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Common Core RL.5.4 resources for Gifted and Talented under $5
"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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Reading Enrichment Project
Excite your accelerated students with this reading enrichment project. Students will extend their thinking about reading by creating a novel unit. Students that are ready for the challenge will create a unit that includes: *Essential or Guiding Questions *Pre-reading Activities *Vocabulary *Story Element Activities •Characters •Setting •Plot •Conflict - Problem/Solution •Theme •Mood •Point of View *Literal Comprehension Questions *I
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Enrichment Activities Bundle
Stories With Loopholes: Vocabulary Practice for Gifted & Talented Students
This activity promotes critical and divergent thinking as students dive deeper into homonyms/multiple meaning words.Students are given a story/riddle that has a multiple meaning word embedded into the text. They must use inferencing skills to draw a conclusion and solve the riddle.The riddles were adapted from Nathan Levy’s, “Story With Holes”. You can implement this engaging activity in a whole group setting or as an early finisher task.Answer key is included!
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2nd - 6th
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH STAX Independent Reading Supplement for GATE
These independent reading program cards are designed for use with the STAX Independent Reading Program for Advanced and GATE. This is not the full program but a supplemental starter STAX for use with the program.
You can purchase the full program separately at the Portable Gifted and Talented store on TPT.
The STAX Independent Reading Program allows your gifted and advanced readers to create tasks and respond to meaningful critical thinking challenges to any novel. The STAX program invites b
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3rd - 8th
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Differentiated Literary Elements Crossword Puzzles: 4th & 5th Grades - Set 1
Differentiated Literary Elements Crossword Puzzles: 4th & 5th Grades -- Set 1It's a breeze to differentiate for gifted learners with this set of crossword puzzles. There are two different kinds of puzzles included: one kind for on-level students and one kind for high-ability students. There are two variations of the on-level puzzle. Use the second one for review or re-teaching.The set comes with a key to all puzzles, as well as color and black and white versions.Both kinds of puzzles address
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4th - 5th
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Theme in Yellow by Carl Sandburg Poem Analysis Poetry Writing CCSS Exemplar Text
If your students don't like to write poetry, let's change their minds together! Using Carl Sandburg's "Theme in Yellow" as a mentor text, we'll analyze the poem and then use it to help students write their own poem. This poem is wonderful to analyze because of its rich imagery. To capitalize on that, we'll use images to enrich the experience.Although you can use this resource at any time, this poem is perfect for fall classroom discussion. If you're looking for something perfect for pumpkins and
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: Poetry Unit CCSS Exemplar Texts Upper Elementary Middle School BUNDLE
Book Club Elementary Grades Starter Set
Book Club is an ELA activity that combines reading and discussion of at level books in an organized manner. Reading groups are determined by the student’s current reading levels and no more than six students are placed in each reading group to allow full participation by each member of the group. Modifications and adaptations can be made to make Book Club work in any classroom setting. Book Club was created to be used in grades 3rd-5th classrooms and was developedwith the help of a Read
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3rd - 5th
A Bird Came Down the Walk Emily Dickinson Read Poetry Aloud Oral Reading
Reading poetry out loud can be easy if you know the tips and tricks! This lesson uses Emily Dickinson's poem "A Bird Came Down the Walk" to teach oral reading of poetry. It's an often overlooked standard, but no more! Your students will use these skills for years to come.You'll get a fabulous "How to Read a Poem Aloud" tip sheet that you'll come back to again and again.Students will use this along with a planning sheet for "A Bird Came Down the Walk" to prepare to read the poem aloud.Students wi
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: Poetry Unit CCSS Exemplar Texts Upper Elementary Middle School BUNDLE
STEAM STEM CATS, CATS, CATS Across the Curriculum for GATE
Shouldn’t your 21st Century classroom be just like today’s virtual world? In other words, shouldn’t it be full of cats?!
We’ve got reading cats. We’ve got writing cats. We’ve got poetry cats. We’ve got math cats. We’ve got science and engineering cats. We’ve got graphic design, art, critical thinking, and creativity cats. We’ve got all kinds of cats across the curriculum! There are 7 lessons in all here—representing 7 to 10 hours (maybe even more) of class time. They are appropriate fo
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3rd - 6th
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Poetry "The Echoing Green" William Blake Close Reading CCSS Text Exemplar
If you would like to lead a high-quality discussion of William Blake's "The Echoing Green," this resource is for you! It's quick but powerful, and addresses figurative language standards, as well as poetry analysis standards. Yea for short lessons that accomplish a ton!You'll get original illustrated versions of the poem, as well as an optional activity that invites students to analyze the poem through the lens of two paintings (one's a Monet!).William Blake's poem is fun to analyze because it s
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5th - 10th
Also included in: Poetry Unit CCSS Exemplar Texts Upper Elementary Middle School BUNDLE
A Wrinkle In Time - Novel Study, Skill Practice, and Gifted Enrichment
A novel study for the book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. This novel study is perfect if you are teaching a population that needs rigorous instruction with the novel, A Wrinkle In Time. Everything inside this resource was designed to be taught in a full-time gifted magnet school classroom. The novel study packet includes 16 pages, with vocabulary and high-order thinking questions for each chapter, and an analysis page every three chapters to promote student discourse. The supplemental r
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4th - 8th
Common Core: Phrases & Figures of Speech Derived from Greek Myths PART I
The attached worksheets can augment your instruction of sophisticated figures of speech. Herculean effort, Trojan horse, and Achilles' heel are the phrases incorporated in these sheets, which tie directly into the Common Core's requirement for students to become knowledgeable on phrases and figurative language that was derived from Greek mythology.
