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Ready to confidently meet the unique needs of your gifted learners? It’s essential that these high-ability students receive enrichment that provides a different level of work and sparks their curiosity. This resource page is your dedicated collection of effective tips, strategies, and activities for differentiation in math, literacy, and more. Below, you’ll find the best enrichment resources and tools you need to keep your gifted students truly engaged and challenged in your general education classroom!

This page has the best enrichment resources, tips, strategies, and differentiation activities for gifted learners in the general education classroom.

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  • Enrichment Binders

    Implementing Enrichment Binders for High-Achieving and Gifted Learners

  • With the right strategies for differentiated instruction, planning tips, resources, and mindset, differentiated instruction doesn’t have to be overwhelming.

    The Best Strategies for Differentiated Instruction (Without Burning Out)

  • Dive into some of the differences between gifted and high-achieving students and learn practical strategies that help each group thrive.

    Gifted and High-Achieving Students: How to Identify and Support These Students

  • Here are the unexpected traits of gifted students that can hinder their success or well-being and ways to help these students thrive both in and out of the classroom.

    15 Unexpected Traits of Gifted Students

  • High-ceiling math tasks are tiered activities that help all students succeed, but they are especially beneficial to help gifted students grow.

    High-Ceiling Math Tasks for Gifted Learners

  • Learn how to organize meaningful early finisher activities that cater to diverse student needs, promote independence, promote critical thinking, and encourage student growth.

    Meaningful Early Finisher Activities

  • Explore gifted enrichment tips, effective strategies, and resources to engage and challenge your gifted learners in the general education classroom.

    Gifted Enrichment Tips for the General Education Classroom

  • Many gifted students experience some level of perfectionism. Here are ways you can provide support & combat perfectionism in gifted students.

    How to Combat Perfectionism in Gifted Students

  • 5 classroom tips for enrichment and differentiation for gifted learners, which is just as important as accommodations for struggling learners.

    Differentiating and Meeting the Needs of Gifted Learners

The Best ELA Enrichment Resources

  • Daily Journal Writing Self Reflection Character Development SEL Journal
  • Verbal Reasoning Activities Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
  • Morphology Resource Bundle SOR Aligned Word Study Prefixes Suffixes Roots
  • Poem of the Week Bundle Fluency and Comprehension Using Poetry
  • Reading Projects Bundle Reading Comprehension and Enrichment
  • Reading Skills Read and Respond Choice Boards

The Best Math Enrichment Resources

  • Error Analysis Bundle Critical Thinking in Math Math Enrichment
  • Math Projects for Upper Elementary Real World Math Activities Mega Bundle
  • Math Projects BUNDLE Real World Activities for Math Skills
  • Seasonal Math Projects BUNDLE Real World Math Activities Throughout the Year

The Best Critical Thinking Enrichment Resources

  • Critical Thinking Daily Brain Busters Enrichment Activities Morning Work
  • Logic Puzzles Bundle Math and Reading Logic Puzzles for Creative Thinking
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Comment below, and I’ll send you ALL the info abou Comment below, and I’ll send you ALL the info about how we use book beads, including these cute Book Review Cards for meaningful (but fun) accountability. 🤗
Sooo I’ll be the first to admit that I spent an ho Sooo I’ll be the first to admit that I spent an hour on my first day of school as a teacher making my students brainstorm a million rules — all of which were stated as “don’ts” and “nos”. 

Don’t talk while the teacher is talking. 
Don’t leave your desk messy.
Don’t get out of line. 
No running. 

Oh, how I cringe at the thought of it. 😬 💔 

Luckily, I learned from teachers who knew better and over the years, I ended up creating just ONE RULE in my classroom. I have the PERFECT book to use for the lesson, too! We still brainstorm “rules,” but the lesson looks and feels SO different now. 

💥 Comment below, and I’ll share all about how I teach just one rule every year and the book I use! 

P.S. To my 3rd graders my first year, I’m so sorry. 😭😭😭
📢 UPPER ELEMENTARY TEACHERS: Comment GRAMMAR below 📢 UPPER ELEMENTARY TEACHERS: Comment GRAMMAR below, and I’ll send you my FREE hour-long Grammar PD! ✨ Join thousands of other teachers starting their year on the right track with writing and grammar!

Inside the super short course, I’ll walk you through my five grammar non-negotiables that will help set your students up for success this school year. 🩷
Always so much to do and so little time! 👏 Comment Always so much to do and so little time! 👏 Comment below, and I’ll send you my FREE first week of school lesson plans full of activities, procedures, read Alouds, and more! 🫶 

I want our first week to be full of experiences that set the expectations for the ENTIRE year. We aren’t just “doing activities.” We are working together, practicing with supplies, learning how to transition, and getting to know each other. 🥹
🩷🩷🩷🩷Reading these responses every week brings me S 🩷🩷🩷🩷Reading these responses every week brings me SO much joy, and I learn SO much about my students… their lives outside of school, their writing style and voice, and so much more. 

✨ Leave a comment below, and I’ll send you a FREE guide to get started and a link to prewritten letter templates for the whole year! ✍️ 

Here’s how I run Weekly Letter Writing as homework:

🌟 Each full week of school, I spend a few minutes writing a letter to my students (each student gets the same letter)… In it, I talk about interesting things in my life (they LOVE this), what we are going to learn about and do that week, a character trait we’re focusing on, any interesting dates or celebrations that week, and then I always ask them a question or give them a relevant prompt (or two) to respond to me. 

They write their responses at home and drop them in my mailbox any time throughout the week. I write short responses back to them (directly on their letters) each week. 

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This is one of my favorite back to school activiti This is one of my favorite back to school activities that you can use all year long. 👏 Giant Scrabble has been a staple in my first month of school plans for YEARS, and last year I used the giant letters to play a human-sized version of Tapple, which was a massive hit! 

💌Comment below, and I’ll send you ready to print letters AND my free first week of school lesson plans so you can implement it during YOUR first week! 👏 

🌟 Why does this make such a great back to school experience in the classroom? 🧐 It serves as a GREAT lesson in productive struggle. It’s always amazing to see my students work through both games — and they beg for them to return all year long. 🧩 💡 We also used it as an opportunity to talk about how some students thrive under pressure while it can be intimidating for others. That doesn’t mean anyone is better than another person. 💕🩷

🌟 Details: We don’t REALLY keep score on either of the games. The point is to get them excited about overcoming obstacles and continuing a task that seems impossible or difficult. Most kids aren’t familiar with the games, so some variations and exceptions are allowed.
Like with pretty much every other expectation and Like with pretty much every other expectation and procedure, teaching kids HOW to work in groups is the key to actually getting them to work well in groups. 🩷💖 Comment below, and I’ll send you the one page version of this AND the individual letter descriptors shown here! 

The letters are from @steppintoelementary and SO cute! 🥰
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