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Test preparation other (art) tools for common cores for GATE
Compare & Contrast 2 Stories - 10 Paired Passages - 4th & 5th Grade Folktales
Compare and contrast literature with ten paired passages. This set emphasizes identification and use of story elements to construct responses. Students read two folktales, organize elements in tables, transfer them to Venn diagrams, and explain in paragraphs. Open the preview to take a closer look.Five sets of folktales from around the world were carefully selected and adapted for fourth and fifth grade students.“Mani and Sol” (Norway) and “The Fire Dog” (Korea)“The Goose and the Golden Egg” (S
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4th - 5th
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Social Media, Digital Citizenship, & the Internet Depth & Complexity Bundle
Teach your students how to be digital citizens using the prompts of Depth and Complexity and Content Imperatives! This bundle offers Depth & Complexity frames, thought provoking games, and engaging activities all about social media, digital citizenship, and the internet! Students will have the chance to write, collaborate with others, share opinions, create a website and blog about it (on paper), and participate in many other activities.
Never used Depth and Complexity icons or frames in
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2nd - 8th
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Depth of Knowledge and Learning Icons - Digging Deep - Critical Thinking Skills
These focus wall resources are designed to be engaging and meaningful. Help your kiddos reach for deep knowledge and content mastery using a variety of critical, complex thinking skills.Digging Deep Learning Practices assist students in engaging in critical thinking and developing meaningful understanding of concepts.This resource contains both large and small posters as well as “quick cards” that can be displayed on focus walls, resource walls, or simply during specific lessons.Encourage your s
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K - 6th
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4th Grade Math Leveled Assessment for Differentiation Marzano Proficiency Scale
Learning Goals and Scales are the ultimate Standards Based Grading tool! They don't just motivate a Growth Mindset, they define how students can demonstrate mastery. Every learning standard is broken down into 4 levels of Differentiation. Also known as a scaffolding for learning. These Assessments lead students up a progressive learning path that mirrors the way they develop concepts. Aligned to Bloom’s or Marzano’s Taxonomy of cognitive skills. From easiest-hardest: (Recall/Retrieval, Comprehen
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4th
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A Recipe for Writing a Sonnet (like Shakespeare)
This is a graphic organizer that allows your students to write sonnets that are amazing. I have used this in both a Gifted 4th and 5th grade, and a regular 5th grade and the results were amazing in both. This clearly lays everything out...topic and structure. It can be used all the way up to high school!
Grades:
4th - 12th
Essay Template aligned with Lucy Calkins Boxes and Bullets
Students can use this template to plan and organize their essays for Informative, Persuasive, and Expository essays.
It includes Sentence Starters and Language Frames and lined paper to start their essays on.
The C_ O_ P_ S_ S_ is a checklist for students to check their writing for Capitalization, Organization, Punctuation, Spelling, and Sentence structure.
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4th - 8th
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Fall Into STEAM! 10 hands-on, fall-themed STEM challenges for your makerspace
This pack includes everything you need for a fun-filled, STEM-tastic fall! Makerspaces are the perfect environment for allowing your students to explore, create, and engineer. If you don't have one in your school or classroom yet, start collecting now!Included in this pack are:--The 5 W's of a MakerSpace-- A printable MakerSpace Supply Request form for families-- 10 different fall-related tasks/ STEAM challengesEach task is provided in 2 sizes (full page to display weekly, or as a set of cards
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Grades:
1st - 8th
A Literature Unit for Patricia Polacco's Junkyard Wonders
This unit was made to go Patricia Polacco's book The Junkyard Wonders. Included are 18 pages of activities to challenges your students to think more deeply about the story. The unit was created with the 4th and 5th grade Common Core Standards in mind. Topics explored are theme, setting, character traits, visualizing, and many more. Writing assignments and a project idea are also included. The themes in this book would also be perfect to explore with a gifted class. Email me at ideabackpack@
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3rd - 6th
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Biography Activities - Task Cards & Choice Boards for Any Book
Dozens of biography activities come in two formats: task cards or choice boards. Each focuses on one informational text standard, as well as a higher order thinking skill (applying, analyzing, evaluating, or creating).Open the preview to take a closer look.They can be used with any biography: picture or chapter book, read-aloud or independently. You may pick and choose, ask students to specific tasks, or allow them to choose their own activities using the tic-tac-toe menus.All materials come in
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4th - 5th
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Also included in: Biography Unit - Genre Study for Fourth and Fifth Grade Students
Winter Holiday String Art Designs based on a hexagonal star
Provide your own supplies to follow the directions (includes template based on a hexagonal star) to sew more than 15 string art snowflakes and stars for the winter holidays. Mix designs to create new ones. Can be used in connection with a variety of lessons (not included) ranging from fractions, symmetry, lie group G2, religious holidays and more. Or just for the fun of it to decorate your classroom.
