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1st grade literature teacher manuals for GATE
Choice Boards Choice Menus Second Grade Literature Early Finishers Fast Finisher
In this unit you will find 12 choice boards. These boards have 9 mini choice boards, one for each second grade literature standard and 3 choice boards sorted by the different domains.This is part of a bundle that you can find here.On each mini choice board, you will find 8 activities for your students to use with their independent reading books. Some of the activities will require books from a specific genre. These activities work well to broaden students’ understanding of literature elements
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1st - 3rd
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Wonders 2020 First Grade Planning Guide, All Units
Wonders made easy! CTRL + F will be your best friend when searching for a certain skill, story, or genre in your reading curriculum. It's all right here! This planning guide has a page for each week in the Wonders 2020 Reading series for 1st Grade. This product does not align with the 2017 version of Wonders.Leveled readers are color coded to indicate which are approaching, on-level, beyond, and ELL.Please contact me with any questions, and refer to the key which is located on the first page of
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1st
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Lucy Calkins Reading First Grade Unit 1 Outlines - fully editable
This is a word document of outlines for all 18 Sessions in the Unit 1 Building Good Reading Habits manual for Lucy Calkins first grade reading (published in 2014). Each outline includes a brief synopsis of the:connectionteaching pointteach portionactive engagementlinkmid-workshop teaching pointtransition to partner timeshareEach outline is a maximum of one page, so they are quick to read when lesson planning and easy to skim just before teaching. Specific pages in the Building Good Reading Habit
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Bundle Lucy Calkins First Grade Reading and Writing - editable
STEM Activities for Read Aloud Books BUNDLE of 10
Read alouds come ALIVE with STEM challenges! This set of STEM challenges provides 3-5 STEM challenge per story. That means that you can use the same book across multiple grade levels OR allow students to choose which STEM challenge to try. That also means if you want to do a Family STEM Night, you can set up stations for 2-3 of the stories and let families work together on the challenge of their choice.Students will need to use skills such as taking measurements, creating stable structures, brai
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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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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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Common Core Unit
Everything you need to teach the Wizard of Oz. It can be adapted for multiple grade levels and encompasses all aspects of common core. This unit is designed around the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. It includes a months worth of ELA lessons.
This unit includes:
- teacher lesson plans
- vocabulary words for each chapter
- reading response pages for each chapter
- prediction worksheets
- social studies connection - creating a map
- analyzing the setting
- character ana
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1st - 6th
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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Sound Loaded Book List for Articulation Speech Therapy
Do you use children's books in speech therapy? There are so many ways to target articulation, language, and literacy at once when using wonderful storybooks. This is a list of my favorite sound-loaded books that I personally use in speech therapy to target articulation of specific phonemes. It can be very difficult to find books in the library that provides repetition of a specific phoneme. Often the target word may be in the title, but not repeated very much in the book. After hours of searchi
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PreK - 2nd
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Lucy Calkins Reading Kindergarten Unit 1 Outlines – editable
This is a word document of all 19 Sessions in the Unit 1 “We Are Readers” manual for Lucy Calkins kindergarten reading (published in 2014). Please be sure you have the manual to refer to when using these outlines. The body of the text is fully editable. The footer is the only part protected. Each outline includes a brief synopsis of the:connectionteaching pointteach portionactive engagementlinkmid-workshop teaching pointtransition to partner workshare Each outline is a maximum of one page, so th
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PreK - 1st
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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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The Blind Men and the Elephant Lesson Plan and Art Project
This easy to implement mini lesson focused around "The Blind Men and The Elephant" will be time well spent and fun for your students. Parents enjoy seeing the product and it makes for a great bulletin board!
