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6th grade reading strategies resources for GATE
Close Reading on a Ring: Independent Reading Activities Using Close Reading
*THIS PRODUCT IS SIMILAR TO MY CLOSE READING IN A JAR PRODUCT*
Your students will love reading independently while continuing to use the close reading strategies you have taught them. They simply take a binder ring and Close Reading Tool Kit to their seat when reading a short passage. Students choose cards before/during/after reading to help with comprehension and understanding. All cards require students to highlight a word, sentence, or part of the passage to demonstrate understanding. The
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Scholastic News Response Choice Board
A pair of choice board activities for Scholastic News magazines. There are two sets of directions included: a version where students complete 1 activity from each row each week or a version where students cross out the completed activity and turn it in when all activities have been completed. Suitable for centers or emergency sub plans!
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Valentine's Day Depth and Complexity Print and Go Activities No-Prep ELA
❤️Looking for a way to celebrate Valentine's Day with quality, standards-based language arts activities for your students in grades 4 & up? This set of Valentine's Day Print-and-Go Activities is just what you're looking for! You'll find Valentine's Day writing prompts (short and long), a Valentine's Day short story to read and analyze, an original non-fiction piece to read and analyze, and a Depth & Complexity frame about Valentine's Day. All of it uses the Depth and Complexity model. Of
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3rd - 6th
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St. Patrick's Day Depth & Complexity Print & Go Low-Prep Activities Test Prep
Looking for a fabulous selection of St. Patrick's Day activities that use the Depth & Complexity framework? This print-and-go activity pack has Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, and Science activities, all in one great resource. You'll find St. Patrick's Day writing prompts, fiction and non-fiction pieces to read, Depth and Complexity frames to complete, a brochure to create, leprechaun problems to solve, Irish geology to explore, and more! Of course there is a digital version included fo
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Scholastic Storyworks Response Choice Board
A pair of choice board activities for Scholastic Storyworks magazines. There are two sets of directions included: a version where students complete 1 activity from each row each week or a version where students cross out the completed activity and turn it in when all activities have been completed. Suitable for centers or emergency sub plans!
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Literature Circles Bundle With Depth and Complexity
This Literature Circles Bundle With Depth and Complexity will be a great resource when implementing literature circles in your classroom. A literature circle is a small group instructional approach with structure, high expectations, and rigor. ****This file comes with editable products! (Need PowerPoint to edit)**** Depth and Complexity will help your students dig deeper in their learning and think in more complex ways. This product encompasses the 11 elements of Depth and Complexity that were
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Twelve Cranky Children Play Elementary Script Drama Club Readers Theater
Twelve Cranky Children Play Elementary Script Drama Club Readers Theater
Is Jack a hero who saved the town, or an irresponsible boy who killed the giant after climbing the beanstalk and stealing the goose? Twelve Cranky Children must decide his fate in this comedic courtroom drama.
With 21 roles, and a running time of approximately 45 minutes, the play is easily adapted to drama club or classroom use, with very small roles for the shy or reluctant readers to starring roles. Fairy tale cha
Grades:
3rd - 6th
CSI Mystery Science | Making Inferences | Google Slides | Logic
Here’s an engaging digital activity that will help your students better understand deductive logic and reasoning by learning all about criminal investigations.Crime Scene Basics is a great theme that teaches all the skills of critical thinking, inference, and deductive logic in a fun and interesting way!This workshop takes about 1 to 1 ½ to hours to complete. If you can find time to interact with students online, asking questions and sharing stories, it will take longer, of course. These high-in
Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in: CSI Reading Comprehension | Mystery Science | Google Classroom BUNDLE
Teaching Depth and Complexity with Crayons (distance learning)
Teaching Depth and Complexity Icons can be fun and easy for your elementary or early middle school aged students by using picture books! Students will analyze text, dive deep into the content, and practice using all 11 depth and complexity icons (big ideas, details, patterns, multiple perspectives, rules, across the disciplines, trends, ethics, unanswered questions, over time, and language of the discipline) with this lesson! Using the book, "The Day the Crayons Quit" by Drew Daywalt, your stude
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: Teaching Depth and Complexity Icons with Picture Books GROWING BUNDLE
Reading Comprehension: Using Higher Order Thinking Skills
It is important to attain higher order thinking skills for our students as we tackle the new common core standards. This packet includes different types of activities that will engage your students and challenge their thinking and understanding. The activities are good for large group, small group, partner work, independent, or at centers.
This packet includes:
Comprehension Cards for any story
Foldable Dice for Pre and Post Reading
Tic Tac Toe Activity boards to allow for differentiated inst
Grades:
K - 12th
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Annotating Sonnets: COMPLETE Common Core Standards Unit for Middle & High School
Annotating Sonnets is a Common Core Standards Unit for all students grades 6-12, created to address close reading, annotating and then, WRITING ABOUT what one has found! This activity has long been practiced at the college level because it encourages nuanced and flexible thought, critical thinking and a holistic approach to tackling difficult text and hopefully all kinds of real-life issues once students move on after graduation. In preparation of this college practice, close reading and the pr
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6th - 12th
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Depth and Complexity Icon Posters
Depth and Complexity Icon Posters complete with explanations of what each icon means, examples and sentence starters. All written in student- focused language.
