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Free 8th grade resources for GATE
Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
Order of Operations Interactive Math Notebook Freebie
Looking for a way to help your students remember AND organize order of operations? The hopscotch teaches the order, and the pizza slices show them how to organize their work. The pepperoni is the answer! Download for free now!
Looking for all of the Operations & Algebraic Thinking Standards? Find them {here}.
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5th - 8th
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CCSS:
Learning Skills and Work Habits Student Self-Assessment Checklist
►Students use this checklist weekly to self-assess themselves in the areas which are identified on the Ontario Report Card for elementary students.
►Each of the criteria for Learning Skills and Work Habits have been broken down into kid friendly language.
►After students self-assess they look back over the checklist and identify three areas for improvement.
►On page 3 to set goals for improvement and describe a brief plan of action for each area. (I also ask the students to COPY these go
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4th - 8th
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FREE Logic Puzzle, Doodle Logic, Critical Thinking
Everyone loves a good puzzle. THIS is what you have been looking for! YOUR students are the stars of this fun, personalized logic puzzle! Easy, NO PREP fun, and every single puzzle is personalized by the students themselves! Students are less intimidated by critical thinking, when they are the stars of the puzzle!Introducing “Doodle Logic”! This is one of the first in my new line of logic puzzles in which students choose their friends they want to be in the puzzle. Dream Pet is a sill
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5th - 8th
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FREE Close Reading Bookmarks - Annotating Text & Post-it Note Strategy
Print these bookmarks for your students and they will never forget how to close read! I print mine double-sided and students use one side for when we can write on the text and the other (post-it) side for when we're close reading something we can't write on!*****************************************************************************CCSS Aligned Interactive Reading NotebooksI use interactive notebooks in my classroom on a daily basis. I've created my own interactive notebook pages that are align
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4th - 12th
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FREEBIE: 180 Middle School Math Warm-Ups: No-Prep Daily Bellringers & Starters
First five minutes? Planned! With this set of daily bellringers, you'll engage your students and get them thinking!Made for 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grade math, these interesting and challenging starters will have your students ready for your lesson.With a pre-made student response sheet, this resource is truly print-and-go, no-prep for the whole school year.Help your students make connections by using this resource at the beginning of class each day!Want all 180 No-Prep 5-Minute Math Warm-Ups? Cli
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5th - 8th
Logic Puzzles FREE logic puzzle sampler
Logic Puzzles FREE logic puzzle sampler is a ready to use logic problem for your class. Great for math centers, time fillers or bell ringers.MUST have logic puzzles sets include:☆ Summer Logic Puzzles☆ Seasonal Logic Puzzle Bundle☆ Fall Logic Puzzles☆ Winter Logic Puzzles ☆ Logic Puzzles for All Year Long BIG Bundle☆ Winter Logic Puzzles ☆ Spring Logic Puzzles☆ April Logic PuzzlesThis purchase is for one teacher only. If you want to share, please share the link so that your colleagues can downl
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6th - 8th
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Halloween Math Freebie Order of Operations Interactive Notebook
October Freebie! Looking for a way to help your students remember AND organize order of operations? The spooky spider hopscotch teaches the order, and the candy corn pieces show them how to organize their work. Download for free now!
*Choose between with exponents or without- both options are included!
Looking for all of the Operations & Algebraic Thinking Standards? Find them {here}.
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Download the bundle of ALL
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5th - 8th
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Standards Based 6-Traits Writing Elements (revising/editing)
NEWLY UPDATED!!
An Interactive student Guide to build self-efficacy in 6-Trait Text Revising and Editing. Ready to use for lessons with printables for Students. The guides includes a process with steps that will guide students through each of the 6 traits of writing (i.e., ideas & content, sentence fluency, word choice, organization, voice, conventions) for 6-8th grade.
The new updated version includes both color and black and white pages, a fun design, and all the same helpful content!
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5th - 10th
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Bullying Scenarios and Depth and Complexity Activity Freebie
Teach your students that bullying is wrong! October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and this freebie will get your students ready to combat bullying!
This freebie includes eight bullying scenario cards in both color and black and white. Students will have the chance to explain what they would do if they were involved in particular situations. Take it a step further, and have students role play each scenario, so they're prepared should they encounter a similar situation. Also included
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2nd - 8th
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Weekly Reading Log with Depth and Complexity Icons Bundle
Help your readers stay on track with this weekly reading log. We use this as homework but it could easily be used in the classroom as well.Students track their daily reading, including title, time spent reading, and pages read. On the back, there is space for a text response. At the end of the week, readers add up their pages and time spent reading. A space for a parent signature is the final piece.The icons of depth and complexity (often called GATE Icons) are added so that students may thi
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3rd - 8th
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Depth and Complexity Icons Guide (Thinking Prompts/GATE)
How to Use! Use these icons as thinking prompts to guide a topic.Great for use in all subject areas. Examples: Read Aloud Storiesinformative textsanthologiesfictionnon-fictionScienceSocial StudiesProjects
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2nd - 8th
100 Pieces STEM Station Challenge - 100 Days of School STEM Activities FREE
100 Pieces STEM Stations work great for 100 Days of School or any time of year! Stem Station activities use a variety of items that you already have on hand. Includes a 100% TEXT Editable Google Slides presentation to introduce students to the activity and rules. Simply edit the presentation to indicate the materials students will use, the station rules, and time allowed per station. Also includes EDITABLE STEM Stations Recording sheets. Versatile for so MANY GRADE LEVELS because you can change
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K - 8th
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Thirty Days Hath September. . .
