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Elementary english language arts resources for Microsoft Word and for GATE $5-10
The Arrival by Shaun Tan -- 100+ Page Unit and Teacher's Guide GATE
Yes, we can teach reading, writing, speaking and listening, and critical thinking skills using this amazing graphic novel which has no “words!” It’s a journey about who we are, where we have come from, and the humanity we share. It’s about hope and love and understanding. At times powerful, at times breathtakingly beautiful . . . Shaun Tan’s The Arrival should be on every bookshelf in every classroom.This 100+ page teaching guide and unit has been developed over the past three years in my adv
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5th - 12th
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" Mo Willems
Let’s have some fun along with the Pigeon and expand DOK along the way! This lesson will lead your primary GATE students through four challenging activities, culminating in an artistic response showing why they “never get to do anything!” either.
Gifted and talented learners carry similar characteristics throughout their lives—even as kindergarten and first graders. One common characteristic of gifted learners is a strong sense of justice. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus gives us a good o
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K - 3rd
SHARK TANK Economics Pitches Prototypes PROJECT BASED PBL GATE
Welcome to the shark tank project-based learning unit. Let’s begin our entrepreneurial careers today!
Build critical thinking skills, public speaking success, and bring creativity, language arts, and economics into your classroom in a purposeful and authentic way.
Students will work in collaborative teams to solve a complex, ongoing, inquiry-based problem with a physical product for an authentic audience:
• Brainstorm a product, citing a need that will be fulfilled.
• Construct a prototyp
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Creativity Bundle for GATE Gifted and Talented and ALL
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
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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Road Trip Adventure PROJECT BASED LEARNING for GATE and 3rd - 8th Grades
Come along on a fun project-based adventure as students practice different forms of writing, geography skills, computer and internet technology skills, engineering and design skills, math skills, public speaking, creativity, and art.
Here is your Gold Medal Standard project based learning unit ready to go. Because this project-based unit relies heavily on student creativity and invention, the key knowledge, understanding, and success skills can be scaffolded across many grade levels. This un
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in: SIMULATIONS Real-World Projects GATE Bundle Gifted
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
Origami Frog Obstacle Course Enrichment - Blended Learning Choice Board STEAM
Can you safely navigate your origami frog through the obstacle course?
The Frog Obstacle Course has elements of STEAM, blended learning, thematic units, and problem-based learning wrapped together to make something 100% so cool!
Here we have kid-built engineering, standards-based independent challenges, and hands-on learning adaptable for your class, grade level, or group.
But wait . . . you have to earn your spot on the “frogstacle course” by completing independent, standards-based activit
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: KID CREATED GAMES Standards-based STEM and Math Games Bundle
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 Sources: Propaganda and Vintage Posters
Best practices in history through primary sources, critical thinking with logic and inferences, expository writing, 21st Century Learning, more than a dozen standards from the Common Core, and creative extensions – all in one lesson!
In this lesson, students learn student-friendly propaganda technique definitions using “picture-notes”—an effective note-taking technique that fosters the visual-language connection. Depth of knowledge increases as students examine primary source posters and apply
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4th - 12th
WHALES & Dolphins -- Cross-Curricular Adventure Upper Elementary and GATE
Use these activities as a supplement to your curriculum or stand-alone learning opportunities. Use them for advanced 3rd grade groups or 4th and 5th grades.
With this collection, you’ll get full explanations of the activities, ready-to-print activity sheets, templates, examples of student work, and photos so you are ready to go TODAY in your classroom!
Included in this collection are six activities to enhance your study of oceans, marine mammals, or whales. These activities are charged wi
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3rd - 5th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!
David Weisner's THE THREE PIGS - Primary GATE with Caldecott Books
Not sure if I had more fun with this or the kids did! Huh? This must be another Primary GATE with Caldecott lesson from Portable Gifted and Talented. Woo hoo!
• Students make a wolf that actually huffs, puffs, and blows down a straw house while they learn about physical science.
• Students create a cool, creative, and witty POP-up story extension which saves the life of one of the three pigs.
