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Common Core RL.3.1 resources for GATE
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
3rd, 4th, 5th Grade Early Finishers Activities - ELA Enrichment -Print & Digital
If you teach 3rd, 4th, or 5th-grade ELA, early finisher activities for your gifted and talented students will save your sanity! These print and digital enrichment activities will prevent frequent interruptions throughout the day. With these ready-to-use challenges, you'll no longer hear "What do I do now?" Ignite the minds of your 3rd, 4th, and 5th-grade students with these captivating ELA Early Finisher Enrichment Activities!Keep high-achieving students motivated and engaged in your ELA class w
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3rd - 5th
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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
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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Number the Stars: Chapter 1-3 Comprehension Quiz
Quiz/ test for Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. This activity is written in an A-B format, where students are required to support their answers with direct quotes from the novel. This ensures that students are refer back to the text to confirm their answers.
It includes multiple choice questions along with a short-response prompt. This document can be edited to adjust to the needs of your students. Additionally, these questions serve as higher-order thinking questions.
Example- How has the war
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3rd - 6th
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The Crayon Man Picture Book Companion and Activities
Save yourself time with this Print and Go Book Companion for The Crayon Man by Natascha Biebow. This story of Edwin Binney, the inventor of Crayola crayons, teaches children in second through fourth grades about the history of one of the most beloved art supplies. ⭐This picture book illustrates that necessity is the mother of invention as it relates that crayons were originally made because children and teachers needed affordable and reliable art supplies. ⭐The Crayon Man encourages children to
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: National Crayon Day: Crayon Fiction and Nonfiction Book Companion Bundle
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
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2nd - 4th
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"The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey" Literature Study Grades 2-4
This Common Core aligned literature study is based on the touching book "The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey" by Susan Wojciechowski. This unit includes vocabulary, dictionary and comprehension skills. Activities also include comparing and contrasting, making predictions and inferences, grammar, mind mapping, cause and effect and writing both narrative and informational text. An art project is also included. This book is sure to touch the heart of every student. Great for GATE and home sch
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Charlotte's Web Visual Novel Study - Comprehension Q & A, Activities for Google
All the background information your students need to LOVE Charlotte's Web! Students sometimes have a hard time relating to--and consequently, comprehending--a historical novel. Much of the book may be foreign to a 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th grader: the era, the culture, and the setting. As teachers, we sometimes assume kids "get" more than they actually do.I created a "Visual Text Support" PowerPoint slide show for the novel Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. My purpose was to generate student excitement
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3rd - 5th
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Inkling Printable Book Study for Reading Comprehension and Writing
Do you need an engaging, no-prep resource for studying the book Inkling by Kenneth Oppel? This is a great book study for students who are gifted or in need of enrichment, or you can use it with your whole class! It is especially helpful for studying vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing about a text in 3rd grade, 4th grade, or 5th grade.The book study includes planning information, literacy activities, a choice board, an essay, chapter quizzes, plus answer keys and examples. It is Commo
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3rd - 5th
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The Oldest Student Picture Book Biography Companion and Activities
Teach your kiddos the story of Mary Walker, the oldest student in the U.S., who learned to read at 116 years old. This Print and Go Book Companion for The Oldest Student, is a favorite to share with your students at the beginning of the year.WHY YOU NEED THIS THE OLDEST STUDENT BOOK COMPANION: ⭐This comprehensive book companion promotes critical and creative thinking. Best of all, it illustrates the values of perseverance, resilience, and lifelong learning.This The Oldest Student Picture Book
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K - 5th
Also included in: Biography Picture Book Companion Bundle - Lit Guides
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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100th Day of School Snack, Collection, & Stations with Reading Activities & STEM
Get ready for an exciting 100th Day of School with an enriching twist! Out with the mundane counting activities and embrace a day filled with STEM, SEL, and social skills. Designed for second and third grade teachers, these comprehensive lessons turn the 100th Day of School into a meaningful celebration. Ever felt like a zombie scrolling online for the 100th Day activities that go beyond basic counting? It's time to break free from the screen and offer students an experience that's both enjoyabl
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
When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree Picture Book Companion and Activities
50% off 48 hrs! When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree is the perfect picture book to teach your kids about Gratitude, lemon trees, and giving back to the community. This Print and Go Book Companion promotes critical and creative thinking. It teaches students to analyze and interpret literature and develops comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills. HOW YOU CAN USE THIS RESOURCE:✅ During Book Clubs or Literature Circles✅ In a classroom center✅ As activities for Early Finishers✅ Great for a Su
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1st - 4th
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
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1st - 3rd
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David Weisner's THE THREE PIGS - Primary GATE with Caldecott Books
Not sure if I had more fun with this or the kids did! Huh? This must be another Primary GATE with Caldecott lesson from Portable Gifted and Talented. Woo hoo!
