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1st grade informational text resources for GATE
Moonshot by Brian Floca Apollo 11 PRIMARY GATE Lessons -- Rocket Model
Astronauts, space ships, and the moon . . . what kid doesn’t like that kind of stuff, huh? We should build a space ship!
Here’s another collection of lessons and activities for your primary gifted and talented groups. It’s full of hands-on activities across the curriculum, critical thinking questions, participatory reading, and age-appropriate primary source lessons. As always, you’ll get ready-to-print activity sheets, explanations, pictures to lead you through, and Common Core State Standa
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1st - 3rd
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A Jim Henson Unit with Depth and Complexity - The Great Puppet Show
Jim Henson Mini-Unit UPDATED 9/29/19 Check out our first grade puppets! and my first graders put on a puppet show.This has been updated 9/29/19. Enjoy this adorable Jim Henson Mini–Unit. This unit is a biography companion. Use digital resources and library books to learn about this famous creator (these are not included). I have created activities to go alongside these resources. I have added some Depth and Complexity icons for you. There are different versions for grades K-3. You can che
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K - 3rd
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Listening Response Podcast Story Bundle - Blooms Taxonomy Sheets & Questions
This Listening Response Podcast Story Bundle includes 10 podcast activities with 130 pages of QR codes, response sheets and comprehension questions. Students use QR codes to listen to a podcast and use the provided response sheets to take notes and recall information they have listened to. Podcast learning is a high interest task that holds student attention and develops listening and critical thinking skills. Differentiate for students using high order thinking skills with Bloom's Taxonomy resp
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1st - 6th
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The First Thanksgiving Book with Depth and Complexity
The First Thanksgiving Book with Depth and Complexity {single-teacher purchase} UPDATED 11/4/18See student examples of this unit! Make sure to click right to see more.I have created another jam-packed unit to help you teach the Depth and Complexity icons and close reading to primary students. I have taken the traditional story of The First Thanksgiving and added activities for annotation, responses, and close reading. I have also included a writing activity in this unit. It includes a sequenci
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Researching with Depth and Complexity *UPDATED 10/23* - Animal Nation TPSP
Are you ready to challenge your students? Are you looking for a practical, step-by-step method to teach even the youngest students real research skills that can benefit them throughout their entire educational career? Researching with Depth and Complexity will do just that! This unit is designed to support the implementation of the Texas Performance Standards Project, a set of research tasks originally created for Gifted and Talented programs, but beneficial to all students. The addition of the
Grades:
1st
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Research Logs - Gifted and Talented Projects -7 Units
Independent Research Logs
Topics Include:
Arctic
Tundra
Desert
Ocean
Rainforest
Grassland
Students are expected to:
Create a list of topics they'd like to study
Choose one of those topics to research
Generate open-ended questions about the topic
Locate sources to find the answers to their questions
Take notes and cite their sources
Focus their research
Write a report / draft
Create a product to show their learning
Grades:
1st - 6th
Current Events Report
This template can be used as a graphic organizer for any newspaper, magazine, or nonfiction article. It is a wonderful activity to have on hand for enrichment, and most local newspapers will deliver free to schools if you request papers for your class. I use this activity for early finishers and always a folder full on hand along with a basket of newspaper articles for the students to choose from. Bring the real world into your classroom with current events!
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Grades:
1st - 9th
Primary GATE -- AIR! Active, Creative, Academic, and Hands-on!
I am always trying to figure out what to do with my little primary groups, and this unit was a definite hit with my kindergartners. It would work well with 1st grade too or the regular 2nd grade classroom. The full unit contains more than 2 hours of contact time.
It’s active, fun, and challenging for these little ones and seemed to have the right combination of “get up and move,” imagination, creativity, and “making” along with academic tasks.
We learn about four important properties of air
Grades:
K - 2nd
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Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express READING + STEM Elementary GATE
If you’ve come to know my units, you’ll find the same sort of critical thinking and hands-on exploration and creativity here . . .
