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Common Core RL.8.6 resources for Gifted and Talented
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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
Complete Wonderland and Looking-Glass Comprehension and Logic Unit Combo
This is my complete combo for both the "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There" books. It has chapter comprehension worksheets for both books. This also includes my logic unit study which teaches a basic introduction to formal logic as well as analyzes a lot of the hidden logic lessons within the first Alice book.Logic Unit Description:This is a collection of worksheets and tests that work for a month long introduction to formal logic and fal
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5th - 12th
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Comprehension Questions and Logic Unit Combo
This is my complete offering for the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland also known as Alice in Wonderland. It contains both my Alice based logic unit and my Alice chapter comprehension questions worksheet collection. Buy this to get both of them cheaper than if you buy them separately. If you would also like the comprehension questions for this book's sequel, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, buy my Complete Wonderland and Looking-Glass Comprehension and Logic Combo instea
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5th - 8th
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Touching Spirit Bear Novel Study Guide REMOTE READY DIGITAL RESOURCE
2023 UPDATE: This product has been updated to address a concern brought by TpT.UPDATED FOR DIGITAL/REMOTE LEARNING! This study guide/student workbook is designed to guide your literary students to becoming literary scholars! Two Versions! One is set for Print and go, the other for uploading to a digital classroom! It is designed to teach young scholars critical thinking skills as they conduct deep analysis of the text. It guides students through pre-reading research into the environment and ecol
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Also included in:Â Touching Spirit Bear Novel Study Bundle
Teaching Depth and Complexity with A Bad Case of Stripes (distance learning)
Teaching, reviewing, and engaging with Depth and Complexity Icons is fun when using the picture book, "A Bad Case of Stripes". Your students will practice using all 11 depth and complexity icons (big ideas, details, patterns, multiple perspectives, rules, across the disciplines, trends, ethics, unanswered questions, over time, and language of the discipline) as they analyze text, and dive deep into complex discussion with this lesson! In the book, "A Bad Case of Stripes" by David Shannon, your s
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Teaching Depth and Complexity Icons with Picture Books GROWING BUNDLE
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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Paired Texts Edgar Allan Poe — The Tell-Tale Heart & The Black Cat TDA Essay
Reading Paired Texts: Text-Dependent Analysis and Response To Literature Essay for The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe.If you are looking for a pair of awesome texts with similar themes, topics, and literary elements, this product features a compare and contrast chart for the two gothic tales by Edgar Allan Poe "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat."Both feature unreliable narrators who commit heinous crimes. Both narrators claim not to be mad, but are they telling the tr
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Reading Paired Texts Bundle — The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart with TDA
A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of Stray Critical Thinking Questions
This is a critical thinking reading packet I created to use with my students while we read the book A Dog's Life: The Autobiorgraphy of a Stray by Ann M. Martin. It includes critical thinking questions to go along with each chapter and before-reading and after-reading questions. I focused on the higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy when creating these questions so my students had to evaluate, create, and analyze often. See the preview to check it out! This is a perfect packet to use for a guided r
Grades:
4th - 8th
Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin Thinking Questions & Writing Extension
Contents:-Student pdf packet of Critical Thinking Questions for the entire book Rump that can be printed or sent to students digitally -Student directions for Choose Your Own Adventure Fractured Fairy Tale Writing Extension with graphic organizer-Teacher pdf packet that contains above resources combinedThis is a critical thinking reading packet I created to use with my students while we read the book Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl Shurtliff. It includes critical thinking questi
Grades:
4th - 8th
8th 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
Grades:
8th
Teaching Depth and Complexity with The Big Box for 6-8 (distance learning)
Teaching Depth and Complexity Icons is fun and easy for your 6-8 middle school students when using the picture book, "The Big Box". Your students will practice using all 11 depth and complexity icons (big ideas, details, patterns, multiple perspectives, rules, across the disciplines, trends, ethics, unanswered questions, over time, and language of the discipline) as they analyze text, and dive deep into complex discussion with this lesson! In the book, "The Big Box" by Toni Morrison, your stude
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in:Â Teaching Depth and Complexity Icons with Picture Books GROWING BUNDLE
House of Stairs Interdisciplinary Unit
Looking for something engaging and challenging for you gifted middle school students? Delve into William Sleator’s sci-fi novel, House of Stairs. Explore how science mirrors reality with your students. This interdisciplinary unit focuses on character change, theme and human psychology. Links to paired nonfiction text are utilized for further study of classical and operant conditioning. Enrichment activity incorporates scientific method. Essential questions encourage students to think deeply ab
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6th - 8th
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Immigration Book Club and Choice Menu Project
As I was taking AIG courses through my school district, I completed this unit that I am currently using with my students. Students first complete book clubs or literature circles (however you want to structure this part) and then complete projects related to immigration issues on a choice board. Though I made this for AIG learners, it can be adjusted and modified to fit all learners.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Mythological Photographic Storyboard - Digital Storytelling
A myth is a traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people. The purpose of myths is to account for the origins of something, explain aspects of the natural world, or delineate the psychology, customs, or ideals of society. (americanfolklore.net)
This Digital Storytelling Unit is designed to be completed over the course of three to four weeks. Students, working in teams of three to four, w
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6th - 12th
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Counting by 7s & Rain Reign: A Comparison
Two great novels, two talented authors, two best-selling books, two strong characters with diagnoses... Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin have A LOT in common! Created as an independent study, this guide can be used for single students or for an entire class!In this comparison study, students will compare and contrast the plots of the novels, the two main characters, the two diagnoses of the main characters, and perspectives on current research involving gif
Grades:
5th - 8th
Substituting Characters and other Story Pranks!
If you have ever pranked a friend by swithing out their cds, putting a Sleeping Beauty soundtrack in the Red Hot Chili Peppers case, then this exercise is for your class. Through this short activity, students will have a blast contributing, thus addressing CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.8.6 in which students will analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters create (such effects as) humor. Once the initial task is done, a teacher can use the experience to launch a class discussion or a
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6th - 10th
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