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Free middle school english language arts 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:Ā Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
Western Expansion Logic Puzzle FREEBIE!! Chuckwagon Chili Challenge
Looking to engage your students with some fun deductive logic and critical thinking challenges?Explore the Wild West and Chuckwagon Cooking with this Westward Expansion-themed logic puzzle from GATER Educator.This logic puzzle is designed to challenge upper elementary students and is perfect for Literacy Center seat work, homework, early finishers or sub plans.Looking for specific GIFTED and TALENTED ACTIVITIES? Click the link belowGifted and Talented Activities for the ClassroomDo your students
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4th - 6th
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Alliteration | Tongue Twister Free ESCAPE ROOM - Fun Close Reading Activity
Get your students laughing and using critical thinking to complete puzzle challenges with this FREE Escape Room activity! This resource includes 45 minutes of activities such as Vocabulary Word Match, Deductive Logic Puzzle, Scour the Scene & Decipher Clues. Perfect for grades 4-6 reading comprehension and close reading skills.All tasks in this challenge are related to TONGUE TWISTERS and require students to use several reading comprehension skills.(Check out the PREVIEWS, older or slightly
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4th - 7th
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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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End of the Year STEM Activities Challenge Design a Pencil Tower
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The Pencil Tower ENGINEERING EXPEDITION Design Challenge is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. This FREE GIFT will seamlessly allow you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passage IN ADDITION to the fun STEM activity! Soar to new heights when you put your thinking cap o
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Ā STEM Activities Projects Bundle with April Spring and Easter STEM Challenges
All About Me Unit - Common Core Aligned NO PREP Third Fourth Fifth Grade
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
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NGSS:
4-LS1-1
, 3-LS3-1
, 5-PS1-1
, 3-LS1-1
Also included in:Ā Gifted and Talented Curriculum BUNDLE - Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade
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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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
Grades:
2nd - 8th
5th Grade Division Review Game J.K. Rowling Harry Potter Activities
Practice division with remainders while learning facts about J.K. Rowling in this fun math game, similar to 20 questions! After completing worksheets, students practice their writing skills with an informational paragraph on their subject. Reinforce content from multiple disciplines in one activity. This activity is perfect for review, early finishers, whole class, differentiation, enrichment, and sub packets! Browse the Kitten Approved Curriculum Freebie Library for more freebies!!Buy all 28 ga
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5th - 6th
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Also included in:Ā Math Worksheets Mixed Review 5th Grade Bundle
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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Minecraft STEM Activities and Challenges Freebie
Hereās a creative and fun STEM Activity FREEBIE to share and show just how exciting STEM Challenges can be in a Competitive Classroom Setting! These Outta the Box Classroom Competition Challenges can be done on a Fun Friday or within the week during your science block. This hands on building challenge is part of GATER Educator's "Outta the Box Classroom Competitions". The theme of the full OTB Classroom Competion is āMINECRAFT: Survival Modeā. For this activity students will read tidbits of info
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4th - 7th
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Also included in:Ā MINECRAFT Activities Bundle
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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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.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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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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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
Grades:
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
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Menu of Independent Reading Projects FREE Enrichment and GATE
Just say YES to the five Cās 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 ā FREE! Come back for over 200 lessons and units specifically designed for gifted learners.
Grades:
3rd - 10th
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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Grades:
5th - 9th
Growth Mindset Free Student Survey
This free student survey is a great way to help students identify growth mindset! I use this along with the Growth Mindset Project-Based Learning the first weeks of school to create a mindset change in our school. This is great in conjunction with character education!
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4th - 6th
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Back-to-School Brain Teaser/Vocabulary Builder
This back-to-school brain teaser doubles as a vocabulary builder. Students are challenged to use definitions and clues to identify words that contain the sound ooh, such as school rule, cool, and classroom. Answers to the first set of forty items are relatively common words, The more difficult second set requires the identification of less familiar words, such as boudoir, fondue, and elusive. A companion graphic organizer for writing presents an opportunity for each student to create (on paper
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Writing a Compare and Contrast Essay Student Packet
This is a packet designed to guide your students through the step by step process of writing a compare and contrast essay. It includes a sample essay. It also includes tasks to complete associated with the sample essay. These tasks help the students become aware of the phrases and structures associated with compare and contrast essays. The packet takes the students through all the steps in writing an essay. First, they choose a topic and organize their thoughts around it. Then, they learn how to
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Back-to-School Sense of Humor Test
Welcome your students with this Back-to-School Sense of Humor Test.
Students are challenged to spot the correct endings to the beginnings of humorous statements uttered by real people, including Yogi Berra, various politicians, George Burns, Dolly Parton, and Groucho Marx to name a few. The two "tests" of 35 items each offer opportunities for youngsters to polish their internet research skills.
The companion graphic organizer for writing, entitled "I Couldn't Stop Laughing!" requires stude
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4th - 8th
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Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" Student Workbook Short Story Mini-Unit
Teaching Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" can be a really exciting time in a high school classroom with the potential for powerful discussions and a new distaste for the idea of conformity. Student favorite! This short story student workbook makes your life and the lives of your students easier. Students love having their own little workbook and teachers have zero prep to do!This short story student workbook includes:-Author bio and quiz-Pre-reading discussion guide-Vocabulary organizer with
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Importance of learning English language arts
English language arts (ELA) concepts ā reading, writing, listening, and speaking ā empower students to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. They are the foundation for all other types of learning as students must rely on ELA skills to master content from other subject areas and communicate what theyāve learned.
Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for studentās success in school and beyond.
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