Grades:
4th - 12th
Cooties Boys vs Girls Epic Showdown 3rd 4th 5th Grade Drama Play Readers Theater
The third through fifth grade students in my drama club are at that stage where some of the boys think the girls have “cooties” and vice versa. In this play, the teacher allows the children to settle the question of male vs. female superiority in a classroom debate, where the children must provide facts, not opinions, to offer supporting details to justify their positions.
Who wins? I’m pretty sure you already know, but the children certainly enjoy practicing their reading skills as they a
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick - Inferring Lesson
Are you working on inferring with your students? Use an exciting, mysterious book to help them practice utilizing their inferring skills!
This lesson should be used after students after learned some about inferring. It is a great way to practice what they've learned.
The book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, features interesting and strange illustrations with elusive titles and lines. In this lesson plan, you will walk through the book with your class, and then have them infer what Harris Bu
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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CHRISTMAS Mystery Science | Crime Scene Investigation | Winter Activities | Elf
Need fun and engaging activities for practicing INFERENCE and reading strategies during the crazy Christmas season before winter break?Looking to differentiate with some deductive reasoning and critical thinking skills?This Digital and Printable Elf Enigma Crime Scene Investigation Duo includes everything you need to get your students sleuthing in the classroom or via distance learning.By buying this bundled duo, you are saving 20% off the total price of the individual resources!Please be sure t
Grades:
4th - 7th
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CSI Reading Comprehension | Mystery Science | Google Classroom BUNDLE
Your students will love learning all about different CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATIONS along with a reading passage about Sherlock Holmes as well as riddles, a word search, and informational text about funny detectives in this CSI Bundle. This is a great CSI-themed unit for distance learning!These high-interest, informational, and interactive slides are in a digital format! Simply share the link and have your students complete the activities. Hybrid hands-on options are included in two of the resource
Grades:
4th - 7th
Solve the Chuck Wagon Mystery - Westward Expansion Reading Comprehension & C.S.I
Looking for an engaging way to explore westward expansion? Uncover the mystery of the Chuck Wagon Challenge with GATER Educator!Students will love completing logic puzzles, deducting and inferring as they follow the Crime Scene Protocol and unlock this Wild West mystery with reading comprehension and C.S.IThe Chuck Wagon Challenge is a fictitious investigation, but the characters are notorious legends from the Wild West. The victim is Charles Goodnight, inventor of the chuck wagon and also known
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Potato Chip Advertisement and taste testing project, taste test, PBL
Project based learning at it's best!This Potato Chip Advertisement Project Resource is packed full of fun activities that will keep your kiddos engaged while practicing and extending their skills.This resource includes engaging activities geared towards the upper elementary and intermediate student. The activities can be used stand alone in centers, teacher and small group, or for a full-blown classroom transformation. I added a few more “props” like aprons and chef hats and and they absolutely
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3rd - 6th
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Unity Day Original Bullying Play Elementary Script Readers Theater Drama Club
Unity Day is a comedy that addresses bullying issues, with 24 roles ranging from a few lines for the meek or struggling readers, with roles to differentiate all the way up through gifted readers and/or those who enjoy the spotlight. It is a historical view from a far distant future of a time when Earthling children first attend an intergalactic school and run into some trouble with their new classmates. They struggle to learn to get along despite their differences, but as usual, some are more
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3rd - 6th
March Activities Logic Puzzles Brain Teasers | Writing Prompts Early Finishers
These March-themed reading passages, writing prompts, and logic puzzles make a great differentiated addition to your literacy centers or ELA schedule.Includes DIGITAL ACCESS via Google Slides! Perfect for DISTANCE Learning.Students will enjoy reading about these high-interest March Celebrations:• March is Irish American Heritage MonthClick here for a great Irish American Heritage Resource• First Friday in March: National Day of Unplugging• March 14: Oreo Cookie Day• March 20: Fred Rogers’ Birthd
Grades:
4th - 6th
FREE Close Reading Bookmarks - Annotating Text & Post-it Note Strategy
Print these bookmarks for your students and they will never forget how to close read! I print mine double-sided and students use one side for when we can write on the text and the other (post-it) side for when we're close reading something we can't write on!*****************************************************************************CCSS Aligned Interactive Reading NotebooksI use interactive notebooks in my classroom on a daily basis. I've created my own interactive notebook pages that are align
Grades:
4th - 12th
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GATE Themed Literature Circle Jobs
This is a set of GATE Icon frames that utilizes depth and complexity within lit circle jobs.You may also enjoy my Depth and Complexity/Content Imperative Class Cards I sell as well:Depth and Complexity & Content Imperative Icon CardsKEYWORDS: GATE icons, Literature circles, Lit Circle jobs
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Inference Cards for Primary and Intermediate Grades
Do your students need more practice with inference skills? Here are cards to do as a whole class, small group, partners, or at centers. All cards have a short passage and ask the student to infer what happened and how he/she came to that conclusion. The more your students practice, the better they will become at inferencing.
This includes 40 inference cards and different response cards if done in small groups or at centers!
Grades:
1st - 8th
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Stories With Loopholes: Vocabulary Practice for Gifted & Talented Students
This activity promotes critical and divergent thinking as students dive deeper into homonyms/multiple meaning words.Students are given a story/riddle that has a multiple meaning word embedded into the text. They must use inferencing skills to draw a conclusion and solve the riddle.The riddles were adapted from Nathan Levy’s, “Story With Holes”. You can implement this engaging activity in a whole group setting or as an early finisher task.Answer key is included!
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
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