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Reading strategies resources for GATE under $5
Scholastic News Response Choice Board
A pair of choice board activities for Scholastic News magazines. There are two sets of directions included: a version where students complete 1 activity from each row each week or a version where students cross out the completed activity and turn it in when all activities have been completed. Suitable for centers or emergency sub plans!
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Valentine's Day Depth and Complexity Print and Go Activities No-Prep ELA
❤️Looking for a way to celebrate Valentine's Day with quality, standards-based language arts activities for your students in grades 4 & up? This set of Valentine's Day Print-and-Go Activities is just what you're looking for! You'll find Valentine's Day writing prompts (short and long), a Valentine's Day short story to read and analyze, an original non-fiction piece to read and analyze, and a Depth & Complexity frame about Valentine's Day. All of it uses the Depth and Complexity model. Of
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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St. Patrick's Day Depth & Complexity Print & Go Low-Prep Activities Test Prep
Looking for a fabulous selection of St. Patrick's Day activities that use the Depth & Complexity framework? This print-and-go activity pack has Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, and Science activities, all in one great resource. You'll find St. Patrick's Day writing prompts, fiction and non-fiction pieces to read, Depth and Complexity frames to complete, a brochure to create, leprechaun problems to solve, Irish geology to explore, and more! Of course there is a digital version included fo
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Close Reading & Annotation Student Bookmarks
A simple tool that reminds students the steps of close reading, how and what to annotate, and a few thinking codes to mark up the text they are reading/analyzing. Print and laminate to use. May also be printed on Astrobrights for an extra color pop, so the kids won't lose them, or to color code for reading groups.Please let me know if you have any questions!
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Scholastic Storyworks Response Choice Board
A pair of choice board activities for Scholastic Storyworks magazines. There are two sets of directions included: a version where students complete 1 activity from each row each week or a version where students cross out the completed activity and turn it in when all activities have been completed. Suitable for centers or emergency sub plans!
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Teaching Depth and Complexity with Crayons (distance learning)
Teaching Depth and Complexity Icons can be fun and easy for your elementary or early middle school aged students by using picture books! Students will analyze text, dive deep into the content, and practice using all 11 depth and complexity icons (big ideas, details, patterns, multiple perspectives, rules, across the disciplines, trends, ethics, unanswered questions, over time, and language of the discipline) with this lesson! Using the book, "The Day the Crayons Quit" by Drew Daywalt, your stude
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Teaching Depth and Complexity Icons with Picture Books GROWING BUNDLE
Depth and Complexity Icon Posters
Depth and Complexity Icon Posters complete with explanations of what each icon means, examples and sentence starters. All written in student- focused language.
Grades:
4th - 12th
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick - Inferring Lesson
Are you working on inferring with your students? Use an exciting, mysterious book to help them practice utilizing their inferring skills!
This lesson should be used after students after learned some about inferring. It is a great way to practice what they've learned.
The book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, features interesting and strange illustrations with elusive titles and lines. In this lesson plan, you will walk through the book with your class, and then have them infer what Harris Bu
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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"The Big Orange Splot" - Teaching Depth and Complexity in the Classroom
Introduce your students to the Depth and Complexity GATE icons by reading the text "The Big Orange Splot" by Daniel Marius Pinkwater. Included in the packet is a blank icon page for students to fill in along with the answer sheet to help promote class discussion. After reading the text, the students will fill in eight bubbles relating to eight GATE icons. Highlighted are: Details, Patterns, Rules, Big Idea, Trends, Unanswered Questions, Language of the Discipline, and Multiple Perspectives.
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3rd - 8th
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Potato Chip Advertisement and taste testing project, taste test, PBL
Project based learning at it's best!This Potato Chip Advertisement Project Resource is packed full of fun activities that will keep your kiddos engaged while practicing and extending their skills.This resource includes engaging activities geared towards the upper elementary and intermediate student. The activities can be used stand alone in centers, teacher and small group, or for a full-blown classroom transformation. I added a few more “props” like aprons and chef hats and and they absolutely
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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The Man in the Well by Ira Sher Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains higher-level thinking activities which require students to identify strategies used by the author to convey his purpose. The questions have students make inferences in the selection, the vocabulary chart has students define words according to context clues, and the literary device identification charts can be used to have students either identify examples in the text or determine the device used from the example provided and discuss the author's purpose for each. A short co
Grades:
7th - 10th
Inference Cards for Primary and Intermediate Grades
Do your students need more practice with inference skills? Here are cards to do as a whole class, small group, partners, or at centers. All cards have a short passage and ask the student to infer what happened and how he/she came to that conclusion. The more your students practice, the better they will become at inferencing.
This includes 40 inference cards and different response cards if done in small groups or at centers!
