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Kindergarten english language arts resources for GATE $5-10
Early Finishers Kindergarten Activities | Fast Finishers Math Language Arts
The words every teacher dreads…”I’m done! Now what?” Are you looking for learning tasks for your Kindergarten early finishers?! This Language Arts and Math Early Finisher resource has 50 activities aligned to the Common Core Standards.This printable pack will allow your kindergarten students to continue to work on important skills like alphabet recognition, ending sounds, shapes, number patterns and so much MORE! Tasks that they can do independently and track their own progress! Students love
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K
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Reading Enrichment Activities for K, 1st, and 2nd Grade Early Finishers & Gifted
This set of 70 engaging, open-ended reading and language arts enrichment activities for K, 1st, and 2nd grade gifted and talented or fast finishers will boost creative writing, vocabulary, spelling, grammar, critical thinking skills and more! All of these activities are low (or no!) prep, saving you tons of time and money. No more looking for generic puzzles or word searches.... or printing extra worksheets you already used.These make great independent projects for gifted and talented students.
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K - 2nd
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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
A Jim Henson Unit with Depth and Complexity - The Great Puppet Show
Jim Henson Mini-Unit UPDATED 9/29/19 Check out our first grade puppets! and my first graders put on a puppet show.This has been updated 9/29/19. Enjoy this adorable Jim Henson Mini–Unit. This unit is a biography companion. Use digital resources and library books to learn about this famous creator (these are not included). I have created activities to go alongside these resources. I have added some Depth and Complexity icons for you. There are different versions for grades K-3. You can che
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K - 3rd
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Life Long Ago and Today with Depth & Complexity
Life Long Ago vs Life Today (This unit has been updated 11/13/2018)Enjoy this social studies standards based unit. This will be a great companion for your books on life long ago. I embed Depth and Complexity prompts/icons and Depth of Knowledge in all my products. The included standards are based on the California State Standards but I am sure they are similar to other state standards. This is NOT limited to California teachers but a great social studies primary resource.This unit includes
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K - 2nd
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S.C.A.M.P.E.R The School Year BUNDLE
Enjoy 48 different S.C.A.M.P.E.R activities to use with your students. These activities can be completed independently, cooperatively, or left with a sub for a critical thinking challenge. There are 4 unique creative and/or critical thinking questions on each page. FULL previews are available for EACH product in my store under the individual product listings. The 48 S.C.A.M.P.E.R activities span through the course of the year and can be used from start to finish!I hope you enjoy SCAMPERING as mu
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K - 8th
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CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES BUNDLE Literature Extensions Critical Thinking GATE
Story Sleuths I, II, and III Bundle delivers 3 products at 20% savings. You will receive 12 weeks of clues for the Story Sleuth challenge; an enrichment unit using Caldecott Award winning books to cultivate critical thinking. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is
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K - 4th
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Thunder Cake Reading Comprehension Toolkit
Meeting the needs of the huge range of students in the classroom is always so tricky! You want to take the time to plan engaging activities that are just right for each child’s needs, but it is hard just getting regular plans done, let alone planning for differentiation! That’s why I started making units like this. I print them, store all the materials in a folder together and then when it's time to use the book with the class, in a guided reading group, or for an individual student, it's ready
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K - 3rd
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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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Thinking Like a Zoologist CCSS
This is a packet based around the GATE unit of "Thinking Like a Disciplinarian" designed for K-2 students and aligned with CCSS. Students step into the role of being a Zoologist and complete a research study on an animal based on the story "A Kangaroo Has a Mother Too" by Eric Carle, with the main focus being mother and baby animal relationships. Students can work independently, in small groups or partners depending on preference and ability. Once the research packet is complete, students will c
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K - 2nd
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Advanced Book Study: The Day the Crayons Quit
Using this resource, students will critically analyze the story The Day the Crayons Quit. The questions on the Thinking Frameworks move students from lower level thinking to higher order thinking. Students will analyze and explore the literature in order to become critical thinkers. A creative thinking activity is included to further develop the students’ critical and creative thinking. Included in this resource:Leveled Graphic Organizers for Story ElementsReader's Response QuestionsGuided Close
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K - 3rd
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
Thinking Like a Marine Biologist CCSS
This is a packet based around the GATE unit of "Thinking Like a Disciplinarian" designed for K-2 students and aligned with CCSS. Students step into the role of being a Marine Biologist and complete a research study on an ocean animal similar to the story ""Over in the Ocean", with the main focus being animal conservation. Following the story students will select an ocean animal (great chance to get some stuffed ocean animals in the classroom) to learn about and work towards conserving.