• Students make a wolf that actually huffs, puffs, and blows down a straw house while they learn about physical science.
• Students create a cool, creative, and witty POP-up story extension which saves the life of one of the three pigs.
• Students learn to orient themselves to cardinal directions, about the position of the sun in the
Grades:
1st - 5th
Guided Reading Google Forms
This digital, paperless resource includes 30 fiction reading passages at the guided reading levels N, O, P The reading passages create a high level of engagement for your third-grade readers and are perfect for their reading level. There are a total of 30 stories with comprehension questions, included in this bundle. The stories were created in Google Forms. Each short story includes a cover page, the story, and 2 pages of comprehension questions. The comprehension questions are a mix of short a
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Guided Reading Digital Passages Levels A- R (Fiction and Nonfiction)
How I Became a Spy Printable Study for Distance Learning
This engaging book study is for the 2020-2021 SSYRA 3-5 book How I Became a Spy by Deborah Hopkinson. It is 54 pages long and includes planning information, literacy activities, a choice board, an essay, 4 comprehension tests, plus answer keys and examples. It is Common Core aligned, printable, and ready to be used! What's Included:✩Planning InformationTeaching TipsCommon Core StandardsSuggested Vocabulary Words✩Literacy ActivitiesVocabulary PracticeSummaryStory MapVenn Diagram✩Choice BoardDiffe
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers Caldecott for Primary GATE +STEM
Strong STEM-literacy springboard activities with this nonfiction piece! Pair it thematically with my Mirette on the High Wire Caldecott lessons, and the students will experience literature from inside to outside and from up to down.
You get instructions, ready-to-print activity sheets, Common Core references, and everything you need to set you down the path on this book. Make a quick trip to the local craft store for a really cool extension, or just use common materials in the classroom to ge
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2nd - 4th
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CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Set II Literature Extension Critical Thinking GATE
Continue the fun from STORY SLEUTHS I with 4 more weeks of critical thinking fun. STORY SLEUTHS II is a 1 month, critical thinking project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning 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 CCSS aligned. Students
Grades:
K - 4th
Google Forms Reading Comprehension
Looking for engaging fiction reading passages and comprehension checks for your students to read digitally while using Google Forms? This digital, paperless resource includes 10 fiction reading comprehension passages at the guided reading level N. The reading passages will create a high level of engagement for your third-grade readers and are perfect for their reading level. A level N is the equivalent of a third-grade reading level.Not sure how Google Forms works? Click on this link to view my
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3rd - 4th
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Strongheart Printable Study for Distance Learning
This engaging book study is for the 2020-2021 SSYRA 3-5 book Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen by Candace Fleming. It is 42 pages long and includes planning information, literacy activities, a choice board, an essay, comprehension test, plus answer keys and examples. It is Common Core aligned, printable, and ready to be used! What's Included:✩Planning InformationCommon Core StandardsSuggested Vocabulary Words✩Literacy ActivitiesVocabulary PracticeSummaryStory MapVenn Diagram✩Choice Bo
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