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Common Core RL.6.2 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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"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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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
A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of Stray Critical Thinking Questions
This is a critical thinking reading packet I created to use with my students while we read the book A Dog's Life: The Autobiorgraphy of a Stray by Ann M. Martin. It includes critical thinking questions to go along with each chapter and before-reading and after-reading questions. I focused on the higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy when creating these questions so my students had to evaluate, create, and analyze often. See the preview to check it out! This is a perfect packet to use for a guided r
Grades:
4th - 8th
Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Quick Literature Study
This literature study is short and sweet, just like the novel. It asks students to extend the metaphorical story of Jonathan into real world aspects. There are questions for Part One, Part Two and Part Three that can be differentiated based on student ability - these differentiation strategies are outlined in the lesson plans. As a final project, students are asked to find parallels between the novel and ideas, other documents or biographies. To do this, students must conduct outside research
Grades:
6th - 9th
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
Grades:
4th - 8th
Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin Thinking Questions & Writing Extension
Contents:-Student pdf packet of Critical Thinking Questions for the entire book Rump that can be printed or sent to students digitally -Student directions for Choose Your Own Adventure Fractured Fairy Tale Writing Extension with graphic organizer-Teacher pdf packet that contains above resources combinedThis is a critical thinking reading packet I created to use with my students while we read the book Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl Shurtliff. It includes critical thinking questi
Grades:
4th - 8th
Where the Wild Things Are: Teaching the 5-Paragraph Thematic Essay
Teach the 5-paragraph THEMATIC essay with a poignant, insightful middle-grades film!From the specially supported to the gifted and talented, students from a variety of backgrounds will connect with Max; idea-generating process and final essay product can be scaffolded to meet students at any level.Using their chronological movie guide to draw on specific details, students will reflect on what Max learns by considering the NEED for, the PROCESS of developing, and the PROOF of his new understandin
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5th - 7th
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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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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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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
Fiction Novel Choice Board
This resource is a fiction novel choice board that can be used in and out of the classroom in a variety of ways. The choice board can be used with any novel and focuses on the four main categories of: theme, conflict, characters and creativity. Each of those categories has three different activities that the students can choose from to challenge and extend their thinking, as it relates to their novel.
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3rd - 8th
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The Day Boy and the Night Girl: A Close Reading of the Classic Story
Looking for a classic, dynamic, new-to-them text? Short on time? George MacDonald's 1904 short story/novella is included here with integrated study questions - many aligned to 6th grade common core standards. (The story is chunked so that many pages could be used as stand-alone passage assessments with 2-5 corresponding questions apiece. Some pages will also feature a question for which reading of prior pages is necessary.) This resource can be used in a variety of settings: as independent study
Grades:
6th - 9th
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
Perceiving Poetry: A Week of Comprehension & Response (for morning work, etc.)
This packet contains five poetry response worksheets with suggested answer keys. Use as a week of morning work or to augment an existing poetry unit. Students will practice several skills, including:- identifying the subject and tone of a poem- articulating the difference between poetry and prose- considering how parts of a poem affect the whole- considering the relationship between text and graphics
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6th - 8th
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