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Other (science) Common Core RL.4.4 resources for Gifted and Talented
St. Patrick's Day Escape Room ELA Skills Antonyms Synonyms Homophones & More
UPDATED-Answers go right in the escape room! No Google! Lucky the Leprechaun is having a party, and you are invited. Oh no! You lost your invitation! Luckily, there are some clues to help. Follow the clues and find the codes to find your way to the party. Students will need to use their language arts skills to find their way. The skills needed are:SynonymsAntonymsInference RiddlesContractionsHomophonesHomonyms (Multiple Meaning Words)This fun and engaging digital mystery is NO PREP and completel
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3rd - 5th
More Than A Scribble: A Creative Drawing Activity for Gifted & Talented Students
This activity promotes creative thinking as students transform scribble lines into ART! There are four pages of scribbles (24 total). In addition, there are ideas for extension activities in Reading, Science, and Social Studies!This is a great task for centers or early finishers!
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PreK - 6th
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The Black Stallion Unit | Novel Study with Questions, Vocabulary, Choice Boards
Take your students on an adventure with a timeless adventure novel: The Black Stallion, by Walter Farley. This unit includes questions, vocabulary, writing, and choice boards. Open the preview to take a closer look.Questions: Students construct responses for two prompts after every two chapters of The Black Stallion. This component includes an overview; a response planning sheet; modeling mini posters; four worksheets on describing events, settings, or characters; one worksheet on determining po
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4th - 5th
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"Theme Park" Book Report For Any Novel, Step-by-step Directions!
No-prep, Book Report to Celebrate Any Novel! After reading any novel, your students will create a theme park based on their novel's overall theme using the guidelines included with this resource.With this project, your students will take an in-depth look at the theme and main ideas of their novel to create their exciting theme park. The students will be responsible for turning in their ride descriptors, planning sheets and complete "Theme Park Guide" to handout to their visitors as they enter
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4th - 6th
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Some Places More Than Others Novel Study
This novel study of Some Places More Than Ever by Renee Watson is divided into 6 sections. Each section covers 25 -35 pages. This allows students to improve comprehension and writing skills while developing a love for reading. The units are designed to help reach a variety of learning styles. You can have students complete all activities or assign specific skills to individual students or groups.Easel Activity!Easel activity is divided into 6 sections. Each section includes the following:10 Comp
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3rd - 6th
Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor Novel Study
This novel study of Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor by Ally Carter is divided into 8 sections. Each section covers 25 -35 pages. This allows students to improve comprehension and writing skills while developing a love for reading. The units are designed to help reach a variety of learning styles. You can have students complete all activities or assign specific skills to individual students or groups.Easel Activity!Easel activity is divided into 8 sections. Each section includes the foll
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3rd - 6th
"Susanna's Midnight Ride" Novel Study (Depth and Complexity Icons)
"Susanna's Midnight Ride" tells the story of Susanna's Bolling's daring ride that saved the Revolutionary War. This novel study uses the work of Dr. Sandra Kaplan's Depth and Complexity Icons to help students dig deeper in to the book. The attached document includes an answer key at the end. This book is used as a companion to Wit and Wisdom's 3rd Module: The Redcoats are Coming. Each chapter includes new vocabulary and a series of questions.
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4th - 6th
Riding Freedom — Hyperlinked PDF project to accompany novel
I want my students to be able to dig deeper into the content of the novels they read, but I understand their own independent searches can leave them frustrated by online content that is beyond their comprehension, is inappropriate, or that presents inaccurate information. I also realize that for many, the daunting task of reading the book is enough, without the additional burden of combing through online search results or reading webpages that lead in the wrong direction.Therefore, this hyperlin
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3rd - 5th
Historical Fiction Book Club for ANY Historical Fiction Book
This complete book club set includes all the components you need to run historical fiction book clubs in your classroom from START to FINISH! Get students interested in how a setting actually plays a role within the text and allow them to think about a text creatively, analytically and critically.
Included:
Lesson Ideas
5 Assignments
Group Project
Individual Reflections
Discussion Chips
Discussion Cards
Discussion Notes Recording Sheet
TAG Feedback
Book Review
Assignment Rubric
Project Rubric
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4th - 6th
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH STAX Independent Reading Supplement for GATE
These independent reading program cards are designed for use with the STAX Independent Reading Program for Advanced and GATE. This is not the full program but a supplemental starter STAX for use with the program.
You can purchase the full program separately at the Portable Gifted and Talented store on TPT.
