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Common Core SL.7.1 resources for Gifted and Talented
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The Arrival by Shaun Tan -- 100+ Page Unit and Teacher's Guide GATE
Yes, we can teach reading, writing, speaking and listening, and critical thinking skills using this amazing graphic novel which has no “words!” It’s a journey about who we are, where we have come from, and the humanity we share. It’s about hope and love and understanding. At times powerful, at times breathtakingly beautiful . . . Shaun Tan’s The Arrival should be on every bookshelf in every classroom.This 100+ page teaching guide and unit has been developed over the past three years in my adv
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5th - 12th
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BLOOD on the RIVER by Elisa Carbone - Novel Study
Reading comprehension questions for every chapter are in this No Prep Novel Study unit for Blood on the River - addressing most Common Core standards - with ANSWER KEY. As students answer questions they are guided through creating good paragraphs by use of introductory and transitional phrases.Also included WITH ANSWER KEYS are three tests: Ch 1 to 7; Ch 8 - 18; Ch 19 to 27 . No all-novel test.Also in the file you will find:- Puzzles for names in the novel and vocabulary; - a glossary; - figu
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5th - 9th
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Social Emotional Learning Activities LEGO Movie Activities
Looking to support your student's social-emotional needs?What better way to engage students than with a MOVIE TIME? ... THE LEGO MOVIE is certainly a fun childhood favorite!This movie guide workshop supports, Understanding Creative Thinkers, Embracing Uniqueness and Understanding the Individuality in all of us, because together, "Everything is Awesome, Everything is cool when you’re part of a team !"This resource includes a printable AND digital version to use with Google Classroom™Looking for m
Grades:
4th - 7th
Depth and Complexity Icons Content Enrichment Ideas BUNDLE
If you have gifted students in your classroom, then you have to use depth and complexity icons to differentiate and increase the rigor! The purpose of this depth and complexity icons bundle is to take what you are already doing in your classroom, and put a deeper, more complex spin on the thinking processes for high achieving or gifted students. 4 of my depth and complexity icons products are included for you. Complexity Icons Products Included here:Depth and Complexity Icons Frames for Gifted L
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6th - 8th
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Transition Assessment | Interpersonal, Work, Personal Strengths Inventories
This resource is a bundle of three inventories:Work Strengths survey with a spider graphic organizer to help students discover their interpersonal strengths and preferred working style. ************************************When students know their strengths they can: ✅ identify areas where they naturally excel✅ explore careers and extracurricular activities that align to their strengths✅ work effectively************************************Students will learn:✅ their top work strengths (e.g., prob
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6th - 12th
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COUNTRY PRESENTATION PARTY Around the World Cultural Food Manners LOW PREP
Easily incorporate THEMATICALLY RIGOROUS LEARNING into your classroom routine with this no-prep, 73-page/slide Countries Research Project Presentation Party! It includes everything you need to have a Presentation Party Day for students to present their country reports, presentations, or projects. Letter to parents, Rubric, Presentation question cards, Presentation BINGO, Decorative banners (“It’s a Small World” and ”Around the World”), 8 Center signs, PowerPoint and editable agenda slides (“Arou
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
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
Grades:
5th - 12th
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Poetry Compare and Contrast - Used To Love You and i carry your heart - Sub Plan
Compare and contrast poetry and song lyrics! Teach students to compare and contrast for state test assessment as they compare poetry and song lyrics. Gwen Stefani’s song lyrics “Used To Love You” and e.e. cummings’s poem “i carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)” take a different perspective on love. Both are written with voice and passion. Students will compare and contrast content, language, tone, structure and theme to prepare them for the short answer response questions on end-of-
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6th - 12th
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Debating Unit Bundle
Looking to start a debate club at your school?Looking to develop your students' public speaking skills?Looking for a rigorous yet engaging speaking assessment?This resource bundle has everything you need to set up your school's debate club or get your students debating in class. There are two lessons, a student preparation sheet, guide, rubric, and range of topics to support and challenge your students. Critical thinking, public speaking, and team work will be practiced and enhanced through grad
Grades:
4th - 12th, Adult Education
Transition Assessment |Specific Personal Strengths Inventory | Grades 6-12
Students discover their specific personal strengths by pairing a specific personal strengths survey with a spider graphic organizer. Students understand their specific personal strengths and where they naturally excel in their life. Identify skills and abilities are and where students are most likely to succeed.************************************When students know their strengths they can: ✅ identify areas where they naturally excel✅ explore careers and extracurricular activities that align to
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6th - 12th
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Transition Assessment | Work Strengths Inventory | Grades 6-12
This resource pairs a work strengths and preferences survey with a spider graphic organizer to help students discover their interpersonal strengths and preferred working style. ************************************When students know their strengths they can: ✅ identify areas where they naturally excel✅ explore careers and extracurricular activities that align to their strengths✅ work effectively ************************************Students will learn:✅ their top work strengths (e.g., problem-sol
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Transition Assessment | Interpersonal Strengths Inventory | Grades 6-12
This resource pairs an interpersonal strengths survey with a spider graphic organizer to help students discover their interpersonal strengths and areas where the student naturally excels when working with others. ************************************When students know their strengths they can: ✅ identify areas where they naturally excel✅ explore careers and extracurricular activities that align to their strengths✅ work effectively************************************Students will learn:✅ their top
