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Italian Common Core RL.3.4 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
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Also included in:Â Holiday Digital Escape Room Growing Bundle - Breakouts All Through the Year
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
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
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
Moonshot by Brian Floca Apollo 11 PRIMARY GATE Lessons -- Rocket Model
Astronauts, space ships, and the moon . . . what kid doesn’t like that kind of stuff, huh? We should build a space ship!
Here’s another collection of lessons and activities for your primary gifted and talented groups. It’s full of hands-on activities across the curriculum, critical thinking questions, participatory reading, and age-appropriate primary source lessons. As always, you’ll get ready-to-print activity sheets, explanations, pictures to lead you through, and Common Core State Standa
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Kindergarten and 1st Grade GATE Bundle - Gifted and Talented and Advanced
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
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Little Island Primary Gifted and Talented Social-Emotional Values and Identity
We use this Caldecott Award Winning book to address social-emotional standards for primary gifted students. Not just a social-emotional unit, we answer critical thinking questions, explore literary theme and other ideas, and create a fun island adventure using a grid.
Great stuff for our youngest gifted learners: It’s hands-on, requires critical thinking, and good fun.
NAGC Learning and Development Standards
1.1 Self-Understanding. Students with gifts and talents demonstrate self-knowledge
Grades:
K - 3rd
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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
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Flight School Book Companion - Perseverance Activities - Growth Mindset
Flight School is a great book to share with your students to talk about perseverance. It is the story of a persistent penguin who has the soul of an eagle and is determined to fly. 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 connections to self and the real world. This Flight School Book Companion aims to help students develop advanced readers' skills in analyz
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Locomotive by Brian Floca - Primary GATE Unit with Caldecott STEAM!
Another amazing Caldecott book and another load of opportunities across the curriculum for our primary GATE kids: hands-on and participatory activities, critical thinking, creativity, art and graphic design, and always best practices in gifted education. I’ve used this unit with 2nd graders, and it will definitely stretch to 3rd grade GATE.
You get 35+ pages of instructions, critical thinking questions and activities, and ready-to-print student activity sheets—assuredly more than you’ll ever
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Stories With Loopholes: Vocabulary Practice for Gifted & Talented Students
This activity promotes critical and divergent thinking as students dive deeper into homonyms/multiple meaning words.Students are given a story/riddle that has a multiple meaning word embedded into the text. They must use inferencing skills to draw a conclusion and solve the riddle.The riddles were adapted from Nathan Levy’s, “Story With Holes”. You can implement this engaging activity in a whole group setting or as an early finisher task.Answer key is included!
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2nd - 6th
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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
Grades:
3rd - 4th
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Mirette on the High Wire CALDECOTT for Primary GATE Hands-on with STEM
Bring Emily Arnold McCully’s Caldecott Winning book, Mirette on the High Wire, alive with this active unit! We combine a rich exploration—primary grades appropriate—of language and science to produce a meaningful learning experience.
Materials: Activity Sheets (included), string, and other common classroom supplies
Time: About 3 hours total if all the parts are included
Level: GATE 1st or 2nd and 3rd
Primary Source Analysis and Inferences: Let’s set the stage by seeing what students ca
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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The Invisible Boy Book Companion - Empathy | Belonging | Friendship Activities
The Invisible Boy is a great book to share with your students to build classroom community and to explore the themes of Empathy, Belonging, Friendship and Kindness. This is the story of Brian, a shy boy who feels like he is invisible and has no friends. He doesn’t call attention to himself and isn’t picked for teams or invited to parties. But when a new boy Justin joins the class, Brian discovers a friend and doesn’t feel so invisible anymore. This book companion is jam-packed with resources tha
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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:Â ELA Bundle for Grades 3 to 6
Martha Speaks - Classic Picture Books for Primary GATE
In this bundle of lessons for Jane Meddaugh’s classic, students will actually have Martha speaking with their paper bag puppets. Like all the Primary GATE literacy units at Portable Gifted and Talented, this is fun, hands-on, participatory, and full of critical thinking challenges for your younger thinkers. Of course, you get the Common Core State Standards references, too. We’re not just barking into the wind here!
Critical Thinking Questions: more than you’ll ever need with a focus on exp
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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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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3rd Grade ELA Leveled Reading Assessment 3RL1 Differentiation Proficiency Scale
If your school requires Proficiency Scales, Standards Based Grading, or evaluates based on Marzano Framework, this product will save you weeks of work! These pages present Learning Goals and Scales with concrete problems to prove mastery at every level. These Leveled Assessments create a clear goal for you and your students. They perfectly support a growth mindset model, and make differentiation planning easy! Download the FREE PREVIEW to try for yourself! Help students by allowing them to REV
Grades:
3rd
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The Legend of Old Befana Companion Activities | Christmas in Italy
The Legend of Old Befana, by Tommie dePaola, is a retelling of a popular Italian Christmas folktale. This is a companion resource for the book and DOES NOT include the books or lesson plans. Includes: 1 Page with Vocabulary Heading4 pages with 10 vocabulary cards (black and white)4 pages with 10 vocabulary cards (color) 2 Vocabulary Worksheets2 Summarizing Pages1 Comprehension Page (open response)1 Illustrate and Write: A Holiday My Family Celebrates1 Old Befana and Santa Claus Venn Diagram1 W
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Christmas MEGA BUNDLE | 50 PERCENT OFF ALL Christmas Resources
The One and Only Ivan Novel Study
Save time with this book study of the novel, The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. It was a success in my classroom and could be in yours, too, if you take the first step to downloading this colorful PowerPoint that is great for distance learning or in-class instruction. This lesson will engage students, spark creativity, and get them ready for reading this wonderful novel.Click HERE to save about 30% off the price of individual resources with a bundle.Inside this ready to use resource,
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in:Â The One and Only Ivan Novel Study Activities
Andy Shane and the Pumpkin Trick Literacy Pack!
This literacy packet gives an assortment of reading, grammar, and writing activities related to Andy Shane and the Pumpkin Trick by Jennifer Richard Jacobson. (The story is not mine, so it is not included. It can be found in many libraries and bookstores.)This resource includes the following: Copyright Pages Related Common Core & FL standards for the comprehension test Comprehension test 2 choices: 1st choice gives a point value for each question 2nd c
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Also included in:Â Fall and Halloween Bundle of Comprehension and Literacy Items
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
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- The House in the Night
The House in the Night gives us a wonderful opportunity to challenge primary level gifted learners—in language and poetry, critical and metaphorical thinking, visually, and artistically.
In this lesson, students will:
a.) discover the pattern of the poem and discuss critical thinking questions about the book,
b.) think critically about symbols, metaphors and language using a graphic organizer and class discussion,
c.) construct a personalized cumulative pattern poem,
d.) And thoughtfully i
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
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