A Playlist That Shows A Character’s Change Here's how I'd take one task from my choice board and focus on making it great!
Improving Identify the Figurative Language What do we do after a student can identify the type of figurative language?
Remix the Song “Help!” Students took the classic song, Help!, and rewrote it to be about their collective summers.
Jabberwocky, Parts of Speech, and Context Clues Let's see how we can use a classic piece of poetry to enhance a lesson on parts of speech or context clues. This provides exposure to a great work and also increases the complexity of a typical task.
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."
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"?
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.
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!
Books with 700, 800, 900, & 1000 Lexile, Recommended By Teachers A reader was looking for examples of high-quality books for gifted/talented 4th and 5th graders, but she was constrained to a lexile range of 900-1000. Here are the recs I received...
