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Middle school literature resources for Microsoft Word and for GATE
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
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick Unit Critical Thinking GATE Hands-on!
Students reluctant to read? They’ll read this one! These lessons will keep them interested and keep them thinking along the way … You’ll be free to pick and choose the best activities to suit your students, because in this collection, there is much, much more than you’ll ever need for one graphic novel unit.
Open Brian Selznick’s graphic novel Wonderstruck, and you will quickly see why readers of all ages are wonderstruck—captivated by the interplay of text and pictures, drawn into two storie
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4th - 7th
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Script:The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
16 single-sided page script
Recommended for grades 4 through 8 (or younger, GT students)
Play is approximately 45 minutes long
A perfect culminating activity after enjoying the magic and symbolism of C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Enjoy!
(Long live Aslan; Long live Christmas!)
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3rd - 8th
Number the Stars: Chapter 1-3 Comprehension Quiz
Quiz/ test for Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. This activity is written in an A-B format, where students are required to support their answers with direct quotes from the novel. This ensures that students are refer back to the text to confirm their answers.
It includes multiple choice questions along with a short-response prompt. This document can be edited to adjust to the needs of your students. Additionally, these questions serve as higher-order thinking questions.
Example- How has the war
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3rd - 6th
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STAX Independent Reading Program for Advanced and GATE
Need to differentiate for advanced readers?
Everyone seems to have one or two readers who are simply beyond the group. With the Novel STAX Independent Reading Program, you’ll be differentiating instruction today!
Why purchase independent reading guides for your advanced and GATE readers when they can create and share their own? With STAX, your independent study framework is already developed for Common Core Standards, critical thinking, and variety in learning styles. Teachers serve as g
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Gifted and Talented for BUSY CLASSROOM TEACHERS Volume 2 - 400+ Pages
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH STAX Independent Reading Supplement for GATE
These independent reading program cards are designed for use with the STAX Independent Reading Program for Advanced and GATE. This is not the full program but a supplemental starter STAX for use with the program.
You can purchase the full program separately at the Portable Gifted and Talented store on TPT.
The STAX Independent Reading Program allows your gifted and advanced readers to create tasks and respond to meaningful critical thinking challenges to any novel. The STAX program invites b
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3rd - 8th
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GATE nonfiction reading response log
This is a reading response sheet that uses the GATE icons of depth and complexity. It can be used by GATE and nonGATE students. It makes responding to non fiction books more meaningful and challenging than typical non fiction response sheets. It can be used for homework or as a guide for literature circles.
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2nd - 6th
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Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Script - 45 Minute Version!
This is Shakespeare's famous play A Midsummer Night's Dream condensed down to 45 minutes. Puck acts as both the mischievous fairy and the narrator leading the audience from scene to scene. Perfect for school plays for younger actors and short performance events.
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5th - 9th
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The Forgotten Door novel study
When a boy from another world falls through a portal to Earth, he learns about the best and worst of Earth's civilization as he searches for the way back to his own planet."The Forgotten Door" is a science fiction book written at a 4.75 grade level. It is fairly dense and contains mature themes, such as fear, prejudice, and hatred. The AR level is 5.0. Although The Forgotten Door is out of print, it can be accessed on the resale market and as an e-book.This novel study is built on the premise of
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4th - 7th
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The Metamorphosis Exam
Here's a fully editable and in-depth 50-question test with essay prompt on Franz Kafka's surrealistic classic "The Metamorphosis" and art styles connected to his era. The multiple choice questions focus primarily on symbolism, irony, surrealism, archetype and themes. A solid wrap-up to a most profound novella.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Afternoon of the Elves GATE Unit for Independent Study or Whole Class
Haven’t read this book yet? It is masterfully written!
This is a full GATE unit for Janet Taylor Lisle’s Newbery Honor Book, Afternoon of the Elves. This unit is much more thorough and different from the “STAX” independent reading unit for the same novel available in my store.
This unit includes instructions for independent study, small group, and whole class instruction. The focus for all options is decidedly higher order thinking skills, creativity, extension of the novel’s ideas and them
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4th - 7th
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Menu of Independent Reading Projects FREE Enrichment and GATE
Just say YES to the five C’s for gifted learners with CHALLENGES, CHOICES, COMPLEXITY, CONTROL over what and how they learn, and teachers who authentically CARE. Energize all readers with this project choice menu – FREE! Come back for over 200 lessons and units specifically designed for gifted learners.
