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Common Core RI.5.10 resources for GATE
Reading Genres Mini-Unit | Genre Posters, Activities, Worksheets, & Quiz
Looking to spice up your review of the different reading genres? Look no further! This engaging bundle packs a punch with genre posters, doodle notes, and genre activities like riddles, book sorts, scavenger hunts, and more! From dull to delightful, this mini-unit will make learning about book genres both engaging and effective!✔ Check out the preview for more information!Unveil a world of possibilities for your students this year by developing their understanding of literary genres. It's the cr
Grades:
5th - 7th
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Westward Expansion Project - Distance Learning
Westward Expansion Project– This culminating project can be used with any study of the Westward Expansion Movement. This is an easy and effective way to differentiate to meet the needs for ALL students in your class. (especially gifted and talented learners). Students are asked to choose one out of eight possible project choices about Westward Expansion. Each project requires students to do research using online and print sources, take notes using the provided graphic organizers, and create a
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Â Westward Expansion Project Bundle
Oregon Trail Learn about Pioneers Interactive Digital Escape Game
Try this FREE sample to check out how they work! The Oregon Trail Interactive Learning Experience/Escape Room, is a fun and engaging way to introduce students to Westward Expansion, the pioneers, and the Oregon Trail. Each topic covered has an informational passage a video about the topic being covereda video about the stop along the traila puzzle to solve to find the clue for the escape rooma 'just for fun' game for early finishers Can they crack the code?At each stop along the trail, different
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3rd - 6th
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Multiple Main Ideas - Ready-To-Go!
Ready to go mini-lessons and independent practice for Multiple Main Ideas! The mini-lessons are designed for modeling of a specific skill related to multiple main ideas with similar independent practice activities to match! Work through the mini-lessons, independent practice and test-prep questions and then move into a deeper understanding of the content through activities designed with DOK and Kaplan's Depth and Complexity in mind!Included:4 Mini-Lessons with Passages4 Independent Practice Wo
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5th
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BACK to SCHOOL | Project Based Learning | Lunchbox Challenge
Need new and exciting enrichment or differentiation for your classroom?Who couldn't use a better lunchbox? Here's a fun and easy-prep, project based learning activity that follows the steps of the Engineer Design Process!This workshop includes:• An Interactive Activity that teaches How Creative Thinkers Think• Real photos of the activity in process• Lunchbox History • How to get Creative Juices Flowing• Introduction to Creating a Lunchbox• Design Process tips (option to use personal devices for
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4th - 6th
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Mexican Independence Day Depth and Complexity Activities for El Grito de Dolores
This Mexican Independence Day Activity Pack is chock-full of print-and-go activities to help you celebrate Mexican Independence Day and/or El Grito de Dolores while addressing loads and loads of English Language Arts and Social Studies standards. It's perfect for teacherIf you're looking for a way to teach students about Mexican Independence Day that is culturally sensitive, has lots of activities, and uses the Depth & Complexity framework, this activity pack is perfect!You'll find Mexican I
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4th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Fall Activities Depth and Complexity Print and Go Autumn BUNDLE
STEAMy GATE 4th 5th 6th PYRAMIDS Unit
Very STEAMy with reading and writing, too! This unit is loaded with higher order thinking tasks, variety across the curriculum, creative responses, and hands-on learning through building and design. It’s the same sort of stuff you’re used to seeing here, and your kids will love it!
• Level—4th through 6th grade GATE
• Time—about 15 hours
• Materials—start saving cardboard!
Craft sticks and tape or low temp hot glue. Otherwise, common classroom materials.
You’ll get explanations, teacher
Grades:
4th - 7th
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September STEM Activities and Challenges with Close Reading Passages
STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. The September STEM Design Challenge COLLECTION is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It gives you FOUR OF MY BEST SELLING STEM CHALLENGES and will seamlessly allow you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passages IN ADDITION to the fun STEM activities! Watch your kids
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in:Â STEM Activities Projects Bundle with April Spring and Easter STEM Challenges
Project Based Learning | Engineer Design Challenge | Create a New Car Accessory
Welcome your students to the assembly line of creative thinkers with this GATER Educator project-based learning workshop. Challenge your students to develop new and improved car accessories in order to enhance people’s driving experience using the 5 steps of the engineering design process.(Check out the PREVIEWS, older or slightly younger students may enjoy this activity as well!)Looking for specific GIFTED and TALENTED ACTIVITIES? Click the link belowGifted and Talented Activities for the Class
Grades:
5th - 7th
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Also included in:Â Escape Room Challenge | Elon Musk Close Reading & Project Based Learning
Spanish Explorers of North America
Looking for a way to put the learning into the hands of your students? Students will learn about the Spanish explorers that came to the Americas and as they read the informational passages of each, they will collect information to make a set of explorer trading cards. Using this information, students will then decide which explorer to portray in a living history museum. In addition to discussing the history of their explorer, they will have to take a stance regarding the impact they had on the N
Grades:
5th
Also included in:Â Early American History Growing Bundle
Reading Genres Activities - Genre Worksheets for Higher-Level Thinking
Spice up your genre activities for your gifted upper elementary and early middle school students with these higher-level genre worksheets! Designed for students already familiar with reading genre basics, these engaging extension activities will take their thinking to the next level. Encourage creativity and critical thinking as students explore the characteristics of each genre in unique ways.✔ Check out the preview for more information!Through these engaging genre activities, your students wil
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5th - 6th
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Also included in:Â Reading Genres Mini-Unit | Genre Posters, Activities, Worksheets, & Quiz
Quirky Winter Sports: Fun Reading and Writing Activity Compare and Contrast
