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Common Core RL.3.7 resources for Gifted and Talented under $5
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
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
Grades:
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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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
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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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Grades:
PreK - 3rd
NGSS:
K-LS1-1
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
Grades:
K - 4th
Socratic Seminar 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Printable & Digital Templates for ANY TEXT
Run a Socratic Seminar for any text in your 3rd-6th grade classroom with this comprehensive printable and digital resource complete with everything you need to ignite higher-level thinking, critical thinking, and depth & complexity. This is an excellent activity to extend ELA (reading & speaking) skills! Student workbook, project templates, teaching slides, and much more are included. Students will make deeper connections to any text or topic through collaborative conversation and though
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3rd - 8th
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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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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
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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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: 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: The One and Only Ivan Novel Study Activities
Primary GATE with Caldecott -- The House in the Night
The House in the Night gives us a wonderful opportunity to challenge primary level gifted learners—in language and poetry, critical and metaphorical thinking, visually, and artistically.
In this lesson, students will:
a.) discover the pattern of the poem and discuss critical thinking questions about the book,
b.) think critically about symbols, metaphors and language using a graphic organizer and class discussion,
c.) construct a personalized cumulative pattern poem,
d.) And thoughtfully i
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Set III Literature Extension Critical Thinking GATE
STORY SLEUTHS III provides 4 more weeks of critical thinking fun in a 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
Grades:
K - 4th
The Lie-O-Meter - A WHOLE CLASS ENRICHMENT ABOUT LYING +Literacy, STEM, Math
Having trouble with lying in the classroom or on the playground?
Social-emotional lessons, inferences, theme, characterization, STEM, fractions and geometry … all here!
Try this engaging social-emotional whole-class enrichment lesson. It’s not just about lying. The lessons are filled with standards including math and literature standards for 2nd and 3rd grades as well as a little STEM construction project.
All you will need to get started is this lesson are common school materials and th
Grades:
1st - 4th
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The One and Only Ivan Novel Study Activities for PROMETHEAN Board Use
Start a study of the novel The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate with this complete and colorful flipchart from Gifted and Talented Materials by Joyce Lansky. First, students are introduced to the novel by answering questions about the cover, learning about the author, the Newbery award, and other questions concerning the book. After students use a venn diagram to compare and contrast themselves to a gorilla, they will compete in a seven word dictionary race to introduce some of the vocab
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in: The One and Only Ivan Novel Study PROMETHEAN BOARD
Berenstain Bears Dollars and Sense Promethean Board
Teach students how to talk about characters, events, and pictures in a story through this literary guide from Berenstain Bears: Dollars and Sense. As the Berenstain Bears book is read, this flipchart guides students in how to determine meanings from words and pictures. Teacher may model the possible meanings from stories and/or allow students to determine these from prompting questions. Students will also be engaged as they are asked to show their visible thinking and explain the reasoning for t
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K - 2nd
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Berenstain Bears Dollars and Sense Literary Unit
Students will also be engaged as they are asked to show their visible thinking and explain the reasoning for their thoughts. The chart discusses Papa Bears idioms and gives an opportunity for some creative thought. Students will close the lesson with an exit ticket to explain their thinking. **Please follow me for notifications of sales and promotions. New products will be offered at 50% OFF for 24 hours. It pays to follow Catch My Products Click Here To Follow Me**Related Products ⭐ Berenstain
Grades:
K - 2nd
3rd Grade Common Core Choice Menu Homework and Enrichment for ENTIRE year
This product was created as use for homework, but can be edited for use in the classroom.
This product contains homework for the ENTIRE year or 9 different choice menu's to use as you wish.
This is a Choice Menu based on Bloom's Taxonomy and is aligned with the Common Core State Standards.
There are 24 choices in all on each homework and can be completed over a month as reading homework for each night.
I have my students cut it out and glue it into their homework journals. They read for 2
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2nd - 5th
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The One and Only Ivan Character Traits & Setting for Promethean Board Use
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.Inside you'll find:I can statementListing of Core StandardsQuestions about Character3-2-1 Bridge ActivityRepetition of ObjectiveInference QuestionsGroup ActivityStudents Find Textual EvidenceQuestions about SettingVenn DiagramPamphlet ActivityIMPORTANT: Please make
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Also included in: The One and Only Ivan Novel Study PROMETHEAN BOARD
Book Jacket: Post Reading Activity
This Book Jacket project is an ENGAGING alternative to the traditional book report! Students are given the opportunity to express themselves creatively while still displaying their understanding of critical skills and standards. You will find in this file …•A two-page description of the project that can be sent home •A grading rubric that breaks down each component into points totaling 100 •A planning packet for students to complete prior to writing on poster board. This allows students to gathe
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3rd - 6th
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