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Other (ELA) literature circles for Gifted and Talented
Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature
Add depth and complexity to your instruction with these Critical Thinking Task Cards for Literature! These tasks cards allow students to deeply analyze any fiction reading material through 11 topics of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives. You will appreciate the versatility of these task cards; they can be used with almost any text (novels,
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Task Cards Bundle
Independent Reading Program: Accountability, Engagement, and Organization Bundle
Wanting to create or enhance an independent reading program? Literature circles, intervention lessons, book club, choice reading arrangements? Creating the materials can be overwhelming, but reading choice is crucial to students' growth as readers, perceptions of their abilities, engagement in class, and success in life. These year-long teaching materials are intended to provide natural and enjoyable layers of accountability to your independent reading program, to motivate students to want to re
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7th - 10th
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Book Report Foldable Project: Pop-Up Picture Book with Editable Rubrics
Are you tired of the same extension projects for independent novel studies or literature circles? Then look no further! This 3D Pop-Up Picture Book Report comes with everything your students will need to create this foldable project. Even the not-so crafty teacher will love making this project! You will only need plain white paper, scissors, glue and coloring tools to create this engaging project. That’s all! Included in this resource:Step by step instructions that will be easy enough for your s
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3rd - 7th
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Year-Long First Chapter Friday Book Talk Guide VOLUME I
Confidently book talk and recommend quality sports novels to your middle grade students using book talk guides. Book talk guides put every important detail about novels at your fingertips.You'll never be at a loss for offering reading recommendations to your students again. You will easily integrate book talks into your weekly lesson plans because book talk guides require ZERO prep to use.When you purchase a book talk guide bundle, you receive each guide at a discounted rate, and you're able to
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6th - 9th
Classroom Book Tasting Activity
Transform your classroom into The Book Bistro and get your students excited about sampling new books! A book tasting gets your kids excited about learning about different books and genres that they can add to their future reading lists! This book tasting activity can be used multiple times during the year to expose your students to various genres and types of literature. Sometimes, students just need the extra push to find a book that makes them a lifelong reader! With this activity, you can do
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3rd - 6th
A to Z Letter Poems
Alphabet Poems or Letter of the Week Poems. These poems are perfect for journals, poetry journals. and shared reading for students who are learning their letters. Kids will love reading these and highlighting the letter they are looking for. This pack includes*A poem for each letter of the alphabet*Poems in color and black and white*I will add in 2 poems per page for printingPlease let me know if you have any questions, I am always here to help. Thank you for your support and I would love it if
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PreK - 1st
Fish in a Tree Novel Study and "After You Read" Companion Bundled Set
Want a low-prep, standards-based novel study to help you teach the amazing book, Fish in a Tree? Check out this TWO PART bundle to help you get the most out of this book AS you read it and as you help your students reflect on it. What do you get?Part 1: A full novel study complete with teaching points, comprehension questions, and so much more!Part 2: An "After you read" companion to provide even more opportunities for comprehension, discussion, writing, and more. --------------------------
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4th - 6th
No-Prep: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Complete Package
This no-prep complete package is perfect to supplement the Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Reader's Edition). Components include:*Comprehension & Vocabulary Packet:an independent practice worksheet for each chaptera vocabulary worksheet for each chaptera summary page for each chapteran answer key for the independent practice and vocabulary worksheets*Project Choice Board:15 different activities for students to choose from*End of Book Assessment:10 multiple choice questions2 "select all t
Grades:
6th - 9th
Fahrenheit 451 Quiz Part Two ("The Sieve and the Sand")
I searched high and low for a basic, close reading test that would simply show me whether students did their outside-of-class reading of FAHRENHEIT 451, and I found that none existed that met my needs (detailed + easy to grade). I was not striving for higher order thinking...just a basic, Accelerated-Reader-type quiz that would demonstrate completion of the assigned reading. The higher order thinking questions come out after my students have completed the reading--through Socratic Seminar. Thus,
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Enrichment Book Club Pages (literature circle) Depth and Complexity Icons
A set of student response pages based on Dr. Sandra Kaplan's 11 icons of Depth and Complexity. Perfect for Gifted or Talented students, or students in need of enrichment activities. The pages are open ended enough to work with any book or story (even movies or plays!) but detailed enough to give students a clear expectation. I used it in my grade 2/3 gifted class as well as for gifted students in my regular grade 6 class, successfully! 11 pages included (1 for each icon!) Fun "Hashtag" Style tit
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5th - 6th
Text Dependent Question Stems
My text-dependent question stems are the perfect way to get your students back into the text to find answers to higher-level questions. There are 84 different stems that fit key ideas and details, craft and structure, and integration of knowledge and ideas. There are also examples given for each question and ideas on how to use them in your guided reading groups and reading lessons. Help Your Students Find Evidence From the TextWhen reading, students are expected to use evidence from different t
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Also included in: Guided Reading Mega Bundle Lower Elementary
Spanish & English Talking Stems - Air Bubbles! 15 Bilingual Talking Stems!