Grades:
1st - 8th
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GATE Themed Literature Circle Jobs
This is a set of GATE Icon frames that utilizes depth and complexity within lit circle jobs.You may also enjoy my Depth and Complexity/Content Imperative Class Cards I sell as well:Depth and Complexity & Content Imperative Icon CardsKEYWORDS: GATE icons, Literature circles, Lit Circle jobs
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
These questions focus on the strategies that the author used to create the humor. The focus is on verbal irony, so it includes the definition and examples of verbal irony. This lesson requires higher-level thinking skills.
Grades:
8th - 11th
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Literary Elements Secret Picture Tiles Literary Devices BUNDLE Digital & Print
Looking for a great literary elements activity for distance learning or a printable activity for classroom use? This set of 10 puzzles covers a vast list of literary terms and literary devices (nearly 100 in all!). Do your students love secret picture tiles yet? They're not just for younger students! Even older students will love this set!These Literary Elements Secret Picture Tile Puzzles are:✅ self-checking (Students can tell right away if they're correct!)✅ interactive (In the digital version
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Not Grade Specific
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They're Made Out of Meat Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify the strategies used by the author and the purpose for each. It also has a vocabulary chart in which students are given a word in context and asked to identify the meaning. Answers are provided for both activities. Writing suggestions are included to give students choices for practice.
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Notice and Note with Mrs. Katz and Tush & Related Activities
This pdf has 21 pages (including the cover page, credits page, and teacher background information page).Mrs. Katz and Tush by Patricia Polacco is a guided reading level P (depending on whether you're looking at the revised levels) and the activities in this packet lend themselves to those reading levels and higher. They should be done with a bit of teacher scaffolding and interaction. They can be completed (with book reading) in three class periods.The design of the questions and activities alig
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Open Syllables
This game is played just like Connect Four only students learn to read while playing! The board games are made up of an exclusive list of two syllable words containing only open/closed and open/open syllable syllable types. This means you won't have to add confusion to multisyllable word reading by asking students to read words with syllable types they have not learned yet! This resource contains two game boards in color and two in a black and white printer friendly mode. Want all syllable typ
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Four in a Row: Syllable Types Bundle! 2 Syllable Words
Hey, You Down There by Harold Rolseth Author's Purpose Questions and Activities
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify the strategies the author uses to convey his purpose. A vocabulary chart is included which expects students to define the meaning of words based on context clues. Writing activities give students a choice on how they want to cover the story. Answers are provided for all activities.
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Skin by Roald Dahl Author's Craft/Purpose Questions
This product contains higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify and analyze the strategies used by the author to convey his message. It also includes a chart that asks students to discuss the flashback in the story. Answers are provided for all activities.
Grades:
8th - 11th
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Stories With Loopholes: Vocabulary Practice for Gifted & Talented Students
This activity promotes critical and divergent thinking as students dive deeper into homonyms/multiple meaning words.Students are given a story/riddle that has a multiple meaning word embedded into the text. They must use inferencing skills to draw a conclusion and solve the riddle.The riddles were adapted from Nathan Levy’s, “Story With Holes”. You can implement this engaging activity in a whole group setting or as an early finisher task.Answer key is included!
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2nd - 6th
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Teaching Depth and Complexity with A Bad Case of Stripes (distance learning)
Teaching, reviewing, and engaging with Depth and Complexity Icons is fun when using the picture book, "A Bad Case of Stripes". Your students will practice using all 11 depth and complexity icons (big ideas, details, patterns, multiple perspectives, rules, across the disciplines, trends, ethics, unanswered questions, over time, and language of the discipline) as they analyze text, and dive deep into complex discussion with this lesson! In the book, "A Bad Case of Stripes" by David Shannon, your s
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Teaching Depth and Complexity Icons with Picture Books GROWING BUNDLE
Differentiated Literary Elements Crossword Puzzles: 4th & 5th Grades - Set 1
Differentiated Literary Elements Crossword Puzzles: 4th & 5th Grades -- Set 1It's a breeze to differentiate for gifted learners with this set of crossword puzzles. There are two different kinds of puzzles included: one kind for on-level students and one kind for high-ability students. There are two variations of the on-level puzzle. Use the second one for review or re-teaching.The set comes with a key to all puzzles, as well as color and black and white versions.Both kinds of puzzles address
Grades:
4th - 5th
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HM D&C Icons - Keeping Quilt,Anthony Reynoso,Talking Cloth,Dancing Rainbows
A third grade teacher’s (and/or GATE teacher’s) MUST HAVE! Use these Depth and Complexity Icon Frames as an extension to your Third Grade Level 3 Houghton Mifflin Reading Curriculum. After reading the stories individually or in your HM anthology, use these frames as a response to literature, literacy center activity, independent/partner activity, find textual evidence … etc.
This specific Depth and Complexity Frames Pack includes:
- 4 Depth and Complexity Frames for the following HM storie
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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