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Short stories Common Core SL.1.1 resources for Gifted and Talented
Grade 1 CKLA ALIGNED Knowledge #1 FABLES AND STORIES Supplemental Slideshows
PLEASE NOTE:**These materials are not designed to replace lessons or materials provided within Amplify/Core Knowledge (CKLA); they are meant to supplement the existing materials provided by the Amplify Education Inc. and The Core Knowledge® Foundation.These interactive slideshows are aligned to Core Knowledge's (CKLA) 1st Grade Listening & Learning Strand, Domain 1, Fables and Stories. These slides are very colorful, interactive, and stay true to the curriculum. Over 1,000 slides!!!These sli
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1st
Hansel and Gretel DRAMA UNIT (5 x 60 min lessons) NO PREP!
Primary School students explore the story of Hansel and Gretel through guided drama activities. NO PREP REQUIRED! This curriculum aligned primary drama unit has 5 x 60 minute detailed lesson plans with extension and differentiation activities. A perfect and engaging way to explore a well loved story. INCLUDES:- 5 x 60 Minute Detailed Lesson Plans based on Hansel and Gretel- Scene Starter Cards- Additional and Extension ActivitiesKEY VOCABULARY: Movement. Freeze. Voice. Characters. Putting yourse
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1st - 4th
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CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES BUNDLE Literature Extensions Critical Thinking GATE
Story Sleuths I, II, and III Bundle delivers 3 products at 20% savings. You will receive 12 weeks of clues for the Story Sleuth challenge; an enrichment unit using Caldecott Award winning books to cultivate critical thinking. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is
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K - 4th
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CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Story Sleuths I Literature Extention Critical Thinking
STORY SLEUTHS I is a 4 week, critical thinking project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students also enjoy great literature, learn about artistic media, and participate in col
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K - 4th
Gifted Book Club or Novel Unit: Top Secret by John Gardiner
This book club or novel study unit on the book, Top Secret by John Reynolds Gardiner is suitable for highly able or gifted readers in grades K-2. The journal questions require thinking and responding at Bloom’s higher levels (evaluation, synthesis and evaluation) The questions and activities focus on plot, character analysis, comprehension, sequencing, real vs. make-believe. The reading level of the text is about 4.5 grade level but the activities have been designed for the very young student.
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K - 3rd
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
Wonders of Learning - Unit 3, Week 4 - Reading Comprehension
Comprehension Sheets to go along with the McGraw Hill Wonders Reading Series for 1st grade Unit 3, Week 4
Packet Includes:
•Comprehension sheets to help further your student’s skills with each story.
-The sheets are designed to be used at your students appropriate level
•Common Core Standards poster for the week and essential question to post in your classroom
Books Covered
- The Last Train(big book)
- Life at Home(shared reading)
- Pioneers (interactive read aloud)
- Long Ago and Now (share
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1st
Dare to Be Different - Carla's Sandwich - Teacher Guide
Dare to be different and stand out from the crowd! Take a bite into this Mighty Books & Brains unit featuring Carla's Sandwich by Debbie Herman. Guide your students to celebrate their differences, identify the climax of a story (aka the juicy part), and do some Sandwich Math (fractions, division, and buying sandwiches at The Sandwich Shop using bills and coins). This is digital unit that includes the complete Dare to Be Different unit (both the Teacher Guide and all Student Graphic Organizer
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K - 2nd
Wonders of Learning - Unit 5, Week 2 - Reading Comprehension
Comprehension Sheets to go along with the McGraw Hill Wonders Reading Series for 1st grade Unit 5, Week 2
Packet Includes:
•Comprehension sheets to help further your student’s skills with each story.
-The sheets are designed to be used at your students appropriate level
•Common Core Standards poster for the week and essential question to post in your classroom
Books Covered
- Why the Sun and Moon are in the Sky (interactive read aloud)
- A Bird Named Fern (shared reading)
- Kitten's First Fu
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1st
Wonders of Learning - Unit 4, Week 2 - Reading Comprehension
Comprehension Sheets to go along with the McGraw Hill Wonders Reading Series for 1st grade Unit 4, Week 2
Packet Includes:
•Comprehension sheets to help further your student’s skills with each story.
-The sheets are designed to be used at your students appropriate level
•Common Core Standards poster for the week and essential question to post in your classroom
Books Covered
- Animals Working Together(interactive read aloud)
- A Team of Fish(shared reading)
- Animal Teams(shared reading)
-Bus
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1st
Wonders of Learning - Unit 4, Week 5 - Reading Comprehension
Comprehension Sheets to go along with the McGraw Hill Wonders Reading Series for 1st grade Unit 4, Week 5
Packet Includes:
•Comprehension sheets to help further your student’s skills with each story.
-The sheets are designed to be used at your students appropriate level
•Common Core Standards poster for the week and essential question to post in your classroom
Books Covered
- Ming's Teacher(interactive read aloud)
- From Puppy to Guide Dog(shared reading)
- Koko and Penny(shared reading)
- S
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1st
Wonders of Learning - Unit 4, Week 1 - Reading Comprehension
Comprehension Sheets to go along with the McGraw Hill Wonders Reading Series for 1st grade Unit 4, Week 1
Packet Includes:
•Comprehension sheets to help further your student’s skills with each story.
