Common Core RL.4.10 lessons for Gifted and Talented

, RL.4.1

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Also included in: Reading Skills Bundle

Frindle Novel Study

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Are you looking for a way to teach Frindle to your students? If so, here is a complete literary unit to go with the novel! Engage and challenge your students with this standards-based literary unit for this novel by Andrew Clements. The PowerPoint will guide teachers through strong instruction for bright or intellectually gifted students. This colorful unit is packed with 132 pages. Inside you'll find: "I can" StatementListed StandardsIntroduction to NovelVocabulary ActivitiesCharacter Developme

Subjects:

PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.3.3

, RL.3.6

, RL.3.7

, RL.4.3

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Also included in: Frindle Novel Study and Activities

Frindle Novel Study on PROMETHEAN Board

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Are you looking for a way to teach Frindle to your students? If so, here is a complete literary unit in ActivInspire Sofware to go with the novel! Engage and challenge your students with this standards based literary unit for this novel by Andrew Clements. The Promethean Board flipchart will guide teachers through strong instruction for bright or intellectually gifted students. This colorful unit is packed with 132 pages. Inside you'll find: "I can" StatementListed StandardsIntroduction to Novel

Subjects:

Activboard Activities, Lesson

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.3.3

, RL.3.6

, RL.3.7

Chemistry, Gifted and Talented, Science

, RL.4.3

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Also included in: Frindle Novel Study Bundle for Promethean Board Software

Bonding with Friends: H2O & Helium (Two Rhyming STEM Nonfiction Stories, NGSS)

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STEMistry Stories

A perfect STEM book for kids in the classroom or at home! This covers reading, science, and poetry in one lesson that will keep students entertained while learning whether they are physically at school or remotely. This rhyming picture book has two stories in one! "Bonding with Friends: H2O & Helium" has a story about the water molecule and another story about helium. NGSS and Common Core standards identified. Virtual author reading with activity available too, visit www.STEMistryBooks.com.T

Subjects:

Grades:

PreK - 5th

Types:

Lectures, GATE, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.K.1

, RL.K.2

, RL.K.5

, RL.K.7

, RL.1.3

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NGSS:

K-LS1-1

Math Curse Activities

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Creative Writing, Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented

Are you looking for a fun activity to go with The Math Curse, but you don't have a lot of time? Here is a great follow up project to go along with Jon Scieszk.a's book.Engage and challenge your students with this standards based lesson from Catch My Products. Students will be asked questions to guide them through the writing of a page in the class's own book about the Science Curse, or any other subject curse which the students want to explore. The colorful lesson comes complete with guiding que

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 5th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Lesson, Centers

CCSS:

RL.4.10

, W.4.3

, W.4.10

, W.5.3

, W.5.10

Making Inferences for PROMETHEAN Board

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Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Reading Strategies

Do your students have trouble making inferences from text? This standards-based flipchart lesson guides students in third through fifth grade in the art of making inferences. It also includes a funny photo with the chance to make an inference and an exit ticket. Students are engaged by being asked to make inferences from written passages. #MillieProducts Inside this complete PROMETHEAN BOARD lesson, you'll find:I Can statement and Core StandardExplanations of InferencesGradual Release Instructio

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Activboard Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

, RL.4.1

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Also included in: Reading Skills for PROMETHEAN Board

Character Traits and Setting Greek Mythology

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Gifted and Talented, Reading, Writing

Are you studying Greek Mythology? Do you need a standards based lesson that is great for evaluations? Here is just the lesson for you. Teach students to compare and contrast character and setting in an engaging lesson about Medusa from Greek Mythology. In this ready to use zip file you'll find:Powerpoint List of standards Introductory Activities Discussion of Settings Making Inferences Group Work Closing Opinion Writing AssignmentPrintables*3-2-1 Bridge Handout *Character/Settin

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Rubrics, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.4.3

