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Common Core RI.7.1 resources for Gifted and Talented
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Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox: Printables for Nearly Every Standard
The Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox contains 77 learning activities aligned to the CCSS for grades 6-8. It includes printables that can be used multiple times throughout the year to address nearly all of the standards in reading literature and informational texts, and many of the speaking and listening, writing, and language standards. It also has two pages of writing prompts and warm-ups. The Standards Guide at the end details the CCSS that correspond to each printable.
Three grade level
Grades:
6th - 8th
Gifted and Talented Escape Room | Color by Code | Reading Comprehension BUNDLE
Get your GIFTED and TALENTED students engaged with this awesome BUNDLE of easy-prep reading comprehension activities.Featuring escape rooms, color-by-code activities, close readings, and more! Perfect for gifted and talented learners seeking to learn more about social-emotional learning. Save 30% off each individual resource when you purchase the bundle today!Close Reading ESCAPE ROOM CHALLENGES include:Informational Text- 2 Pages in Each ResourceBreakout Task 1- Plot an Escape: Vocabulary Word
Grades:
4th - 8th
Growth Mindset Activities | GRIT | Perseverance
Looking for ways to cultivate a get-it-done, don't back down, tough as nails, attitude in an interesting and engaging way?This PRINTABLE and Easy PREP resource combines a gritty paper challenge, personality quizzes, gritty tips, and a fun craftivity together as a perfect way to teach a GROWTH Mindset or SELF-Care to your students.If you would like a DIGITAL and PRINTABLE Version of this resource click the link below:Got GRIT? Digital and Printable BUNDLEThe growth mindset activities in this unit
Grades:
5th - 7th
Informational Text Bundle Seasonal and Holidays
Informational Text Bundle is a collection of 12 products from my store with a total of 32 no-prep lessons.
Title List:
Informational Text for September
Informational Text for September National Punctuation Day and Coffee
Informational Text for October
Informational Text for October--A Hollywood Monster and Strange Weather
Informational Text for November
Informational Text for November--Pumpkins and a Thanksgiving Parade
Informational Text for Thanksgiving
Informational Text--5 Things You Did
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Middle School Article of the Week *CCSS Aligned *Uses all 10 standards
This Article of the Week is designed to be done each week with a different article. At first, it will take the students longer, and the first article or so should be done as a class and scaffolded. But students get faster and faster as they master all the Reading Informational Text standards again and again in different contexts / with different articles.
*CCSS Aligned
*Uses all 10 Reading Informational Text Standards
*Works with any article
*Can be used multiple times
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 37-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing ELA-themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill as
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Gifted and Talented Escape Room Activity | Close Reading | Reading Comprehension
Explore the world of giftedness with this interactive escape room activity from GATER Educator! Perfect for a gifted program, reading test prep, or beginning-of-the-year review. Students will use reading comprehension skills to solve puzzles that reveal a final code for breakout. Get your students engaged in close reading practice today!Close Reading CHALLENGES include:Informational Text- The Keys to Thriving as a Gifted Kid: Top 10 Tips from ExpertsBreakout Task 1- Plot an Escape: Vocabulary Wo
Grades:
4th - 8th
"I Must Betray You" by Ruta Sepetys: Resource Set
Getting ready to read I Must Betray You? You need this set! It includes a set of lecture notes to cover background knowledge on the USSR (slightly silly at times and overgeneralized), an anticipation guide to spark discussion before reading, discussion questions, and research questions for presentations on related topics. It also includes a teacher guide with some content warnings for you to be prepared for what's coming. This set will help you dig deeper into this thrilling, jaw-dropping novel
Grades:
7th - 9th
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Gifted and Talented Color by Code Activity | Close Reading Comprehension | SEL
Are you looking to support the social and emotional well-being of your gifted learners?Check out this engaging informational text about giftedness, perspective and getting along well with others!Unlock the secrets of EMPATHY & PERSPECTIVE with this fun, colorful activity that combines close reading and comprehension skills. Perfect for gifted learners' enrichment, homework, centers, or any gifted program!Students will read a non-fiction passage, answer questions, mark evidence from the text,
Grades:
4th - 8th
Greek Mythology Living Art Exhibit Activity - Great Paired with The Odyssey!
