annotation Guide
This is an "index" for students to catalogue their annotations. It has two purposes: it helps guide students as they learn how to annotate and it helps them find specific pieces of text evidence later when writing essays or short-answer responses.
Grades:
7th - 10th
The Big Wave Summary Packet with GATE-CCSS
This summary packet for The Big Wave gives students an opportunity to review the material from the book in addition to practicing their summarizing skills. The book is broken up into 6 sections. For each section, students are given lines to summarize the most important elements of the section, and a box to draw a picture of the most important scene in that section. The last page allows students to focus on the problem, solution, and trends in the book in the same writing/picture format (GATE
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4th - 5th
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Bloom's Taxonomy Graphic Organizer
This worksheet contains a graphic organizer with guiding questions that help the students to deepen their knowledge and understanding of a story or passage.
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Bubble Map Characterization
This thinking map/graphic organizer is a great way to study the main character of the novel.
It can be used as a study guide for quizzes, essays, accountable talk activities (Socratic Seminar, Philosophical Chairs), etc.
It is an excellent way to study dynamic, multi-dimensional character traits.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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(Virtual Learning) Main Idea and Details Graphic Organizer Google Drawing
I use this in my 3rd Grade Class for virtual learning to help the reading skill/strategy of "Main Idea and Details". (You will have to open the Google Document purchased, click the link to the Google Drawing, and then choose "Make A Copy" to use for you own classroom. This is because TPT doesn't allow uploading of Google Drawings.)Students use the graphic organizer to write 3 important details from the text (notice how the details are the legs that support the main idea), and then the students g
Grades:
2nd - 6th
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AP Book Talk Word Version
This is a great alternative to the written book report which saves the teacher from reading the same types of summaries again and again. This format allows AP students to express themselves freely and allows instant feedback from the teacher. The rubirc is included. It is recommended to print two pages per sheet so the teacher can have the back page to write down notes during the discussion. Feel free to make changes to the format to suit your needs. This was created with Microsoft Word 10 so
Grades:
9th - 12th
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5:17
Identifiying an Author's Craft to Determine His Purpose
This is my first video, so comments and suggestions are very much welcome. In the video, I use the chapter "There Was an Old Woman She Had So Many Children She Didn't Know What to Do" from The House on Mango Street to model how to identify the strategies Cisneros uses to convey her message.
Grades:
7th - 10th
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