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Going Beyond “Challenge Words” In Spelling

Going Beyond “Challenge Words” In Spelling

Many students blow past grade-level spelling and vocabulary at a young age. Unfortunately, a common technique to "challenge" them is to find harder and more obscure words for their spelling list. Instead, let's take advantage of the built-in complexity of common words with multiple-meanings.
Improving Identify the Figurative Language

Improving Identify the Figurative Language

What do we do after a student can identify the type of figurative language?
Going Beyond “Identify a Story’s Problem”

Going Beyond “Identify a Story’s Problem”

My students were stuck telling me a story's problem and solution. Let's get thinking!
Analyzing Prefixes and Suffixes

Analyzing Prefixes and Suffixes

Instead of just memorizing what a bunch of morphemes mean, we're looking broadly, exploring patterns, finding unexpected similarities and weird differences.
What could we do with this Wax Museum event?

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.
Rewriting a Sentence With Different Coordinating Conjunctions

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"?
Remix the Song “Help!”

Remix the Song “Help!”

Students took the classic song, Help!, and rewrote it to be about their collective summers.
Academic Love Letters

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!
Don’t Just List ⚖️ Ethical Issues

Don’t Just List ⚖️ Ethical Issues

Let's improve this "make a list" question to incorporate high level thinking.

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...
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