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Common Core RI.6.8 resources for Gifted and Talented
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Genius Hour Activity - Passion Project for Upper Elementary Students
This Genius Hour activity pack is perfect for upper elementary and middle school students. Teaching can be overwhelming with all the planning that you have to do. This Genius Hour activity will save you time and headaches as you plan and begin to implement this activity in your classroom. You can use this for passion projects or even enrichment for those high level students in your classroom too!This amazing Genius Hour resource includes:-Genius Hour Teacher Tips to help get you started-A slides
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4th - 6th
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Winter Holiday & Christmas Fun- Nine Logic Puzzles for Middle School
Winter Holiday Fun for Middle Schoolers!No prep except to print and copy, or assign on Easel!This packet of nine activities includes one reindeer games logic puzzle, one Christmas logic puzzle, one New Year’s logic puzzle, one temperature logic puzzle, one cryptogram with winter holiday words, one grid matching activity, one elf grid drawing sheet, one 9-piece square puzzle, and one leap words puzzle. They are ready to print, copy, and use- no other prep necessary! An answer key and a few tips
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Year Round Logic Puzzle Bundle for Middle School!
Crime Scene Investigation | Reading Mystery | Forensics | Inference
Are you looking for an engaging activity that will help your students better understand deductive logic and reasoning? Crime Scene Investigation is a great theme that teaches all the skills of critical thinking in a fun and interesting way!Investigate the Basics of CSI with this exciting differentiated resource!Ready-to-Go Printables! Easy Prep Go completely DIGITAL with this version! Click the link below to PREVIEWCrime Scene Basics for GOOGLE DriveThis workshop takes about 2 to 2 1/2 hours to
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4th - 6th
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Crime Scene Investigation | CSI | Mystery Science BUNDLE | Drawing Conclusions
Need fun and engaging activities for practicing INFERENCE? Looking to differentiate with some deductive reasoning and critical thinking skills? This Crime Scene Investigation Bundle includes 10 exciting mystery workshops for over 17 hours of engaging reading, logic, and hands-on investigations. By buying this bundle, you are saving 30% off the total price of the individual resources!The labs use simple materials and are easy to prep. For the CSI activities, students read and analyze suspects thr
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4th - 6th
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Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox: Printables for Nearly Every Standard
The Middle Grades ELA Common Core Toolbox contains 77 learning activities aligned to the CCSS for grades 6-8. It includes printables that can be used multiple times throughout the year to address nearly all of the standards in reading literature and informational texts, and many of the speaking and listening, writing, and language standards. It also has two pages of writing prompts and warm-ups. The Standards Guide at the end details the CCSS that correspond to each printable.
Three grade level
Grades:
6th - 8th
Football Crime Scene Investigation Activity | Mystery Reading Comprehension
Looking to add a little differentiation to your classroom? Your students will love using inference and deductive logic as they follow the crime scene protocol to solve The Case of the Jinxed Jersey!Looking for a DIGITAL Version of this CSI Activity? Click HERE >> Jinxed Jersey: Digital and Printable The Jinxed Jersey Mystery is an engaging hands-on activity that’s super easy to set up. Students use critical thinking skills to analyze suspects through witness statements, a
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4th - 6th
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7 Steps to Research Posters
A big focus in Common Core standards is "Comprehension and Collaboration". This means RESEARCH is becoming an integral part of classroom instruction. Whether it's independent, small group, or whole class, this model will help guide you and your students through the tricky research process!
These posters are aligned with the research process outlined in the IIM - Independent Investigation Method, but can used independently with any content area instruction.
The Independent Investigation Method
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3rd - 6th
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Middle School Critical Thinking Bundle - April Fool's Day and every other day!
Embark on an intellectual journey with the Middle School Critical Thinking Bundle where logical reasoning and depth and complexity take center stage! Help your students become critical thinkers, not just on April Fool's Day, but every day, developing a habit of careful consideration in how they approach information and decisions.Students in 6th-8th grade will explore topics like Occam's Razor and master the art of taking perspectives in this transformative bundle. Each lesson is crafted to stimu
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5th - 8th
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Middle School Article of the Week *CCSS Aligned *Uses all 10 standards
This Article of the Week is designed to be done each week with a different article. At first, it will take the students longer, and the first article or so should be done as a class and scaffolded. But students get faster and faster as they master all the Reading Informational Text standards again and again in different contexts / with different articles.
*CCSS Aligned
*Uses all 10 Reading Informational Text Standards
*Works with any article
*Can be used multiple times
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6th - 8th
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Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts - Quick, Fun Brain Energizers for Grades 5+
A 37-page printable PDF ebook for grades 5 and up to wake up sleeping brains with fun daily doses of critical thinking! This book is comprised of intriguing ELA-themed activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill as
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5th - 12th
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6th Grade ELA Bilingual Leveled Proficiency Scale Posters - Differentiation
Fill your bilingual word wall with learning objectives! Whether you teach ELL, ESL, Spanish Immersion, or just want to communicate better with your Spanish-Speaking students; these bilingual posters will give you the exact language you need to keep your students engaged in content while they master English. These poster pages present Learning Goals and Scales aligned to a growth mindset and the Common Core Math standards, as well as Florida and most states. Inspired by Marzano's research in “The
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6th
Multiple Intelligences: ARGUE IT! CHOICE CARDS® - SET 1
Power-Up your classroom with BYTES Power Smarts! These Choice Cards include 25 argumentative essay prompts that cover multiple standards for Common Core. See full packet contents listed below and click on Preview under the thumbnails above to see a sample of the packet contents.Choice Cards® are task cards, but we think the word CHOICE is more motivational. Students have lots of CHOICES with BYTES Power Smarts IT! Packs. Students can choose an IT! Pack and, within that pack, they can choose w
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4th - 6th
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Influential Contributors in Black History Research Bundle
Easy Research Project: Black History Bundle AlertHave you started a thematic unit for Black History Month and are looking for an easy to implement research project? Then look no further. This mini research printable can be used as an independent study activity or even as a learning center. You will have two formats to choose from, one is full size (8.5 x 11). The smaller version can be glued into an interactive notebook OR all student projects can be placed on a ring and placed in a cl
Grades:
3rd - 6th
NFL Gameday Journalism - Lesson Plan Bundle
Throughout my eighteen-year teaching career, I’ve designed and implemented a program that motivates students to use nonfiction literacy strategies independently in an authentic way. Gameday Journalism is a fun transdisciplinary project that captivates your classroom audience while teaching Common Core standards in a unique way that will leave a lasting impression. Students will retain these skills and transfer them successfully to high achievement test scores!The program uses sports writing from
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Mother Teresa Activities
Engage and challenge your students with this short reading passage about Mother Teresa. Many state that Mother Teresa was close to perfection. In this lesson, students will read about Mother Teresa and then place sticky notes on a board to demonstrate their opinions through the use of textual evidence, if possible. This tug of war activity purports to lead students into a discussion and then have them write their opinions in a short essay. **Please follow me for notifications of sales and promot
Grades:
3rd - 7th
ELA Test Prep Task Cards Set 2: Reading Informational - Grades 6-8
This set of task cards is designed to cover standards for the Common Core Reading Informational standards.
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6th - 8th
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