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3rd - 10th
STEAM STEM CATS, CATS, CATS Across the Curriculum for GATE
Shouldn’t your 21st Century classroom be just like today’s virtual world? In other words, shouldn’t it be full of cats?!
We’ve got reading cats. We’ve got writing cats. We’ve got poetry cats. We’ve got math cats. We’ve got science and engineering cats. We’ve got graphic design, art, critical thinking, and creativity cats. We’ve got all kinds of cats across the curriculum! There are 7 lessons in all here—representing 7 to 10 hours (maybe even more) of class time. They are appropriate fo
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3rd - 6th
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Romeo and Juliet Final Test, William Shakespeare Play, Assessment, Exam
This is a final test for Romeo and Juliet, including multiple choice, true/false, quote identification, matching character to description, and short answer essay prompts. Answer key is included.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Animation and Critical Thinking for GATE and Generation Z -- The Piano FREE
4th Graders through adults find this video and activity fascinating. Let's try it FREE!Maybe your students will ask the same question mine did, "When can we do this again?"Using a short 2 minute video and an accompanying "Visual Inference Guide," students quickly become engaged in a critical analysis as they share insights with classmates--connecting video and literature.This format works for upper elementary through high school honors classes because students respond according to their abilit
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4th - 12th, Adult Education
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"We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Quiz, American Literature
Discover the depth of Gwendolyn Brooks' iconic poem "We Real Cool" with this 10- Question Poetry Quiz. Unveil the rebellious spirit, unravel the symbolism, and test your understanding of this literary masterpiece in a brief, engaging quiz. 10 multiple-choice questions with an answer key.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Don Quixote de La Mancha 45 Minute Play Adaptation Script, Readers Theater
This is a 45 minute adaptation of Cervantes' Don Quixote de La Mancha. Perfect for class productions or readers theater.
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7th - 11th
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Character Report Card - Characterization
This is a fun way to teach characterization while increasing vocabulary! Review vocabulary words on the character's report card. Have students choose a character from a book, or the teacher could select the character. Have students grade the character on each vocabulary word. The student must give justification for their response. - Tammy Griffis
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4th - 6th
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Banner in the Sky: Differentiated Final Project Ideas
You are about the finish Banner in the Sky or have just finished the book with your middle school-age class. What now? Of course there is the traditional "written final exam" drudgery, but instead how about a differentiated creative project that students choose and that inspires each to go further in their own way?
I have concluded my teaching unit on Banner in the Sky by giving this list of 14 project ideas for many years. There are several artistic projects, written projects, research projec
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5th - 8th
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GATE reading response log
Reading response log using GATE icons of depth and complexity. For use when students are finished reading a chapter book. Can be used with all students, not just GATE students. This response log makes responding to literature a more meaningful and challenging activity.
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2nd - 6th
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The Giver-Bibliotherapy Unit
This unit provides you with ready-to-go, higher-level questions for The Giver by Lois Lowry. Originally intended to work as a bibliotherapy unit, this can easily be used in literature circles, or to spark whole-class discussions. If you are not familiar with bibliotherapy, please read the info. sheet included in the unit. I have also included a ready-to-go (make sure to change the name to yours!) parent letter to inform them of the unit. I think you will find this especially good for your G
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5th - 8th
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The Little Prince Novel Study
This in depth novel study guides students through the chapters giving them pre-reading activities, journal prompts, quote analysis and a final essay topic. There are also links to each cluster of chapters so that students can read online and not buy the book.
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6th - 8th
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NEWBERRY 3 Novels for STAX Independent Reading Program for GATE and Advanced
Here are three Newberry Winner or Honor Books to help jumpstart your STAX Independent Reading Program--"Pictures of Hollis Woods," "Bridge to Terabithia," and "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH."
Save 33% off individual purchases with this 3 book collection.
These independent reading program cards are designed for use with the STAX Independent Reading Program for Advanced and GATE. This is not the full program but a supplemental starter STAX for use with the program.
You can purchase the ful
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3rd - 8th
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GATE Literacy Extensions Cube for Upper Elementary
Still looking for more activities and extensions for those pesky GATE verbal kids in your classroom? Give this one a try!
Roll the cube, and your eager learners will be on their way to a creative, standards-infused extension activity in critical thinking.
This free "cut and fold" cube is appropriate for upper elementary GATE and is generic enough to be used for either short fiction, biographies, or novels.
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4th - 6th
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