The STAX Independent Reading Program allows your gifted and advanced readers to create tasks and respond to meaningful critical thinking challenges to any novel. The STAX program invites b
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3rd - 8th
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The Chocolate Touch Novel Study {Common Core Standards Assessments}
This Chocolate Touch novel study is based on Common Core Standards. Standards assessments include question stems that will be seen on state assessments. Each assessment covers three to four chapters and include selected response and constructed response.The assessment questions can be used as comprehension checks, guided reading discussion questions, center activities, homework, use during reading to take notes, teach close reading and writing constructed response answers. Unit also includes the
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3rd - 4th
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ELA SEL themed narrative writing prompt spelling enrichment centers
This one week ELA unit has everything you need, no prep required. Just print it, staple the packet and pass it out. It comes with a lesson plan that includes standards at grade level for each page. Students review a variety of grade level standards, in addition to the writing prompt which is in response to the reading format. There’s several opportunities to draw and color in support of their learning. Use this resource for sub plans, test prep, small groups, or gifted/enrichment. It
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4th - 6th
Book Club Elementary Grades Starter Set
Book Club is an ELA activity that combines reading and discussion of at level books in an organized manner. Reading groups are determined by the student’s current reading levels and no more than six students are placed in each reading group to allow full participation by each member of the group. Modifications and adaptations can be made to make Book Club work in any classroom setting. Book Club was created to be used in grades 3rd-5th classrooms and was developedwith the help of a Read
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3rd - 5th
ELA thematic unit International Family Day May 15th informational writing prompt
One week of standards aligned ELA, no planning required, just print and pass it out. Longer reading passages help build reading stamina in preparation for testing. Includes review of the priority standards and supplemental practice in theme, summarizing, inferencing, context clues and word meaning along with grammar and sentence structure. This resource contains one supplemental enrichment activity that is an extension of the writing prompt. I try to touch on every domain:Informational T
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4th - 6th
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE & OTHER LITERARY DEVICES, Grades 3 to 6
Authors use literary techniques to convey meaning and to make the story more interesting to the reader. The understanding of these devices will help students get more enjoyment from the fiction they read—both in and out of the classroom situation. This comprehensive unit uses examples from classic and modern literature to introduce and reinforce literary devices. (Figurative Language & Other Literary Devices is also available for Grades 5 through 8,)Each term is defined. One or more example
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: ELA Bundle for Grades 3 to 6
STEM Through the Months: March
"STEM Through the Months: March" includes lessons and projects for Spring, Women’s History Month, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Music in Our Schools Month and STEM lesson starters for each and every day in March. This edition is designed for teachers, parents and students. Using daily, weekly and monthly-themed events as a springboard, poetry as a language arts component and the maker movement for inspiration, students will build cross-curricular connections as they explore STEM - Science,
STEAM Through the Year: Mathematics – Spring Bundle (March, April and May)
Special bundle pricing, each unit is priced at $4.95 each when purchased separately, $12.95 for the bundle. Buy the bundle for a sweet spring deal and save over 12%! STEAM Through the Year: Mathematics Spring Bundle for March, April and May guides you through three months of STEAM lessons and projects. Students build mathematical proficiency with monthly-thematic lessons correlated to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards. Here you will find easy-to-use lessons providing prac
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1st - 6th, Not Grade Specific
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The Tale of Despereaux Common Core Novel Study
This literature unit was created using Common Core Standards.
Chapter quizzes cover three to four chapters with 8-10 questions per quiz. Questions include multiple choice and constructed response questions. These are designed to help students with spring assessment questions.
The unit also contains a final 10 questions assessment. This includes multiple choice and constructed response.
Additional activities are designed for interactive notebooks.
Character Analysis
Compare/Contrast
Storyb
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3rd - 5th
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Because of Mr. Terupt Literature Study
Because of Mr. Terupt is a great read, but also a GREAT book to get your students thinking about point of view and perspective. This literature study focuses on those two things and more! As the characters each tell the story from their own point of view, your students also will learn about how an author develops characters, creates interactions between characters and how characters change because of others.
With higher level comprehension questions, test-prep quizzes, and MORE for each mont
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4th - 7th
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A Wrinkle In Time - Novel Study, Skill Practice, and Gifted Enrichment
A novel study for the book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. This novel study is perfect if you are teaching a population that needs rigorous instruction with the novel, A Wrinkle In Time. Everything inside this resource was designed to be taught in a full-time gifted magnet school classroom. The novel study packet includes 16 pages, with vocabulary and high-order thinking questions for each chapter, and an analysis page every three chapters to promote student discourse. The supplemental r
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4th - 8th
Greek Mythology Unit
This unit includes several activities that work with a few of the common myths: Pandora's Box, Hercules, Odysseus, Achilles, Trojan Horse, King Midas, and Zeus. This resource gives you the freedom to let your students explore mythological characters beyond what I have included.Activities include: - STEM Challenge (planning, reflecting, and rubric)- Allusions from mythology page - Greek character cards project (directions and rubric) - Myth vs Science: rubric included - Let's Write a Myth: Creat
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3rd - 8th
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Common Core: Phrases & Figures of Speech Derived from Greek Myths PART I
The attached worksheets can augment your instruction of sophisticated figures of speech. Herculean effort, Trojan horse, and Achilles' heel are the phrases incorporated in these sheets, which tie directly into the Common Core's requirement for students to become knowledgeable on phrases and figurative language that was derived from Greek mythology.
The sheets provide context reading for the students to make their own inferences regarding of the Greek phrase meaning, antonym identification, rea
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3rd - 6th
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Stay A Novel Study By Bobbie Pyron
This novel study of Stay by Bonnie Pyron is divided into 8 sections. Each section covers 25 -35 pages. This allows students to improve comprehension and writing skills while developing a love for reading. The units are designed to help reach a variety of learning styles. You can have students complete all activities or assign specific skills to individual students or groups.Easel Activity!Easel activity is divided into 8 sections. Each section includes the following:10 Comprehension questionsVoc
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Afternoon of the Elves GATE Unit for Independent Study or Whole Class
Haven’t read this book yet? It is masterfully written!
This is a full GATE unit for Janet Taylor Lisle’s Newbery Honor Book, Afternoon of the Elves. This unit is much more thorough and different from the “STAX” independent reading unit for the same novel available in my store.
This unit includes instructions for independent study, small group, and whole class instruction. The focus for all options is decidedly higher order thinking skills, creativity, extension of the novel’s ideas and them
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4th - 7th
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