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Oral communication instrumental music resources for GATE
TED Talk Project
Empower your students to engage, inspire and connect with an audience through explicitly teaching public speaking skills! Ready-to-go printables to scaffold the planning and delivery of any TED Talk! TED Talk viewing activities, public speaking tips, planning templates, assessment and more!
In a world where people’s ideas can be easily shared through various forms of social media, effective communication is crucial. It is becoming increasingly difficult to ‘stand out’ and have your ideas h
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Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
Listening and Following Directions and Reading ComprehensionActivities that challenges students to listen and pay attention to detail.These activities are designed to challenge students to follow oral and/or written directions and complete tasks in the correct locations of a diagram. The activities are designed so the directions can be read to the students by the teacher or the students can read the directions to themselves. This allows the activity to function as either a listening or reading c
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4th - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Get to Know You Activity Digital | Back to School Ice Breakers Volume 1
These get-to-know-you questions are the perfect way to get to know your students this back-to-school season. It's the perfect ice-breaker for students to share and get to know each other!This resource is a part of the Classroom Community Bundle where you will get even more resources for building a strong classroom community! Click here!What’s included?There are 40 slides with get-to-know you questions. Use one a day and get to know your students all month long. It also includes eight additional
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Also included in: Get to Know You Activity Bundle
Listening and Following Directions Activity With Lesson Plan
Listening and Following Directions
An Activity That Challenges Students To Pay Attention To Details
This activity is designed to challenge students to listen closely to directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on a grid.
Interested in more following directions and reading comprehension activities? Check out:
Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle + Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions Back To School Edition +Reading Comprehension
Listening & Fol
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
Listening & Following Directions State Birds & Flowers +Reading Comprehension
Listening and Following Directions: State Flowers and Birds Edition +Reading Comprehension ActivitiesAn activity that challenges students to listen and pay attention to detail.Save over 20% when your purchase the Listening and Following Directions Growing Bundle Pack!This activity is designed to challenge students to follow oral and/or written directions and complete tasks in the correct locations on an identification chart. During the activity the directions can be read to the students by the t
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4th - 9th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Following Directions and Listening Bundle Reading Comprehension
Debate Template | Opinion Writing | Persuasive Writing
Help your students develop and identify good strategies for debate, persuasive speaking and argumentative writing skillsThis resource contains a CLICKABLE Link for Google Classroom.Go completely paperless! Perfect for Distance Learning!These debate organizational exercises are meant to be used before students plan their own debates. They are the means to take them through the language, elements, and planning of a successful debate. Age-appropriate Debate Topics are covered in the I Have, Who Has
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Debate Graphic Organizers | Debate Template BUNDLE
CREATIVE THINKING PROJECTS Destination Imagination via Creative Thinking Vol I
Destination: Imagination via Creative Thinking Vol. I allows students to share projects and ideas with a purpose. It is also a wonderful home-school connection that directs eager parents to work with their children in a constructive manner. This eclectic collection of activities was developed for use in gifted and talented classrooms. The goal is to promote the 4 traits of gifted children: fluency, flexibility, elaboration, and originality. But really, what child wouldn't benefit from working on
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Not Grade Specific
CREATIVE THINKING PROJECTS Destination Imagination via Creative Thinking Vol II
Destination: Imagination via Creative Thinking Vol. 2 allows students to share projects and ideas with a purpose. It is also a wonderful home-school connection that directs eager parents to work with their children in a constructive manner. This eclectic collection of activities was developed for use in gifted and talented classrooms. The goal is to promote the 4 traits of gifted children: fluency, flexibility, elaboration, and originality. But really, what child wouldn't benefit from working on
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Not Grade Specific
*Best Seller*Nice & Easy Composer Study- Grading Rubric Included, Music History
**Best Seller!!**
This simple, non-themed composer study is very versatile. It can be used with various grade level work, used as a GATE project, a homeschool project, an extra credit project, or a myriad of other uses.
It also comes with a simple and easy to use grading rubric, as well as a student self-assessment.
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2nd - 8th
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Lego Communication & Collaboration Game - 4 C's Practice
Lego Communication and Collaboration Game Pairs with 4 C's Thinking & Innovation Skills The Lego Game was created to support students understanding of teamwork and communication. As one student describes, they may find that what they think is clear communication, might not make sense to another student.I love playing this game at the beginning of the year to build trust and understanding. I have played it with all grade levels!
Grades:
K - 5th
Public Speaking Template, Tips, and Tricks for the 1-2 Minute Informative Speech
The common core wants effective speakers and 21st Century Learners!
Here is a template for the one to two minute informative speech in handy notecard-sized cutouts.
This document includes public speaking tips and tricks for all ages and ability levels.
