Reading and Math Enrichment Activities for Early Finishers & Gifted Students K-5

This bundle of 350 open-ended reading and math enrichment activities for your gifted and talented students or fast finishers will boost creative writing, reading comprehension, spatial reasoning, and problem-solving. All enrichment activities are low (or no!) prep, saving you tons of time and money.

With lots to choose from, these fun challenges will help your advanced students challenge their thinking skills, boost creativity, prevent boredom, and spark curiosity.

These make great independent projects for gifted and talented students. Or, they could be used as part of small group activities.

The best part... with 350 activities, including templates + open-ended challenges, you can use these all year in multiple ways to keep your students challenged.

Simply print, and laminate (if you want them to be reusable!), then you are done!

Perfect for GATE students, fast finishers, enrichment classes, choice board activities, sub plans, and so much more!

⭐⭐ Download the preview and get 5 FREE pages to see how the levels are already differentiated for you!⭐⭐

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This BUNDLE of 350, open-ended enrichment activities and challenges can be reused and customized to fit your classroom needs for K-5 gifted, advanced students, or simply kids who are early finishers wanting more to do.

It includes 5 different packs, each with 70 activities:

English Language Arts = K - 2 Pack and 3 -5 Pack (140 Total Enrichment Activities + 140 Google Slides™)

• VOCABULARY
  • Cryptograms
  • Acrostics
  • Word Creation from Letter Banks
  • Story Creation from Word Banks
  • Word Sorts
  • Grammar Rule Discovery

• PARTS OF SPEECH
  • Noun Drawings
  • Verb Drawings
  • Adjective Drawings
  • Prefix Puzzles
  • Suffix Puzzles

• CRITICAL THINKING
  • Compare/Contrast Story Elements
  • Compare/Contrast Words
  • Design Challenges
  • Invention Challenges
  • Imagining New Landmarks

• WRITING & COMPOSITION
  • Create or Change Stories
  • Rhyming Poems
  • Historical Figure Challenges
  • Futuristic Challenges

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MATH = K -1 Pack, 2 -3 Pack, and 3 - 5 Pack (210 Printable Enrichment Activities + 210 Google Slides™)

• NUMERACY & OPERATIONS
  • Mental Math Puzzles
  • How Many Ways Can You Make Various Numbers
  • Hieroglyphs/Create New Numbers

• MEASUREMENT + DATA
  • Measure to Scale Challenges
  • Glyph & Data Collection Challenge
  • "Data Interpreter" = use graphs & prompts to interpret data

• SPATIAL REASONING + PATTERNING
  • Tangram Puzzles - Shapes Shown
  • Tangram Puzzles - Shapes Hidden
  • Discover the Pattern in Numbers

• GEOMETRY
  • Shape Building with Toothpicks = 2D and 3D shapes, depending on grade level
  • Draw Pictures with Certain Shapes = 2D and 3D shapes, depending on grade level

• MONEY + TIME
  • Trip Planning Project-Based Learning Challenge
  • Create New Clocks
  • Create New Currency

• CRITICAL THINKING
  • Create Games
  • Design New Machines/Inventions
  • Sudoku Puzzles

⭐⭐PLUS.... you get a BONUS! This bundle includes Year-Long Choice Boards, Printable + Digital Activities! Perfect for your whole class, this gives you even more, year long options to enrich and engage your fast finishers!⭐⭐

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This is a K-5 bundle. Some activities are similar across grade levels, but are differentiated. Any activities similar across grade levels are designed for open-ended answers and student-directed response.

Activities for younger students are worded in simpler vocabulary and have easier directions. Activities for older students are more complex.

⭐⭐ Download the preview and get 5 FREE pages to see how the levels are already differentiated for you!⭐⭐

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does this include a digital version? Yep! You get a PDF version of all activities, PLUS Google Slides™ for all activities!

Can this last all year? ABSOLUTELY! With 350 different challenges, you have enough to do 2 challenges per week per grade level for Language Arts AND math!

Is this for my whole class? These activities are meant to be challenging and really stretch thinking skills! While they are grade-appropriate, some students may not be ready for these challenges yet. These are best for those high-flying, advanced students that need more of a challenge.

For the K-2 challenges, they do use simple vocabulary, but students should be able to read somewhat independently.

Can I try them out? Please do! Download the preview and get FIVE free pages!

This bundle is perfect for:

• Resource teachers
• Gifted / GATE teachers
• Multi-age classrooms
• Homeschoolers
• Teachers switching grades

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Teachers like you said....

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Yvonne M. says... "As the GT leader in my school, my colleagues were needing something to use in their classrooms to help engage and further stem the learning of their gifted students. This resource was perfect for them!”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Katie H. says... " This has been great to use for my soaring students during distance learning!”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Samantha H. says... " I work in a K-12 school. These are great for elementary enrichment, but also to pull up the junior high kiddos too.”

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Want to see what's inside?

This is the BUNDLED version of my 5 enrichment packs. You can preview all of them individually here!

⭐ ELA Enrichment Activities K - 2

⭐ ELA Enrichment Activities 3 - 5

⭐ Math Enrichment Activities K - 1

⭐ Math Enrichment Activities 2 - 3

⭐ Math Enrichment Activities 4 - 5
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