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Use for a variety of student and grade level needs! Choose the one that fits your grade level/teaching goal for each Depth and Complexity lesson! The 4 Depth and Complexity Frames Included: 1) Blank NO LINES (for drawing illustrations) 2) Some Lines & Empty Space (for pictures and some words) 3) Just Lines (for writing sentences, no pictures) 4) Lines with request for Pg. #s (for referencing text and writing explanations). - Also includes teaching suggestions. Background knowledge and trainin

A 33 page 100% Common Core Aligned Literature Study Unit incorporating Graphic Organizers and Icons for the novel, The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo. A fantastic resource for teaching higher-level thinking in a general education English Language Arts classroom, GATE classroom, or to challenge your gifted and talented students in an enrichment RTI group! Using D&C Icons, students reach the different levels of Depth of Knowledge and follow Common Core State Standards in English Language Ar

Depth and Complexity Prompts Note Taking Cards for teaching Common Core State Standards and/or GATE! Use D&C Prompts to guide students to think critically about everything they are learning about in the classroom. Use them in Literature Units, Guided Reading, Literature Circles, Mathematics Groups, Social Studies, and Science! Aligned with Common Core State Standards! Students fill in the note-taking card with a specific example to fit the Icon represented and there is a space for recordin

This Task Card Set is full of learning tools and strategies for teaching Common Core Literature Units and higher level Reading Strategies! Use these in combination with ANY Reading Unit or Literature Study. Task Cards have graphic organizers that include D&C Icons to prompt students towards higher level thinking, reading, and learning. This is a MUST HAVE for any ELA Common Core and/or GATE Literacy Teacher! Includes 7 COMMON CORE Aligned Task Cards/Maps: * The CCSS is listed on the bott

This is a Listening Center Activity for the story: Is Your Mama a Llama? by Steven Kellogg This is a reproducible worksheet to use as a Literacy Center to teach Common Core Reading Literature in English and Language Arts. Use this as a listening center activity in a Transitional Kindergarten (TK), Kindergarten, or First Grade (1st Grade) Literacy Center! You can also use this as a reading response activity to assess reading comprehension skills after a read aloud! Assign it as a post-read

This is a Listening Center Activity for the story: Chicka Chicka 1-2-3 by Bill Martin Jr. This is a reproducible worksheet to use as a Literacy Center to teach Common Core Reading Literature in English and Language Arts. Use this as a listening center activity in a Transitional Kindergarten (TK), Kindergarten, or First Grade (1st Grade) Literacy Center! You can also use this as a reading response activity to assess reading comprehension skills after a read aloud! Assign it as a post-readi

A third grade teacher’s (and/or GATE teacher’s) MUST HAVE! Use these Depth and Complexity Icon Frames as an extension to your Third Grade Level 3 Houghton Mifflin Reading Curriculum. After reading the stories individually or in your HM anthology, use these frames as a response to literature, literacy center activity, independent/partner activity, find textual evidence … etc. This specific D&C Pack includes: - 3 Depth and Complexity Frames for the following HM stories in Theme 5: 1) Across

A third grade teacher’s (and/or GATE teacher’s) MUST HAVE! Use these Depth and Complexity Icon Frames as an extension to your Third Grade Level 3 Houghton Mifflin Reading Curriculum. After reading the stories individually or in your HM anthology, use these frames as a response to literature, literacy center activity, independent/partner activity, find textual evidence … etc. This specific Depth and Complexity Frames Pack includes: - 4 Depth and Complexity Frames for the following HM storie

A HM third grade teacher’s (and/or GATE teacher’s) MUST HAVE! Use these Depth and Complexity Icon Frames as an extension to your Third Grade Level 3 Houghton Mifflin Reading Curriculum. After reading the stories individually or in your HM anthology, use these frames as a response to literature, literacy center activity, independent/partner activity, find textual evidence … etc. This specific D&C Pack includes: - 3 Depth and Complexity Frames for the following HM stories in Theme 1: 1) The

A third grade teacher’s (and/or GATE teacher’s) MUST HAVE! Use these Depth and Complexity Icon Frames as an extension to your Third Grade Level 3 Houghton Mifflin Reading Curriculum. After reading the stories individually or in your HM anthology, use these frames as a response to literature, literacy center activity, independent/partner activity, find textual evidence … etc. This specific D&C Pack includes: - 3 Depth and Complexity Frames for the following HM stories in Theme 4: 1) Nights