Teaching The Odyssey? Dabbling in Greek mythology? Engage your students in a week-long, skill-building activity they will remember for years! "The day we got to dress up like Greek statues was my favorite." "I really like how we got to research Medusa. I learned much more about mythology than just reading about it in a book." "I had another teacher at my last school teach us about Greek mythology. All he did was show a long documentary that put everyone to sleep. This is actually something that
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Gifted & Talented Escape Room - Close Reading | Finding Balance Life Skills
Get your gifted and talented students engaged in close reading and reading comprehension with the Gifted & Talented Escape Room. This easy set-up, low-prep activity will support social-emotional learning while exploring what it means to lead a balanced life.Close Reading CHALLENGES include:Informational Text- Cracking the Code: Detect a Solution: How Gifted Learners Can Achieve BalanceBreakout Task 1- Plot an Escape: Vocabulary Word MatchBreakout Task 2- Gather Resources: Identify True or Fa
Grades:
4th - 8th
Shakespeare and the Globe Theater, Hands-On Student Activity! GOOGLE SLIDES
Wondering how to cultivate a love for all things William Shakespeare with your upper grade students and get them psyched for reading Shakespeare? Need an extension activity that allows creativity and maintains student engagement? Your answer is here and completely ready to go! Your students will research, design an infographic and build Shakespeare's beloved GLOBE THEATER! This almost entirely editable Google Slides resource guides students through the beginning stages of research and culminates
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Gifted and Talented Color by Code Activity | Close Reading Comprehension
Are you looking to support the social and emotional well-being of your gifted learners? Check out this engaging informational text about giftedness and time management!Unlock the secrets of time management with this fun, colorful activity that combines close reading and comprehension skills. Perfect for gifted learners' enrichment or any gifted program! Students will read a non-fiction passage, answer questions, mark evidence from the text, color the picture according to their answers, and compl
Grades:
4th - 8th
Politics_Speaker of the House McCarthy Removed_Current Events News Reading_2023
The resolution posed from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R, FL-1) garnered a 216-210 vote, and forced McCarthy to vacate the leadership role.Current events news lesson plans for middle and high school students in grades 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Reading comprehension practice and literacy strategies for standardized testing preparation. Great for enrichment of gifted learners, substitute teachers, and differentiated instruction. Features:· 2 difficulty levels for differentiation· target vocabulary with visual a
Grades:
6th - 12th
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7th Grade ELA Bilingual Leveled Proficiency Scale Posters - Differentiation
Fill your bilingual word wall with learning objectives! Whether you teach ELL, ESL, Spanish Immersion, or just want to communicate better with your Spanish-Speaking students; these bilingual posters will give you the exact language you need to keep your students engaged in content while they master English. These poster pages present Learning Goals and Scales aligned to a growth mindset and the Common Core Math standards, as well as Florida and most states. Inspired by Marzano's research in “The
Grades:
7th
Business_Starbucks Increases Wages for Non-Union Workers_Current Event News_2023
Current events news lesson plans articles for students in grades 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Starbucks is increasing pay and benefits for most of its U.S. hourly workers after ending its fiscal year with record sales. But the company said Monday that unionized workers won't be eligible for some of those perks, a sign of the continuing tension between Starbucks and unionized workers.Reading passages cover contemporary issues. Great for current events journaling, reading comprehension practice, stand
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Gifted and Advanced ELA End of the Year Choice Projects
I really like to challenge my advanced students. However, they worked so hard preparing for the state test that I wanted to provide them with engaging activities and allow them to be in control of what they are learning, while having fun and learning about things that interest them. The majority of my class is made up of students who are gifted. I discovered that they have rather poor time management skills. They work linearly, and cannot meet multiple deadlines at the same time. This projec
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Who Owns the Zebra? (with manipulatives page and possible answer)
This is a highly challenging, well-known logic problem, said to have possibly been created by Albert Einstein or Lewis Carroll. This version comes with a manipulatives page to help students solve the problem. Students will engage in critical thinking and employ several mathematical practices to solve the problem.There is supposedly more than one answer, to check your answer reread through each statement in the problem to determine if it works in your solution. This printable can easily be made i
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Grades:
3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Chinese Dynasty Project: Stop Motion
If you love teaching history through project based learning, this activity is a hit! Whether it is for Chinese History, World History, or Geography (what I created it for), the best way for students to learn is through creating. Attached is project with grading criteria, an example video, and a note sheet to use during their time to "show" their stop-motions. You use your digression as to how they create the stop-motion as well as if you would like to further assess over their class notes with a
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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NFL Gameday Journalism - Lesson Plan Bundle
Throughout my eighteen-year teaching career, I’ve designed and implemented a program that motivates students to use nonfiction literacy strategies independently in an authentic way. Gameday Journalism is a fun transdisciplinary project that captivates your classroom audience while teaching Common Core standards in a unique way that will leave a lasting impression. Students will retain these skills and transfer them successfully to high achievement test scores!The program uses sports writing from
Grades:
3rd - 8th
6Cs Critical Thinking v2.8 (Folder 3 of 5) Distance Learning & Google Classroom™
This is folder 3 (of 5) for the Educircles.org 6Cs Critical Thinking unit. ⭐ SEP 26, 2021 Version 2.8 UPDATE: There are a lot of files in this product. It can be confusing.Look at the lesson plans for FREE here in FOLDER 5.WATCH this video. It explains how to get the files you need for each lesson.NEW! When you buy the main 6Cs CRITICAL THINKING UNIT product, you get a FILE TABLE of CONTENTS (PDF). It has one-click copy links to help you quickly find each file you need for a lesson.If you have a
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Question Cubes for Reading Informational Text based on Bloom's.
Differentiation Cubes for Informational Text:
These cubes are designed to make differentiation look the same, but serve the purpose of asking different questions based on the Bloom’s Taxonomy (thinking levels). The cubes that include Knowledge and Understanding also prompt students to think at the higher level as this is what is required through the Common Core. They would be excellent as a guide for small group or with help from reading volunteers or teachers. These would also work well at c
Grades:
3rd - 8th
World Rivers. Reader. PPTx presentation and lesson materials.
Part of our extensive reading, leveled readers series.A Level 3, CEFR B1 reader showing examples of a person introducing themselves and their life, family etc ...Comes with a link to a "moving" gif powerpoint version which provides context and engagement. Prompt students with the questions in the reader.Also, includes 2 activity worksheets to use for students to research and label the 10 longest rivers in the world. Students watch a video to learn more about the rivers. Answer key provided. Cont
Grades:
4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
"Cultural Faces" Project (Google Docs)
This project gets students communicating with their peers and off their screens for a hands-on creative project.Students will research how specific types of masks have been used across various cultures throughout history, collaborate with a peer to put together a presentation, and each create their own rendition of one of the types they researched. Great for use after units or stories that involve studies on cultural differences, analyzing the impact masks have made on our current society, and/
Grades:
6th - 8th
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