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Reading Enrichment Activities for K, 1st, and 2nd Grade Early Finishers & Gifted

Rated 4.75 out of 5, based on 152 reviews
4.8 (152 ratings)
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Pencils and Chalk
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Grade Levels
K - 2nd, Homeschool
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70 Printable Pages + 70 Google Slides™
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This was a great resource for my co-taught 2nd grade classroom with students who have varying levels.
This was super engaging and fun for my GT students or the kids that always finished their work early. These puzzles really have kids thinking deeper!
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  1. This bundle of 350 open-ended reading and math enrichment activities for your gifted and talented students or fast finishers will boost creative writing, reading comprehension, spatial reasoning, and problem-solving. All enrichment activities are low (or no!) prep, saving you tons of time and money.
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This set of 70 engaging, open-ended reading and language arts enrichment activities for K, 1st, and 2nd grade gifted and talented or fast finishers will boost creative writing, vocabulary, spelling, grammar, critical thinking skills and more!

All of these activities are low (or no!) prep, saving you tons of time and money. No more looking for generic puzzles or word searches.... or printing extra worksheets you already used.

These make great independent projects for gifted and talented students. Or, they could be used as part of small group activities.

The challenges can be reused and customized to fit your classroom needs for gifted students and early finishers. Activities come with multiple variations and TEMPLATES so you can customize the challenges to your classroom!

⭐⭐ Download the preview and get a FREE page!⭐⭐

These activities are designed with kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd graders in mind who need more of a challenge in language arts. The activities focus on 4 language arts domains:

VOCABULARY

  • Cryptograms
  • Acrostics
  • Word Creation from Letter Banks
  • Story Creation from Word Banks
  • Word Sorts
  • Grammar Rule Discovery

PARTS OF SPEECH

  • Noun Drawings
  • Verb Drawings
  • Adjective Drawings
  • Prefix Puzzles
  • Suffix Puzzles

CRITICAL THINKING

  • Compare/Contrast Story Elements
  • Compare/Contrast Words
  • Design Challenges
  • Invention Challenges
  • Imagining New Landmarks

WRITING & COMPOSITION

  • Create or Change Stories
  • Rhyming Poems
  • Historical Figure Challenges
  • Futuristic Challenges


Working with distance learning needs? You get a PDF version of all activities, PLUS Google Slides™ for all activities!

Looking for a year-long resource? This is it! With 70 different challenges PLUS templates, you've got enough to last all year long!

This pack is perfect for:

  • Resource teachers
  • Gifted / GATE teachers
  • Classroom teachers with early finishers / students who need a challenge
  • Homeschoolers

Please Note:

This pack is meant primarily for K-2 students who are advanced and in need of a challenge. Please view the preview, as well as the thumbnails before purchase to ensure that this product will be appropriate for your students!

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Teachers like you said....


⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wendi M. says... " This was a very good resource for my virtual gifted students, grades 1 - 2. They seemed to enjoy all the activities, and it was easy to use. Thank you!”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mrs. Lus Can Dos says... "Very good resource. Had a lot of things our district recommended to enrich GT learners.”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Niki’s teaching Tools says... "I love how open-ended these resources are. They really help students to think and not just finish a page quickly.”


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Total Pages
70 Printable Pages + 70 Google Slides™
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Lifelong tool
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