Come all the way across the curriculum from READING to STEM activities in this hands-on unit. My advanced group 2nd graders loved this! I would use this for advanced 1st graders in their second semester or 3rd grade as well. I don’t think it would be a stretch to say 4th graders would enjoy it as well.
“Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express” is a Reading Rainbow
Grades:
1st - 4th
National Geographic Kids Scavenger Hunt
National Geographic Kids Scavenger Hunt will help your young readers learn to navigate this subscription database! Included in this Product:This download includes a printable page for students to complete, using the paid National Geographic Kids database. ****NOTE: Your school must pay to subscribe to this database. This scavenger hunt will not work with the free National Geographic Kids website. Their content is organized differently.****I used this with my first grade enrichment group, and you
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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Veterans Day
Veterans Day activities and craftivity fun!
Your students will enjoy learning about Veterans Day with these informational and engaging activities. The activities in this unit are low or no prep and differentiated to meet the needs of diverse learners.
Included in this download you will find:
Veterans Day Folder Cover (colored)
Veterans Day Folder Cover (b/w)
Veterans Day Informational Close Reading Passage
Corresponding Comprehension Questions (TBQs)
Just the Facts! (students write facts fr
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1st - 5th
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Famous Aviators, Pilots, and Astronauts Guided Research and Project EDITABLE!
Are your students interested in pilots, astronauts, and aviators? Are you looking for a way to direct them through the research process but aren't sure where to begin? This guided research packet provides them with a detailed guide that will help them find appropriate resources and questions to jump start their learning. After that, it will take them on a step-by-step journey to creating a life sized version of their chosen aviator to display in the hallway. There are 4 major measurement standar
Grades:
1st - 4th
Guided Reading Digital Passages Levels A- R (Fiction and Nonfiction)
Are you tired of searching online for engaging, leveled passages to use for guided reading? Do you have a wide range of readers in your classroom, and need one resource that meets the needs of all of them? Are you looking for online passages that are created in Google Slides, so that you can use them in Google Classroom?Finding high-quality guided reading passages that will be engaging for your students can be challenging and time-consuming. Students love these passages because they are high-int
Grades:
K - 4th
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Winter Sports Graphic Organizers and Paper Choices for Research and Writing
Looking for a sure way to get your students excited about reading and writing informational texts? Try these differentiated Winter Sports themed graphic organizers and Paper Choices. There are over 150 different graphic organizers and writing templates to help you easily differentiate for student interest and ability. Topics include 12 different Winter Sports including:
Bobsleigh
Luge
Snowboarding
Figure Skating
Pairs Skating
Speed Skating
Cross Country Skiing
Ski Jumping
Downhill Skiing
Curlin
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1st - 3rd
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Remarkable Reindeer
Why not add a little science to your December holiday studies? "Remarkable Reindeer" is a 1st-5th mini science unit about wild reindeer (no, not the ones that fly!). This CCSS aligned unit includes:
Anchor Charts
Vocabulary Word Wall Cards
Dictionary Skills (2 different skill levels) with Printables
Nonfiction Reader & Assessment
Labeling the Parts of a Reindeer
Science Experiment Using the Scientific Method of Investigation ( 3 different skill levels and recording sheets)
Tracking Animal P
Grades:
1st - 5th
Bonding with Friends: Carbon (Rhyming STEM Nonfiction Story & Facts, NGSS/CCSS)
Rhyming STEM story about the Carbon atom and how it bonds by "holding hands" to form molecules. Informational science text that covers NGSS and CCSS standards in a fun way through poetry with an educational appendix of fun facts and examples of carbon in everyday life. Kindergarten students will enjoy the colorful illustrations and short story while 6th graders can learn about chemical reactions and conservation of mass with illustrations showing these atoms holding hands to make it simple to un
Frog and Toad Together Unit of Study Fiction and Nonfiction
This is a unit of study I created for the book Frog and Toad Together. I also included activities for a nonfiction research activity on frogs and toads.
