Improving A Task About Designing A Character’s Bedroom An under-developed task in which students designed a character's room.
Rewriting a Sentence With Different Coordinating Conjunctions The first unit in our writing program was always teaching the coordinating conjunctions. It always felt goofy teaching this to 6th graders - especially a gifted magnet class. I mean... do they really not know the difference between "and" and "but"?
Academic Love Letters We're going to take the Academic Valentine idea from earlier, and extend it into a full blown love letter – just in time for Valentine's Day!
Vocab Puzzle: Antonym Paths Begin with a small, simple word and identify its antonym. Then, take this second word and find its antonym. Many times, you'll find that an antonym of an antonym isn't always related the original word.
What could we do with this Wax Museum event? How one might revamp a "Wax Museum" project into something that focuses more on thinking than product.
Taking “Noting Details” To A Higher Level 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."
Rewrite It, But Don’t Use “E” Here's an interesting way to move students past mundane patterns in their writing. Ask for a rewrite, but without a letter (or two).
