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Writing-essays Common Core RL.2.3 resources for Gifted and Talented
The Smart Cookie Read Aloud Book Companion | Multiple Intelligences | Activities
The Smart Cookie by Jory John is a great book to teach students that everyone is smart in different ways and the importance of perseverance. It is also the perfect segue into a study of multiple intelligences. This The Smart Cookie Book Companion requires students to delve into analyzing and interpreting literature. 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 c
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Elf Activities - Elf Application
Are you looking for a fun Christmas writing activity that gets your students engaged AND still meets standards? This Elf Application is just what you need for your holiday writing! This Christmas writing resource is aligned to the CCSS! This activity gives a short lesson to go along with the book How Santa Got His Job, but the book is not necessary and you can easily complete the application without the book.Included in the Resource:Teacher instructions for before, during and after reading str
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1st - 4th
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Also included in:Â December Activities BUNDLE
2nd Grade Lucy Calkins writing unit: WRITING ABOUT READING -unit 3
This huge document includes slides that go along with every lesson in the 2nd Grade book: Writing about Reading. Each slide has catchy pictures, anchor charts, and teaching points named so you can keep yourself on track through each lesson!These work out nicely for those teachers who ALREADY OWN and use the Lucy curriculum. I use these with a power point clicker to keep my pace through the lessons and make sure I don't forget any parts!
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1st - 3rd
Also included in:Â 2nd Grade Lucy units: Writers Workshop SLIDES - BUNDLED
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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Common Core Assessment Bundle for all Literature Standards 1-9
This is a great deal! You get one assessment for all Literature Common Core Standards. You get one 2.RL.1assessment Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? One assessment for 2.RL.2 Recounting stories, fables and folktales, One 2.RL.3 assessment How Characters respond to major events and sequencing, One 2.RL. 4 assessment Poetry and figurative language, One 2.RL.5 assessment addressing how the beginning of the story introduces and the ending concludes and how the character solves their problem, One 2.
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2nd - 5th
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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
Who Was? Themed Famous Person Biography Research Project BUNDLE
Use this BUNDLE as a starter for Social Studies Standard 2.5: Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others’ lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride). 95 Famous Faces included! Students can use these items to help them navigate through their own rese
Grades:
2nd
STEAM Read Alouds With STEM Challenge Cards Makerspace Task Cards Bundle
Motivating reluctant readers can feel like a HUGE hurdle to overcome, especially around books and reading. That's why Makerspace STEAM Read Aloud Challenges are so powerful. They take literature and stories and bring them to life through innovation, creativity, community, collaboration, and critical thinking!This Makerspace STEM Read Aloud & Challenges YEAR-LONG BUNDLE is for you! This bundle is specifically designed for busy teachers who want to engage their students and instill a love of r
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Fairy Tale Choice Boards Choice Menus Fast Finishers Early Finishers Activities
Having choice is something our students crave, especially during times when they are learning at home, independently or through distance learning. If you're looking for low prep and easy to implement resources to offer your students choice, try choice boards. These choice boards cover fifteen fairy tales:-Aladdin-Alice in Wonderland-Cinderella-Goldilocks & the 3 Bears-Hansel & Gretel-Jack & the Beanstalk-Peter Pan-Rapunzel-Rumpelstiltskin-Red Riding Hood-Sleeping Beauty-Snow White-T
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1st - 3rd
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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
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
Story Starter Roll and Write Dice Activity
Are students struggling to come up with new writing topics? Getting tired of the same old routine? Use this fun Roll & Write Dice Activity to spice things up! Roll the dice and jot down your character, setting, and plot. Then create a wacky new story with your elements. It's fun and fresh and your students will love it! Keep this set in your writing center for something new. It's just the thing you need to motivate bored writers. Students will giggle as they discover their story elements an
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2nd - 5th
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Regards to the Man on the Moon by Ezra Jack Keats Reading and Writing Activities
Regards to the Man on the Moon by Ezra Jack Keats is a lovely book of childhood imagination with space travel. This PRINT AND GO reading unit for Regards to the Man on the Moon focuses on the theme of imagination and space travel and comprehension. Activities are organized in a before-during-after set up. WHAT ACTIVITIES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT FOR REGARDS TO THE MAN ON THE MOON?schema builder about the moonvocabulary organizer and word cardscause/effect relationships anchor chart and organiz
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in:Â Ezra Jack Keats Author Study, Reading Activities in Digital and PDF
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
Grades:
1st - 5th
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
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
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
Curious George Gets a Medal for Primary GATE and Advanced Groups
Another classic picture book lesson bundle from Portable Gifted and Talented:
Hands-on literacy, critical thinking, cross-curricular, creative and visual – best practices for your 21st Century primary advanced and gifted groups and Common Core State Standards referenced. This lesson bundle is great for kindergarten and 1st grade and would be a great extension activity for larger groups in 2nd grade.
Level: KG and 1st advanced or gifted; 2nd whole group
Time: four hours and more
Critical Th
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K - 2nd
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Also included in:Â Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!
Small Wild Cats 2nd Grade Nonfiction Reading & Writing Unit W.2.2 & RI.2.9
Learn all about small wild cats in this 2nd grade nonfiction reading and writing unit. Work on comparing with RI.2.9 and writing informative essays W.2.2.. Cats covered are the Arabian Sand Cat, Asian Leopard Cat, Pallas’s Cat, and Geoffroy’s Cat. With over 30 total different worksheets and activities, this wild cat unit covers the lesser-known relatives of lions and tigers. 31 Unique pages 140 total pages Documents are available in full color, ink-saving color, black and white, and ink-saving b
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PreK - 5th
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2-LS4-1
Also included in:Â Comprehensive Nonfiction Cat 2nd Grade Reading Writing Language Unit Bundle
The One and Only Ivan Chapter Questions on Character Point of View
Are you looking for a way to teach characterization for The One and Only Ivan in your class, but don't have a fun way to do this? Here's the character study you need! Teach characterization through dramatization from The One and Only Ivan with this Activewear flipchart.Click HERE to save about 30% with the bundle.Inside you'll find:I can statementListed standardsGradual Release-I do.-We do.-They do.-You do.Writing Prompt ChoicesThis product is also available in ActivInspire Software for use with
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Also included in:Â The One and Only Ivan Novel Study Activities
Who Was? Themed Famous People Biography & Speech Template
These items can be used with this Social Studies standard: 2.5 Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others’ lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride). 94 Famous Faces included! Items Included:Historical Figures & Cultural Icons Student Packet Co
Grades:
2nd
Also included in:Â Who Was? Themed Famous Person Biography Research Project BUNDLE
Making Wise Choices! SEL Skills (1st-2nd)
Finish the year on a positive note with these strategies to teach how we make choices and how to handle when we might have missed the mark! Four lessons help children through the challenges of understanding how the thoughts we entertain, the words we use, and the actions we undertake affect our lives now and into the future. We can tell children to make good and positive choices - and we can show them how!Help children understand the cause-and-effect relationship between choices and outcomes. Us
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1st - 2nd
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Journeys- Luke Goes to Bat Supplemental Unit {Unit 4: Lesson 17}
If you use the Journeys 2014 Reading Series in your classroom, this is a must-have for supplementary material!
In this unit you will find:
-vocabulary practice including sketch a picture and vocabulary in sentences practice
- sequencing activities
- antonyms practice
-long I find a word
-formal and informal language practice
-summarizing review
-comprehension questions, graphic organizer, and 5 W's questions
-connect to the text writing prompt for complimentary text
-a writing prompt and themed
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2nd
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