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Elementary handwriting literature circles for Gifted and Talented
Alphabet Word Wall Letters and Word Cards - ABC Letter Sound Wall Words Template
Are you looking for a simple alphabet word wall with letter headers and word cards or a sound wall for your kindergarten, preschool, or pre-k classroom? This simple word wall template includes letters and words and even gives you the flexibility to customize your classroom word wall with your own word cards, name cards, etc.will help you teach alphabet letters and sounds. Teachers love that the simplicity of the printable word cards and letter headers let kids focus on the important information
Grades:
PreK - K
Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature
Add depth and complexity to your instruction with these Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature! These tasks cards allow students to deeply analyze any fiction reading material through 11 topics of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives. You will appreciate the versatility of these task cards; they can be used with almost any text (novels,
Grades:
4th - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards Bundle
Thanksgiving Logic Puzzles, Word Puzzles, Brain Teasers and & More
"Thanksgiving Word Puzzles, Brain Teasers and Logic Puzzles!" This resource is a great way to celebrate Thanksgiving and challenge your students critical thinking skills at the same time! The activities range from hidden word puzzles to logic puzzles, a trivia quiz and much more! Excellent and challenging Thanksgiving brain food for the holidays! Use a puzzle a day before the holidays. Print and go Thanksgiving fun!
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in: Thanksgiving Math, Reading Writing Bundle For Upper Elementary Students
Book Report Foldable Project: Pop-Up Picture Book with Editable Rubrics
Are you tired of the same extension projects for independent novel studies or literature circles? Then look no further! This 3D Pop-Up Picture Book Report comes with everything your students will need to create this foldable project. Even the not-so crafty teacher will love making this project! You will only need plain white paper, scissors, glue and coloring tools to create this engaging project. That’s all! Included in this resource:Step by step instructions that will be easy enough for your s
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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Primary Writing Lined Paper: Vertical with Checklist
Learning to write is key and having the students check their writing is very important. This simple but helpful primary lined paper allows students to work on their handwriting, making sentences, and it includes a student self-check list. The self-check list at the bottom makes the students double check their writing and keeps them aware of the necessities. This lined writing printable works great in any classroom with young learners! Enjoy!Self-Check Boxes:*Capital Letter*Finger Spaces*Punctuat
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
Text Dependent Question Stems
My text-dependent question stems are the perfect way to get your students back into the text to find answers to higher-level questions. There are 84 different stems that fit key ideas and details, craft and structure, and integration of knowledge and ideas. There are also examples given for each question and ideas on how to use them in your guided reading groups and reading lessons. Help Your Students Find Evidence From the TextWhen reading, students are expected to use evidence from different t
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Also included in: Guided Reading Mega Bundle Lower Elementary
Enrichment Book Club Pages (literature circle) Depth and Complexity Icons
A set of student response pages based on Dr. Sandra Kaplan's 11 icons of Depth and Complexity. Perfect for Gifted or Talented students, or students in need of enrichment activities. The pages are open ended enough to work with any book or story (even movies or plays!) but detailed enough to give students a clear expectation. I used it in my grade 2/3 gifted class as well as for gifted students in my regular grade 6 class, successfully! 11 pages included (1 for each icon!) Fun "Hashtag" Style tit
Grades:
5th - 6th
Socratic Seminars and Philosophical Chairs
Teaching kids to be more philosophic helps them acquire new ways of expressing themselves and innovative ways of thinking. It pushes students to be more logical, think critically, connect ideas, and to be more accepting of opposing views.Through the use of Socractic Seminars and Philosophical Chairs, you can bring philosophy into your classroom and give your students the opportunity to formulate questions, reason with peers, develop arguments, and contribute to constructive conversations.I trie
Grades:
1st - 5th
*BUNDLE* Dot a Letter - Dot Marker - A-Z Letter Sounds - Animal Theme
*FREE* Dot a Letter - Build Alphabet - Dot Markers - Animal ThemeAnimal Theme - Color & Black/White Packets (*plus additional letter options for G, U, X)>> TRY OUT THIS FREE PREVIEW: *FREE* DOT A LETTER PACKETProduct DescriptionFull Color A-Z Dot a Letter Packet: 26 pagesPrint in full color and use as a teaching example. Laminate or put in plastic sheets for students to BUILD letters by placing small stones, building Play Doh circles, or using dry erase markers to fill in circles.