• Students learn to orient themselves to cardinal directions, about the position of the sun in the
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1st - 5th
California Gold Rush Digital Interactive Activity
California Gold Rush Digital Interactive ActivityExamine the California Gold Rush using this digital interactive activity!The file link is provided and will ask you to make a copy of it into your google drive!Students are asked to explore websites, listen to audio, examine photos, etc. about various aspects of the gold rush such as mining tools, diseases of the time, routes to CA, and MUCH MORESkills covered: analyze, compare, infer, critical thinking, listening, explore and MOREStudents are als
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4th - 8th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Distance Learning California History Hyperdoc Bundle
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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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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State Testing Practice Pack -- Expository Non-fiction, Poetry, Math
Get your kids ready to score proficient and advanced in three areas with the State Testing Practice Pack. These three practice lessons are an advanced challenge for 4th grade and appropriate all the way up through 8th but best targeted to 5th and 6th graders. No matter what grade you use them for, they’ll have your kids thinking and responding beyond literal comprehension.
In How do you Feel About Colors?, students read a nonfiction piece about the symbolism of colors and respond with a short
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4th - 8th
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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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Wonder - Depth of Knowledge Questions
This unit includes higher level thinking questions, and a post-reading writing activity. Other ideas for post-reading activities include acting out a scene from the story, but changing an element. (Camp scene – but Auggie’s hearing aid actually saves the day.) There are other ideas on the websites listed below.
You may choose to have students read the book together as a class, and discuss the questions, use the questions as prompts in journals, or a combination of both. Another option is to us
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4th - 7th
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PBL Project on Body Systems, Diseases, and Prevention.
This is a basic outline of a PBL project for students to discover more about the different body systems and common preventable diseases. In this project the students are put into groups and then given a list of symptoms that a patient is experiencing. It is the the students job to learn about the different systems, diagnose the patient, and come up with a treatment plan.
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3rd - 7th
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Debating Beginners Handbook - Cheat Sheet - Word Doc so you can edit
Real debating can be challenging and difficult to understand. This is a simple booklet that outlines everything you need to know to set up 'real' debating in Primary / Elementay school and even secondary school
This is a word doc so you can edit to suit your specific aduience/class level :)
Just added at the end of the document - a beginners score guide to focus on the really important points
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5th - 9th
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Creativity Pack -- Writing, Graphic Design, 3D Art and More! 70 Pages
Keep your students challenged in a purposeful way!
This pack includes three collections--33% off the individual purchase price.
You get "Doodles Writing Adventure," "Road Trip Adventure," and "Anno's Journeu into 21st Century Learning Skills."
Please see the big preview for details.
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3rd - 7th
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POETRY like a PRO - Analysis and Writing for 4th through 8th and GATE
You will find yourself going home and bragging about the results to whoever will listen. Everything is right here so you can begin today!
Poetry analysis and writing are two of the most difficult and elusive areas to teach. But there is method to the madness. I’ve found a method that works, and you don’t have to be a passionate poet to pull it off.
If you are a good listener, if you keep asking questions, if you show you value students’ comments and insights, this analysis and writing tec
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4th - 8th
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The Giver-Bibliotherapy Unit
This unit provides you with ready-to-go, higher-level questions for The Giver by Lois Lowry. Originally intended to work as a bibliotherapy unit, this can easily be used in literature circles, or to spark whole-class discussions. If you are not familiar with bibliotherapy, please read the info. sheet included in the unit. I have also included a ready-to-go (make sure to change the name to yours!) parent letter to inform them of the unit. I think you will find this especially good for your G
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5th - 8th
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Of Tectonic Plates, of Cupcake Geology, Volcanoes and Fudge
From Michele's Boutique Couture, infuse your classroom with these culinary experiences, as students draw parallelisms between food and plate tectonics. Student scientists will go on a cupcake archaeological dig, climb out of a mountainous volcano cake, and swirl in Hawaiian fudge in these three fun, but palatable scientific investigations.
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Earth Science, Edible Fun Science
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Importance of learning English language arts
English language arts (ELA) concepts — reading, writing, listening, and speaking — empower students to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. They are the foundation for all other types of learning as students must rely on ELA skills to master content from other subject areas and communicate what they’ve learned.
Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
Benefits of learning English language arts
Learning English language arts offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. It helps students:
- Develop effective communication skills
- Build critical thinking and analytical skills
- Nurture their creativity and imagination
By ensuring that students have a solid foundation in English language arts, teachers can help set them up for future success.
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