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Your Dictionary: "Gift of the Magi" Literary Terms
This article focuses on literary terms for the "Gift of the Magi" including the narrator, characters, climax, repetition, resolution, setting, irony, theme, and symbolism.
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Gift of the Magi
A learning module that begins with the short story "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ns Gifts From Grandma, Variation 3
This task presents three problems about money spent on grandchildren at a fair. The first problem involves decimal multiplication and the other two require decimal division. The lesson includes two additional lesson attachments that...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Gift [Pdf]
"My The Gift" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a little girl who wanted to buy an apple for her sick mother, but they had no money. A man gave her a dollar when she returned the wallet he had dropped. The storekeeper saw...
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source on Line: Gifted but Learning Disabled: A Puzzling Paradox
This detailed article helps teachers identify students who are both learning disabled and gifted, provides suggestions for modifying lesson plans and individual activities to make them interesting and useful for these children, and...
Kidsource OnLine
Challenging Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom
"How do teachers develop an instructional plan that will be challenging, enlightening, and intriguing to students of different abilities?" Find the answer to this question and sources for further reading.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: O. Henry
Have you ever heard of O.Henry and his Texas tales? Use this informative resource featuring links to lesson plans, teaching ideas, biographical information and more.
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Seng: Adolescence and Gifted: Addressing Existential Dread
Find information on how parents and teachers can provide emotional support for gifted adolescents, who are experiencing "Existential Dread." Learn how to detect students' feelings and address problems by nourishing them socially,...
LD Online
Ld Online: Gifted and Learning Disabled? It Is Possible!
Is it possible for a student to be gifted and learning disabled? The author of this article speaks from personal experience with such students. She provides general suggetions for teachers wanting to identify gifted students with LD and...
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Teachers First: Differentiating Instruction: Ideas for Individual Differences
This source provides educators with information on the different types of students, and how to best help them learn and excel while in school.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Do It Yourself Patchwork Gifts
Students will sharpen their geometry skills when they make these holiday gifts. This site offers hands-on activities with geometry skills interwoven.
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Uniquely Gifted: Ten Tips for Talking to Teachers
Here are helpful tips to make communication easier between teachers and students. Parents of gifted students can use this list to suggest ways their students might talk to their teachers about more challenging assignments.
Kidsource OnLine
Fostering Academic Creativity in Gifted Students
What can teachers to do encourage gifted students to exhibit creativity in the classroom? This article provides some suggestions and also list ways that adults often "kill" creativity in children.
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Te Kete Ipurangi: Guilty or Not?
This is an excellent lesson unit that can be used with gifted students. Students can choose from three case files and each case file has six lesson plans. After studying a case, students must compose a persuasive argument, present it,...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Lois Duncan
What do you know about the life and work of Lois Duncan? This site features links to several of her books that contain lesson plans, teaching guides and more.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Edith Wharton
Discover more about the life and work of the author Edith Wharton when you visit this resource. This site features several links to lesson plans, biographical information, teaching guides, reviews, and more.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Beat the Calculator!
Find more than 500 "mental calculation tricks" that will help you square numbers, add, multiply divide, subtract, and find percentages. A great resource for advance math students, gifted children, and teachers wanting to find ideas for...
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Pat Mora: Personal Page
Everything a person wants to know about Pat Mora. This is her own personal page. It has links to her nonfiction, her poetry, her children's books and interviews with her. There are some great resources for teachers at this site. Students...
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Rhode Island: Gifted and Talented Education
This advocacy group identifies characteristics and behaviors of the gifted, provides information on its speakers' bureau and programs, and offers resources and additional links for teachers and parents. It also provides a number of...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Calculation Tips & Tricks: Multiplication Tips
Find tips for multiplying by 5, 9, and 11, and learn how to solve math problems without a calculator. This site includes explanations and examples for gifted children and teachers wanting to challenge their students.
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source on Line: College Planning for Students With Learning Disabilities
This article will help teachers who are guiding LD students in looking for and applying to college programs. Find a list of questions teachers and students should consider as they explore schools and their options for students with...
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Maine Department of Education
Maine's site offers information on all aspects of its educational system (e.g., budget reports, gifted and talented programs, certification requirements, testing, teacher certification). In addition, links take the viewer to a range of...
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Help4 teachers.com: Advantages to Layered Curriculum
This article explores the many benefits behind layering the curriculum to meet the learning needs of all the students in your classroom.
US National Archives
National Archives: Lewis and Clark's Expedition to the Complex West
Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the land annexed in the Louisiana Purchase knowing that his area was already inhabited and politically complicated. Students will explore documents related to the purchase and use the map to...