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3rd - 12th
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Monthly Book Reports and Book Talks
Here is everything you will need to implement monthly book talks into your classroom. There is a parent letter, example, content check list/rubric, 2 graphic organizers (fiction and non-fiction book talks), pacing guide, book talk enhancement suggestion page, and a year long plan. This is 6 years of trail and error fine tuning and has been a wonderful addition to my classroom. The kids and parents love it and because it follows the same format (just the books and genres change), and you won't be
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3rd - 10th
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The Tower of Babel Challenge
This is a slight twist on the usual STEM building challenge. It is designed to teach a tough lesson about communication in a collaborative activity. It was designed for my gifted and talented students, but it could work in most regular classes where students are mature enough to handle a struggle without an emotional outburst. It is a lot of fun and can be rather messy! This purchase includes the scoring rubric, student response page, a detailed teacher guide with photographs and a script
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5th - 8th
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My Community Report - Social Studies, Oral Report, & Expository Writing
My Community Report is a great way to get students to identify and tell about various important parts of their local communities. Students take a photo (or draw a picture) and write about:
1.) Their neighborhood
2.) A local business in their community
3.) A government entity (City Hall, fire station, etc.)
4.) Some place uniquely important to the student (could be their church, where they take dance classes, etc.)
This is an ideal home project or after school project that gives students the o
Grades:
K - 3rd
What's In The Box? Deductive Thinking Game
This deductive thinking game allows students to develop logical thinking and reasoning skills as they ask questions in order to discover the mystery item in the box. Perfect for introducing a new unit or topic of study.
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K - 5th
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Team Multimedia Presentation Individual Reflection
This EDITABLE Google form asks students to reflect on their individual performance & contribution for a team multimedia presentation. (works best if students can review a video recording of their performance)Collects emailsAsks for reflective student responsesOverall Experience (likes, dislikes, etc.)Time Management Self-Assess Presenting Performance (voice, gesturing, eye contact, etc.)Self-Assess Teamwork (collaboration, contribution, etc.)Overall Performance (strengths, weaknesses, etc.)T
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9th - 12th
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Entrepreneurship Readers Theater: "Turkey Dreams"—True Story–Fun to Perform
Entrepreneurship Readers Theater Script, "Turkey Dreams"—with Flexi-Curric™*A Readers Theatre Script By Carol Montgomery(updated February, 2018)"Once upon a camel there rode a turkey…". So starts "Turkey Dreams," a fun Readers Theater script that encourages entrepreneurship and positive qualities of courage, faithfulness, respect, and kindness. "Turkey Dreams" is great for ALL AGES. Perfect for elementary, middle school, ESL, family fun, maybe high school and adults, "Turkey Dreams" enhances
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3rd - 7th
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Introduction to Stump Speeches (Poster and Google Slides)
Have you ever thought about teaching your students how to be awesome speakers? Well, here's a fantastic idea that I use in my classroom, and guess what? The students absolutely love it and can't wait to do something called "stump speeches."I have an actual slice of a tree stump which is about 2-3 inches thick and about 12 inches in diameter that my students stand on when they are giving their stump speech. Before I found the stump, my students stood on a short wooden stool. My students stand on
Grades:
1st - 6th
Black History: African Drums, Rebellion, and Resistance in Colonial Times
This bundle brings together 3 lessons that trace African drumming from its origins through enslavement in the New World up to the post-Revolutionary period. Together, the lessons convey the importance of drumming to African and African-descended people, the role of drums in the Stono Rebellion, and the legal and musical dimensions of the post-Stono ban on drums. The lessons convey the musical creativity and resilience of African and African-descended people, with significant detailed content o
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Not Grade Specific
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The Teacher's Book of BIG Questions
When should we be asking questions?
The short answer: all the time. As teachers we’ve all fallen into the trap of giving students answers rather than encouraging them to think for themselves. Questions encourage the students to do the “heavy lifting” instead of the teachers. Plus, good questions are motivating and engaging, serving as great hooks for learning. Because we want this book to be useful to as many teachers as possible, we’ve provided questions to go along with different types of con
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Cultivating Classroom Conversation
Face-to-face communication is evidencing a decline in both the home and school environments as more interaction is directed to the digital world. Many students are entering school with decreased oral language development compared to generations in the past, due to a decrease in conversation within the home. This classroom resource book will provide teachers with strategies and activities that infuse Common Core/standards-based lessons with purposeful student-to-student dialogue and discussion of
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Not Grade Specific
Multiple Intelligences: DISCUSS IT! CHOICE CARDS® - SET 1
Power-Up your classroom with BYTES Power Smarts! Worried that you students are losing The Art of Conversation? Introduce your students to Discussion Etiquette and The Art of Conversation with 2 posters included in this pack. Discuss It! contains 26 divergent thinking, thought-provoking Choice Cards designed as discussion prompts, but they could also be used as writing prompts. See the full packet contents listed below and click on Preview under the thumbnails above to see a sample of the pac
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4th - 6th
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Talking History- Interviewing an Older Person
Talking History- Interviewing an Older Adult
In this study, a student interviews an older adult in order to compare life now and in the past and creates a book or other product to share the learning. The lessons include templates, parent letter, student pages, rubric, directions, student examples.
A differentiated project for multi-skill/age levels, Talking History includes:
-questioning skills
-interpersonal skills
-encouragement of intergenerational understanding
-multiple pe
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Not Grade Specific
Sign Language and Its Culture
American Sign Language (ASL) is not always perceived as a LANGUAGE of its own, or as a second language, but it is.
Deaf or hard of hearing persons must face specific challenges due to their physiological deficit; however, they overcome and build strengths in other areas. This lesson plan not only teaches some very basic concepts, such as the ASL alphabet, but it also enlightens students about the cultural aspects of Sign Language as a second language.
Grades:
7th - 8th
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