, RL.5.3

, RL.5.10

, RL.6.10

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Short Story with Open Ended Questions for Text Dependent Analysis Inferencing

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Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Reading

Make class discussions fun with strong debate when you use this short story containing twelve open ended questions to build critical thinking skills and strong accountable talk! The questions posed have no clear cut answers, so kids use inferencing and text dependent analysis while searching text to prove their answers. Bright or gifted and talented kids love debating answers to open ended questions, and you will love watching them dive into the text to prove their points.Click Here to save 25%

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Printables, Lesson, Centers

CCSS:

RL.4.1

, RL.5.10

, RL.6.1

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Also included in: Short Stories for Inferences, Accountable Talk, and Reading Comprehension

Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days! Literary Unit

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Are you looking for a book unit to go along with your novel study of Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days? If so, here is just the lesson bundle to engage and challenge your students with this complete literacy unit in PowerPoint for Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days! I have used this unit with my third and fourth grade gifted classes and with fifth graders, too. Many kids struggle with perfectionism, so this book sends a great message for kids.Inside you'll find:Introduction to the Novel

Subjects:

PowerPoint Presentations, Thematic Unit Plans, Lesson

Grades:

4th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.2.1

, RL.2.3

, RL.2.10

, RL.3.1

, RL.3.2

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Making Inferences Reading Passages Google Slides

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Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Reading Strategies

Do your students have trouble making inferences from text? This standards-based PowerPoint lesson guides students in the art of making inferences. It also includes a funny photo with the chance to make an inference and an exit ticket. Your students will love being asked to make inferences from these written passages. #MillieProducts Click HERE to save 30% with the bundle. (PowerPoint Version)Inside you'll find:I Can statement and Core StandardExplanations of InferencesGradual Release Instruction

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Lesson

CCSS:

, RL.4.1

Engineering, Gifted and Talented, Literature

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James and the Giant Peach 3D Printer & STEM Final Project

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Magic and Markers

Have your students read James and the Giant peach as a novel study, class Read Aloud or for homework, and follow up with this AWESOME NGSS and STEM based final project. Have students brainstorm the MANY problems James and his friends encountered on the peach. You can complete this with the aid of an anchor chart whole group, or individually. Students brainstorm SOLUTIONS to problems the characters came upon. They may be as silly or serious as you’d like. As mentioned above this can be done whole

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Activities, GATE, Lesson

CCSS:

RL.4.3

Gifted and Talented, Poetry, Valentine's Day

, CCRA.W.3

NGSS:

3-5-ETS1-1

, 3-5-ETS1-2

Poetry Break! - No Prep Poetry Mini-Unit - Distance Learning - Google and PDF

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Ms Cottons Corner

Great for distance learning! This resource has been fully updated in 2021 to include Google Slides versions of all the student sheets!Celebrate Valentine's Day with poetry! This Poetry Break! features three poems - two by Christina Rossetti and one by Robert Frost. All deal with the theme of love in an approachable way that is totally appropriate for 3rd - 6th graders. Each poem has suggestions for teaching and analysis, helping you put together a lesson on the fly - just print and teach or

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

, RL.3.3

, RL.3.4

, RL.3.5

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Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days! Ch. 3 & 4 (for PROMETHEAN Board)

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Here is a flipchart for the Promethean Board for chapters three and four of "Be A Perfect Person in Three Days" by Stephen Manes. The flipchart works through vocabulary with the students and then asks them to identify vocabulary words with clickers. Following the vocabulary exercises of each chapter, students are asked discussion question from the book. A puzzle completes the chart. I have used this flipchart with intellectually gifted third graders to help them deal with the abundance of perfec

Subjects:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activboard Activities, Lesson

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

CCSS:

RL.2.2

, RL.2.3

, RL.2.7

, RL.2.10

, RL.3.1

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Also included in: Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days for PROMETHEAN BOARD

Math Curse Activities for Promethean Board Use

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