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Autumn Common Core RL.8.1 resources for Gifted and Talented
Thanksgiving Escape Room for ELA
This activity features a rigorous yet engaging escape room in which students tackle 5 Language Arts skills-based puzzles about Thanksgiving - for middle and high school!There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Thanksgiving-themed E
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Holiday Escape Room BUNDLE for ELA
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
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6th - 8th
Socratic Seminar: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, Standards Aligned
This Socratic seminar contains a great message for the beginning of the school year! Socratic seminar is an excellent and engaging way for students to practice higher order thinking skills. Introduce your students to Socratic seminar with this easy-to-implement, step-by-step resource. This 32-slide PowerPoint resource with printables is a Socratic seminar to include pre and post activities featuring the poem “A Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. This resource includes a well-organized protocol fo
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Complete Wonderland and Looking-Glass Comprehension and Logic Unit Combo
This is my complete combo for both the "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There" books. It has chapter comprehension worksheets for both books. This also includes my logic unit study which teaches a basic introduction to formal logic as well as analyzes a lot of the hidden logic lessons within the first Alice book.Logic Unit Description:This is a collection of worksheets and tests that work for a month long introduction to formal logic and fal
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5th - 12th
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The Tell-Tale Heart — Guilty or Not Guilty Trial Activity using Textual Evidence
Guilty or not guilty?! Let your students decide the fate of the narrator from The Tell-Tale Heart!This activity requires research, critical thinking, close reading, literary analysis, and finding textual evidence to justify responses. Students will research the different degrees of murder in the United States. Then they will take on the role of the judge for the trial against the narrator in the story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Students will use both critical thinking skills and e
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7th - 11th
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Also included in: The Tell-Tale Heart Reading Comprehension Activities BUNDLE
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Comprehension Questions and Logic Unit Combo
This is my complete offering for the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland also known as Alice in Wonderland. It contains both my Alice based logic unit and my Alice chapter comprehension questions worksheet collection. Buy this to get both of them cheaper than if you buy them separately. If you would also like the comprehension questions for this book's sequel, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, buy my Complete Wonderland and Looking-Glass Comprehension and Logic Combo instea
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5th - 8th
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Logic Grid Puzzles - Intermediate
Work on literacy skills without anyone knowing with these logic grid puzzles from Ms. Merry Mac!
Logic grid puzzles are an addicting way for students to practice deductive reasoning and inferring without having to read longer texts. They encourage readers to look carefully at evidence in the text and draw conclusions based on that information. They can even freshen up interventions for students in need of moving beyond literal interpretations in reading comprehension work. Plus, making a mod
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5th - 12th
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Short Story with Open Ended Questions Worksheet for Accountable Talk
I was surprised at just how well these open-ended questions worked to get my kids using accountable talk! So if your administrator wants your kids to use accountable talk, here's the answer! Kids love debating the answers to these questions, and you will love watching them dive into the text to prove their points. Click Here to save 25% off the price of individual resources with the bundle.This resource may be printed or used through digital worksheets on the computer! Works well for any student
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5th - 11th
Teaching Depth and Complexity with A Bad Case of Stripes (distance learning)
Teaching, reviewing, and engaging with Depth and Complexity Icons is fun when using the picture book, "A Bad Case of Stripes". Your students will practice using all 11 depth and complexity icons (big ideas, details, patterns, multiple perspectives, rules, across the disciplines, trends, ethics, unanswered questions, over time, and language of the discipline) as they analyze text, and dive deep into complex discussion with this lesson! In the book, "A Bad Case of Stripes" by David Shannon, your s
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5th - 8th
Also included in: Teaching Depth and Complexity Icons with Picture Books GROWING BUNDLE
Dystopia: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving for Gifted and Talented
These are enrichment or acceleration activities for gifted and talented middle school students who are about to embark on independent reading of novels with a Dystopian element. Included in this resource are group discussion questions, four project based research learning options which culminate in a presentation, and teacher resources, such as an action plan to help students develop a project timeline. These activities lend themselves to multiple learning styles, and require critical thinking,
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5th - 8th
Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 37-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing ELA-themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill as
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5th - 12th
