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Drama Common Core RL.3.1 resources for Gifted and Talented
Fairy Tales reader's theater, activities, writing, plays 1st grade 2nd grade
This fairy tales unit includes reader's theater scripts or plays and writing activities, great for 1st grade and 2nd grade students!This fairy tale unit will be engaging and fun for your students! Three different reader's theater scripts are included along with puppets and many activities, including writing. This fairy tale resource includes reader’s theater scripts, for...Goldilocks and the Three BearsThree Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk.The plays or scripts can be used many different way
Enrichment Activities Logic Puzzles Critical Thinking Fast Finishers
Are you looking for ways to incorporate critical thinking into your classroom? These 8 logic puzzles would be perfect as enrichment activities and for fast finishers and gifted and talented students. They would also work well as morning work and homework!The topics for these puzzles include time, money, division, addition, subtraction and height measurement clues. These are geared towards grades 4 & 5 and possibly advanced third graders. All logic puzzles can be solved by reading the clues.
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3rd - 5th
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Early Finishers Logic Puzzles Enrichment Activities Fast Finishers
Are you looking for ways to incorporate critical thinking and reasoning skills into your classroom? These 10 logic puzzles would be perfect as enrichment activities and for fast / early finishers and gifted and talented students! They would also work well as morning work and homework.I have always enjoyed doing logic puzzles myself and decided to make some of my own for my students. In my class, * I introduce logic puzzles by doing one as a whole group. * Then, I let them work on one with a part
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2nd - 4th
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3rd Grade ELA Marzano Proficiency Scale Posters for Differentiation - EDITABLE
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. These Posters 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, Comprehension, Analysis/Application, and Knowledge Util
Grades:
3rd
Gifted and Talented Curriculum - Not Scary Zombie Grades 3 4 5
This unit contains both a printable packet version AND individual JPEG files for each document so that you can easily upload to Google Classroom. Since they are in JPEG format, students should be able to write on the documents in Google Classroom.Additionally, this unit now includes a PARENT INSTRUCTIONS edition that you can easily pass on to parents when students are out of school. The instructions are easy to follow and allow parents to work with students just as you would in the classroom! Th
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Also included in: Gifted and Talented Curriculum BUNDLE - Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade
Enrichment Activities Thanksgiving Logic Puzzles Fast Finishers
Are you looking for ways to incorporate critical thinking skills into your classroom? These 8 Thanksgiving logic puzzles would be perfect as enrichment activities and for fast finishers and gifted and talented students! They would work well as morning work and homework.I have included English & Spanish versions of all 8 puzzles. I have always enjoyed doing logic puzzles myself and decided to make some of my own for my students. All logic puzzles can be solved by reading the clues. In my thi
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2nd - 4th
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Also included in: Enrichment Activities Holiday Bundle of 48 Logic Puzzles Fast Finishers
Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions Passages PowerPoint Lesson
Help students in making inferences with this no-prep PowerPoint! This lesson plan includes everything you need to teach kids how to draw conclusions by using critical thinking while impressing your administrators. A quick and easy setup saves your planning time and is perfect for substitute teachers. Click HERE to save 25% off the price of individual resources with the bundle.This standards-based PowerPoint lesson guides students in the art of making inferences. It also includes a funny photo wi
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Also included in: Reading Skills Bundle
Christmas Carol Reader's Theater Script & Activities RL3.1, RL3.2, RL4.1, RL5.1
~ Literature ~ Fluency ~ Common Core Aligned~~~ A Christmas Carol - Scrooge - Charles Dickens~~~This is a CCSS aligned readers’ theater or play for grades 3-5. This resource will assist your students with fluency/expression reading practice, comparing & contrasting characters, and sequencing story events.Included in this set is the following items:✔ age appropriate readers’ theater script/ can also be used for a play✔ character cards that can be made into puppets✔ a sequencing of events pri
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Christmas Carol Nutcracker Readers Theater Comprehension Bundle
Aesop’s Fables Unit & Lesson Plans – Genre Study for 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade
This fables unit offers a complete reading, writing, speaking, and listening experience! It includes lesson plans, 10 stories with comprehension questions, 7 plays, writing, and compare-contrast activities. You’ll have everything you need to teach your third, fourth, or fifth grade students. Open the preview to take a closer look at the components. Lesson PlansThree weeks of ELA lesson plans are ready to go! You may use them to guide your study of fables. (Open the bonus preview to see the plans
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3rd - 5th
3rd Grade Reading Projects, Weekly Enrichment All Year, PDF and Digital!
3rd Grade Reading Enrichment Research Projects for the Entire Year! Thirty-two weekly non-fiction reading enrichment projects in which students research topics and then answer the follow-up questions. The questions, not only check for comprehension of the topic researched, but review common reading text structures such as author's purpose, problem and solution, main idea, character traits, cause and effect, summary, theme and more. Aligned to most 3rd grade reading curriculum including STAAR/CCS
Grades:
3rd
Enrichment Activities Holiday Bundle of 48 Logic Puzzles Fast Finishers
Are you looking for ways to incorporate critical thinking into your classroom? These 48 holiday logic puzzles would be perfect as enrichment activities and for fast finishers and gifted and talented students! Holidays include: Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day They would also work well as morning work and homework. In my third grade class,* I introduce logic puzzles by doing one as a whole group.* Then, I let them work on one with a partner.* F
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2nd - 4th
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Enrichment Activities Fairy Tale Logic Puzzles Critical Thinking Fast Finishers
Are you looking for ways to incorporate critical thinking into your classroom? These 8 Fairy Tale logic puzzles would be perfect as enrichment activities and for fast finishers and gifted & talented students! They would also work well as morning work and homework. I used characters from popular fairy tales such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Snow White. The clues I used were made up by me and may or may not be part of the actually fairy tale. For example, some clues talk about Goldilo
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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
Notice and Note - Signpost Practice in Isolation
The PDF works with the close reading strategy of "Notice and Note". This activity works best after the students have had some practice with Notice and Note, before reading a chapter book or long piece of literature.