-The sheets are designed to be used at your students appropriate level
•Common Core Standards poster for the week and essential question to post in your classroom
Books Covered
- The Elephant's Child(interactive read aloud)
- A Tale of a Tail(shared reading)
- How Bat Got Its Wings(shared readin
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1st
CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Set II Literature Extension Critical Thinking GATE
Continue the fun from STORY SLEUTHS I with 4 more weeks of critical thinking fun. STORY SLEUTHS II is a 1 month, critical thinking project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students
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K - 4th
Six Thinking Hats Unit
This unit has lessons to teach all of De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats with picture books! This method of metacognition provides a way for students to use common language to solve problems in creative and critical thinking ways.
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Seven lessons to use in your GT class as a push-in, pullout or self-contained class for grades K-6. Lessons differentiate for the primary and intermediate students and each lesson lasts between 30-45 minutes. The lessons will also work for the classro
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K - 5th
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ELA Close Reading - Earth Day Stories - Celebrating Earth
Engage All Learners with Powerful Close Reading Activities!This curriculum pack equips educators with a variety of close reading activities designed to target a broad range of learners, including students with dyslexia, English language learners, and all students who can benefit from structured support.Key Features:Accessible Texts: Thoughtfully designed passages with low graphic content and clear formatting (numbered and highlighted paragraphs) promote reading ease and reduce stress.Differentia
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1st - 3rd
Halloween Critical Thinking: Hansel and Gretel
This year provide your students with a Halloween activity that fosters critical thinking and teach them to think like a lawyer.thinkLaw brings strategies taught in law school all the way to our youngest learners! In Hansel and Gretel: Making and Evaluating Tough Decisions students analyze the decisions made by Hansel, Gretel, the woodcutter, and the witch. They all have problems. How could they solve them? Were the decisions they made the BEST decisions they could have made?Students will:Eval
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K - 2nd
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Fractured Fairy Tale Writing Unit
Writing Narratives is even more fun when you get to learn about fairy tales and make your own book. The students will hear several different versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and will get to write their own version through a process of analyzing stories, comparing and contrasting different versions and starting with a story map. Their end product will be their very own fairy tale illustrated book. There are plans for a final class presentation as well. Lots of extension activities inclu
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1st - 2nd
Magic Tree House Activities Pirates Past Noon
Are you looking for help in teaching Pirates Past Noon from The Magic Tree House series? This comprehensive bundle will make teaching the book easy for you and fun for your students. Don't travel a swashbuckling adventure without this colorful literary unit to guide you with questions and activities to go along with Mary Pope Osborne's The Magic Treehouse adventure, Pirates Past Noon. I've even included enough fun transitions to keep attention without losing class time with too much splash. So c
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K - 2nd
Themed Cooperative Group Projects for Primary Grades
Teach your students how to work in small groups with this product which includes, 24 themed cooperative group projects to use in either Kindergarten, 1st Grade, or 2nd Grade.
Some of the cooperative group projects include:
- creating a device for the gingerbread man to use to cross across the lake.
- creating a scarecrow for the 21st century.
- creating a character holiday dinner.
- creating a set of rules for being a turkey out in the wild.
Along with many other fun and creative group projec
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K - 2nd
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CALDECOTT BOOK ACTIVITIES Set III Literature Extension Critical Thinking GATE
STORY SLEUTHS III provides 4 more weeks of critical thinking fun in a project based on Caldecott Award winning books. Your students will use text features, illustrations, and context to determine which Caldecott Award winning book is described by the set of clues. By involving your students in this project, you will exercise their deductive reasoning, analysis, evaluation, and problem solving skills. This unit is CCSS aligned. Students also enjoy great literature, learn about artistic media, and
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K - 4th
KATY AND THE BIG SNOW Cause & Effect/Comprehension (Answer Key Included)
By Virginia Lee Burton* Higher-order questions (and answers) as well as two Cause & Effect graphic organizers* Perfect for whole group, guided reading, literature circles, book clubs, writing prompts, distance learningThis resource includes the following options:· Printable PDF· Answer boxes for students to complete the activity on a device in Google Classroom.
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1st - 3rd
Frog and Toad Are Friends - Literary Unit for PROMETHEAN Board
This complete literary unit for Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel with engage and challenge your bright, young students. The unit starts by introducing the author. It includes higher level discussion questions and a short writing assignment for each chapter.Inside you'll find:An introduction to the author.Higher level discussion questionsShort writing assignment for each chapter.ATTENTION: Be sure you have Promethean Board software before purchasing. If you do not, I have made an identic
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Frog and Toad Bundle for PROMETHEAN BOARD Use
Retelling & Recounting Stories
This instructional resource is in the form of a Googleslide, with pages that are intended for student use. This is a mini lesson for teaching retelling and recounting stories. The first five slides are locked so students aren't able to delete or change the template. They have full access to the student pages. If you buy the bundle, it includes a Boom card lesson on retelling stories, with five stories, and two standards based questions that focus on retelling and recounting the story.
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PreK - 2nd
Jesus, the healer (The Hole in the Roof)
Maximize prep time as a teacher! This is a quick way to tell the story of Jesus healing the crippled man. Help children make connections that will help them starting now by building their faith and strengthening friendships. The story of friends that had a strong faith in Jesus and a love for their friend in need of help. This lesson will allow your children to make connections to their friends. The application piece calls for commitments on what children can do to show their love for Jesus to t
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PreK - 3rd
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