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Character Study Book Report (Includes Summary and "Wanted" Poster Assignment)
This Character Study book report includes instructions for students, a sample summary and sample project, as well as an optional grading rubric for the teacher to simply pick and choose from listed choices to grade the student on writing (effective expression), grammar (conventions), and drawing (visual arts).The assignment requires students to write a one-page summary broken down into a beginning, middle, and end. The students must also complete a "Wanted" poster project, focusing on the main c
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3rd - 12th
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Paired Texts Edgar Allan Poe — The Tell-Tale Heart & The Black Cat TDA Essay
Reading Paired Texts: Text-Dependent Analysis and Response To Literature Essay for The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe.If you are looking for a pair of awesome texts with similar themes, topics, and literary elements, this product features a compare and contrast chart for the two gothic tales by Edgar Allan Poe "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat."Both feature unreliable narrators who commit heinous crimes. Both narrators claim not to be mad, but are they telling the tr
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7th - 9th
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Short Story Test (plus literary terms) - Leiningen Versus the Ants
Short Story Quizzes from My TPT site:Wallace and Gromit - The Wrong Trousers (a video short story exercise)Wallace and Gromit - A Close Shave (a video short story exercise)The Sound of Gunfire - by John O’Reilly (a western)The Landlady - by Roald Dahl NEW July 2018To Build a Fire - by Jack LondonThe Most Dangerous Game - by Richard ConnellThe Possibility of Evil - by Shirley JacksonAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - by Ambrose BierceThe Sound of Thunder - by Ray BradburyThere Will Come Soft Rai
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Not Grade Specific
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
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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
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6th - 9th
Short Story with Text Dependent Questions for Analysis and Accountable Talk
Make accountable talk natural with this short story that demands text dependent analysis with open ended questions in print or as a digital resource! Kids love debating the answers to the open ended questions posed, and you will love watching them dive into the text to prove their points. Print or digital resource contains a short story with twelve statements aimed to start strong discussion within the class. Students must decide if the statements are true, false, or if they can't tell. Kids wil
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5th - 11th
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
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4th - 8th
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
Fall Poetry Activities for Middle School - "Autumn" by Alexander Posey
“Autumn” by Alexander Posey is the perfect poem for the month of September or anytime in the fall! This flexible fall poetry mini-unit will expose your students to an impactful poem while giving them an opportunity to practice vocabulary in context, text evidence, and writing skills with creative, standards-based activities. Included in this resource:A Poetry Close Read worksheet to help students organize their thoughts and notes as they read the poem three timesA two-page Comprehension & L
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6th - 8th
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Snape's Challenge
In Chapter 16 of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Hermione solved a logic puzzle designed by Professor Snape. Have your students read the chapter and see if they can use evidence from the text to label the potions correctly. This activity integrates both Literature and Math Common Core Standards, and is a perfect supplement for a Harry Potter novel study.
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5th - 8th
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8th Grade ELA Bilingual Leveled Proficiency Scale Posters - Differentiation
Fill your bilingual word wall with learning objectives! Whether you teach ELL, ESL, Spanish Immersion, or just want to communicate better with your Spanish-Speaking students; these bilingual posters will give you the exact language you need to keep your students engaged in content while they master English. These poster pages present Learning Goals and Scales aligned to a growth mindset and the Common Core Math standards, as well as Florida and most states. Inspired by Marzano's research in “The
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8th
Fall Poetry: "November" Poem Study Packet
Fall is the perfect time of year for poetry study. Add this fall poetry activity to your seasonal lineup today!SAVE BIG! Purchase this product as part of my Fall Poetry Bundle This Poem Study Packet includes:- 35 + pages of materials- Poem Study Packet, including answer key- Close Reading Comprehension Questions- Essay: Expository Writing Assignment- Reading Strategy Practice- Figurative Language Practice- Writing Prompts on PowerPoint- Poetry Writing activities, including pre-writing - Art Acti
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Fall Poetry Bundle
Teaching Depth and Complexity with The Big Box for 6-8 (distance learning)
Teaching Depth and Complexity Icons is fun and easy for your 6-8 middle school students when using the picture book, "The Big Box". Your students will practice using all 11 depth and complexity icons (big ideas, details, patterns, multiple perspectives, rules, across the disciplines, trends, ethics, unanswered questions, over time, and language of the discipline) as they analyze text, and dive deep into complex discussion with this lesson! In the book, "The Big Box" by Toni Morrison, your stude
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Teaching Depth and Complexity Icons with Picture Books GROWING BUNDLE
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