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3rd grade writing-expository tools for common cores for GATE
Westward Expansion Wagon Project for Oregon Trail Unit
Westward Expansion Wagon Project for Oregon Trail Unit – This creative and hands-on project is a wonderful opportunity for students to show their understanding of pioneers moving west. Learners will create a covered wagon out of construction paper, cardboard, and a shoebox. The bonnet of the wagon will include: • A map of the Oregon or California Trail • A model of a labeled wagon • A list of chores on the trail • A list of entertainment on the trail • Pictures and captions of 4 maj
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Westward Expansion Project Bundle
Social Media, Digital Citizenship, & the Internet Depth & Complexity Bundle
Teach your students how to be digital citizens using the prompts of Depth and Complexity and Content Imperatives! This bundle offers Depth & Complexity frames, thought provoking games, and engaging activities all about social media, digital citizenship, and the internet! Students will have the chance to write, collaborate with others, share opinions, create a website and blog about it (on paper), and participate in many other activities.
Never used Depth and Complexity icons or frames in
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Depth of Knowledge and Learning Icons - Digging Deep - Critical Thinking Skills
These focus wall resources are designed to be engaging and meaningful. Help your kiddos reach for deep knowledge and content mastery using a variety of critical, complex thinking skills.Digging Deep Learning Practices assist students in engaging in critical thinking and developing meaningful understanding of concepts.This resource contains both large and small posters as well as “quick cards” that can be displayed on focus walls, resource walls, or simply during specific lessons.Encourage your s
Grades:
K - 6th
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Westward Expansion Project Bundle
Westward Expansion Project Bundle - This bundle includes three fun and engaging projects about Westward Expansion. Students will gain valuable researching skills while also developing their presentation, writing, reading comprehension, and interpersonal skills. ABC’s of Moving West– This creative project asks students to work in groups to create an ABC book about the Oregon Trail and Westward Expansion. Learners will identify several important and meaningful words associated with their assi
Grades:
3rd - 6th
LEGO Writing Prompts 4th Grade STARR
Engage your kinesthetic learners during your writing block!!
I teach Gifted students and the vast majority are kinesthetic learners. I had to find a way to engage them in writing. One day, during a design challenge a light bulb went off in my head! Why not incorporate building and writing? So, I came up with the idea!
You will need Legos or other building blocks. I had parents donate them. I have small containers (purchased from the dollar store) full of legos for partners or groups of
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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A Literature Unit for Patricia Polacco's Junkyard Wonders
This unit was made to go Patricia Polacco's book The Junkyard Wonders. Included are 18 pages of activities to challenges your students to think more deeply about the story. The unit was created with the 4th and 5th grade Common Core Standards in mind. Topics explored are theme, setting, character traits, visualizing, and many more. Writing assignments and a project idea are also included. The themes in this book would also be perfect to explore with a gifted class. Email me at ideabackpack@
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Gifted and Talented GATE WRITING COLLECTION 122 Pages
Get six highly rated GATE writing lesson bundles at 33% off individual purchases. This collection is packed with variety, creativity, challenge, and the Common Core.
See the big preview! Hours and hours of class instruction and engagement!
You'll get the following bundles adaptable from 3rd through 8th grade:
Road Trip Adventure Cross-Curricular Writing Journey: Students practice all sorts of writing from graphic design to narrative to expository as they journey across the USA and create p
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Explorer Timeline Project Using a Graphic Organizer
TEXT NOT INCLUDED This foldable graphic organizer can be used with any explorer unit. Students research explorers using outside sources, then complete this foldable project. It can be used as a component in an interactive notebook or displayed on a bulletin board. Choose which explorers you want to assign to students. I assign five for my 4th graders. This product includes 22 images of the most commonly studied explorers of North America.Follow us at:www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/thank-a-
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: 4th Grade California Social Studies Projects All Year
The First Thanksgiving Book with Depth and Complexity
The First Thanksgiving Book with Depth and Complexity {single-teacher purchase} UPDATED 11/4/18See student examples of this unit! Make sure to click right to see more.I have created another jam-packed unit to help you teach the Depth and Complexity icons and close reading to primary students. I have taken the traditional story of The First Thanksgiving and added activities for annotation, responses, and close reading. I have also included a writing activity in this unit. It includes a sequenci
Grades:
1st - 3rd
READING RESPONSE BUNDLE
A collection of my Reading Response materials will give you so many materials for responding to any novel, picture book, or basal reader! See individual product links below for more details on each individual product!
