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Kindergarten literature teacher manuals for GATE
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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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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Wonders 2020 Kindergarten Planning Guide, All Units
Wonders made easy! This planning guide will give you all the information you need for teaching and navigating each week at a glance! 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 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 regarding this product, and refer to the
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K
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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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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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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
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
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
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
The Oldest Student Picture Book Biography Companion and Activities
Teach your kiddos the story of Mary Walker, the oldest student in the U.S., who learned to read at 116 years old. This Print and Go Book Companion for The Oldest Student, is a favorite to share with your students at the beginning of the year.WHY YOU NEED THIS THE OLDEST STUDENT BOOK COMPANION: ⭐This comprehensive book companion promotes critical and creative thinking. Best of all, it illustrates the values of perseverance, resilience, and lifelong learning.This The Oldest Student Picture Book
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K - 5th
Also included in: Biography Picture Book Companion Bundle - Lit Guides
Read Aloud Plan Sheets, Fairy Tales (Bloom's higher level questions)
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Read Aloud Plan Sheets are a great graphic organizer for teachers of young children. It puts a pre-made plan in your hand when you are reading a book to your kids. These plans include vocabulary words, things to do before, during and after reading, and ideas to increase brain function.
My favorite part of these plans are the higher level questions from the top three levels of Blooms taxonomy already there for you to ask. I know that I have a hard time thinking of these
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PreK - 2nd
Lesson Planning: Differentiated Instruction Lesson Planning Template and Guide
Address the individual needs of your students with a laser-like focus. This is an easy to use lesson planning template that allows you to input each group's data, the resources you will use, and check off effective strategies that are listed by reading component. A detailed 10-day framework is also included, explains what types of activities each group would benefit from, and breaks down these strategies each day. In addition, I have included a detailed framework as to what types of lessons e
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K - 5th
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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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Indigenous Peoples Legend Wheel Activity for Gifted and Enrichment
NOTE BEFORE BUYING!! This product is one of 8 activities in my Indigenous Peoples Research Menu. Please check out full menu before purchase! Increase critical and creative thinking in your social studies and language arts curriculum! Your students' higher-order thinking skills will blossom as they create and illustrate an Indigenous Peoples Legend Wheel (data disk) based on a legend they've read. 9 page packet includes teacher tips, legend websites, 2 legend wheel forms (top and bottom) with s
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K - 8th
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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!
The Tale Of John Huggins
Ever wonder how the first hug began? This fictional story can help explain how a man by the name of John Huggins who wanted to show empathy and compassion by hugging other people. People didn't know what he was doing, but eventually everyone catches on to the new hugging sensation. Hope you enjoy.
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PreK - 12th
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Reader's Theater Performance Packet: The Day The Crayons Quit...and Came Home
Would you like your class to perform a reader's theater for the two books, The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers? It's so fun and easy, and works great for a class of 20+. I put a show together with my elementary class and I'd love to share my resources and ideas. This packet includes the following:Incorporation of Arts & Language Arts Elements Other Helpful Resources Character/Cast List for both books Scripts for both booksStudent Aud
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PreK - 5th
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EL Kindergarten Module 4 Unit 1: Contributing to Community--Appreciating Trees
If you are teaching EL Education, this resource is for you! You've likely found that materials for the EL modules are a bit overwhelming. I've created this resource to get everything you need in one place. You'll find links to everything you need to teach the first unit of Module 4:the performance taskend of unit assessmentswriting rubricsoverview for familiesLABS resourceslesson plans, and student handoutsrecommendations for advanced preparationplanning calendar with learning targets, lesson ou
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K
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Also included in: EL Kindergarten Module 4: Contributing to Community--Appreciating Trees
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