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1st grade Presidents' Day reading resources for GATE
2nd Grade Project-Based Learning: School Garden - Science Text Included
This project-based learning is great for NGSS 2-LS2-1 and related standards, as well as teaching about and practicing main idea and details in short passages! You and your students will love this second grade project based learning resource! Teach your students science, reading, and writing by planning and presenting a school garden. Your students will learn about and apply research skills, writing sentences, main idea, key details, and more during this PBL. It meets many science standards and i
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1st - 2nd
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Gifted Thinkers Resource Bundle
These resources will keep your advanced learners and gifted thinkers on their toes! They are also great for pushing all student to dig deep and think critically!
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1st - 4th
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Choice Boards Choice Menus Second Grade Literature Early Finishers Fast Finisher
In this unit you will find 12 choice boards. These boards have 9 mini choice boards, one for each second grade literature standard and 3 choice boards sorted by the different domains.This is part of a bundle that you can find here.On each mini choice board, you will find 8 activities for your students to use with their independent reading books. Some of the activities will require books from a specific genre. These activities work well to broaden students’ understanding of literature elements
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1st - 3rd
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Valentine's Box Book Reports
Valentine's Day Boxes with an academic twist!
As a third grade teacher, I try to find an academic connection for all things cutesy and fun, otherwise I really can't justify it. :) If you're looking for a way to bring an academic focus to your Valentine's Day party, this may be right up your alley! Essentially, your students will choose books to write book reports about, then they will decorate their Valentine's Day boxes to represent them and present their reports in front of the class! It
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1st - 4th
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Thinking Outside the Box- Using Creative and Critical Thinking Skills
“I cannot teach anyone anything. I can only make them think.” ~SocratesUtilizing this unit, your students will learn higher-order thinking skills including both creative thinking and critical thinking skills. Students will go beyond basic observation of facts and memorization. Through explicit instruction students to become more evaluative, creative and innovative in their thinking. This unit includes multiple teaching methodologies with variations on each for extended application. Through this
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1st - 5th
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Depth and Complexity Primary Extension Literature Units BUNDLE (Gate)
Depth & Complexity Primary Literature Units (4 Included)4 Units Included: Details, Big Idea, Unanswered Questions and RulesEACH UNIT CONTAINS: 1 Week Long Unit - 5 LessonsThis weeklong unit was designed to introduce primary aged students to the one depth and complexity icon through mentor texts. It is great for whole group lessons, small group extensions, and independent practice.Each unit has:One full week of lesson plansActivities and extensionsSuggested mentor texts (fiction and non-ficti
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K - 5th
February STEM STEAM Challenge: President's Day Edition
President's Day is a great time to honor our founding fathers. And what better way to honor our first president than by building a new monument? Using the listed materials, students will create a presidential pillar so that Washington's portrait (a quarter) can balance on top.
Included in this pack are:
-- Printable student challenge card
-- Teacher materials list
-- Pre-Activity guide
-- Engineering Design Process flow-chart for student record keeping
-- Self-assessment/Reflection page (diffe
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K - 5th
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Common Core Unit
Everything you need to teach the Wizard of Oz. It can be adapted for multiple grade levels and encompasses all aspects of common core. This unit is designed around the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. It includes a months worth of ELA lessons.
This unit includes:
- teacher lesson plans
- vocabulary words for each chapter
- reading response pages for each chapter
- prediction worksheets
- social studies connection - creating a map
- analyzing the setting
- character ana
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1st - 6th
Reading Comprehension STEM mega bundle
UPDATE - Now with a DECODABLE READER version of most stories included. The rest to be updated asap. Want to save time and teach reading comprehension and STEM together? I developed this program to simplify my planning. With Reading Comprehension STEM, you'll have a full year of lessons that'll keep your students engaged and inspire them to learn more. Easy to prep, and developmentally sequential, this bundle provides reading, writing, and STEM lessons for grades 1-3. Connecting STEM and ELA
Abraham Lincoln Log Cabin STEM
Abraham Lincoln - President's Day STEM - In this STEM challenge your students will learn some facts about Abraham Lincoln and will complete the challenge of building a one room log cabin similar to his childhood home. Students must stick to a budget and use the available supplies. This STEM challenge meets several NGSS standards and encourages critical thinking, budgeting, and engineering skills.