A third grade teacher’s (and/or GATE teacher’s) MUST HAVE! Use these Depth and Complexity Icon Frames as an extension to your Third Grade Level 3 Houghton Mifflin Reading Curriculum. After reading the stories individually or in your HM anthology, use these frames as a response to literature, literacy center activity, independent/partner activity, find textual evidence … etc. This specific Depth and Complexity Frames Pack includes: - 4 Depth and Complexity Frames for the following HM storie

A third grade teacher’s (and/or GATE teacher’s) MUST HAVE! Use these Depth and Complexity Icon Frames as an extension to your Third Grade Level 3 Houghton Mifflin Reading Curriculum. After reading the stories individually or in your HM anthology, use these frames as a response to literature, literacy center activity, independent/partner activity, find textual evidence … etc. This specific D&C Pack includes: - 3 Depth and Complexity Frames for the following HM stories in Theme 6: 1) Pepita

This is a Listening Center Activity that focuses on Reading Comprehension Sequencing Skills (Beginning, Middle, and End) using a Flow Map (Thinking Maps) for the story: Duck on a Bike by David Shannon This is a reproducible worksheet to use as a Literacy Center to teach Common Core Reading Literature in English and Language Arts. Use this as a listening center activity in a Transitional Kindergarten (TK), Kindergarten, or First Grade (1st Grade) Literacy Center! You can also use this as a

This is a Listening Center Activity for the story: A Pocket Full of Kisses by Audrey Penn This is a reproducible worksheet to use as a Literacy Center to teach Common Core Reading Literature in English and Language Arts. Use this as a listening center activity in a Transitional Kindergarten (TK), Kindergarten, or First Grade (1st Grade) Literacy Center! You can also use this as a reading response activity to assess reading comprehension skills after a read aloud! Assign it as a post-readi

This is a Listening Center Activity for the story: The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone This is a reproducible worksheet to use as a Literacy Center to teach Common Core Reading Literature in English and Language Arts. Use this as a listening center activity in a Transitional Kindergarten (TK), Kindergarten, or First Grade (1st Grade) Literacy Center! You can also use this as a reading response activity to assess reading comprehension skills after a read aloud! Assign it as a post-reading a

The "Temporal Transition Phrases" Tree Map is a wonderful tool in assisting students when writing stories, summaries, and or personal narratives with Beginning, Middle, and End. Aligned with Common Core Writing! The "Transition Phrases" Tree Map has suggested word/phrases for BME sentence starters and extra lines to add additional phrases they think of. I like to print out a class set for each student to place in their Writer's Workshop/Writing Workshop folder for quick and easy references

Are you a 3rd Grade teacher that loves teaching GATE? Do you love using Graphic Organizers to help students organize their ideas? Do you love applying Prompts of Depth and Complexity in your classroom? Use these Prompts of Depth and Complexity Graphic Organizers as an extension to your Third Grade Houghton Mifflin Reading Curriculum to reach Common Core and all levels of Depth of Knowledge. After reading each story in your HM anthology, use these Graphic Organizers as a response to literatu

This is a multi-step CGI Problem that includes Money, Addition, and Subtraction. Based on a "Trip to the Beach" students add the amount of money they have (JRU), decide how they want to spend it (SRU), solve to see how much they have left, and write an equation to match their strategy. Includes: 1 - (2 page/2 Part) CGI Problem 1 - Photo Student Sample Page

This is a Listening Center Activity for the story: Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae This is a reproducible worksheet to use as a Literacy Center to teach Common Core Reading Literature in English and Language Arts. Use this as a listening center activity in a Transitional Kindergarten (TK), Kindergarten, or First Grade (1st Grade) Literacy Center! You can also use this as a reading response activity to assess reading comprehension skills after a read aloud! Assign it as a post-readin

Download this digital Double Bubble Map into your students' iPad presentations/educreations app, or upload it onto your SMARTBoard to compare and contrast similarities with Life Long Ago and Life Today in your Common Core Social Studies Unit about People Long Ago! Teacher/Students can research and find photos/words for students to click and drag into the spots! You Might Also Like: Thinking Maps for Common Core Reading and Writing Purposeful Teaching Tools