This 7 page PDF includes:
-A lesson plan for comparing two versions or "The Blind Men and The Elephant" and ART project. (see sample)
-Write up for bulletin board with description of what students have done and a quick version of the story
-Checklist for art project
-Sample of art project
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1st - 3rd
Fairy Tale Choice Boards Choice Menus Fast Finishers Early Finishers Activities
Having choice is something our students crave, especially during times when they are learning at home, independently or through distance learning. If you're looking for low prep and easy to implement resources to offer your students choice, try choice boards. These choice boards cover fifteen fairy tales:-Aladdin-Alice in Wonderland-Cinderella-Goldilocks & the 3 Bears-Hansel & Gretel-Jack & the Beanstalk-Peter Pan-Rapunzel-Rumpelstiltskin-Red Riding Hood-Sleeping Beauty-Snow White-T
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1st - 3rd
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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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Informational Text Second Grade Choice Menus Choice Boards
These choice boards cover all of the second grade informational text standards. These boards provide easy differentiation for your students, as well as provide enrichment activities for your early finishers.In this unit you will find 13 choice boards. These boards have 10 mini choice boards, one for each second grade literature standard and 3 choice boards sorted by the different domains.On each mini choice board, you will find 8 activities for your students to use with their independent inform
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1st - 3rd
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Nursery Rhyme Book
This nursery rhyme book contains 30 of the most popular nursery rhymes for young children. Nursery rhymes included are: 1. Humpty Dumpty 2. Star Light, Star Bright3. One, Two, Three, Four, Five4. Hey Diddle Diddle5. Mary Had A Little Lamb6. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe 7. Itsy Bitsy Spider8. Little Miss Muffet9. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star10. Pat A Cake 11. It’s Raining, It’s Pouring12. Roses Are Red13. Rain, Rain, Go Away 14. Jack And Jill15. Three Little Kittens16. Little Bo Peep17. Little Jack Ho
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PreK - 1st
Also included in: Nursery Rhyme Activity Bundle
Kite Book Report Packet for Fiction and Non-Fiction
SPRING into literature with a creative book report in a kite form! Your students can SOAR by writing story elements or cool facts from their books, then assembling their book report into an adorable mini-kite. (book can be any book, or it can have a kite theme!) 8 page packet includes:
Terms of Use
Book report form- Fiction (lined and unlined)
Book report form- Non- Fiction (lined and unlined)
Bow patterns for kite book report
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Great product for Gifted and Talented, enrichm
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K - 5th
Fables & Fairy Tales Bundle With Depth & Complexity
Use fables and fairy tales to examine details, language, conflict, perspective, big idea and change over time.
Included in this bundle are resources and activities for using Depth & Complexity with the following stories:
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
The Ugly Duckling
The Three Little Pigs
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Lion and the Mouse
The Grasshopper and the Ant
The Tortoise and the Hare
~ the stories are not included~
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1st - 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.
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Wonders Reading Skills for First Grade with Common Core Alignment
This product is a summary of all the Reading Wonders skills for first grade. I have included titles of big books, reading/writing workshop stories, literature antholoogy stories, comprehension strategies and skills, writing traitss and skills, grammar, and phonics/spelling. this is a wonderful tool to have in your teacher binder for at your fingertips reference throughout the year!
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1st
Teacher Planning, Prep and Organization for a Novel Study, How to Teach a Novel
This product is not a novel study. It is a resource for teachers to use when planning for a novel study. This teacher planning product has been created as a partner to the novel studies designed by christine rogers teaches. While the information can be broadly applied to any novel or novel study, many of the examples reference components found in the novel studies created by christine rogers teaches. This is the perfect resource if you have any of the following questions:What are some different
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1st - 5th
Reading A-Z Benchmark Passage Progress Monitoring Sheet
This is a 2 page spreadsheet that allows you to track the progress of students using the Bench Mark Passages available on Reading A-Z. It covers levels A-Z2.
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PreK - 5th, Staff
One Page Book Companions for Read Alouds
One Page Book Companions - No Prep Lessons for Teachers! High quality comprehension questions for your favorite read aloud picture books - all in ONE place for easy access!What are Book Tucks? They are teacher bookmarks with 20 or more comprehension questions (factual, inferential, and critical thinking), plus mentor sentences, vocabulary words and additional questions or extensions. These questions are designed to check for understanding, facilitate student to student interactions (turn and tal
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K - 2nd
Geronimo Stilton: The Mona Mousa Code - A book full of engaging activities
This activity book is desgned to engage the student in reading abook they find interesting and using it as a platform to 'learn' and develop new skills.
The activites are set out VERY clearly (eg. read pages 2-4 and then complete the folowing activity / answer the following questions) and includes, vocabulary work, inference, prediction etc... all the skills good readers need to develop and practice.
The task booklet can be used as an independent reading study or supported by teacher and/or pa
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1st - 3rd
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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
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