Suggested Plan of Implementation:
Prior Week: Send home the parent letter requesting supplies.
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K - 6th
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Also included in: STEM Activities Bundle
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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Google Forms Reading Comprehension
This digital, paperless resource includes 40 fiction reading passages at the guided reading levels J-M. The reading passages create a high level of engagement for your second-grade readers and are perfect for their reading level. There are a total of 40 stories with comprehension questions, included in this bundle. The stories were created in Google Forms. Each short story includes a cover page, the story, and 2 pages of comprehension questions. The comprehension questions are a mix of short ans
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Guided Reading Digital Passages Levels A- R (Fiction and Nonfiction)
Rosie Revere Engineer Activities - STEM Challenge
Engage your students with Engineering and STEM from the very beginning of the year! I like to read this book at the beginning of the year to start our STEAM or STEM lessons. It goes great with Growth Mindset as well! Your students will love Rosie and her gadgets and gizmos. Chances are you might have a "Rosie" in your class. Includes a Invention sheet that includes the engineering design process and a Flying Machine STEM or STEAM challenge! Other Pages are:Story Elements including Characters,
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1st - 3rd
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Also included in: STEM Bundle | Back to School
Reading Comprehension: Using Higher Order Thinking Skills
It is important to attain higher order thinking skills for our students as we tackle the new common core standards. This packet includes different types of activities that will engage your students and challenge their thinking and understanding. The activities are good for large group, small group, partner work, independent, or at centers.
This packet includes:
Comprehension Cards for any story
Foldable Dice for Pre and Post Reading
Tic Tac Toe Activity boards to allow for differentiated inst
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K - 12th
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Signs of Fall Using My Five Senses In the Fall eBook Activity for Google Slides™
Digital and Printable! Use the 5 senses to observe signs of fall or autumn and illustrate a book. Students insert a photo or drawing to show what they see, hear, taste, smell, and touch and feel in the fall. 10 pages include text with common seasonal changes, and 5 slides are editable to add custom text. 3 interactive slides ask students to drag objects on the screen to show the cycle of all four seasons, match body parts to each of the five senses, and show their favorite parts of fall. Use as
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 5 Senses in the 4 Seasons Google Slides™ eBook Templates for K-2 BUNDLE
A Deep and Complex Look at Patterns- Mega Unit
“I cannot teach anyone anything. I can only make them think.” ~SocratesUsing this resource, students will critically analyze the universal theme of patterns in the world around them. Patterns help students make sense of the world. Our brains naturally look for patterns to create order in our world. This multi-disciplinary unit focuses on developing complex thinking about patterns in literature, mathematics, science, music, and the arts.Included in this resource:Full implementation guides Lessons
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K - 2nd
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Fairy Tale Choice Boards Choice Menus Fast Finishers Early Finishers Activities
Having choice is something our students crave, especially during times when they are learning at home, independently or through distance learning. If you're looking for low prep and easy to implement resources to offer your students choice, try choice boards. These choice boards cover fifteen fairy tales:-Aladdin-Alice in Wonderland-Cinderella-Goldilocks & the 3 Bears-Hansel & Gretel-Jack & the Beanstalk-Peter Pan-Rapunzel-Rumpelstiltskin-Red Riding Hood-Sleeping Beauty-Snow White-T
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1st - 3rd
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The Enormous Crocodile Mini-Unit with Depth and Complexity
This mini-unit is a companion to the Roald Dahl book, The Enormous Crocodile. Using this resource, students have the opportunity to dig deeply into the details, plot structure, and word play in the story. Adding an additional layer, students will also be presented with additional related texts (nonfiction and poetry) to explore and compare. *****************************************************************************Check out my other advanced novel study units based on Depth and Complexity!Adva
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1st - 3rd
Amazing Race Printable Templates
This file is a PowerPoint file with Amazing Race templates to create challenges, detours and roadblocks in any content area. These templates can be used digitally or as printables. Just click inside the editable text boxes to add your content.Template includes: planning pageschallenge folderroute information carddetour cardroadblock cardplayer name tagsPowerPoint slides template
