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Differentiating Comprehension Skills: Noting Details

By 6th grade, our reading program's comprehension skills have become a bit basic for most of my gifted students. I've been working on increasing the depth and complexity of these skills. In this case, "Noting Details" has become "Explicit Vs. Implicit Details."

A Deep, Complex Extension Menu For Character Analysis

A reusable extension menu gives gifted students choice while simplifying directions and reducing teacher workload. These eight options for character analysis incorporate depth, complexity, content imperatives, and interesting uses of technology.

Is Your Writing Process This Fun?

Teaching our students to prewrite, write, and rewrite is a difficult process. Much like getting students to show their work in math, process writing is a challenge for gifted students who work intuitively and are annoyed by artificial processes. What better motivation is there than the chance to point out someone else's errors AND be rewarded for it?

111 Greek and Latin Word Parts

To differentiate spelling and vocabulary for my gifted students, I incorporate words with Greek and Latin origins. This list is a compilation of 111 Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes, along with 35 groups of 5 related English words, plus 5 task cards.

Mega Homophone List

Challenge your gifted students and advanced spellers with this list of 320 homophones arranged into groups of ten. Also includes five task cards for independent work with homophones.


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  1. Super Idiom List
  2. Is Your Writing Process This Fun?
  3. Content Imperatives And Conflict
  4. Differentiating Comprehension Skills: Noting Details
  5. 111 Greek and Latin Word Parts
  6. Mega Homophone List
  7. A Deep, Complex Extension Menu For Character Analysis