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Forensics Common Core RI.7.1 resources for Gifted and Talented
The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Primary Sources Research Activity
This engaging Social Studies lesson about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke mixes history and forensic science for a hands on approach to learning about the first English colony in the New World. Students examine and analyze primary sources as evidence and use critical thinking skills to come up with 4 of their own theories to explain the disappearance of the Roanoke Colony in 1587. This download includes 3 versions of the activity: Stations - Cut out the evidence (primary sources) and place in manil
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4th - 7th
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Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox: Printables for Nearly Every Standard
The Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox contains 77 learning activities aligned to the CCSS for grades 6-8. It includes printables that can be used multiple times throughout the year to address nearly all of the standards in reading literature and informational texts, and many of the speaking and listening, writing, and language standards. It also has two pages of writing prompts and warm-ups. The Standards Guide at the end details the CCSS that correspond to each printable.
Three grade level
Grades:
6th - 8th
Ugly Christmas Sweater Mystery Reading Passages & Escape Room | CSI
Are you looking for a fun and engaging reading comprehension activity for the holidays? Check out this popular themed escape room and have your students unlock the "Mystery of the Swiped Sweaters!"Get your students thinking and using their analytical skills with GATER Educator's "Case of the Swiped Sweaters"! Through puzzles and challenges, students will use deductive logic, inference, forensics, and common sense to solve this mystery. Close Reading CHALLENGES include:Informational Text- “Proces
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Ugly Christmas Sweater Activity Pack | Math, Reading & Writing
Gifted and Talented Escape Room | Color by Code | Reading Comprehension BUNDLE
Get your GIFTED and TALENTED students engaged with this awesome BUNDLE of easy-prep reading comprehension activities.Featuring escape rooms, color-by-code activities, close readings, and more! Perfect for gifted and talented learners seeking to learn more about social-emotional learning. Save 30% off each individual resource when you purchase the bundle today!Close Reading ESCAPE ROOM CHALLENGES include:Informational Text- 2 Pages in Each ResourceBreakout Task 1- Plot an Escape: Vocabulary Word
Grades:
4th - 8th
Growth Mindset Activities | GRIT | Perseverance
Looking for ways to cultivate a get-it-done, don't back down, tough as nails, attitude in an interesting and engaging way?This PRINTABLE and Easy PREP resource combines a gritty paper challenge, personality quizzes, gritty tips, and a fun craftivity together as a perfect way to teach a GROWTH Mindset or SELF-Care to your students.If you would like a DIGITAL and PRINTABLE Version of this resource click the link below:Got GRIT? Digital and Printable BUNDLEThe growth mindset activities in this unit
Grades:
5th - 7th
BASKETBALL Math & Reading BUNDLE | Escape Room | March Madness Activities
Get your students excited about reading and Madness in MARCH with this differentiated basketball-themed project bundle!Includes project-based learning, close reading, escape room, CSI activities, and more. Perfect for engaging students in math, science, and informational text practice.Please click on the PREVIEW above to view everything that is included!By purchasing this bundle, you are saving 20% off the price of the individual units.Go to new depths of learning with the Project-Based Learning
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Football Math Reading and Science BUNDLE | Escape Room | PBL | Super Bowl
Get your students excited about reading and the upcoming Super Bowl with this differentiated football-themed project bundle! Includes project-based learning, close reading, escape room, CSI activities, and more. Perfect for engaging students in math, science, and informational text practice.Please click on the PREVIEW above to view everything that is included!By purchasing this bundle, you are saving 20% off the price of the individual units.Close Reading CHALLENGES include:Informational Text- “
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5th - 8th
Informational Text Bundle Seasonal and Holidays
Informational Text Bundle is a collection of 12 products from my store with a total of 32 no-prep lessons.
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Informational Text for September
Informational Text for September National Punctuation Day and Coffee
Informational Text for October
Informational Text for October--A Hollywood Monster and Strange Weather
Informational Text for November
Informational Text for November--Pumpkins and a Thanksgiving Parade
Informational Text for Thanksgiving
Informational Text--5 Things You Did
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5th - 8th
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Middle School Article of the Week *CCSS Aligned *Uses all 10 standards
This Article of the Week is designed to be done each week with a different article. At first, it will take the students longer, and the first article or so should be done as a class and scaffolded. But students get faster and faster as they master all the Reading Informational Text standards again and again in different contexts / with different articles.
*CCSS Aligned
*Uses all 10 Reading Informational Text Standards
*Works with any article
*Can be used multiple times
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6th - 8th
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100th Day of School Activities - Escape Room & Reading Passages
Engage your students on the 100th day of school with an exciting escape room activity that combines close reading and life skills. Solve "The Case of the Vanished Vintage Clock" through deductive logic, inference, forensics, and common sense. Perfect for enhancing reading comprehension while having fun!Close Reading CHALLENGES include:Informational Text- “Processing the Evidence, Understanding the Motive” and the case of “Why Did the Vintage Cuckoo Clock Vanish?”Mystery Code Tasks 1a & 1b -
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5th - 7th
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"I Must Betray You" by Ruta Sepetys: Resource Set
Getting ready to read I Must Betray You? You need this set! It includes a set of lecture notes to cover background knowledge on the USSR (slightly silly at times and overgeneralized), an anticipation guide to spark discussion before reading, discussion questions, and research questions for presentations on related topics. It also includes a teacher guide with some content warnings for you to be prepared for what's coming. This set will help you dig deeper into this thrilling, jaw-dropping novel
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7th - 9th
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Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 37-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing ELA-themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill as
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5th - 12th
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Gifted and Talented Escape Room Activity | Close Reading | Reading Comprehension
Explore the world of giftedness with this interactive escape room activity from GATER Educator! Perfect for a gifted program, reading test prep, or beginning-of-the-year review. Students will use reading comprehension skills to solve puzzles that reveal a final code for breakout. Get your students engaged in close reading practice today!Close Reading CHALLENGES include:Informational Text- The Keys to Thriving as a Gifted Kid: Top 10 Tips from ExpertsBreakout Task 1- Plot an Escape: Vocabulary Wo
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4th - 8th
Greek Mythology Living Art Exhibit Activity - Great Paired with The Odyssey!