The sheets provide context reading for the students to make their own inferences regarding of the Greek phrase meaning, antonym identification, rea
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3rd - 6th
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Bud, Not Buddy Family Feud Game Novel Review
Problem: How to make reviewing content fun? Solution: Make it into a Family Feud Game! Results: Even if students don't know the answers, they will learn as you play! 36 card set includes: Bud's Rules to Live By, story events, historical facts and more!This is a non-editable password protected file. If password window opens when file downloads click "Read Only." Open file and show in Slideshow mode. Print answers before you play!Follow us for more fun curriculum!www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/
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4th - 6th
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Also included in: Bud, Not Buddy Visual Novel Study & 2 Games Bundle
Common Core: Phrases & Figures of Speech Derived from Greek Myths PART II
The attached worksheets can augment your instruction of sophisticated figures of speech. Mentor, Pandora's Box, and the Midas Touch are the phrases incorporated in these sheets, which tie directly into the Common Core's requirement for students to become knowledgeable on phrases and figurative language that was derived from Greek mythology.
The sheets provide context reading for the students to make their own inferences regarding of the Greek phrase meaning, antonym identification, real world
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3rd - 6th
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NEWBERRY 3 Novels for STAX Independent Reading Program for GATE and Advanced
Here are three Newberry Winner or Honor Books to help jumpstart your STAX Independent Reading Program--"Pictures of Hollis Woods," "Bridge to Terabithia," and "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH."
Save 33% off individual purchases with this 3 book collection.
These independent reading program cards are designed for use with the STAX Independent Reading Program for Advanced and GATE. This is not the full program but a supplemental starter STAX for use with the program.
You can purchase the ful
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3rd - 8th
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Pictures of Hollis Woods STAX Independent Reading Program for GATE and Advanced
These independent reading program cards are designed for use with the STAX Independent Reading Program for Advanced and GATE. This is not the full program but a supplemental starter STAX for use with the program.
You can purchase the full program separately at the Portable Gifted and Talented store on TPT.
The STAX Independent Reading Program allows your gifted and advanced readers to create tasks and respond to meaningful critical thinking challenges to any novel. The STAX program invites b
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3rd - 8th
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Bridge to Terabithia STAX Independent Reading Program Supplement for GATE
These independent reading program cards are designed for use with the STAX Independent Reading Program for Advanced and GATE. This is not the full program but a supplemental starter STAX for use with the program.
You can purchase the full program separately at the Portable Gifted and Talented store on TPT.
The STAX Independent Reading Program allows your gifted and advanced readers to create tasks and respond to meaningful critical thinking challenges to any novel. The STAX program invites b
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3rd - 8th
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Poetry Break! - Robert Frost - Google Slides and printable - Distance Learning
Updated in 2021 to include a Google Slides version and a printable!This Poetry Break! features a poem by Robert Frost that is great for many poetic devices. The poem is simple and approachable because its story structure is familiar, giving you flexibility to teach irony, alliteration, rhyme scheme, imagery and metaphor! It's super fun for Valentine's Day, or any day!You get:1. A copy of the poem2. Suggestions for teaching, including ideas about analysis of the poem3. A copy of the poem
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3rd - 6th
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Book Club Elementary Starter Set Blue Chevron
**New Design** Book Club is an ELA activity that combines reading and discussion of at level books in an organized manner. Reading groups are determined by the student’s current reading levels and no more than six students are placed in each reading group to allow full participation by each member of the group. Modifications and adaptations can be made to make Book Club work in any classroom setting. Book Club was created to be used in grades 3rd-5th classrooms and was developedwith the help of
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3rd - 5th, Adult Education
"Chitterchat" |Synonyms |Prelutsky Poem |No Prep! |Print & Digital |Halloween
Feline familiars and scatterbrained shrews. What's a poet to do?!"Chitterchat" by Jack Prelutsky is a great poem to build and challenge student vocabulary and practice word deciphering techniques. It also provides a witty resource for practicing and analyzing synonyms in a fun new way!Considering its focus on a witch and her cat familiar, it could also be a great resource around Halloween time.This is a great option for a:- mini-lesson, - self-led learning, - classroom discussion, - small grou
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4th - 8th
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Love That Dog - Depth & Complexity Icons Integration
Are you reading Love That Dog with your students and want to push their thinking a little further? Allow them to dive deeper into the meaning of the text and characters with the following activity!This graphic organizer contains rigorous higher order thinking questions to allow more meaningful conversations when referring to the text. It focuses on the icons: Details, Change Over Time, Language of Discipline, and Multiple Perspectives.This item can be used multiple ways to best fit your students
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3rd - 5th
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
Open Ended Questions for Journaling
Good readers are also good writers. This product enables students to expand their understanding of fifth grade reading standards by answering open ended questions.
This packet includes 8 pages of open ended questions categorized by fifth grade literature standards. You can use this in mini lesson, journaling and to give students practice on specific standards.
Grades:
4th - 6th
Holiday Poetry Cards
This is a collection of holiday poems for 3rd - 8th grade. Poems are at different comprehension levels and can be used for differentiating or individualizing activities. Students may recognize some poems while others will be new. These classic poems and songs will stretch your students vocabulary, help them practice poetry recitation and teach them poetic devices.This set includes:*20 poem cards*8 poetry task cards*CCSS Aligned!
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3rd - 8th
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