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Elementary literature resources for Microsoft Word and for GATE
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan - Teacher's Guide and Activities GATE
The beauty in The Lost Thing is that it settles into one’s soul in a casual and poetic way. What starts as a sort of amusing but sad story finds its way deeper into your heart. You begin to wonder, to ask questions. Soon you find yourself wanting to stand up and defend all the lost things in the world—including that lost part of yourself.
Are you somehow guilty too, you wonder? Quite unexpectedly, you begin to really feel the world Shaun Tan creates. It is a wonderful experience in mindf
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
Primary GATE with Caldecott COLLECTION - 180 pages - 7 Books!
Your primary kids will love these lessons! You save a bundle: 33% off individual purchases!
I teach 30-45 minute groups once a week of 1st and 2nd graders all year, and this collection is more than enough to get me through an entire school year of groups. I can’t absolutely guarantee it will do the same for you, but it’s going to be very close if it doesn’t . . .
You’ll see best practices in gifted education throughout. You’ll see many graphic organizers, age-appropriate and challenging cr
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K - 3rd
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Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick Unit Critical Thinking GATE Hands-on!
Students reluctant to read? They’ll read this one! These lessons will keep them interested and keep them thinking along the way … You’ll be free to pick and choose the best activities to suit your students, because in this collection, there is much, much more than you’ll ever need for one graphic novel unit.
Open Brian Selznick’s graphic novel Wonderstruck, and you will quickly see why readers of all ages are wonderstruck—captivated by the interplay of text and pictures, drawn into two storie
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4th - 7th
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Number the Stars: Chapter 1-3 Comprehension Quiz
Quiz/ test for Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. This activity is written in an A-B format, where students are required to support their answers with direct quotes from the novel. This ensures that students are refer back to the text to confirm their answers.
It includes multiple choice questions along with a short-response prompt. This document can be edited to adjust to the needs of your students. Additionally, these questions serve as higher-order thinking questions.
Example- How has the war
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3rd - 6th
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Little Island Primary Gifted and Talented Social-Emotional Values and Identity
We use this Caldecott Award Winning book to address social-emotional standards for primary gifted students. Not just a social-emotional unit, we answer critical thinking questions, explore literary theme and other ideas, and create a fun island adventure using a grid.
Great stuff for our youngest gifted learners: It’s hands-on, requires critical thinking, and good fun.
NAGC Learning and Development Standards
1.1 Self-Understanding. Students with gifts and talents demonstrate self-knowledge
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K - 3rd
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Script:The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
16 single-sided page script
Recommended for grades 4 through 8 (or younger, GT students)
Play is approximately 45 minutes long
A perfect culminating activity after enjoying the magic and symbolism of C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Enjoy!
(Long live Aslan; Long live Christmas!)
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3rd - 8th
Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Two Bad Ants" by Chris Van Allsburg
If you're like me, you can't easily find activities designed for primary grade gifted learners. This one hour activity, however, is specifically designed for Chris Van Allsburg’s "Two Bad Ants" and primary gifted and talented students—nurturing talent for both verbal and nonverbal high ability students.
In this activity, students use critical thinking and creative perspective-taking to create a “mystery drawing” similar to the close-ups in "Two Bad Ants."
In an interactive follow-up, classma
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K - 2nd
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- Owl Moon Pop-up and Critical Thinking
Now with a more kid-friendly pop-up option:
Owl Moon is incredibly rich in critical thinking potential, rich in artwork, and rich in the feelings words evoke.
Come along for a challenging lesson and a fun extension activity with the poetic 1988 Caldecott Award winner Owl Moon. Critical thinking about poetry, participatory reading, and figurative language along with a project in which we create an owl to “pop up” and spread its wings poetically will energize your students.
Caldecott books a
STAX Independent Reading Program for Advanced and GATE
Need to differentiate for advanced readers?
Everyone seems to have one or two readers who are simply beyond the group. With the Novel STAX Independent Reading Program, you’ll be differentiating instruction today!
Why purchase independent reading guides for your advanced and GATE readers when they can create and share their own? With STAX, your independent study framework is already developed for Common Core Standards, critical thinking, and variety in learning styles. Teachers serve as g
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented for BUSY CLASSROOM TEACHERS Volume 2 - 400+ Pages
Primary GATE with Caldecott -- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Come along for a challenging lesson and fun extensions with Ezra Jack Keats’s 1963 Caldecott winner, The Snowy Day.
I use this lesson with my 1st grade advanced readers. 2nd and 3rd graders should be right on target as well. Got a gifted kindergarten group? This will be an especially tough challenge for them but promises to stretch kids’ imagination and critical thinking skills across 4+ grade levels.
Pre-reading activities warm up your students for critical thinking questions as we “count
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K - 3rd
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH STAX Independent Reading Supplement for GATE
These independent reading program cards are designed for use with the STAX Independent Reading Program for Advanced and GATE. This is not the full program but a supplemental starter STAX for use with the program.
You can purchase the full program separately at the Portable Gifted and Talented store on TPT.
The STAX Independent Reading Program allows your gifted and advanced readers to create tasks and respond to meaningful critical thinking challenges to any novel. The STAX program invites b
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3rd - 8th
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GATE nonfiction reading response log
This is a reading response sheet that uses the GATE icons of depth and complexity. It can be used by GATE and nonGATE students. It makes responding to non fiction books more meaningful and challenging than typical non fiction response sheets. It can be used for homework or as a guide for literature circles.