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
Advanced Novel Study for the Westing Game with Depth and Complexity
This novel study was written for gifted fifth graders, and would be most appropriate for children ages 10 and older. The main focus of this unit was to guide students to analyze text on a deeper level, gaining rich understandings of theme and descriptive language. Students will need to think, infer, and cite text evidence to support their answers. They will also need to be organized in their reading approach to keep track of details and clues and solve the mystery.Students will meet objectives f
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4th - 7th
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Advanced Novel Study: The Mysterious Benedict Society with Depth and Complexity
This novel study guide is designed to use with high level 4th and/or 5th grade students, and was specifically designed with gifted students in mind. It could also be used with middle school grades. The level of depth in questioning and discussions will be at teacher discretion based on student readiness.In designing this unit, a main focus was guiding students to think deeply about underlying themes, ethical issues, and connections to the real world. Specifically, I want my students to use this
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Socratic Seminars for Elementary Students
Contains: an explanation of Socratic Seminars, PLUS a pdf of the norms to post on your wall (or digitally), as well as questions to discuss that apply to multiple topics, a reflection activity and "compliment cards." Socratic Seminars are conversations between students where there are questions to be discussed after reading a fiction or nonfiction text, and students are “safe” to share thoughts and ideas without the fear of getting the “wrong answer.” It will help students to increase oral
Grades:
1st - 6th
Advanced Novel Study: Charlotte's Web with Depth and Complexity
This novel study was designed for use with gifted second through fourth graders, but could be modified and/or scaffolded to meet the needs to students in grades 2-5. The main focus of this unit was to guide students to analyze text on a deeper level, gaining rich understandings of theme and descriptive language. Students will need to think, infer, and cite text evidence to support their answers.Students will meet objectives for deep thinking using a combination of discussion, independent and/or
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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The Smart Cookie Read Aloud Book Companion | Multiple Intelligences | Activities
The Smart Cookie by Jory John is a great book to teach students that everyone is smart in different ways and the importance of perseverance. It is also the perfect segue into a study of multiple intelligences. This The Smart Cookie Book Companion requires students to delve into analyzing and interpreting literature. This book companion is jam-packed with resources that provide opportunities for your students in grades 2-4 to think critically and creatively, analyze the author's craft, and make c
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Daily 5- Writing Center
UPDATED- Now includes more challenging versions for ALL learners! Print and go! Differentiated Daily 5 Writing Center. Perfect for 1st, 2nd, and even 3rd grade. Bundle Includes- -Sight Word Sentence Builders (With words)-Sight Word Sentence Builders (Blanks- use weekly words)-Word Wall Writing-Sentence Writing-Writing Prompts with picture word bank provided-Blank writing papers -"How To" Writing (With Prompts)-Opinion Writing with/without prompts-Informative Writing - Describe It! -Finish the Se
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Novel Study/ Book Report "Exploding Box" Project (For Any Book)
Creative Book Reports are always a hit with teachers, students, and parents. That's why I created this interactive foldable book report to use in your classroom or with your homeschool children. This Exploding Box Project can be used as an extension menu activity for a novel study, picture book, or literature circle. Your students will be so excited to present what they learned from the book with this hands-on activity. All you will need to create this easy project is scrapbook paper, scissors,
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2nd - 6th
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Storm Boy ~ Colin Thiele ~ Higher Order Thinking NOVEL STUDY
