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Kindergarten resources for Microsoft Word and for Gifted and Talented
Primary GATE Gifted and Talented Program for the Year -- 410 Pages, 50%+ off!
You will be a rock star! This collection is highly interactive, creative, and rich in age-appropriate critical thinking.
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This collection takes me through an entire year of lessons with my advanced groups of kindergarteners, 1st, and 2nd graders . . . but many of these lessons can also be used for middle and upper elementary kids, especially if you come into the regular classroom to teach whole-class enrichment lessons.
19 units and 419 pages of lessons!
Grades:
K - 3rd
Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" Mo Willems
Let’s have some fun along with the Pigeon and expand DOK along the way! This lesson will lead your primary GATE students through four challenging activities, culminating in an artistic response showing why they “never get to do anything!” either.
Gifted and talented learners carry similar characteristics throughout their lives—even as kindergarten and first graders. One common characteristic of gifted learners is a strong sense of justice. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus gives us a good o
Grades:
K - 3rd
Primary GATE with Caldecott COLLECTION - 180 pages - 7 Books!
Your primary kids will love these lessons! You save a bundle: 33% off individual purchases!
I teach 30-45 minute groups once a week of 1st and 2nd graders all year, and this collection is more than enough to get me through an entire school year of groups. I can’t absolutely guarantee it will do the same for you, but it’s going to be very close if it doesn’t . . .
You’ll see best practices in gifted education throughout. You’ll see many graphic organizers, age-appropriate and challenging cr
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K - 3rd
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Little Island Primary Gifted and Talented Social-Emotional Values and Identity
We use this Caldecott Award Winning book to address social-emotional standards for primary gifted students. Not just a social-emotional unit, we answer critical thinking questions, explore literary theme and other ideas, and create a fun island adventure using a grid.
Great stuff for our youngest gifted learners: It’s hands-on, requires critical thinking, and good fun.
NAGC Learning and Development Standards
1.1 Self-Understanding. Students with gifts and talents demonstrate self-knowledge
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K - 3rd
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- "Two Bad Ants" by Chris Van Allsburg
If you're like me, you can't easily find activities designed for primary grade gifted learners. This one hour activity, however, is specifically designed for Chris Van Allsburg’s "Two Bad Ants" and primary gifted and talented students—nurturing talent for both verbal and nonverbal high ability students.
In this activity, students use critical thinking and creative perspective-taking to create a “mystery drawing” similar to the close-ups in "Two Bad Ants."
In an interactive follow-up, classma
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K - 2nd
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- Owl Moon Pop-up and Critical Thinking
Now with a more kid-friendly pop-up option:
Owl Moon is incredibly rich in critical thinking potential, rich in artwork, and rich in the feelings words evoke.
Come along for a challenging lesson and a fun extension activity with the poetic 1988 Caldecott Award winner Owl Moon. Critical thinking about poetry, participatory reading, and figurative language along with a project in which we create an owl to “pop up” and spread its wings poetically will energize your students.
Caldecott books a
Welcome Letter to Parents Template- Just add your information
I used this to welcome my gifted students back at the beginning of the year, but it could be used for any grade level. A very friendly professional letter that you-just add your information.
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PreK - 9th
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Kindergarten Bird-Themed Challenges for Gifted and Talented GATE - Storytelling
You’ll have loads of fun with this thematic “birds” bundle of lessons and activities. We address BEST PRACTICES for our youngest gifted and advanced learners with hand-on puzzles, storytelling, participatory reading, acting, humor, video, and improvisation. In the process, we will deliver two social emotional messages—one about teamwork, and one about diversity. So little time, and so much to do! That’s why we always, always, always engage and challenge students in critical thinking across the c
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K - 2nd
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Primary GATE -- AIR! Active, Creative, Academic, and Hands-on!
I am always trying to figure out what to do with my little primary groups, and this unit was a definite hit with my kindergartners. It would work well with 1st grade too or the regular 2nd grade classroom. The full unit contains more than 2 hours of contact time.
It’s active, fun, and challenging for these little ones and seemed to have the right combination of “get up and move,” imagination, creativity, and “making” along with academic tasks.
We learn about four important properties of air
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K - 2nd
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Making Tracks with Footprint Mysteries KG 1st 2nd GATE Primary Challenges!
Engaging challenge of a highly participatory and creative nature for our youngest primary kids!Here’s another lesson for our youngest gifted learners based on research and best practices advocated by the National Association of Gifted Children. It’s rich in age 4-7 critical thinking opportunities with hands-on learning, visual discrimination and details, improvisational opportunities including creativity, storytelling, writing and art, and engaging activities associated with the kids’ immediate
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PreK - 2nd
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
Divergent Thinking Questions: "What If" Questions For All Subject Areas
How could introducing rabbits into the rainforest affect that habitat? What would a passport for Christopher Columbus look like? In the story, Hansel and Gretel, instead of dropping breadcrumbs, how could the children avoid getting lost in the woods? Our new, 21st Century standards require students to argue, inform, and explain. Divergent thinking questions offer opportunities for students to demonstrate original, elaborate, and flexible thinking, enabling them to become actively involved in t
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education
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Primary GATE with Caldecott -- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Come along for a challenging lesson and fun extensions with Ezra Jack Keats’s 1963 Caldecott winner, The Snowy Day.
I use this lesson with my 1st grade advanced readers. 2nd and 3rd graders should be right on target as well. Got a gifted kindergarten group? This will be an especially tough challenge for them but promises to stretch kids’ imagination and critical thinking skills across 4+ grade levels.
