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Common Core RL.3.7 resources for Gifted and Talented
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3rd Grade ELA Marzano Proficiency Scale Posters for Differentiation - EDITABLE
Learning Goals and Scales are the ultimate Standards Based Grading tool! They don't just motivate a Growth Mindset, they define how students can demonstrate mastery. Every learning standard is broken down into 4 levels of Differentiation. These Posters lead students up a progressive learning path that mirrors the way they develop concepts. Aligned to Bloom’s or Marzano’s Taxonomy of cognitive skills. From easiest-hardest: (Recall/Retrieval, Comprehension, Analysis/Application, and Knowledge Util
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3rd
3rd Grade Reading Projects, Weekly Enrichment All Year, PDF and Digital!
3rd Grade Reading Enrichment Research Projects for the Entire Year! Thirty-two weekly non-fiction reading enrichment projects in which students research topics and then answer the follow-up questions. The questions, not only check for comprehension of the topic researched, but review common reading text structures such as author's purpose, problem and solution, main idea, character traits, cause and effect, summary, theme and more. Aligned to most 3rd grade reading curriculum including STAAR/CCS
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3rd
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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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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CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Story Sleuths I Literature Extention Critical Thinking
STORY SLEUTHS I is a 4 week, 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 also enjoy great literature, learn about artistic media, and participate in col
Grades:
K - 4th
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
Gifted Book Club or Novel Unit: Top Secret by John Gardiner
This book club or novel study unit on the book, Top Secret by John Reynolds Gardiner is suitable for highly able or gifted readers in grades K-2. The journal questions require thinking and responding at Bloom’s higher levels (evaluation, synthesis and evaluation) The questions and activities focus on plot, character analysis, comprehension, sequencing, real vs. make-believe. The reading level of the text is about 4.5 grade level but the activities have been designed for the very young student.
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K - 3rd
Frindle Novel Study
Are you looking for a way to teach Frindle to your students? If so, here is a complete literary unit to go with the novel! Engage and challenge your students with this standards-based literary unit for this novel by Andrew Clements. The PowerPoint will guide teachers through strong instruction for bright or intellectually gifted students. This colorful unit is packed with 132 pages. Inside you'll find: "I can" StatementListed StandardsIntroduction to NovelVocabulary ActivitiesCharacter Developme
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Frindle Novel Study and Activities
Engage and challenge your students with this Frindle novel study and activity pack filled with standards based fun! This bundle contains a PowerPoint and no prep worksheet activities for your students which will not only teach reading and vocabulary work but will also further develop critical thinking skills and creativity. These classroom ready Frindle activities are a win for you and your students!By purchasing this bundle, you are saving 20% off the price of individual resources.Great discus
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3rd - 5th
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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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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Bonding with Friends: H2O (STEM Rhyming Story + Activity Book w/ Answers, NGSS)
A rhyming STEM story and activity book about the water molecule. This has the science story explaining chemistry, is a coloring book with activity pages including an answer key all in one! A perfect STEM or STEAM activity for kids! This covers science, reading comprehension, art, and poetry all in one lesson that will keep students entertained while learning whether they are physically at school or doing distance learning. Meets NGSS and CCSS standards. Kids will enjoy "Bonding with Friends: H2O
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PreK - 3rd
NGSS:
K-LS1-1
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
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2nd - 4th
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
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1st - 5th
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
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K - 4th
Book Floats! An Exciting Twist to Book Reports- Common Core Aligned Grades 1-4
Students, after reading their own book or a class chapter book, they don’t have to do a boring book report ; instead, they begin to create a book float. The motivation in your class will be sky high!
Students can also dress up as their favorite character in the book, create a scene on their float and much more…This is a lifelong tool, you can use it with different grade levels 1-4, gifted and team classes. You can use it as a class or as an individual project. Your students will enjoy it!
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Martha Speaks - Classic Picture Books for Primary GATE
In this bundle of lessons for Jane Meddaugh’s classic, students will actually have Martha speaking with their paper bag puppets. Like all the Primary GATE literacy units at Portable Gifted and Talented, this is fun, hands-on, participatory, and full of critical thinking challenges for your younger thinkers. Of course, you get the Common Core State Standards references, too. We’re not just barking into the wind here!
Critical Thinking Questions: more than you’ll ever need with a focus on exp
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1st - 3rd
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Bonding with Friends: H2O & Helium (Two Rhyming STEM Nonfiction Stories, NGSS)
A perfect STEM book for kids in the classroom or at home! This covers reading, science, and poetry in one lesson that will keep students entertained while learning whether they are physically at school or remotely. This rhyming picture book has two stories in one! "Bonding with Friends: H2O & Helium" has a story about the water molecule and another story about helium. NGSS and Common Core standards identified. Virtual author reading with activity available too, visit www.STEMistryBooks.com.T
3rd Grade ELA Leveled Reading Assessment 3RL1 Differentiation Proficiency Scale
If your school requires Proficiency Scales, Standards Based Grading, or evaluates based on Marzano Framework, this product will save you weeks of work! These pages present Learning Goals and Scales with concrete problems to prove mastery at every level. These Leveled Assessments create a clear goal for you and your students. They perfectly support a growth mindset model, and make differentiation planning easy! Download the FREE PREVIEW to try for yourself! Help students by allowing them to REV
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3rd
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November/December Extension Choice Menu
November/December Extension Menu—Extension menus provide opportunities to extend learning. They are a great extension for when students are finished with their regular class work by providing engaging activities that support learning. Extension menus have proved highly successful with Gifted Students. The Extension Menu guides students in their learning while providing students with choice and the chance to explore various learning styles. This menu includes two activities for each of the fol
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3rd - 5th
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Frindle Novel Study on PROMETHEAN Board
Are you looking for a way to teach Frindle to your students? If so, here is a complete literary unit in ActivInspire Sofware to go with the novel! Engage and challenge your students with this standards based literary unit for this novel by Andrew Clements. The Promethean Board flipchart will guide teachers through strong instruction for bright or intellectually gifted students. This colorful unit is packed with 132 pages. Inside you'll find: "I can" StatementListed StandardsIntroduction to Novel
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in:Â Frindle Novel Study Bundle for Promethean Board Software
The One and Only Ivan Novel Study
Save time with this book study of the novel, The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. It was a success in my classroom and could be in yours, too, if you take the first step to downloading this colorful PowerPoint that is great for distance learning or in-class instruction. This lesson will engage students, spark creativity, and get them ready for reading this wonderful novel.Click HERE to save about 30% off the price of individual resources with a bundle.Inside this ready to use resource,
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in:Â The One and Only Ivan Novel Study Activities
The One and Only Ivan Character Traits and Setting
Are you looking for standards based lessons to accompany your study of The One and Only Ivan? This lesson explores the characters and setting from Katherine Applegate's novel. Plus, lesson includes a fun activity for the final project.Click HERE to save about 30% of the price of individual resources with the bundle.Inside you'll find:I can statementListing of Core StandardsQuestions about Character3-2-1 Bridge ActivityRepetition of ObjectiveInference QuestionsGroup ActivityStudents Find Textual
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in:Â The One and Only Ivan Novel Study Activities
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