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Differentiated Instruction CCSS STEM Choice Boards & Extension Menus K-8
Teachers, meeting the needs of all learners through differentiated instruction is more important now than it ever was. With the transition to the Common Core, more English language learners, and differing learning styles and abilities makes it pertinent for teachers to offer activities that appeal to each and every student. This is a collection of choice boards, extension menus, and Think-Tac-Toe boards for all grade levels and content areas. These will allow you to reach all students, ensure th
Grades:
K - 8th
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Research Logs - Gifted and Talented Projects -7 Units
Independent Research Logs
Topics Include:
Arctic
Tundra
Desert
Ocean
Rainforest
Grassland
Students are expected to:
Create a list of topics they'd like to study
Choose one of those topics to research
Generate open-ended questions about the topic
Locate sources to find the answers to their questions
Take notes and cite their sources
Focus their research
Write a report / draft
Create a product to show their learning
Grades:
1st - 6th
A Literature Unit for Drew Daywalt's The Day The Crayons Quit
This unit was made to go with Drew Daywalt's The Day The Crayons Quit. Included are 17 pages of activities to challenge your students to think more deeply about the story. The unit was created with the 4th and 5th grade Common Core Standards in mind. Topics explored are point of view, theme, character traits, visualizing, text structure, plot, letter writing, comparing/contrasting, responding to quotes, and more. Writing assignments are also included. Email me at ideabackpack@gmail.com with
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Assessment Compare and Contrast Informational Text
This is the Common Core Assessment addressing the standard 2.RI.9 Compare and Contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. A science piece on ladybugs (two articles) and two articles on Jackie Robinson (a timeline and narrative). Two different compare and contrast graphic organizers are used as well as multiple choice and short and essay answers.
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Independent Study Project Guide
How many times have you heard the words, “I’m finished, Ms. Teacher,” from students who consistently complete assignments quickly and correctly? How many times have you scrambled to find activities that engage these students for the class period while challenging their learning and fostering their intellectual curiosity? This guide allows students to learn about their individual topics, how to synthesize information, and improve their writing skills and research skills… independently.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
State Quarters Research
This is a 110 page unit that you can use to complete a short research project on the State Quarters. It would work well with any project related to the United States of America and could be used as an enrichment activity. This product contains:List of statesHistory of State QuartersOrder of Release using pictures of coinsOrder of Release list of statesPicture of each quarter with a spot to design a quarter (for each state)Picture of each quarter with a spot to write about what the symbols on th
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Multiple Intelligence (MI) PowerPoint (Elementary/Primary) by Jennifer A. Gates
Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths?
This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart.
Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and
Grades:
1st - 5th, Adult Education, Staff
Genius Hour Interactive Notebook
What is Genius Hour?
Genius Hour is also known as a Passion Project, where students are allowed to research a topic of their choice. It began at Google, where employees were able to work on a project of their own choosing 20% of the time.
I have taught Genius Hour for 5 years in my Gifted & Talented Classroom. This packet is intended for 2nd - 6th Grade. If I was a regular classroom teacher, I would do Genius Hour on Thursday or Friday for 1 hour (Social Studies).
We work on the pr
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Procedural Text & Writing Project
Procedural Text & Writing Project
Need an extension activity or even a writing activity for procedural text and how-to writing?
{1}Students look at various procedural text books to reinforce their understanding of specific procedural text examples.
{2}Students decide on something that interests them that they can turn around and write a how to about. They will also create a demonstration.
{3} Students write step by step specific instructions using the given template. There is a spot
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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Google Classroom Activities Distance Learning
Looking for an engaging project for your students to conduct research about the planets, while using Google Slides? This digital, paperless resource includes two projects about the planets in the solar system, for a total of 35 Google slides. Planets of the Solar System Digital Research Project, using Google SlidesStudents learn how to use the research bar via the Explore Tool in Google slides to research facts, information, or even images about each planet. Students will type information they l
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Text Dependent Explanatory Prompt Bundle
The new common core standards and PARCC assessments will require students to relate their story and essay writing to two-three passages of text. The text may be nonfiction, fiction, reference materials, quotes, environmental print, or poetry.
These writing prompts contain three texts each for the student to read (very short) and specific writing prompt directions. The type of writing the students will be composing will fall under the category "explanatory" because the student will be forced to
Grades:
1st - 6th
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December Essay Writing (Opinion, Informative, and Narrative Prompts)
This packet includes 45 pages of essay writing practice for students for the month of December. There is an essay menu for the month with 20 prompts total (4 informative, 4 opinion, 4 narrative, and 4 research prompts). For December, the topics focus on Christmas, the holidays, and winter. There are some non-Christmas topics for your students who do not celebrate Christmas. The menu gives students the element of choice and allows for student engagement.
Post the menu in your classroom or in a
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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GATE Writing with "PUZZLING" Grids - 2 Lessons and Bonus
Get your highly visual 21st Century GATE Learners up and moving around the classroom, testing their logic, and challenging their descriptive and explanatory writing skills with these two puzzling writing lessons. As always, you’ll extend the Common Core with your GATE group, adding challenge, creativity, critical thinking skills, and fun (!) to the regular classroom curriculum.
This bundle consists of 2 GATE writing lessons which will require around 5 hours of class time . . . plus a fun bonus
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Change Over Time: Comparing Childhood Experiences of Different Generations
I have adapted Change Over Time: Comparing Childhood Experiences of Different Generations for at home/distance learning. Students will have more time with family members, and this unit could give students the opportunity to have meaningful, comforting conversations with family members of previous generations. · This unit provides authentic writing that is meaningful to the child. It encourages valuable connections between the student and important adults in his/her life. These connections and co
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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