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K - 2nd
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Letter or Alphabet STEM Mats and Makerspace Activities Building Blocks Edition
These Letter or Alphabet STEM Mats and Makerspace Activities Building Blocks Edition were created to help little ones recognise the letters of the alphabet and practice counting at the same time. These Letter or Alphabet STEM Mats will be really useful in in a classroom or library MakerSpace. You can print and photocopy the mats for students to work on. You can also print the mats, laminate them, and have students use the sheets over and over again. You can use these Letter or Alphabet STEM Mats
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K - 1st
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5 Senses in the 4 Seasons Google Slides™ eBook Templates for K-2 BUNDLE
Digital and Printable! Use the 5 senses to observe signs of fall/autumn, winter, spring, and summer and illustrate a book. Students insert a photo or drawing to show what they see, hear, taste, smell, and touch and feel in each season. 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 fav
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K - 2nd
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Sight Word STEM Building Blocks Mats Activities & Makerspace Kindergarten
These Sight Word STEM Sheets (Building Block Edition) were created to help little ones who are just learning how to read by giving them a variety of activities that will enable them to be more familiar with some of the high frequency words that they will encounter most often, while giving them a chance to build.These Sight Word STEM Sheets will be really useful in in a classroom or library MakerSpace. You can print and photocopy the sheets for students to work on. You can also print the sheets,
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K - 1st
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Letters Numbers Shapes STEM Mats Makerspace Activities Building Blocks BUNDLE
These Letters, Numbers, and Shapes STEM Mats Makerspace Activities Building Blocks BUNDLE were created to help little ones recognise the letters of the alphabet, numbers, and shapes, and practice counting at the same time. These Letter or Alphabet, Number, and Shape STEM Mats will be really useful in in a classroom or library MakerSpace. You can print and photocopy the mats for students to work on. You can also print the mats, laminate them, and have students use the sheets over and over again.Y
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K - 1st
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Coding with ScratchJr: The Love Letter
Product Description:Unlock the magic of coding in your classroom with "Coding with ScratchJr: The Love Letter!" This engaging resource is designed to introduce coding concepts to students in Kinder through 3rd grade using the picture book THE LOVE LETTER by Anika Aldamuy Denise. Students will learn about the parts of a friendly letter and design/code interactive love letters for their loved ones, including recording their voices reading aloud their letters. A perfect Valentine's project! Prod
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K - 3rd
Sight Word STEM Playdough Mats Activities & Makerspace Kindergarten 1st Grade
These Sight Word STEM Sheets (Flexible Edition) were created to help little ones who are just learning how to read by giving them a variety of activities that will enable them to be more familiar with some of the high frequency words that they will encounter most often, while giving them a chance to build.These Sight Word STEM Sheets will be really useful in in a classroom or library MakerSpace. You can print and photocopy the sheets for students to work on. You can also print the sheets, lamina
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K - 1st
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IB PYP Learner Profile & Attitude Crown Bundle
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 Attitudes and 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 als
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PreK - 5th
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Fall Logical Thinking
Critical and Differentiated Fall Bundle
Differentiated thinking task cards are great for differentiation, morning work, literacy centers, math centers, early finishers, fast finishers and more!
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This is part of a larger product that can be found at my Teachers Pay Teachers store:
Critical and Differentiated Thinking: Yearly Bundle
Students will use character cards as manipulative tools (when needed) to think critically and solve logic problems. Cards will be moved around for each of 1
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K - 4th
Social Emotional Learning Morning Meeting Teaching Patience
These social emotional learning activities can help get your students' day started on the right foot using a morning meeting approach. Begin a daily morning meeting targeting important social-emotional topics and character education (patience). In only 15-minutes a day, use the power of silence, affirmation, visualization, exercise, reading, and writing to target important mindset concepts and patience.Grab this social emotional learning activities year-long curriculum bundle and save BIG.NEWLY
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K - 4th
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Also included in: Classroom Community Morning Meeting Bundle
Choice Boards Choice Menus Literature First Grade Early Finishers Fast Finisher
First and foremost, I have to give a huge shout out and thank you to the one and only Jennifer Findley from Teaching to Inspire in 5th, for so kindly giving me her permission and blessing to create a second grade version of her amazing choice boards. In this unit you will find 13 picture clue cards, 4 definition cards and 9 choice boards. There is one choice board each first grade literature standard.On each board, you will find 6 activities for your students to use with their independent read
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K - 2nd
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Lucy Calkins Grade 1 Small Moments Lesson Plans
Lessons from LC broken into an easy to follow daily plan. Includes suggested Kaplan depth and complexity icons for each day as well!
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K - 2nd
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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.
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Learning English language arts offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. It helps students:
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- 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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