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Common Core W.7.1b resources for Gifted and Talented
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Christmas Writing Activities Middle School Prompts Persuasive Letter to Santa
Are your students on Santa's naughty list? This writing activity will keep your students engaged during the pre-holiday excitement as they write a persuasive friendly letter to Santa convincing him that they really don't belong on the naughty list! Creative and fun!What teachers are saying about this resource:"THE BEST UNIT I HAVE PURCHASED! So comprehensive, works students through editing, examples and just sets them up for a perfect end product if they try their best the whole way through th
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4th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Christmas No Prep Persuasive and Descriptive Writing Bundle
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
Depth and Complexity Icons Sentence Stems (distance learning)
These depth and complexity icons sentence stems can be used in any classroom to help students think, talk, and write about various subjects using Depth and Complexity with ease! Use the stems during distance learning discussions, to keep conversations rich and engaging. The adaptations are endless for discussion, questioning, and writing purposes. All 11 Depth and Complexity Icons are included, each with 5 sentence stems to get teachers and students started! Use the depth and complexity stems i
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Depth and Complexity Icons Getting Started BUNDLE
Create Your Own Utopia - FUN Argumentative Writing Project
This final project is a favorite for my seventh graders. I used it as a summative assessment after studying Utopias - it would be perfect after a reading of The Giver or other utopia/dystopia novels.The project is based on the students creating their own Utopias. However, I wanted to have it tied into Argumentative Writing, so graphic organizers lead students on a step-by-step path to not just create their Utopia, but argue why people should choose to live there. Students use actual sources t
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6th - 8th
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Claim Evidence Reasoning Graphic Organizer and Lesson Plan Free
Do your students struggle with providing strong, credible evidence for their claims? These two free Evidence Graphic Organizers can be used for any argument, opinion, persuasive, or research essay to help students gather and analyze arguments and evidence that they need to support a claim.Students gain critical thinking skills as they justify the use of their evidence and the evidence checker graphic organizers allow them to see exactly what kind of evidence they are using.This freebie includes
Grades:
5th - 9th
Also included in:Â Analyze Bias Evaluate Websites Fact Check Wikipedia Research Skills Bundle
Middle School Critical Thinking Bundle - April Fool's Day and every other day!
Embark on an intellectual journey with the Middle School Critical Thinking Bundle where logical reasoning and depth and complexity take center stage! Help your students become critical thinkers, not just on April Fool's Day, but every day, developing a habit of careful consideration in how they approach information and decisions.Students in 6th-8th grade will explore topics like Occam's Razor and master the art of taking perspectives in this transformative bundle. Each lesson is crafted to stimu
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5th - 8th
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Persuasive and Expository Collaborative Activity Writing Product Reviews
Do you read the reviews before you buy a product? Almost all of us do, and your students will become pros at this aspect of writing that blends expository and persuasive writing. This is such a fun activity for teaching writing.There are two activities included. First, students will share three of their favorite products. Using a graphic organizer, they'll plan what they want to say about it. Then, in groups of three, they'll share their favorite products. They'll try to persuade the group membe
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5th - 10th
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Also included in:Â Persuasive, Narrative and Descriptive Writing Lessons & Activities BUNDLE
Depth and Complexity Icons Question Stem Reference Rings
Help students ask high level questions about Depth and Complexity Icons with question stem reference rings. They can be used in any classroom to help students think, talk, and write about various subjects using Depth and Complexity Icons with ease! The use of the depth and complexity icons will help to keep conversations rich and engaging. The adaptations are endless for discussion, questioning, and writing purposes. All 11 Depth and Complexity icons are included, each with 5 sentence stems to g
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5th - 8th
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Depth and Complexity Icons Sentence Stems Reference Rings
These sentence stem reference rings can be used in any classroom to help students think, talk, and write about various subjects using Depth and Complexity Icons with ease! The use of the depth and complexity icons will help to keep conversations rich and engaging. The adaptations are endless for discussion, questioning, and writing purposes. All 11 Depth and Complexity icons are included, each with 5 sentence stems to get teachers and students started! Make copies of the depth and complexity ico
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5th - 8th
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Real Life Utopias - Great pre-reading activity for The Giver and other novels
The idea of "Utopia" is one that fascinates students. A world where everything is perfect? Seems too good to be true!
I wanted to use that curiosity to hook students into my Utopia unit, and so I research three attempts at Utopian life in America's history. My students were shocked to learn that people had actually tried to create Utopias in real-life, and they liked learning how they "bombed miserably."
Besides a detailed PPT, I have also included a persuasive writing activity that uses
Grades:
6th - 8th
Movie Advertisement Book Report (Includes Essay and Movie Poster Assignment)
This Movie Advertisement book report has students analyze any novel or chapter book by writing a multi-paragraph informational essay and creating a movie advertisement poster, imagining how the book would be advertised if it were a movie. The instructions include student-friendly language with paragraph-by-paragraph guidance for the informational essay and sample topic sentences. The instructions also tell specific requirements for the movie poster (including a tag line, movie critic reviews, wh
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2nd - 12th
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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
Depth and Complexity Icons Frames for Gifted Learners Distance Learning
This product contains six depth and complexity icons thinking frames for gifted learners based on the disciplines of historian, teacher, scientist, videographer, author, and web designer. There is also a blank frame included for other uses in the classroom as well as a list of alternative disciplines that you might consider using. Ideas for how these have worked in my classrooms are listed as well. The purpose of these frames is to get students to think more deeply about various content areas. T
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Depth and Complexity Icons Content Enrichment Ideas BUNDLE
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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7th Grade Writing Curriculum
This Bundle includes the 4 types of writing encountered in the standard 7th grade year. Narrative, Expository, Argumentative, and Research based writing. With any type of writing it is important to ensure that the writing process is followed. Along with ensuring that the writing process is taught, these workshops include the following for each type of writing. Resources you will need to complete each daily challenge. topicsdaily tasksworksheetsvideoschecklists to make sure you are on trackvoca
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7th
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Counting by 7s & Rain Reign: A Comparison
Two great novels, two talented authors, two best-selling books, two strong characters with diagnoses... Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin have A LOT in common! Created as an independent study, this guide can be used for single students or for an entire class!In this comparison study, students will compare and contrast the plots of the novels, the two main characters, the two diagnoses of the main characters, and perspectives on current research involving gif
Grades:
5th - 8th
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