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Common Core RL.6.2 activities for Gifted and Talented
More Than A Scribble: A Creative Drawing Activity for Gifted & Talented Students
This activity promotes creative thinking as students transform scribble lines into ART! There are four pages of scribbles (24 total). In addition, there are ideas for extension activities in Reading, Science, and Social Studies!This is a great task for centers or early finishers!
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PreK - 6th
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"Theme Park" Book Report For Any Novel, Step-by-step Directions!
No-prep, Book Report to Celebrate Any Novel! After reading any novel, your students will create a theme park based on their novel's overall theme using the guidelines included with this resource.With this project, your students will take an in-depth look at the theme and main ideas of their novel to create their exciting theme park. The students will be responsible for turning in their ride descriptors, planning sheets and complete "Theme Park Guide" to handout to their visitors as they enter
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4th - 6th
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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
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3rd - 6th
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
Book Reports - Novel Series Study - RAFT
Novel Series RAFT is a book report option designed to creatively assess novel series, pushing students beyond simple recall to synthesis, evaluation and application levels of understanding. Here’s what teachers are saying-♥ I love this for independent reading. The teacher notes are great and I like the selections the students have.♥ There are some fun ideas in this product.RAFT is an acronym for Role Audience Format Topic. Students choose a role they want to assume and, based on that role, are
Grades:
4th - 8th
Stay A Novel Study By Bobbie Pyron
This novel study of Stay by Bonnie Pyron 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 following:10 Comprehension questionsVoc
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Final Reading Project - Novel Collage (3 options available!)
So you just finished a novel, and while students may have taken a test, you're looking for something a little more fun and creative to help wrap up the unit. Sound familiar?
This project is PERFECT for giving students a chance to dive deeper into novels.
What I love about this is that there are three options included - Visual Option, Tactile Option, and Auditory Option - so differentiation is built in!
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3rd - 6th
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Reading Journal for Digital Learning for Spring and Summer
This reading journal is perfect for encouraging reflection during and after reading! The best part... it's digital and perfect for distance learning throughout the Spring semester. *The pre-view shows the types of page included but may not show the specific monthly color for this half-year journal. A digital reading journal can be a fun and easy way to support or enrich readers in the traditional classroom or digital classroom. This reading journal makes reading differentiation easy and digita
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4th - 6th
The Mystwick School of Musicraft Novel Study
This novel study of The Mystwick School of Musicraft by Jessica Khoury 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 following
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Poetry Break! - No Prep Poetry Mini-Unit - Distance Learning - Google and PDF
Great for distance learning! This resource has been fully updated in 2021 to include Google Slides versions of all the student sheets!Celebrate Valentine's Day with poetry! This Poetry Break! features three poems - two by Christina Rossetti and one by Robert Frost. All deal with the theme of love in an approachable way that is totally appropriate for 3rd - 6th graders. Each poem has suggestions for teaching and analysis, helping you put together a lesson on the fly - just print and teach or
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3rd - 6th
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Black Brother, Black Brother Novel Study
This novel study of Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewel Parker Rhodes 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 followin
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Independent Reading Book Projects
Encourage your students to read and interact with their own choice novels! These book projects surpass regular book reports. They allow students to creatively think and engage with their independent reading books to create, beautiful quality products. With this product, you will receive 15 creative, diverse book project ideas AND a complete rubric to help you grade the students' completed work!
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5th - 8th
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Dynamic Discussions build Reading Comprehension using Collaboration strategies
I originally designed Dynamic Discussion in 2004 as a tool to support my fourth and fifth grade students to utilize while using the newspaper as their daily shared text. Today it supports Common Core instruction.Dynamic Discussions provide a collaborative forum using “accountable talk” or academic discourse using open ended-questions to dig deeper and to gain greater understanding after reading text. Increase student engagement, build confidence and empower students to take their learning to th
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Not Grade Specific
Readers Theatre: St. Patrick's Day Play: Molly Malone
Just in time for St Patrick's day, here is a charming Readers' Theatre adaptation of the Irish folk song, Molly Malone. You can treat it as Readers' Theatre or you can even stage a performance of it. A fantastic way to celebrate the St Patrick's Day holiday while strengthening reading fluency and comprehension.
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4th - 7th
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Shakespeare "Much Ado About Nothing" Choice Board/Tic-Tac-Toe Board
This is a wonderful final activity for students studying William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. It offers nine different activities divided into three categories: Writing, Artistic, and Research. You may have students do one activity, one activity from each section, a tic tac toe, all of one row, or even all of them.
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6th - 12th
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A Graduation Celebration!
Looking for something to do with your students at the end of the school year? This graduation themed lesson plan by Myster-E Edutainment will engage and inspire students to reflect and respond to the school year they have just completed. This creatively comprehensive curriculum includes:1. Kick off questions to launch a class discussion (can also be used as do now questions)2. "Graduated" by Myster-E (Official Music Video Link and complete literary lyrics)3. Top 5 most inspiring commencement spe
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Not Grade Specific
Author Study Adventure!
Your students (& administrators ;) will love these Author Study Project components! Even your most reluctant students won’t be able to resist the allure of choice when it comes to showing off what they discovered. There are two Author Study Project Products – a Choice Board with a rubric and a Choice Menu designed with the gifted student in mind. The Choice Menu is also great for allowing students to engage with their own personal learning style. The Author Study Goals, Discussion Points, &a
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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