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Common Core RL.6.5 resources for Gifted and Talented
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
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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Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor Novel Study
This novel study of Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor by Ally Carter is divided into 8 sections. Each section covers 25 -35 pages. This allows students to improve comprehension and writing skills while developing a love for reading. The units are designed to help reach a variety of learning styles. You can have students complete all activities or assign specific skills to individual students or groups.Easel Activity!Easel activity is divided into 8 sections. Each section includes the foll
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Some Places More Than Others Novel Study
This novel study of Some Places More Than Ever by Renee Watson is divided into 6 sections. Each section covers 25 -35 pages. This allows students to improve comprehension and writing skills while developing a love for reading. The units are designed to help reach a variety of learning styles. You can have students complete all activities or assign specific skills to individual students or groups.Easel Activity!Easel activity is divided into 6 sections. Each section includes the following:10 Comp
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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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Historical Fiction Book Club for ANY Historical Fiction Book
This complete book club set includes all the components you need to run historical fiction book clubs in your classroom from START to FINISH! Get students interested in how a setting actually plays a role within the text and allow them to think about a text creatively, analytically and critically.
Included:
Lesson Ideas
5 Assignments
Group Project
Individual Reflections
Discussion Chips
Discussion Cards
Discussion Notes Recording Sheet
TAG Feedback
Book Review
Assignment Rubric
Project Rubric
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4th - 6th
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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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BINGO: Figures of Speech Challenging and Fun
WHIZ... POP... Bang... Sweet sorrow, happy school days, we are ready for an easy task!
Ready for a break from those worksheets? Let's play a game! This activity can be used as study for test prep too.
Everyone is a winner as we all will learn while bonding, laughing and learning. Reinforcing the concept and identification of Figures of Speech that students have been learning since grade 3 with a game of traditional BINGO.
Ten BINGO cards contain 8 different figures of speech: Alliteration, Hyp
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3rd - 10th
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6th 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
Grades:
6th
Because of Mr. Terupt Literature Study
Because of Mr. Terupt is a great read, but also a GREAT book to get your students thinking about point of view and perspective. This literature study focuses on those two things and more! As the characters each tell the story from their own point of view, your students also will learn about how an author develops characters, creates interactions between characters and how characters change because of others.
With higher level comprehension questions, test-prep quizzes, and MORE for each mont
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4th - 7th
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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
Stay A Novel Study By Bobbie Pyron
This novel study of Stay by Bonnie Pyron is divided into 8 sections. Each section covers 25 -35 pages. This allows students to improve comprehension and writing skills while developing a love for reading. The units are designed to help reach a variety of learning styles. You can have students complete all activities or assign specific skills to individual students or groups.Easel Activity!Easel activity is divided into 8 sections. Each section includes the following:10 Comprehension questionsVoc
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3rd - 6th
A Wonder-Filled Novel Study
Thank you R.J. Palacio for writing Wonder, one of the best adolescent books ever, because it’s jam-packed full of both academic and life lessons. In my humble, but experienced opinion, every middle school student should have the opportunity to read, own, digest, and gnaw on all the contents in this spectacular book.
It is up to all the teachers and parents out there to help each child have the aforementioned experience with Wonder. As both a reading and English teacher for y
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Grades:
5th - 7th
The Mystwick School of Musicraft Novel Study
This novel study of The Mystwick School of Musicraft by Jessica Khoury is divided into 8 sections. Each section covers 25 -35 pages. This allows students to improve comprehension and writing skills while developing a love for reading. The units are designed to help reach a variety of learning styles. You can have students complete all activities or assign specific skills to individual students or groups.Easel Activity!Easel activity is divided into 8 sections. Each section includes the following
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Poetry Break! - Robert Frost - Google Slides and printable - Distance Learning
Updated in 2021 to include a Google Slides version and a printable!This Poetry Break! features a poem by Robert Frost that is great for many poetic devices. The poem is simple and approachable because its story structure is familiar, giving you flexibility to teach irony, alliteration, rhyme scheme, imagery and metaphor! It's super fun for Valentine's Day, or any day!You get:1. A copy of the poem2. Suggestions for teaching, including ideas about analysis of the poem3. A copy of the poem
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3rd - 6th
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Poetry Break! - No Prep Poetry Mini-Unit - Distance Learning - Google and PDF
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
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3rd - 6th
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Black Brother, Black Brother Novel Study
This novel study of Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewel Parker Rhodes is divided into 6 sections. Each section covers 25 -35 pages. This allows students to improve comprehension and writing skills while developing a love for reading. The units are designed to help reach a variety of learning styles. You can have students complete all activities or assign specific skills to individual students or groups.Easel Activity!Easel activity is divided into 6 sections. Each section includes the followin
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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
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
Holiday Poetry Cards
This is a collection of holiday poems for 3rd - 8th grade. Poems are at different comprehension levels and can be used for differentiating or individualizing activities. Students may recognize some poems while others will be new. These classic poems and songs will stretch your students vocabulary, help them practice poetry recitation and teach them poetic devices.This set includes:*20 poem cards*8 poetry task cards*CCSS Aligned!
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3rd - 8th
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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Artistic Extensions for a Book Study
Are you tired of Book Reports? This outline provides your students with four artistic extensions that allow them to share their understanding of any novel they are reading in a creative and 3 dimensional manner. ABC booklets, mobiles, sculptures, and cubes tap into higher level thinking skills. Get those brains working!
You can tap into the oral presentations as well when the students share their personal projects.
Choice is key and students love to pick and choose a project to highlight their
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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