Phrases, titles, product names, and exaggerations constructed with numbers--we quote them, hear them, see them, but seldom stop to think how useful they are. In this brain teaser, they are the stars.
Treat your students to a view of our language from a different angle with this two-part download, 40 items each. Also included are full answer keys and a list of 50 additional number phrases that creative teachers and students may use as resources for another activity.
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5th - 8th
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Cereal Box Book Report - Project Based Learning
This is a fun way for students to show their understanding of either a book you've read together as a class or a book they've read on their own. This resource includes printable pieces that students can fill out, cut, and glue directly to a used cereal box. There is structure, but also the opportunity for creativity. The following template pieces are included in this resource:-Front of box: Students create a cereal name and look for the cereal-Back of box: Students create a game/activity that re
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2nd - 8th
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Public Speaking Template, Tips, and Tricks for the 1-2 Minute Informative Speech
The common core wants effective speakers and 21st Century Learners!
Here is a template for the one to two minute informative speech in handy notecard-sized cutouts.
This document includes public speaking tips and tricks for all ages and ability levels.
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3rd - 12th
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Bell Ringers and Brain Teasers for Young Scholars Free Sample Activities
Challenge your students (and adult friends) to make the connections with these two activities from Brain Teasers for Young Scholars. Keys, fortunately, are included! Download and enjoy.
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4th - 9th
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Error Analysis - Add, Subtract, Multiply, and Divide Fractions
In this error analysis, students are given a problem that is already solved in the left column. Students must review each problem, describe all errors (not just the first error), and correctly solve the problem.
This activity is great for students who need practice identifying and correcting errors. This practice also helps students during assessments by allowing them to check already solved work and not assume it is correct, which is sometimes what happens when students are asked to check th
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4th - 8th
February Idioms from the Heart
February Idioms from the Heart is a combination history and figurative language lesson.
Each of the forty original sentences, organized as two separate activities of twenty items each, are constructed around an idiom with the word heart in it. Students are challenged to interpret the hidden meaning in each one. The preliminary Student Page briefly explains the history behind our language's large collection of idiomatic expressions that erroneously attribute human emotions and person
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5th - 8th
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Table Texting
"Table Texting" is a fun, interactive strategy you can use with any piece of text or topic. The key is to pose a higher-level question that encourages thinking among students. Students respond to the question in writing. The teacher or facilitator collects the papers and redistributes them. Students get to read other responses and reply. The process continues until all of the speech bubbles are completed. At the end, students get to read their classmates' responses. I have used this with success
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3rd - 12th
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Menu of Independent Reading Projects FREE Enrichment and GATE
Just say YES to the five C’s for gifted learners with CHALLENGES, CHOICES, COMPLEXITY, CONTROL over what and how they learn, and teachers who authentically CARE. Energize all readers with this project choice menu – FREE! Come back for over 200 lessons and units specifically designed for gifted learners.
Grades:
3rd - 10th
Draw Starts (10 Sets) for Creative Thinking
Draw starts are great creative thinking warm-ups. Students add to the drawing to create something unique. Have students think of things that no none else will think of. Let your students get creative with their drawings.
There are 10 sets of 4. They work great as morning work.
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K - 12th
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Contrived Math--Tricked-Out Word Problems with Ordinary Numbers
This download is for those students and their teachers who enjoy solving somewhat twisted, definitely unusual (aka "tricked out") word math problems. An equal combination of language arts and basic math skills, Contrived Math challenges participants to collect common data, such as the number of days in a year, shuffle it around according to instructions, and come up with a targeted answer.
The activity is divided into two parts of twenty problems each. Full answer keys are included. Eigh
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5th - 9th
Logic Puzzle for Developing Critical Thinking Skills
This brain teaser engages students by asking them to use math skills such as greater than & less than plus logic to determine the number and type of medals six different countries earned. Great for warm-ups, early finishers, brain breaks, transitions, or even sub plans.The challenge is in the logic of the puzzle here, so it could be used with middle schoolers and still be engaging for high school freshmen. My students LOVE these puzzles and are always asking me to make more :)Included with
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6th - 8th
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