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Great Balloon Debate
The year is 2050 and due to great advances in science our civilization has discovered a new land, untouched by humanity. Strangely, this new land is accessible only by a specially designed and technologically advanced hot air balloon. This magical hot air balloon is guaranteed to take any passenger safely to the new land where a brand new society can be formed. Several science crews have already landed safely and begun to form the roots of a new world. However, there’s room left for one more per
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4th - 7th
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A Long Walk to Water Chat Stations
Teaching the novel A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park and want to try something new? Chat Stations are a great way to hold every student accountable for class discussions. This product contains a Chat Station question card for every chapter in the novel. With a quote from the text, students can apply the life of Nya and Salva to their own real life situations. I love getting to hear from every student in my class through Chat Stations!Included:Teacher Instructions to set up Chat Stations
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: A Long Walk to Water Bundle
Gifted and Advanced ELA End of the Year Choice Projects
I really like to challenge my advanced students. However, they worked so hard preparing for the state test that I wanted to provide them with engaging activities and allow them to be in control of what they are learning, while having fun and learning about things that interest them. The majority of my class is made up of students who are gifted. I discovered that they have rather poor time management skills. They work linearly, and cannot meet multiple deadlines at the same time. This projec
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6th - 8th
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The High Five Speech - Speech Organization for New Public Speakers
The High Five Speech is speech organization for new public speakers. Designed with an elementary to middle level student in mind this unit covers, in detail, the purpose and structure of an informative speech. This unit is light on the text and heavy on the student participation. Think graphic organizers, not guided notes. Included in this lesson are :Detailed lesson plans that eliminate the guesswork and allow you to focus on the learning at hand.A fun high-five themed presentation that helps s
Grades:
4th - 8th
Decades Project: Journey Through Time! Google Slides and Printable Bundle!
Students will be working in teams to research and create a presentation on a decade in the 20th or 21st century. This project will walk them through research and presentation creation from start to finish and help them to stay organized along the way!This product includes:Table of Contents linked to the slidesDecades Project Example on the 1890s from start to finishChoice of DecadeSlide to help them organize who will research and be in charge of what during the decade study (who will research mu
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Problem Based Learning: Public Education and Immigration Policy
In this problem based learning project, students create updated policies for real schools to take into account their immigration and new student needs. Begin with a discussion on current events in immigration, then provide students with situations that are different for each group. Have students identify the specific school in their situation, the problem the school is facing, and the current events in the area of the school related to immigration. What do they propose they should do in order
Grades:
6th - 8th
Multiple Intelligences: DO IT! CHOICE CARDS® - SOCIAL CONCERNS - SET 1
Power-Up your classroom with BYTES Power Smarts! Activate your students' empathy for social causes with the Do It! Choice Cards. Students will choose a project to raise awareness, raise empathy, and raise resources for the social concern they choose while also working to meet Common Core Standards. See the 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 mo
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4th - 8th
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Gender, Stereotypes and Society - Creative Digital Exploration
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, will explore core curricular content and be required to make an engaging and creative short video about that content. This Digital Storytelling unit is part of a larger initiative called Meridian Stories (www.meridianstories.com).
Each Digital Storytelling Unit:
• Should take three to four weeks to complete;
• Is aligned to Common Core Curricular Standa
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Edgar Allan Poe Horror Scene - Creative Digital Narrative
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, will explore core curricular content and be required to make an engaging and creative short video about that content. This Digital Storytelling unit is part of a larger initiative called Meridian Stories (www.meridianstories.com).
Each Digital Storytelling Unit:
• Should take three to four weeks to complete;
• Is aligned to Common Core Curricular Standa
Grades:
6th - 12th
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Global/US Geography Jingle - Creative Song Production
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, will explore core curricular content and be required to make an engaging and creative short video about that content. This Digital Storytelling unit is part of a larger initiative called Meridian Stories (www.meridianstories.com).
Each Digital Storytelling Unit:
• Should take three to four weeks to complete;
• Is aligned to Common Core Curricular Standa
Grades:
6th - 12th
Decades Project: A Journey Through Time-Group Research and Writing Project!
Students will be working in teams to research and create a presentation on a decade in the 20th or 21st century. This project will walk them through research and presentation creation from start to finish and help them to stay organized along the way!This product includes:Table of Contents Decades Project Example on the 1890s from start to finishChoice of DecadePage to help them organize who will research and be in charge of what during the decade study (who will research music? who will researc
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Enrichment Writing Projects! Printable Bundle!
Perception Quest
Have students partake in a lesson where they are faced with pictures and need to determine their perception of the image and the emotions that may arise due to the examining the image. Students are asked to reflect on their perceptions and can engage in discussion about the exercise in small or large groups.Students get to be up and moving around the room while also following directions based off of their decisions/perceptions. Think "choose your own adventure" novels meets visual analysis in re
Grades:
5th - 8th
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