This novel study contains 14 pages of questions (41 questions in total) plus 8 final activities to do at the end of the story. The questions ALL involve higher order thinking, and most questions involve multiple parts. All questions are purposeful- none are there to just fill time!! As such, the novel study is perfect for gifted and talented students/classes, though can still be used effectively in mainstream classes as well.The questions are based on Bloom's Taxonomy, First Steps Reading Str
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
The Westing Game Novel Study: Activities & Questions to Improve Comprehension
Support comprehension of The Westing Game (and have some fun!) A detective's journal helps kids keep track of tenants, the obituary, paired heirs, and clues. Additional activities and discussion questions foster understanding of this complex puzzle-piece mystery novel. These resources were created to address a specific need in my classroom. Although I taught a class of high ability students, some just didn't get the outcome of this book. When, however, they analyzed specific details and discusse
Grades:
4th - 6th
*BUNDLE* of Dot Marker Alphabet Activities! A-Z, Name Pic + Build Letter
THE COMPLETE DOT A LETTER PACKETA-Z: 10 PER LETTER! * Best value available for this type of product!Name The Pic + Build The Letter>> TRY OUT THIS FREE PREVIEW: *FREE* Dot Marker Page Preview, 10 per Letter! Name Pic + Build LetterProduct DescriptionBuild Letter - A-Z Color - Full Set: 260 pagesBuild Letter - A-Z Color - Set 1 of 2: 130 pagesBuild Letter - A-Z Color - Set 2 of 2: 130 pagesBuild Letter - A-Z BW - Full Set: 260 PagesBuild Letter - A-Z BW - Set 1 of 2: 130 pagesBuild
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
The Tale of Despereaux ~ A Novel Study
"Come closer, dear reader. I am telling you a story..." This product is a complete novel study over the beloved book "The Tale of Despereaux". Complete with comprehensive questions over each chapter, reader's responses to go along with your Reading Workshop, and numerous enrichment activities to enhance your student's reading. Perfect for grades 3-6. Created by Marsha Templeton.
Activities include:
Create you own Coat of Arms
Character Cards
Inference Cards
Make a Tapestry
Dungeon Researc
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Depth and Complexity Primary Extension Literature Units BUNDLE (Gate)
Depth & Complexity Primary Literature Units (4 Included)4 Units Included: Details, Big Idea, Unanswered Questions and RulesEACH UNIT CONTAINS: 1 Week Long Unit - 5 LessonsThis weeklong unit was designed to introduce primary aged students to the one depth and complexity icon through mentor texts. It is great for whole group lessons, small group extensions, and independent practice.Each unit has:One full week of lesson plansActivities and extensionsSuggested mentor texts (fiction and non-ficti
Grades:
K - 5th
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord/CCSS Novel Study
This is a close reading guide to the book In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. In Bette Bao Lord's beautiful story of immigration and assimilation, Shirley Temple Wong must learn to make friends and find her way in a country that, at first, does not make much sense to her. Once she finds the perfect role model, life gets a little easier.As close reading is such an important part of the Common Core, students need to be taught to be analytic as they read texts. This unit includes close rea
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Roald Dahl's "Matilda" Chapter by Chapter Novel Study- Higher Order Thinking
This novel study is organised into the 21 chapters of the book. Each chapter has 7-18 questions, all of which elicit higher order thinking (no lower-order questions such as what, who, where etc are included). The novel study was developed by me for use with my Grade 1/2 gifted and talented class but would also be useful for both mainstream and gifted/talented classes from Grades 3-5. I do not include spaces for answers, as this allows you to differentiate... you might expect a 1 sentence answ
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Alphabet handwriting worksheets | Letter Formation Practice | NO PREP
This Alphabet handwriting and printing worksheets and booklets will help kids learn how to properly write their ABCs! Properly forming letters is a very important part to every literacy program. This alphabet handwriting resource focuses on where to start your letters and the correct way to form them. This will in turn help kids not only write their letters, but do so in a way that is efficient and not painful. Often, when we don't know how to write our letters, kids get frustrated and don't wan
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
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