There are four original, fiction passages and four questions after each passage. No clip art to hint at any theme or signposts.
The Notice and Note fictional close reading strategy helps readers make sense of character traits, themes, motives, foreshadowing, and many other importa
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2nd - 4th
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The Nutcracker Readers Theater with Text-Dependent Questions and Context Clues
This readers theater is a great addition to Christmas festivities for readers in the grades 3-6 levels. This is the classic legend of the Nutcracker. I have taken care to make the script engaging. My students really enjoyed becoming the characters of Fritz, Marie, and Nutcracker, but it was Godfather Drosselmeier that really stole the show in my room. This readers theater allows students to work on fluency and expression as they read it aloud. There are many speaking parts to make sure that
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Christmas Carol Nutcracker Readers Theater Comprehension Bundle
Fractured Fairy Tales Readers Bundle Point of View
If you're looking for an engaging way to work on FLUENCY with your upper elementary students, this Fractured Fairy Tale Readers' Theater bundle is PERFECT! Explore three well-known fairy tales from the perspective/Point of View of different characters. These scripts and reading comprehension activities are perfect for small groups and can be used throughout the year with no prep for you. These also make great SUB PLANS! Scripts included in this Bundle:The True Story of the Three Little PigsHumpt
Edward Tulane Upper Elementary Digital Escape Room
Help Edward Make It Home is a 360° escape room loaded with ways for students to review what they learned from the book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, in a fun, engaging, and interactive way. Students must solve 6 clues to unlock the codes that will help them get Edward back home. Can they crack the code? Check out the preview and video to see more!How does it work?Students begin on a webpage with the scenario. They follow the directions given in the underlined letters. They are then t
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3rd - 5th
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Fairy Tale Readers' Theater Bundle for Grades 2 and 3
This is a bundle of common core standards aligned readers’ theater for grades 1st-3rd. This targets RL3.2, RL3.1, RL2.2, RL2.1, RL1.2, RL1.1. These resources will assist your students with fluency/expression reading practice, comparing and contrasting characters, and sequencing story events.Included in this set are: Jack in the Beanstalk, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, and The Elves and the Shoemaker. The readers theaters contain the following: • color-coded Readers’ theater script• printa
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1st - 3rd
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Christmas Carol Nutcracker Readers Theater Comprehension Bundle
This set of readers theater scripts and text-dependent printables will get the attention of your students they still are tuned in to an educational activity. Introducing these classic tales with a readers theater is a great way to expose elementary students to these long-loved stories at their reading level. My students work on their comprehension as well as their fluency as we read these in our classroom. I have also included context clues to help students practice the skill of figuring out
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Readers Theater Brain Teaser Mystery Script GRADES 3-4
This grades 3-4 Readers' Theater fun AND funny mystery script will give your students high interest practice in reading aloud, inferencing, making predictions and drawing conclusions. The Mystery of the Stolen Laptop brain teaser script makes your students into detectives, performing inference tasks to solve clues. If you have a class that dislikes anything they perceive as "babyish", this amusing script, with its relevant modern characters, will get a thumbs-up! Drama and ELA fun! Question she
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3rd - 4th
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Reader's Theater Folk Tale Enormous Turnip RL1.1, RL2.1, RL2.2 RL3.2, RL3.3
~Folktales~ Fluency~ Common Core Aligned~
~~~The Enormous Turnip~~~
This is a readers theater folktale for 2nd, and 3rd grades. This resource will assist your students with fluency/expression reading practice, comparing and contrasting characters, and sequencing story events. RL 3.1, RL 3.2, RL 2.1, RL 2.2, RL 2.7 Higher 1st grade or lower 4th grade readers would enjoy this folktales drama.
Included in this set are:
• color-coded, icon-laden readers’ theater script
• character cards for cre
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES BUNDLE Literature Extensions Critical Thinking GATE
Story Sleuths I, II, and III Bundle delivers 3 products at 20% savings. You will receive 12 weeks of clues for the Story Sleuth challenge; an enrichment unit using Caldecott Award winning books to cultivate critical thinking. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is
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K - 4th
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Halloween Readers Theater Holiday Script, Reading & Activity Packet
This Halloween Packet includes a funny Readers Theater Halloween Script about the unusual history of Halloween in Ireland and its migration to the United States. Students will find this interesting and entertaining!
This packet also includes 5 script-related activity sheets, each with its own answer key:
* Fill-In the Blanks
* Vocabulary Fun
* Unscramble
* Word Search
* 5-Question Quiz
This is a great way for students to increase reading and writing skills. It also encourages oral reading prof
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2nd - 4th
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Reader's Theater Script: Natural Resources, Conservation, Waste Management
Reading and Science Integration: USE AND CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES “TRASH ME NOT”Scripts with Content for Intermediate Readers. FULL PACKThis Readers’ Theater is a great resource to use in your classroom in many ways: literature circles, small groups, centers, or teacher table.TRASH ME NOT will be divided into 5 scenes. Each scene will have a reading response activity!For example:Scene1:First: Read and Re Read (Fluency)Next: Making Predictions, Answering & Asking Questions (Comprehen
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3rd - 5th
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