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3rd grade creative writing resources for GATE under $5
Halloween Math Project Haunted House Estate - October Project Based Learning
Don't get "SPOOKED" with this bewitching Halloween Project Based Learning math unit. This PBL unit involves planning a HAUNTED HOUSE ESTATE SALE. Your students will love using their math and problem-solving skills as they work with decimals, word problems, and writing. This haunted house Halloween math project is a real-world challenge that requires students to use inquiry, critical thinking, and creative minds. During the high-interest cross-curricular [math, ELA] activities, you can play spook
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3rd - 5th
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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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Halloween & Fall S.C.A.M.P.E.R
This product contains 12 different S.C.A.M.P.E.R. templates for the following:Pumpkin PatchWitch's Broom Haunted HouseJack-O-LanternCandy CornTrick-Or-TreatScarecrowApple PieCorn MazeHayrideThanksgiving DinnerCandy Apple+ Create Your OwnEACH template comes with 4 different creative thinking questions to spark critical thinking and unique answers around the specific topic that is being scampered!
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K - 12th
Also included in: S.C.A.M.P.E.R The School Year BUNDLE
February Writing Journal and Task Cards
This printable journal with 30 seasonal topics is a perfect addition to your writing curriculum or work on writing center. Looking at a big blank piece of paper can be really intimidating to a young writer. These pages are perfectly sized and designed to be inviting and interesting for your first, second, and third graders.
Print as few or as many pages as you'd like then staple together and you're set for the month! You can also print one topic at a time instead of using as a journal. Also inc
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1st - 5th
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The Mysteries of Harris Burdick - Inferring Lesson
Are you working on inferring with your students? Use an exciting, mysterious book to help them practice utilizing their inferring skills!
This lesson should be used after students after learned some about inferring. It is a great way to practice what they've learned.
The book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, features interesting and strange illustrations with elusive titles and lines. In this lesson plan, you will walk through the book with your class, and then have them infer what Harris Bu
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3rd - 8th
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Halloween Critical & Creative Thinking
Keep your students engaged all month long with hair raising riddles, spooky logic problems, and eerie transformations.In this resource you will find logic and word play to keep your students engaged during the month of October. Please look at the preview to see if this would be challenging (too much or too little) for your students. There are a variety of activities as it is designed with the K-6 Gifted and Talented teacher in mind but includes multiple activities that can span all of K-6.There
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K - 6th
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Christmas & Winter S.C.A.M.P.E.R
This product contains 12 different S.C.A.M.P.E.R. templates for the following:snowmanSnow globeSledUgly SweaterMistletoeCandy CaneGingerbread HouseChristmas TreeNutcrackerWreath Christmas LightsStocking+ Create Your OwnEACH template comes with 4 different creative thinking questions to spark creative/critical thinking and unique answers around the specific topic that is being scampered!
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K - 12th
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Also included in: S.C.A.M.P.E.R The School Year BUNDLE
Genius Hour Passion Projects | Real World Writing PBL | Grade 4th 5th 6th
This real world mini ELA genius hour passion project, provides students with the chance to research and share their knowledge of an interesting topic with the class. It has been designed for students in grades 3 to 6. Now suitable for home and distance learning with PDF and Google slides.Each English project is designed to run between 3-5 lessons depending on how much time you wish to allocate to the tasks. The projects are easy to follow and can either be teacher run or student driven. Have stu
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: ELA PBL | Real World Writing Projects Growing BUNDLE!
Thinking Activities for Early Finishers Language Arts Brain Busters Grades 3-5
This collection of 65 brain teasers incorporate Blooms Taxonomy and creative and critical thinking. These anchor pursuits are for students of mixed abilities - including the gifted and talented. They can be cut and pasted into a spiral notebook or journal. Our young scholars can skip around through pages of tasks to revisit and generate more ideas, days later. Another option is to have students choose one activity at a time which is always helpful when there is a substitute.Finding meanin
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3rd - 5th
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Potato Chip Advertisement and taste testing project, taste test, PBL
Project based learning at it's best!This Potato Chip Advertisement Project Resource is packed full of fun activities that will keep your kiddos engaged while practicing and extending their skills.This resource includes engaging activities geared towards the upper elementary and intermediate student. The activities can be used stand alone in centers, teacher and small group, or for a full-blown classroom transformation. I added a few more “props” like aprons and chef hats and and they absolutely
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3rd - 6th
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Squiggle Stories! A Creative Writing Activity
Squiggle is a fun, no-prep, creative writing activity that is differentiated for many different grade levels, while still being engaging and teaching important writing standards and skills.Squiggle is a fun and engaging creative writing activity that you will love as much as your students! Every time I use this activity, my students get so excited about it and beg to do it again and again! The nature of the lesson (using a squiggle to draw an illustration and using that as the basis of an origin
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2nd - 5th
Christmas Creative & Critical Thinking Frenzy
Keep your students engaged all month long with jolly word play and merry and bright brainteasers. In this resource you will find logic and word play to keep your students engaged during the month of December. Please look at the FULL preview to see if this would be challenging (too much or too little) for your students. There are a variety of activities (at different grade levels) as it is designed with the K-6 Gifted and Talented teacher in mind but includes multiple activities that can span all
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K - 6th
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S.C.A.M.P.E.R Creative Thinking with Animals A-Z Activity Packet
S.C.A.M.P.E.R is a tool for creative thinking developed by Bob Eberle. In this packet they use SCAMPER to change animals from A-Z. These can be used with gifted learners or with any student to help them develop higher-order and creative thinking skills. You can use these worksheets whole class or put them in an independent center.
