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Kindergarten literature resources for GATE
STEM Activities for Read Aloud Books BUNDLE of 10
Read alouds come ALIVE with STEM challenges! This set of STEM challenges provides 3-5 STEM challenge per story. That means that you can use the same book across multiple grade levels OR allow students to choose which STEM challenge to try. That also means if you want to do a Family STEM Night, you can set up stations for 2-3 of the stories and let families work together on the challenge of their choice.Students will need to use skills such as taking measurements, creating stable structures, brai
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K - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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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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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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Kite Book Report Packet for Fiction and Non-Fiction
SPRING into literature with a creative book report in a kite form! Your students can SOAR by writing story elements or cool facts from their books, then assembling their book report into an adorable mini-kite. (book can be any book, or it can have a kite theme!) 8 page packet includes:
Terms of Use
Book report form- Fiction (lined and unlined)
Book report form- Non- Fiction (lined and unlined)
Bow patterns for kite book report
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Great product for Gifted and Talented, enrichm
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K - 5th
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
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
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K - 3rd
The Oldest Student Picture Book Biography Companion and Activities
Teach your kiddos the story of Mary Walker, the oldest student in the U.S., who learned to read at 116 years old. This Print and Go Book Companion for The Oldest Student, is a favorite to share with your students at the beginning of the year.WHY YOU NEED THIS THE OLDEST STUDENT BOOK COMPANION: ⭐This comprehensive book companion promotes critical and creative thinking. Best of all, it illustrates the values of perseverance, resilience, and lifelong learning.This The Oldest Student Picture Book
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K - 5th
Also included in: Biography Picture Book Companion Bundle - Lit Guides
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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Indigenous Peoples Legend Wheel Activity for Gifted and Enrichment
NOTE BEFORE BUYING!! This product is one of 8 activities in my Indigenous Peoples Research Menu. Please check out full menu before purchase! Increase critical and creative thinking in your social studies and language arts curriculum! Your students' higher-order thinking skills will blossom as they create and illustrate an Indigenous Peoples Legend Wheel (data disk) based on a legend they've read. 9 page packet includes teacher tips, legend websites, 2 legend wheel forms (top and bottom) with s
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K - 8th
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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!
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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Choice Boards Choice Menus Literature First Grade Early Finishers Fast Finisher
First and foremost, I have to give a huge shout out and thank you to the one and only Jennifer Findley from Teaching to Inspire in 5th, for so kindly giving me her permission and blessing to create a second grade version of her amazing choice boards. In this unit you will find 13 picture clue cards, 4 definition cards and 9 choice boards. There is one choice board each first grade literature standard.On each board, you will find 6 activities for your students to use with their independent read
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K - 2nd
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Classroom Organization Wizard/Harry Potter Themed Alphabet Banner Word Wall
I solemnly swear this is the Word Wall you need! Lumos on this product!Classroom Organization Wizard/Harry Potter Themed Alphabet Banner Word Wall.Includes: Bonus Classroom Banner- "All About Me" and Entire word wall for your Harry Potter or Literacy themed classroom. The flexibility of these items are awesome. It can be used in Gifted class or General Education class for Pre-K-8students.PDF downloadable FileYou might like these other amazing GATE products:STEAM Halloween Bundle Project-4 Produc
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PreK - 8th
Year Long Comprehension Depth & Complexity
I use these novel study units in my classroom over a two-week period for each book. Each novel includes: •A three-question page using Prompts of Depth and Complexity for rich classroom discussions, •A graphic organizer to practice an individual comprehension skill, •Some novels will include an anticipation guide to activate prior thinking when reading a related A-Z Learning informational text (A-Z book title given, text not included as membership is required)•A STEM activity sheet related to the
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PreK - 2nd
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The Pigeon Wants to Be An Inventor {FREEBIE} Literacy Activity
Have fun engaging higher order thinking and writing creative invention pigeon books!
I created this activity as a culminating activity for an inventors and invention unit that I did with my K/1 gifted class. We had studied many inventors. You can read about it on my blog!
Kindergarten Writing Rubrics + Checklists
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K - 2nd
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FREE Reading Enrichment Menu (For Any Fictional Text)
This FREE Reading Enrichment Menu can be used with any fictional text and is great for early finishers, reading centers, and enrichment time. This is also good for alternative homework or as an assignment for your gifted and talented students. This enrichment menu would work best in grades K-4.
This is a “No-Prep” product because you don’t need to search for any additional resources or gather any extra materials. All you need is the printed (or uploaded) menu and the student’s regular classr
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K - 3rd
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Hansel and Gretel Game (for E.L.A.)
Have your students learn or review the key details (aligned with common core standards) from this classic tale, Hansel and Gretel with this fun folder game (a version for Smartboard also included) . Students travel around the "game board" and answer questions regarding details (who, what, where, when, why, how) that are printed on the "Take n' Bake" task cards.Note: this is for the classic story version - NOT the opera version.
Game instructions, task cards (40 plus 2 blank pages for you to add
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K - 3rd
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Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom (Bill Martin) Interactive Alphabet Order Game
This is a terrific game for pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and ESL or ESOL students to practice their alphabet order. This resource includes the following: 21 questionseach question has three letters for multiple-choicecapital letterswritten prompts: "What comes first?" and "What comes next?"PDF or Easel options:Each option has the exact same questions. The Easel activity is a drag-and-drop circle game without affirmation and encouragement pages. However. it is self-checking
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PreK - 1st, Adult Education
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Reading Center
This Engine-Uity Reading Center (we call it a Porta-Center) explores "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" by Mo Willems. It contains:
(1) a Worksheet (Knowledge and Comprehension levels of Bloom's Taxonomy),
(2) an Answer Key for the Worksheet,
(3) eight uniquely shaped task cards (two each from the Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation levels of Bloom's Taxonomy),
(4) a comprehensive Teachers Guide,
(5) and a colorful folder cover to help you put together and implement the
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K - 2nd
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Informational Text Choice Boards Choice Menus Fast Finishers Early Finishers
Providing choice for students is huge. In this unit you will find 13 picture clue cards, 4 definition cards and 10 choice boards. There is one choice board each first grade literature standard.On each board, you will find 6 activities for your students to use with their independent reading books, classroom books or library books. Some of the activities will require materials listed on the materials page. These activities work well to broaden students’ understanding of the Common Core Literatu
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K - 2nd
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Turkey Graphic Organizers or Story Maps
Get a choice of five story maps for primary grades. Each map can be printed in color or black and white. (Please note: color sheets will need to be written on with markers or a more visible ink. I usually have students write a draft and rewrite a published piece on their turkeys.)You simply print and use! Enjoy!Florida Standards:LAFS.4.RL.1.2: Determine a theme of a story.LAFS.4.RI.2.5: Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, id
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K - 4th
Flora and the Flamingo Reading Center
This Engine-Uity Reading Center (we call it a Porta-Center) explores the wordless book, "Flora and the Flamingo" by Molly Idle. It contains:
(1) a Worksheet (Knowledge and Comprehension levels of Bloom's Taxonomy),
(2) an Answer Key for the Worksheet,
(3) eight uniquely shaped task cards (two each from the Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation levels of Bloom's Taxonomy),
(4) a comprehensive Teachers Guide,
(5) and a colorful folder cover to help you put together and implement the
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K - 2nd
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