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Middle school End of Year literature resources for GATE
Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Literature Circles Book Clubs
Add some depth and complexity to traditional Literature Circles with this complete and ready-to-use resource!You will be amazed by the level of discussion and critical thinking that will take place among your students. Each Literature Circle role (listed below) is directly connected to 11 elements of critical thinking: Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives). Ju
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4th - 9th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
Create Your Own Dream House Project - Using Area & Perimeter
This project requires students to design a dreamhouse using graph paper (provided in this resource). Once students have designed their dreamhouse they are then asked to find the area and perimeter of all objects in their house. I have provided a list of suggestions and student-friendly directions. This is a fun project that will get kids motivated about practicing area and perimeter concepts. Included in this download are the following:-Teacher Directions/Helpful Hints-Student Directions-Student
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3rd - 6th
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Team Building Escape Room with Logic Puzzles Critical Thinking Escape Room
Engage your students with this Team Building Escape Room! This is great as a back to school escape room! This escape room is perfect for both the end of the year and beginning of the year. Students will be engaged and challenged with logic puzzles, codes to decipher, and more. There is both a full easy prep printable version as well as a Google(TM) form digital version for virtual or distance learning.This resource includes everything you need to implement a challenging and fun escape room fo
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4th - 9th
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Depth and Complexity Teaching Critical Thinking Using Fairytales
Teach your students how to explore content with depth and complexity.Here it is, a complete and ready-to-use resource for teaching all 11 elements (Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives) of critical thinking.! Your students will explore of these elements by applying them to familiar stories, such as “Cinderella”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, “Goldilocks and the
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
STEM Bins® Pool Noodle Speed Builds: End of the Year and Summer STEM Activities
These End of the Year and Summer STEM Bins Activity cards are compatible with Pool Noodle pieces and toothpicks. Prior to completing these challenges, the teacher will need to use a serrated knife to cut pool noodles into circular slices, halves, and fourths. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE POOL NOODLESWith Pool Noodle STEM Bins Speed Builds, 1-2 students complete leveled puzzle STEM challenges!These STEM Activities are ideal for hands-on morning work, early finishers, enrichment, and team building at
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PreK - 6th
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Team Building Escape Room with Logic Puzzles BUNDLE - Critical Thinking Escape
Engage your students with this Team Building Escape Room BUNDLE! This is great as for a back to school escape room as well as for end of year, after breaks, or just ANY time you want your students collaborating and thinking critically!Students will be engaged and challenged with logic puzzles, codes to decipher, and more. There is both a full easy prep printable version as well as a Google(TM) form digital version for virtual or distance learning.This resource includes everything you need to imp
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4th - 9th
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Reading Genres Mini-Unit | Genre Posters, Activities, Worksheets, & Quiz
Looking to spice up your review of the different reading genres? Look no further! This engaging bundle packs a punch with genre posters, doodle notes, and genre activities like riddles, book sorts, scavenger hunts, and more! From dull to delightful, this mini-unit will make learning about book genres both engaging and effective!✔ Check out the preview for more information!Unveil a world of possibilities for your students this year by developing their understanding of literary genres. It's the cr
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5th - 7th
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End of the Year Activities: Choice Board for 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Grade
Using fun End of the Year Choice Board activities like this is a great (and super easy) way not only to provide differentiated end of the year activities for your students but also to keep them actively engaged in fun activities that they can work on independently at the end of the year. It also gives you the option of using up to TEN different activities with your class however you see fit!
This is a collection of some of my favorite activities to do with students at the end of the year. It’s
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3rd - 6th
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Podcast Assignment - write your own podcast
Have your students write their own podcast.Are your students listening to podcasts in the classroom and are now ready to take the next steps of creating their own podcast? Is it the end of the year and your students are ready to create a project that will sum up their year?This product includes everything your students need to brainstorm, script, and record their own podcast. Included are: ✱"Podcasts" article that give the students a background of podcasts ✱"How Can I Make My Own Podcast" art
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Podcast Assignment BUNDLE
A Midsummer Night's Dream Unit - Drama and Analysis Activities for AMND
Are you ready to make your A Midsummer Night’s Dream unit truly magical? Immerse your students in the world of this William Shakespeare play with an interactive drama unit, an abridged version of AMND to perform, and two escape room games to introduce and review key concepts. Your A Midsummer Night’s Dream teaching unit is:✅ Interactive✅ Adaptable✅ EngagingYour A Midsummer Night's Dream Unit includes:Drama Unit for Interactive NotebooksAnalyzing dramaActing mini-lessons and activitiesIntroducti
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7th - 10th
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Medusa Mythology Activities | Character Description and Point of View
Who has hair of snakes and eyes that can turn you to stone? Medusa, of course! You can spice up your mythology unit or novel study with these engaging literature activities. Grab students’ attention with two different views of this alluring mythical creature.“Medusa,” a humorous poem told in first person, characterizes the Gorgon as a frustrated woman who just can’t do a thing with her hair. Conversely, a brief narrative entitled “The Dreadful Gorgons” provides a third-person account of Perseus’
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5th - 6th
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Literary Elements Depth and Complexity Frames for Figurative Language ELA
Teaching Literary Elements/Literary Devices or story elements? These Depth and Complexity Frames for English Language Arts will make your life so easy! You'll get 25 frames about reading and language arts ready to print and go! Yep, they're all done for you! Simply choose the topic you want students to explore, print and go! There are 25 frames done for you and ready to use right now to build student skills with analyzing using literary elements.Two of the frames are teaching frames, meaning the