The Fiction Packet includes:
- Genre Study
- Making Predictions
- Comprehension Questions for each chapter
- Companion activities for each chapter (making a list, creating a class garden, making connections, compare and contrast, etc.)
- Culminating Project - Book Jacket
The Nonfiction Packet includes:
- Genre Study
- Did you know page (list
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Praying Mantis Unit - Informational Text, Creative Writing, Differentiation
Your 1st-3rd graders will go BUGGY for this Praying mantis Unit!
With original colorful clip art, interactive informational text, and activities geared for different levels, teachers will go buggy too!
Included in this unit:
Interactive Informational Text
Differentiated worksheets/assessments
Differentiated creative writing prompts
Original clip art
Use the differentiated activities to engage GATE students or ESL ELL ESOL students too!
This was created specifically for aTPT teacher like yo
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1st - 3rd
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Multiple Intelligences: BYTES Power Smarts® Chart – Pre-K to Grade 2 Version
Power-Up your classroom with BYTES Power Smarts! This chart is designed for primary students to help them realize and appreciate their multiple intelligences and those of others. The BYTES Power Smarts Chart is a colorful reference visual for your BYTES Power Smarts Adventures in Learning Center or for anywhere in your classroom. Use this chart with the BYTES Power Smarts stories, Pixel Adventures, Character Posters, Activities, Creativities, and instructional materials.BYTES Power Smarts st
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
The Solar System Informational PowerPoint
This product is an informational PowerPoint presentation focusing on The Solar System.
The Product Includes:
- The Solar System Overview
- The Sun
- Mercury
- Venus
- Earth
- The Moon
- Mars
- The Asteroid Belt
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Dwarf Planets
Also includes video links to help supplement the material.
This PowerPoint is also part of a larger novel study that includes the novel The Magic School Bus - Space Explorers and journal pages that go along with the PowerPoint.
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Grades:
1st - 5th, Staff
"All About" Nonfiction Writing Template
Great to use alongside your Lucy Calkins lessons! If your young writers are ready to try their author's hand at non-fiction writing this unit is a great place to start! With this complete writing template kit you have everything you need to encourage your students during writer's workshop to plan and research their topic...then draw and write their own non-fiction book with real text features like diagrams, facts, captions and more!
If you are seeking a way to meet the non-fiction writing s
Grades:
K - 2nd
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I Wonder Journal - Primary
Do you want to build a community of inquiry? Do you want to help your students ask questions about the world around them? This is the file for you! This can be done in a whole group setting with a "Wonder of the Day" or students could complete this independently or in small groups in a center. The Wonders of the Day can come from students' own wonders, current events, or various websites. I have found that www.wonderopolis.org to be a wonderful resource because it includes videos/articles relate
Grades:
1st - 2nd
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Iggy Peck, Architect: Literacy, Geometry and Engineering Unit
The students will be introduced to Iggy Peck, Architect through a story map and character traits ditto. They will begin to explore what an architect does and look at bridge design, focusing on geometry. The students will have 3 hands-on labs to complete this unit: "Which paper column can hold the most books?", "Build a truss bridge using craft sticks" and "Bridge building STEM challenge using EDP." The unit has 3 videos that will help the students better understand the key concepts of archit
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Grades:
1st - 5th
GATE Forms:Parent Appeal, HOPE Scale,Characteristic Behavior Scale-Editable doc.
Editable and fillable GATE Forms:HOPE ScaleThe HOPE Scale is designed to measure two very broad categories: Social and Academic components of giftedness and talent. It is meant to serve as a tool with which to focus a classroom teacher's nomination and perceptions of his/her students onto behaviors that are often observable by a classroom teacher.GATE PARENT APPEAL FORMThis is form is used in order for your child to be considered for alternate identification. This information along with test sco
Grades:
K - 12th, Staff
Also included in: Gifted and Talented editable forms, presentations & PD
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