Pre-reading activities warm up your students for critical thinking questions as we “count
Grades:
K - 3rd
Gifted Student Identification Checklist
Great for gifted educators starting out and need easy resources for identificaitonHere is a variety of examples of gifted education checklistsThese can help assist with identification and be edited to your own program's criteriaVariety of gifted educational theory was used in creating these various lists.This includes criteria for identifying creative, leadership, and learning ability talents.You may also like these gifted/enrichment products from my TPT store:Enrichment RubricsJournal for Affec
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PreK - 12th
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Gifted Program Brochure Template- Just add your information
This is the perfect pamphlet to give to parents when a child qualifies for gifted services or at open house. All you have to do is add your name and the schools name and you look like a gifted teacher extraordinaire!
Please visit my store for other great products to help with open house or the start of the school year.
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Grades:
PreK - 8th
Primary Gifted and Talented Social Emotional MARSHMALLOW Respecting Differences
We all share common hopes, dreams, feelings, and abilities no matter what ethnicity, nationality, gender, or group we belong to. That message is the key take-away from this primary GATE unit. As such, this unit is a social-emotional unit with NACG standards . . . but much more:Primary GATE best Practices with a Social-Emotional Emphasis· Critical Thinking· Language and Reading· Creativity· Science We use Clare Turlay Newberry’s Caldecott Honor book, Marshmallow, as our vehicle. We also use Lisa
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K - 2nd
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Curious George Gets a Medal for Primary GATE and Advanced Groups
Another classic picture book lesson bundle from Portable Gifted and Talented:
Hands-on literacy, critical thinking, cross-curricular, creative and visual – best practices for your 21st Century primary advanced and gifted groups and Common Core State Standards referenced. This lesson bundle is great for kindergarten and 1st grade and would be a great extension activity for larger groups in 2nd grade.
Level: KG and 1st advanced or gifted; 2nd whole group
Time: four hours and more
Critical Th
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented SURVIVAL KIT Bundle -- 235 pages, big discount!
Goal Tracking Sheets
This is designed for Special Education teachers/ESE teachers who need to track students IEP goals.
This uses an easy tally system so that you can keep track of how many times per month you work on each specific goal and objective for each student. This will help you visualize what objective you may still need to work on, or what objectives you work on with your students the most.
This is an excellent tool which requires hardly any time in your day to keep organized, and is an excellent piece
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PreK - 12th
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September Brain Benders
Brain Benders are critical thinking activities designed for each month. Use them as enrichment activities, journal prompts, learning center activities, or however you choose! Each monthly Brain Bender comes with 20 activities organized in a 5x4 grid to resemble a calendar. You can choose to print the calendar with its corresponding multiple intelligence label for each activity or print it without. This is a great way to challenge your students!
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K - 4th
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Student Rubric Template
This document includes a student rubric template along with an example of how you can fill it out to measure success in an objective manner. The rubric features a 3 point system of grading. This type of rubric is ideal for oral presentations and summative projects. The rubric features visuals that are student friendly so that students can use this rubric to guide their self-monitoring and self-evaluation during their creative process.You can edit the rubric template to match your standards and
Grades:
PreK - 6th
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A Balloon for a Blunderbuss -- Classic Picture Books for Primary GATE
This is fun, challenging, and hands-on literacy for your advanced primary groups.
Level—Advanced KG and 1st, whole class 2nd
Time—About 3 hours—easily separated in sessions
Butterfly pop-up glyph: students make a pop-up butterfly they hide in their hands—just like in the book. It’s not just a pop-up; it’s a colorful glyph all about their abilities and skills.
Trading cards: what will you trade for an elephant, a giant piece of cake, an owl who knows all the answers? Students negotiate and
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K - 2nd
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SIDEWALK FLOWERS for Pre-K to 1st Primary GATE - Picture Book Critical Thinking
Sidewalk Flowers offers a wonderful opportunity for early childhood gifted education—Sidewalk Flowers, the book, is told without words. Nevertheless, the book is rich in poetic expression as well as emotional and intellectual depth. Sidewalk Flowers is the perfect vehicle for fostering talent development in grades Pre-K to 2. (You need only one copy of the book).The related unit is full of inquiry, higher level thinking development, challenge, play, exploration, art, storytelling, and creativity
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PreK - 1st
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GATE Independent Project Planning Sheet and Rubric
Goal setting and personalized projects are key components of a well rounded GATE classroom! This planning worksheet is adaptable to all grade levels.
This planning takes student through the steps of planning their next Independent Project:
- Students will pair their topic with a Depth and Complexity theme to create an essential question for their project
- Students will list all the physical and research resources they will need to complete a project
- Students will plan the details of what the
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Grades:
K - 8th
Career Door Decorating Contest
A fun way to tie in a lesson about College and Careers is by having a contest! Help students learn visually and educationally about the many career paths and jobs. Students and teachers can research occupational topics and decorate their door while sharing knowledge about their future careers. This form can be edited to meet your needs.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Easy Clay Turtle and Frog Art Projects
Easy Clay Turtle and Frog Art Projects are for beginners, preschoolers, kindergartners, first and maybe second grades. These projects are in alignment with the National Standards but are also fun and educational by teaching the techniques of the coil and pinch pot methods of handbuilding with clay.
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Easy Artsy Watercolor Painting
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Easy Artsy Animal Watercolor Painting
Easy Clay Lessons for beginners
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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