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2nd - 6th
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Primary Gifted and Talented Social Emotional MARSHMALLOW Respecting Differences
We all share common hopes, dreams, feelings, and abilities no matter what ethnicity, nationality, gender, or group we belong to. That message is the key take-away from this primary GATE unit. As such, this unit is a social-emotional unit with NACG standards . . . but much more:Primary GATE best Practices with a Social-Emotional Emphasis· Critical Thinking· Language and Reading· Creativity· Science We use Clare Turlay Newberry’s Caldecott Honor book, Marshmallow, as our vehicle. We also use Lisa
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K - 2nd
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Curious George Gets a Medal for Primary GATE and Advanced Groups
Another classic picture book lesson bundle from Portable Gifted and Talented:
Hands-on literacy, critical thinking, cross-curricular, creative and visual – best practices for your 21st Century primary advanced and gifted groups and Common Core State Standards referenced. This lesson bundle is great for kindergarten and 1st grade and would be a great extension activity for larger groups in 2nd grade.
Level: KG and 1st advanced or gifted; 2nd whole group
Time: four hours and more
Critical Th
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Script - 45 Minute Version!
This is Shakespeare's famous play A Midsummer Night's Dream condensed down to 45 minutes. Puck acts as both the mischievous fairy and the narrator leading the audience from scene to scene. Perfect for school plays for younger actors and short performance events.
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5th - 9th
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Primary GATE with Caldecott - BLACKOUT by John Rocco
The beauty of quality “picture book” literature is not only in the fantastic artwork but also in the interplay of pictures and words to create meaning from shared experiences.
As emerging readers, our primary-aged GATE students are becoming adept at solving inferential “puzzles” which bring the world of literature fully to life. In this lesson, we help our young thinkers dig deeper by making visual-language connections. They’ll answer critical thinking questions with inferences through the de
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1st - 3rd
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The Forgotten Door novel study
When a boy from another world falls through a portal to Earth, he learns about the best and worst of Earth's civilization as he searches for the way back to his own planet."The Forgotten Door" is a science fiction book written at a 4.75 grade level. It is fairly dense and contains mature themes, such as fear, prejudice, and hatred. The AR level is 5.0. Although The Forgotten Door is out of print, it can be accessed on the resale market and as an e-book.This novel study is built on the premise of
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4th - 7th
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Menu of Independent Reading Projects FREE Enrichment and GATE
Just say YES to the five C’s for gifted learners with CHALLENGES, CHOICES, COMPLEXITY, CONTROL over what and how they learn, and teachers who authentically CARE. Energize all readers with this project choice menu – FREE! Come back for over 200 lessons and units specifically designed for gifted learners.
Grades:
3rd - 10th
Martha Speaks - Classic Picture Books for Primary GATE
In this bundle of lessons for Jane Meddaugh’s classic, students will actually have Martha speaking with their paper bag puppets. Like all the Primary GATE literacy units at Portable Gifted and Talented, this is fun, hands-on, participatory, and full of critical thinking challenges for your younger thinkers. Of course, you get the Common Core State Standards references, too. We’re not just barking into the wind here!
Critical Thinking Questions: more than you’ll ever need with a focus on exp
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1st - 3rd
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Afternoon of the Elves GATE Unit for Independent Study or Whole Class
Haven’t read this book yet? It is masterfully written!
This is a full GATE unit for Janet Taylor Lisle’s Newbery Honor Book, Afternoon of the Elves. This unit is much more thorough and different from the “STAX” independent reading unit for the same novel available in my store.
This unit includes instructions for independent study, small group, and whole class instruction. The focus for all options is decidedly higher order thinking skills, creativity, extension of the novel’s ideas and them
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4th - 7th
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A Balloon for a Blunderbuss -- Classic Picture Books for Primary GATE
This is fun, challenging, and hands-on literacy for your advanced primary groups.
Level—Advanced KG and 1st, whole class 2nd
Time—About 3 hours—easily separated in sessions
Butterfly pop-up glyph: students make a pop-up butterfly they hide in their hands—just like in the book. It’s not just a pop-up; it’s a colorful glyph all about their abilities and skills.
Trading cards: what will you trade for an elephant, a giant piece of cake, an owl who knows all the answers? Students negotiate and
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K - 2nd
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Depth and Complexity: The Invisible Boy
This literature response task utilises Kaplan's icons, featuring questions corresponding to each icon. Additionally, it includes a Depth and Complexity grid, allowing you to easily insert and arrange questions and icons according to your lesson goals. Included in this pack:- Depth and Complexity questions for each icon related to the book- Depth and Complexity mat with sample questions, ready to use- Blank Depth and Complexity mat- Blank Venn Diagram to compare and contrast elements from the b
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1st - 3rd
STEAM STEM CATS, CATS, CATS Across the Curriculum for GATE
Shouldn’t your 21st Century classroom be just like today’s virtual world? In other words, shouldn’t it be full of cats?!
We’ve got reading cats. We’ve got writing cats. We’ve got poetry cats. We’ve got math cats. We’ve got science and engineering cats. We’ve got graphic design, art, critical thinking, and creativity cats. We’ve got all kinds of cats across the curriculum! There are 7 lessons in all here—representing 7 to 10 hours (maybe even more) of class time. They are appropriate fo
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3rd - 6th
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Animation and Critical Thinking for GATE and Generation Z -- The Piano FREE
4th Graders through adults find this video and activity fascinating. Let's try it FREE!Maybe your students will ask the same question mine did, "When can we do this again?"Using a short 2 minute video and an accompanying "Visual Inference Guide," students quickly become engaged in a critical analysis as they share insights with classmates--connecting video and literature.This format works for upper elementary through high school honors classes because students respond according to their abilit
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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