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K - 5th
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IB PYP Learner Profile Crowns
This set of fun, differentiated crowns includes both blank and coloring page crowns which represent the IB principles. The crowns are a fun way to introduce or spotlight the Learner Profiles. Younger students with limited knowledge of the IB principles can color and discuss how to set goals and incorporate those traits by debriefing on their ideas depicted in the representations.
Older students can utilize the blank templates to record their ideas or goals. This activity could also be used to h
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PreK - 5th
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FUN AT HOME PROJECT Create-A-Country! G & T...RUBRIC INCLUDED
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Creative Writing/GATE Project! 10 PAGES OF ACTIVITIES!
This packet includes a complete “start to finish,” guide for creating a new country.
* The students will be able:
-to create a name
-decide the population
-determine the types of communities
-places to: eat, shop, play, go to school
-the culture of your country, etc…
** They will also be able to design what their country will look like on a map, where it might be located near and how people can
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3rd - 5th, Staff
Creative Scribble Journal Based on Torrence Test of Creativity
This scribble journal is an adaptation of the Torrence Test of Creativity. It is designed to challenge the creative thought of your high achieving students, while providing an extension for the practice of their weekly spelling or vocabulary words. It is meant to be a low maintenance quick and easy way to support the gifted/early finishers in your classroom. This journal could later be used to support formal identification for gifted services for the students in your class. The included challeng
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K - 3rd
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What Can You Do With Ten Dots? A Book To Inspire Creativity
Get your students creative juices flowing as you start the school year. Read the book Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews. Give students 55 colored dots, this booktivity, and let your students be inspired to create their own book. This is a perfect activity to use the first week of school because students can work independently and let you have some time to get some much needed work done!
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K - 6th
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Silly Story Starters: Writing Center
Thanks for checking out my Silly Story Starters: Writing Center! Are your kids stuck on what to write about? Are they looking for new ideas? Are you looking for creative fictional writing? This low-prep center is for you and your students!
Students will pick three cards (from 36 - that's over 1,700 possibilities!) - who, what, and where to get themselves started, brainstorm their ideas, and publish their final story!
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- Clear Teacher Instructions
- 36 Story Cards
- Story Starter La
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K - 3rd
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Creative Writing | Gifted and Talented Activities
What does it take to be a Creative Thinker?What are the best ways to come up with Creative Solutions? Here’s a wonderful resource that provides some practice and is a great opportunity to add differentiation and enrichment to your classroom schedule. The activities include in this resource are perfect for exercising your student's brains and encouraging a GROWTH MINDSET.Students learn about each of the 8 Characteristics of Creative Thinking AwarenessCuriosityImaginationFluencyFlexibilityOriginal
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3rd - 6th
Night Lights, Bright Lights: Aurora Borealis
Brighten up your curriculum with this nonfiction Common Core aligned science and literacy unit involving the aurora borealis. The nonfiction reader gives an in depth explanation of how and why auroras form. Students are challenged to apply, infer, and compare/contrast their knowledge of auroras. The science experiment included is sure to "light up" the smiles on your students' faces! Your students can also apply creative processes as they write a legend about how auroras developed (correlated
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2nd - 6th
Novel Study Choice Board - Enrichment, Extension & Differentiation for ANY novel
This choice board includes 9 creative reading and writing activities that can be used with any fiction book your students are reading! This choice board can be used as enrichment and extension for a whole-class novel study, or students can complete the choices based on a novel of choice they are reading on their own.This is a perfect meaningful extension for your gifted learners and early finishers._____So Many Ways to Use:My students keep a copy of the choice board in their binders. Then, once
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Novel Study Resource BUNDLE | Novel Activities to go with ANY Novel
Picture This: Creative Writing Prompts for Early Finishers
If you are like me, you're probably always on the lookout for engaging and challenging early finisher activities! This collection of writing prompts is sure to delight your students while fostering creativity and providing additional writing practice. They can be utilized in a few different ways:
Option 1: Laminate small cards, cut apart, & put on rings.
Option 2: Display in a small pocket chart in a writing center.
Option 3: Attach select prompts to the front of composition notebooks for
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2nd - 5th
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Halloween Depth and Complexity Frames, Games, and Activities
Make learning about Halloween engaging, educational, and meaningful by incorporating the prompts of Depth and Complexity and Content Imperatives! This 50 page bundle offers Depth and Complexity frames, engaging games, and lots of activities to get your kids communicating, writing, creating, brainstorming, illustrating, and thinking! Get your students to hold collaborative conversations regarding Halloween traditions, rules, ethics, and more! Your students will also write their own spooky stor
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2nd - 8th
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Thesaurus and Poetry Writing Robert Frost's Dust of Snow Early & Middle Grades
Raise students' thesaurus skills to incredible heights using Robert Frost's poem "Dust of Snow." Your students will love the gorgeous visuals included to awaken all of their senses. This lesson is perfect for early elementary and middle elementary students who need to develop their thesaurus skills and address poetry standards. They'll rewrite Frost's poem using what they gained from the thesaurus work they've done, creating fabulous poems based on the mentor text.Using the provided discussion g
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2nd - 4th
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