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Not Grade Specific
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CogAT Practice Packet for K-1 with Answer Key and Administration Directions
Are you looking for something to help your Kindergarten/1st grade child or class to use for practicing the CogAT (Cognitive Abilities Test)? I teach Talent Development to Kindergarten and First graders as well as gifted resource to first grade through sixth grade. I have created this packet to use during Talent Development to help my K-1 students become familiar with what the questions may look like on the CogAT. I created all questions based on the types of questions that have been shared as pu
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K - 1st
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Also included in: CogAT Practice BUNDLE: Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd Grade
INDEPENDENT PROJECT CHOICE BOARD MEGA BUNDLE Genius Hour Creative Design Process
40%+ OFF WITH THE BUNDLE...This easy-to-follow, NO PREP, FULLY-EDITABLE resource gives you everything you need to provide your students with an INDEPENDENT PROJECT CHOICE BOARD! Students can complete projects using the provided Choice Board, or you separate the activities so that you have 20 separate project units with this resource!Simply print out or post the Student Directions, Student Answer Sheets, and Student Tracker and GO! Students will follow the Design Process/Creative Problem-Solving
Grades:
4th - 12th
Differentiated Instruction CCSS STEM Choice Boards & Extension Menus K-8
Teachers, meeting the needs of all learners through differentiated instruction is more important now than it ever was. With the transition to the Common Core, more English language learners, and differing learning styles and abilities makes it pertinent for teachers to offer activities that appeal to each and every student. This is a collection of choice boards, extension menus, and Think-Tac-Toe boards for all grade levels and content areas. These will allow you to reach all students, ensure th
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K - 8th
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Close Reading with Text Dependent Questions
This common core aligned unit is an introduction to the essential question: Why do we marginalize people? It is a reading and writing unit that asks students to do close reading by reading and responding to text dependent questions.
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Litteacher
This unit includes:
Teacher lessons
Text Dependent Questions
Student questions pages
Culminating writing task
Extended Activity tasks
Answer keys
2-3 week duration
18 pages
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Grades:
10th - 12th
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OLSAT - practice/Pattern Recognition
These worksheets are good to use to prepare students for the OLSAT / Gifted Testing / GATE testing / or for general intelligence testing. The purpose of these sheets to prepare students to the type of questioning and the testing format that they may encounter during these tests.
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2nd - 4th
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A Literature Unit for Drew Daywalt's The Day The Crayons Quit
This unit was made to go with Drew Daywalt's The Day The Crayons Quit. Included are 17 pages of activities to challenge your students to think more deeply about the story. The unit was created with the 4th and 5th grade Common Core Standards in mind. Topics explored are point of view, theme, character traits, visualizing, text structure, plot, letter writing, comparing/contrasting, responding to quotes, and more. Writing assignments are also included. Email me at ideabackpack@gmail.com with
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3rd - 5th
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Error Analysis: Multiplication
Higher Order Thinking Task Cards
Newly update with new graphics: This is a set of critical thinking task cards. Students are required to analyze a traditional algorithm multiplication problem to find the single error. Students are then required to use their math knowledge and vocabulary to describe the problem. Then students write an extended response to help fix the error.
The task cards in this packet can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom: individual work stations, partner/ gro
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4th - 7th
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INDEPENDENT PROJECT CHOICE BOARD BIG BUNDLE Genius Hour Creative Design Process
30% OFF WITH THE BUNDLE...This easy-to-follow, NO PREP, FULLY-EDITABLE resource gives you everything you need to provide your students with an INDEPENDENT PROJECT CHOICE BOARD! Students can complete projects using the provided Choice Board, or you separate the activities so that you have 9 separate project units with this resource!Simply print out or post the Student Directions, Student Answer Sheets, and Student Tracker and GO! Students will follow the Design Process/Creative Problem-Solving Cy
Grades:
4th - 12th
Multiple Intelligence (MI) PowerPoint (Secondary Version) by Jennifer A. Gates
Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths?
This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart.
Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Assessment Compare and Contrast Informational Text
This is the Common Core Assessment addressing the standard 2.RI.9 Compare and Contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. A science piece on ladybugs (two articles) and two articles on Jackie Robinson (a timeline and narrative). Two different compare and contrast graphic organizers are used as well as multiple choice and short and essay answers.
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
CogAT Test - Quantitative Battery Booklet (Level 8 - Grade 2)
About the test. CogAT ® Form 7 - Level 8 is designed for students in Grade 2. The questions are divided into 3 batteries – Verbal, Quantitative and Nonverbal Reasoning, and each battery has 3 different subtests. There are 154 questions. Form 7 and 8 - Level 8 are equivalent in every way, except that the specific questions are different. This allows the school to give an alternative version of the same test when necessary.Skills required for this test. The questions in the CogAT cover cognitive o
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2nd
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INDEPENDENT PROJECT CHOICE BOARD BUNDLE Genius Hour PBL Creative Design Process
30% OFF WITH THE BUNDLE...This easy-to-follow, NO PREP, FULLY-EDITABLE resource gives you everything you need to provide your students with an INDEPENDENT PROJECT CHOICE BOARD! Students can complete projects using the provided Choice Board, or you separate the activities so that you have 6 separate project units with this resource!Simply print out or post the Student Directions, Student Answer Sheets, and Student Tracker and GO! Students will follow the Design Process/Creative Problem-Solving Cy
Grades:
4th - 12th
Embracing Brilliance: Exploring Giftedness and Social-Emotional Growth Unit
Unlock the potential of your 4th-grade gifted students with our "Embracing Brilliance" unit, a comprehensive journey into understanding and nurturing their social-emotional development. Designed for those receiving 30 minutes of weekly pull-out instruction, this transformative curriculum spans one quarter of the school year, enriching young minds with insights and tools to thrive in their giftedness.Unit Overview: In this dynamic 4th Grade Gifted Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Unit, student
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3rd - 5th
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Common Core Text-Dependent Writing Prompt Argumentative Grade 8
The new common core standards will require students to relate their story and essay writing to two-three passages of text. The text may be nonfiction, charts, quotations, environmental print, fiction, or poetry. In line with PARCC demands.
This writing prompt contains three texts for the student to read (very short) and specific writing prompt directions. The type of writing the students will be composing will fall under the category "argumentative" because the student will be forced to establi
Grades:
7th - 9th
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