This product is 100% in SPANISH AND ENGLISH!It includes 15 talking stems: 1. En mi opinión / In my opinion2. La estrategia que usé fue… / The strategy I used was...3. Yo pienso que… / I think that...4. Puedo concluir que... / I can conclude that...and 10 more unique stems!There are TWO OPTIONS of each stem included! See pictures!Visit my store, Biliteracy Now, for all your Spanish needs.FOLLOW ME for updates on new products!All rights reserved by author. ©Biliteracy Now.*************************
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2nd - 5th
Fahrenheit 451 Quiz Part Three ("Burning Bright")
I searched high and low for a basic, close reading test that would simply show me whether students did their outside-of-class reading of FAHRENHEIT 451, and I found that none existed that met my needs (detailed + easy to grade). I was not striving for higher order thinking...just a basic, Accelerated-Reader-type quiz that would demonstrate completion of the assigned reading. The higher order thinking questions come out after my students have completed the reading--through Socratic Seminar. Thus,
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Socratic Seminars and Philosophical Chairs
Teaching kids to be more philosophic helps them acquire new ways of expressing themselves and innovative ways of thinking. It pushes students to be more logical, think critically, connect ideas, and to be more accepting of opposing views.Through the use of Socractic Seminars and Philosophical Chairs, you can bring philosophy into your classroom and give your students the opportunity to formulate questions, reason with peers, develop arguments, and contribute to constructive conversations.I trie
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1st - 5th
Beginning Sight Word Books
This set of Emergent Reader Sight Word Books that are ideal for developing Concept of Word and teaching the pre-primer sight word vocabulary with young learners.Each book includes a 12-page student text (choose between copier-friendly blackline master or full color). There are 10 pages of text, with a sight word practice page and an additional page for the students to collect autographs from their family and friends as they read the book to them.Instructional ideas for teaching Concept of Word
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PreK - K
5-a-Day LA: 2nd Grade Spiral Review / 2nd Grade Morning Work 2nd Grade Homework
2nd Grade Version of my best-selling LA 5-a-Day! Great spiraling review of ELA skills for 2nd graders. LA 5-a-Day provides your 2nd graders with a week's worth of LA review on just one sheet of paper! No worries about using too much paper! The resource is designed for legal-sized paper. This is great as morning work, homework, or independent practice during your LA block.Product Includes:LA 5-a-Day weeks 1-36 legal sizeSkills overview with CCSS Skills covered:Q1Phonics/Spelling - CVCE, Digraphs,
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1st - 3rd
CCSS Aligned: Punished ! By David Lubar Book Study 39 pages!
If you enjoy this book study, check out my Third Grade Angels By Jerry Spinelli Book Study:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CCSS-Aligned-Third-Grade-Angels-by-Jerry-Spinelli-Book-Study-48-Pages-1210873
This book study goes with the book Punished! By David Lubar. It is a great way to introduce students to figurative language while still practicing reading skills.
This book study is common core aligned and will fit into end of 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade curriculum nicely. It could easily
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2nd - 5th
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Advanced Novel Study for the Westing Game with Depth and Complexity
This novel study was written for gifted fifth graders, and would be most appropriate for children ages 10 and older. The main focus of this unit was to guide students to analyze text on a deeper level, gaining rich understandings of theme and descriptive language. Students will need to think, infer, and cite text evidence to support their answers. They will also need to be organized in their reading approach to keep track of details and clues and solve the mystery.Students will meet objectives f
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4th - 7th
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Advanced Novel Study: The Mysterious Benedict Society with Depth and Complexity
This novel study guide is designed to use with high level 4th and/or 5th grade students, and was specifically designed with gifted students in mind. It could also be used with middle school grades. The level of depth in questioning and discussions will be at teacher discretion based on student readiness.In designing this unit, a main focus was guiding students to think deeply about underlying themes, ethical issues, and connections to the real world. Specifically, I want my students to use this
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4th - 6th
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Jump Frog Jump - Speech & Language Book Companion
This packet is a book companion for "Jump Frog Jump" by Robert Kalan and geared for preschool and early elementary students.It's great for your speech room, preschool classrooms, severe-profound classrooms, and it even includes pages you can send home for homework.Contents of the packet include:-Story props: Cut out and attach stick to use for retell or acting out the story.-Sequencing: Cut out cards and have students put them in order and/or use to retell the story. Cut and paste sequencing ac
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PreK - 1st
Socratic Seminars for Elementary Students
Contains: an explanation of Socratic Seminars, PLUS a pdf of the norms to post on your wall (or digitally), as well as questions to discuss that apply to multiple topics, a reflection activity and "compliment cards." Socratic Seminars are conversations between students where there are questions to be discussed after reading a fiction or nonfiction text, and students are “safe” to share thoughts and ideas without the fear of getting the “wrong answer.” It will help students to increase oral
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1st - 6th
Pumpkin Letter and Number Search
Are you looking for a fun way to work on letter and number recognition? Then you need to try these Pumpkin Letter and Number Searches. These are perfect for fall centers with easy prep and easy activities your students can do independently. You can print these in color and use with letter or number manipulatives or you can print in white and have the kids color in the letter or number when they find them! These are perfect in a center, sensory bin or even use as a write the room! The letter and
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PreK - 1st
Also included in: Letter and Number Search Bundle
I Wonder Poems
I Wonder PoemsPrint these out for an independent center or write out on chart paper and do as a class. Either way you will get your kids working on and thinking about those beginning and ending letters. I have also included a few poems that you can work on rhyming words with. Each poem comes with a printable and 5 words for the children to work on and a blank page in case you are wanting more words.Themes included are*Snowman*The Mitten*Hibernating Animals*Arctic Animals*Valentine's*School Suppl
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PreK - 1st
Advanced Novel Study: Charlotte's Web with Depth and Complexity
This novel study was designed for use with gifted second through fourth graders, but could be modified and/or scaffolded to meet the needs to students in grades 2-5. The main focus of this unit was to guide students to analyze text on a deeper level, gaining rich understandings of theme and descriptive language. Students will need to think, infer, and cite text evidence to support their answers.Students will meet objectives for deep thinking using a combination of discussion, independent and/or
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2nd - 4th
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