Unleash a world of critical thinking and creativity using fun, winter themed, reading comprehension passages for gifted and talented and general education students. Have your students read and learn about three unusual, real winter sports. This product provides high level non fiction text on Yukigassen, Skijoring, and Shovel Racing. After the engaging passages, students will compare and contrast all three sports. There are also discussion questions to assess a student's comprehension and allow
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4th - 6th
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DAY OF THE DEAD Reading Writing & Art Integration Unit | Hispanic Sugar Skulls
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep,30-page Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Reading, Writing, Research, and Art Unit! It includes everything you need to celebrate and understand the tradition of Sugar Skulls as it relates to Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos). It also allows students to compare/contrast Halloween and Day of the Dead through online research.The following resources are included:•Sugar Skull nonfiction passage, CCSS-aligned
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
THANKSGIVING ART BUNDLE | Thankfulness Choice Board Rockwell Totem Pole
Easily incorporate ART INTEGRATION into your classroom routine with these four Thanksgiving Art Activities! The following Thanksgiving Art Integration Activities Resources are included:•Thankfulness Choice Board Art Activity: Students will brainstorm Who, What, Where, When, and Why they are thankful. After choosing one from their brainstorm list, they will use the Choice Board to select an art form to create that represents their selection. •Create a Totem Pole that represents your family Rubric
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Also included in:Â THANKSGIVING BUNDLE | Read Write STEM Art Games Research Activity Worksheets
PBL Introduction to Architecture: Build Your Own Dream Treehouse
No planning required! This PBL comes with a 32-slide presentation introducing the major concepts, elements, and procedures of architecture. Students will then use the elements and process to answer research questions (resources provided), plan, sketch, build, present, and reflect on their dream treehouse! This bundle comes with a 12-page paced guide for students, with teacher signoffs on every step.
Grades:
4th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
SUGAR SKULLS ART INTEGRATION Self Others Book Character Hispanic Day of the Dead
Easily incorporate ART INTEGRATION into your classroom routine with this no-prep,18-page Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Reading and Art Unit! It includes everything you need to celebrate and understand the tradition of Sugar Skulls as it relates to Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos). The following resources are included:•Sugar Skull nonfiction passage, CCSS-aligned questions, & answer key•Create a Sugar Skull •Choose whether to create it with paper or clay•Choose whether to create it about yo
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Black History - Jamestown - Leveled Reading Passage - Comprehension Questions
Are you looking for a leveled reading passage with comprehension questions that also teaches important history? This 3-page non-fiction text tells the important story of the first Africans to arrive in Jamestown. Your students will improve their reading comprehension by practicing skills like identifying the main idea and inference; improve vocabulary by practicing context clues and learn important history through reading informational text. You get 5 days of activities that make a fantastic
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5th - 7th
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Island of the Blue Dolphins Summative Project Choice Boards
This is a summative project based learning choice board. With 9 different student choice options, students are able to create a project that showcases their reading comprehension, creativity, and interests. Projects include writing, filming, presenting, creating diorama and 3d models. Each project has a google slide page that describes the expectations. My 3rd and 4th GATE students love this project, and it is wonderful to provide them authentic opportunities to showcase their unique talents as
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Nonfiction Reading Escape Room Elizabethan Times Research Game
Engage your students in reading nonfiction! Students will read about the fashions of Elizabethan Times as they read three nonfiction passages and answer comprehension questions to solve locks and escape. This escape room is perfect as a nonfiction companion to a unit on a Shakespeare play or as an introduction to reading nonfiction. Story: An evil wizard has sent you back in time. To come back to the present, solve three locks.1st: students read the back story2nd: students read 3 nonfiction "cl
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4th - 7th
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Informative Writing and Research Mathematicians and Scientists
Informative Research and Writing: Researching Mathematicians and Scientists ... Students research and write an informative composition on a famous mathematician or scientist! Biographies, note taking outlines, and blank writing pages are included in this purchase. Multiple Common Core Standards and TEKS for 5th Grade Writing are supported.
Included:
* 5 Biographies
(Albert Einstein, Archimedes, Carl Friedrich Gauss,
Sophie Germain, Emmy Noether)
* 5 Outlines / Graphic Organizer for
Multiple Intelligences: ARGUE IT! CHOICE CARDS® - SET 1
Power-Up your classroom with BYTES Power Smarts! These Choice Cards include 25 argumentative essay prompts that cover multiple standards for Common Core. See full packet contents listed below and click on Preview under the thumbnails above to see a sample of the packet contents.Choice Cards® are task cards, but we think the word CHOICE is more motivational. Students have lots of CHOICES with BYTES Power Smarts IT! Packs. Students can choose an IT! Pack and, within that pack, they can choose w
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4th - 6th
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Black History - Jamestown - Leveled passage - Reading Comprehension Questions
Are you looking for a leveled text with comprehension questions that teaches students about important history? This 3-page text tells the important story of the first Africans to arrive in Jamestown. It makes a great supplement to a unit about Black History, Jamestown, Colonial America, the Civil War or Civil Rights. You get the article and the activities as a pdf printable AND they are ready to use in Easel!This free sample is part of my larger, differentiated resource, The First Africans -
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5th - 7th
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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
Integration of Knowledge using Online Reading Passages
Explore Reading:Informational Common Core Standards using this resource! Three sets of articles and videos have students explore bias, structure, compare/contrast, how authors prove their point, and MORE! Articles can be found online (websites inserted in the file) and are all FREE! The articles are also high-interest as their topics include the Mayan "Doomsday" Prediction, Minecraft and Artificial Intelligence!
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Lesson Plans
Test Prep Questions
Article and Video Links
Discussion Ca
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5th - 8th
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