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K - 12th, Staff
Informational Text Second Grade Choice Menus Choice Boards
These choice boards cover all of the second grade informational text standards. These boards provide easy differentiation for your students, as well as provide enrichment activities for your early finishers.In this unit you will find 13 choice boards. These boards have 10 mini choice boards, one for each second grade literature standard and 3 choice boards sorted by the different domains.On each mini choice board, you will find 8 activities for your students to use with their independent inform
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1st - 3rd
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Test Prep to support the format of GATES vocab and STAR Early Literacy
These three practice tests will help familiarize your students with the format and question answer technique found in both the First Grade GATES vocabulary test and the STAR Early Literacy tests. The tests have pictures that the students have to choose the correct word with the correct spelling. I use these practice tests to help alleviate test stress on the actual test. My kids know they can do well, because they have already done something similar.
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K - 3rd
Fables & Fairy Tales Bundle With Depth & Complexity
Use fables and fairy tales to examine details, language, conflict, perspective, big idea and change over time.
Included in this bundle are resources and activities for using Depth & Complexity with the following stories:
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
The Ugly Duckling
The Three Little Pigs
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Lion and the Mouse
The Grasshopper and the Ant
The Tortoise and the Hare
~ the stories are not included~
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1st - 2nd
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ORDER 2: Order Allows for Predictions
Using this resource, students will critically analyze the universal theme of Order. This unit focuses specifically on the generalization “Order Allows for Prediction”. Our brains naturally look for patterns to create order in our world. We use order to make predictions about what is to come. Order provides rules which we can follow to know what to expect. This multi-disciplinary unit focuses on developing complex thinking about how order allows for prediction in literature, mathematics, science,
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1st - 2nd
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Order 1: Patterns Create Order
Using this resource, students will critically analyze the universal thems of patterns and order in the world around them. Patterns help students make sense of the world. Our brains naturally look for patterns to create order in our world. This multi-disciplinary unit focusses on developing complex thinking about patterns in literature, mathematics, science, music, and the arts.
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K - 2nd
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Not only is reading a core concept in the study of English language arts, but it’s also a cornerstone skill for proficiency in many other subjects (for instance, without strong reading skills, students won’t be able to solve math word problems or read through primary sources for social studies class).
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Elementary students just learning to read can practice the basics with some simple, fun phonics practice activities or small-group reading centers focused around sight words. Students in middle and high school can read novels and complete hands-on, interactive assignments that build their comprehension and critical thinking skills. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, you can sharpen your student's reading skills in no time.
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Engaging reading activities can energize your students and foster a love of reading. Here are a few ideas for reading activities from our teacher-created resources that you can find on TPT and try in your classroom:
Interactive Phonics Activities
Use hands-on activities such as sorting, matching, or building words with manipulatives to help students recognize phonics patterns and learn word families.
Word Hunts
Encourage students to find specific words either in a text or around the classroom to help reinforce sight word recognition.
Reader's Theater
Bring short stories, books, poems, or plays you’re reading in class to life by assigning roles to students and having them act out scenes. This can help enhance fluency and comprehension.
Interactive Read-Alouds
Engage the class by pausing during read-alouds to discuss the story’s theme, reflect on a character’s motivations or actions, or to ask students questions.
Comparative Analysis
Explore different adaptations of the same story (book versus movie, classic version versus a modern retelling) to encourage analysis of interpretation and presentation. You can also pair texts that are similar in theme, like poems and songs.
By incorporating these (and other!) reading activities into your lesson plans, you can nurture a love for reading while enhancing comprehension, critical thinking, and communication skills.
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