Teaching The Odyssey? Dabbling in Greek mythology? Engage your students in a week-long, skill-building activity they will remember for years! "The day we got to dress up like Greek statues was my favorite." "I really like how we got to research Medusa. I learned much more about mythology than just reading about it in a book." "I had another teacher at my last school teach us about Greek mythology. All he did was show a long documentary that put everyone to sleep. This is actually something that
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5th - 12th
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Gifted and Talented Color by Code Activity | Close Reading Comprehension | SEL
Are you looking to support the social and emotional well-being of your gifted learners?Check out this engaging informational text about giftedness, perspective and getting along well with others!Unlock the secrets of EMPATHY & PERSPECTIVE with this fun, colorful activity that combines close reading and comprehension skills. Perfect for gifted learners' enrichment, homework, centers, or any gifted program!Students will read a non-fiction passage, answer questions, mark evidence from the text,
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4th - 8th
Gifted & Talented Escape Room - Close Reading | Finding Balance Life Skills
Get your gifted and talented students engaged in close reading and reading comprehension with the Gifted & Talented Escape Room. This easy set-up, low-prep activity will support social-emotional learning while exploring what it means to lead a balanced life.Close Reading CHALLENGES include:Informational Text- Cracking the Code: Detect a Solution: How Gifted Learners Can Achieve BalanceBreakout Task 1- Plot an Escape: Vocabulary Word MatchBreakout Task 2- Gather Resources: Identify True or Fa
Grades:
4th - 8th
Shakespeare and the Globe Theater, Hands-On Student Activity! GOOGLE SLIDES
Wondering how to cultivate a love for all things William Shakespeare with your upper grade students and get them psyched for reading Shakespeare? Need an extension activity that allows creativity and maintains student engagement? Your answer is here and completely ready to go! Your students will research, design an infographic and build Shakespeare's beloved GLOBE THEATER! This almost entirely editable Google Slides resource guides students through the beginning stages of research and culminates
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6th - 12th
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Gifted and Talented Color by Code Activity | Close Reading Comprehension
Are you looking to support the social and emotional well-being of your gifted learners? Check out this engaging informational text about giftedness and time management!Unlock the secrets of time management with this fun, colorful activity that combines close reading and comprehension skills. Perfect for gifted learners' enrichment or any gifted program! Students will read a non-fiction passage, answer questions, mark evidence from the text, color the picture according to their answers, and compl
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4th - 8th
Politics_Speaker of the House McCarthy Removed_Current Events News Reading_2023
The resolution posed from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R, FL-1) garnered a 216-210 vote, and forced McCarthy to vacate the leadership role.Current events news lesson plans for middle and high school students in grades 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Reading comprehension practice and literacy strategies for standardized testing preparation. Great for enrichment of gifted learners, substitute teachers, and differentiated instruction. Features:· 2 difficulty levels for differentiation· target vocabulary with visual a
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6th - 12th
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7th Grade ELA Bilingual Leveled Proficiency Scale Posters - Differentiation
Fill your bilingual word wall with learning objectives! Whether you teach ELL, ESL, Spanish Immersion, or just want to communicate better with your Spanish-Speaking students; these bilingual posters will give you the exact language you need to keep your students engaged in content while they master English. These poster pages present Learning Goals and Scales aligned to a growth mindset and the Common Core Math standards, as well as Florida and most states. Inspired by Marzano's research in “The
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7th
Gifted and Advanced ELA End of the Year Choice Projects
I really like to challenge my advanced students. However, they worked so hard preparing for the state test that I wanted to provide them with engaging activities and allow them to be in control of what they are learning, while having fun and learning about things that interest them. The majority of my class is made up of students who are gifted. I discovered that they have rather poor time management skills. They work linearly, and cannot meet multiple deadlines at the same time. This projec
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6th - 8th
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Business_Starbucks Increases Wages for Non-Union Workers_Current Event News_2023
Current events news lesson plans articles for students in grades 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Starbucks is increasing pay and benefits for most of its U.S. hourly workers after ending its fiscal year with record sales. But the company said Monday that unionized workers won't be eligible for some of those perks, a sign of the continuing tension between Starbucks and unionized workers.Reading passages cover contemporary issues. Great for current events journaling, reading comprehension practice, stand
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6th - 12th
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Who Owns the Zebra? (with manipulatives page and possible answer)
This is a highly challenging, well-known logic problem, said to have possibly been created by Albert Einstein or Lewis Carroll. This version comes with a manipulatives page to help students solve the problem. Students will engage in critical thinking and employ several mathematical practices to solve the problem.There is supposedly more than one answer, to check your answer reread through each statement in the problem to determine if it works in your solution. This printable can easily be made i
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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NFL Gameday Journalism - Lesson Plan Bundle
Throughout my eighteen-year teaching career, I’ve designed and implemented a program that motivates students to use nonfiction literacy strategies independently in an authentic way. Gameday Journalism is a fun transdisciplinary project that captivates your classroom audience while teaching Common Core standards in a unique way that will leave a lasting impression. Students will retain these skills and transfer them successfully to high achievement test scores!The program uses sports writing from
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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