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3rd - 8th
Text Analysis | Critical Thinking | Outside the Box Project
This Text Analysis project (which can be used with narrative, expository, and persuasive texts) will have your students thinking long after they have finished the project, and will help them think more objectively about future readings!Students will be required to talk about the text, its author, as well as the purpose, goals, and more.With six mini-projects to complete (which includes the student's name), this is sure to be a thought-provoking experience for students.Included in Your Purchase T
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6th - 8th
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Math & Art 16 Projects Geometry STEAM Whole Year BUNDLE Middle School Math Craft
Full Year Bundle - 16 Fun Math & Art Activities. This is a perfect Enrichment bundle to practice Area & Perimeter of Triangles and Quadrilaterals, Area & Circumference of a Circle, Area of Composite Figures, Coordinate Plane ordered pairs plotting, Types of Angles & Triangles, Drawing and Measuring Angles with a Protractor, Angle Pairs & Relationships, Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal, Scale Factor, Volume and Surface Area of Prisms, and Special Right Triangles 45-45-90 &a
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6th - 9th
Card Tower STEM Challenge Mini Bundle
This tower building STEM / STEAM Challenges is perfect for summer – or any time of the year! It brings the joy back to your classroom with collaborative, hands-on, brain-busting work (disguised as fun)!If you have spare index cards, at least 30 minutes, and a class to inspire, run this challenge as a fun, quick task for a rainy day, or select from multiple options provided to add depth and rigor to extend this activity to days or weeks of active learning!The basic premise: Individually, or in p
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2nd - 8th
End of Year Logic Puzzles, Differentiated Levels
These 8 End of Year themed logic puzzles are great activities to fill the time as the year winds down, but still engage students in critical thinking. The 4 different levels are great for students of different grades and/or abilities. (grade levels indicated are suggestions as you know your students' abilities best). Answer keys included.Perfect for group activities, early finishers, those who crave extra challenges, GATE students, substitutes, etc. These grid logic puzzles are ready to go--just
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3rd - 7th
A Wrinkle in Time Planet Creation Project
Let your students get their creative juices flowing as the delve into A Wrinkle in Time. After students have visited the planet Camazotz, let them create their own planet. This project includes questions for students to answer about their planet, a rubric, and information about the writing that they are expected to complete. Students are also responsible for creating a poster about their planet to share with the class. This project is sure to be a hit! It can be used as soon as the students reac
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4th - 7th
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Food Truck Festival - Engaging Independent Reading Project - PBL - STEM
Elevate the joy of independent reading in your classroom with a twist that's sure to ignite enthusiasm – host your very own Food Truck Festival! Building upon the success of my beloved Literary Feast project, I've taken it up a notch to bring you an EXTRAORDINARY Food Truck Festival project that combines literary exploration with the excitement of culinary creativity. This is not just an activity; it's an immersive experience designed to captivate your students' imaginations and showcase their i
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6th - 9th
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Esperanza Rising Lapbook Interactive Activity
This is our most popular project! Students love creating these interactive lapbooks during and after reading Esperanza Rising. Activities include:VocabularyCharactersChapter SummariesDialogueLiterary TermsResearch Includes two cover choices: a pre-printed coloring page and the same image as a directed drawing.www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/thank-a-teacher
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4th - 8th
I am Malala (Young Reader's Edition) Full Novel Unit
This unit was designed specifically to align to the common core standards and comes with and without the GATE depth and complexity symbols. Complete with an introductory ppt presentation, novel study pages, section quizzes, a final project, and essay options for every type of writing.
This novel is a beautiful story of Malala, a young girl shot by the Taliban for standing up for education. It handles a sensitive topic beautifully and is an eye-opening, mind-expanding novel absolutely critical
Fairy Tale Lesson Plan Bundle
This lesson plan bundle—one of my all-time favorite ELA units to teach—contains activities designed to generate enthusiasm and skills in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and performing. Read on for notes regarding grade level usage. And see the Preview for Table of Contents, Standards correlations, and sample materials.
Questions? Please contact me.
Email: love2teach2day@gmail.com
I hope you enjoy my favorite unit!
Cynthia
The unit bundle includes the following, totaling over 100 pages
May STEM Activities with End of the Year STEM Challenges and Close Reading
May STEM and End of the Year STEM challenge activities are so much fun. But, finding the time to incorporate design challenges into your curriculum can be difficult. This PRINT AND DIGITAL MAY STEM Design Challenge COLLECTION is part of the STEM with CLOSE READING series. It gives you FOUR OF MY BEST SELLING STEM CHALLENGES that will seamlessly allow you to tie together the curriculum by giving you rigorous text dependent questions that go with a high interest reading passages IN ADDITION to
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3rd - 6th
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The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan - Teacher's Guide and Activities GATE
The beauty in The Lost Thing is that it settles into one’s soul in a casual and poetic way. What starts as a sort of amusing but sad story finds its way deeper into your heart. You begin to wonder, to ask questions. Soon you find yourself wanting to stand up and defend all the lost things in the world—including that lost part of yourself.
Are you somehow guilty too, you wonder? Quite unexpectedly, you begin to really feel the world Shaun Tan creates. It is a wonderful experience in mindf
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4th - 12th
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Also included in: 2019-2020 Gifted and Talented GATE Program for the Year - Elementary
Character Traits ELA Project-Based Learning Activity Using Wonder PRINT&DIGITAL
This ELA project-based learning activity is a fantastic way to teach students about internal and external character traits using the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio! Your students will also learn about and apply writing skills, collaboration, and more during this PBL. It includes text about character traits, teacher directions, and student pages to walk your students through each part of the project. A pacing calendar is included, but it's flexible in order to be easily molded to your classroom and
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3rd - 8th
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