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Project Goal

My goal for this project is to give my gifted and talented students rigorous and engaging material. I want them to increase their critical thinking skills and enhance their interest in reading at school.
The Jacob’s Ladder units are designed to enhance reading comprehension. The tasks have been organized by skill ladders with questions and activities within each. Ladder rungs are organized to increase complexity in intellectual demand. The ladders cover sequencing, cause and effect, details classification, inferencing, themes, implications, generalizations and concepts.
Florida Language Arts State Standards- Academic Goals
LAFS.K.RI.3.9 With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures). Cognitive Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
LAFS.K.RI.1.3 With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. Cognitive Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
LAFS.1.RI.3.9 Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures). Cognitive Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
LAFS.1.RL.3.9 Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories. Cognitive Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning.
LAFS.2.RL.1.2 Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral. Cognitive Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
LAFS.2.RI.1.3 Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. Cognitive Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
LAFS.3.RL.2.6 Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters. Cognitive Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
LAFS.3.RI.1.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. Cognitive Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
LAFS.4.RL.3.9 Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures. Cognitive Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
LAFS.4.RI.1.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. Cognitive Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
LAFS.5.RL.1.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. Cognitive Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
LAFS.5.RI.2.5 Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts. Cognitive Complexity: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
Gifted Frameworks Goals and Objectives
By graduation, the student identified as gifted will be able to create, adapt, and assess multifaceted questions in a variety of fields/disciplines. 1) Identify significant questions within and across disciplines. 2) Generate significant questions within and across disciplines. 3) Evaluate and refine significant questions within and across disciplines.
By graduation, the student identified as gifted will be able to think creatively and critically to identify and solve real world problems. 1) Identify and investigate a problem and generate supportive arguments from multiple perspectives of a complex issue.
By graduation, the student identified as gifted will be able to conduct thoughtful research/exploration in multiple fields. 1) Use a variety of research tools and methodologies. 2) Use and manipulate information sources. 3) Detect bias and reliability in the process of research. 4) Apply ethical standards to research and analyses.
By graduation, the student identified as gifted will be able to critically examine the complexity of knowledge: the location, definition, and organization of a variety of fields of knowledge. 1) Locate, define, and organize a field of study as it relates to the broad spectrum of knowledge. 2) Identify and illustrate basic principles and the foundational concepts that are central to understanding the essence of a field of study. 3) Identify and apply investigative methodologies that are followed in a selected field of knowledge
 

 

How Project Benefits Students

This project will benefit K-5th grade students in Language Arts.
This ongoing project will provide a unique opportunity for gifted students during the school year to enhance reading comprehension and critical thinking skills with varying texts including literature, poetry, science, math and social studies.
This project will enable me to extend creativity, collaboration, culture, critical thinking, creativity and communication for the gifted and talented students. The regular education teachers will also have access to these materials to use with their high ability student during differentiation in ELA classrooms.
The Jacob’s Reading Comprehension Program targets reading comprehension skills for high ability readers by moving them from basic understanding to critical analysis of text.
The Jacob’s Ladder Bundle with a regular text PDF and an ebook will enable students to use this resource online during elearning.
The Jacob’s Reading Comprehension Program was designed for Gifted students by the Center of Gifted Education of William and Mary.
 

 

Expected Outcome(s)

Using skill ladders connected to short stories, poetry, essays and non-fiction, students move from concrete thinking to critical thinking skills. The students will increase their ability to think critically and have intelligent discussions on a wide array of topics. In addition, the students will be engaged in reading because it is on their level of complexity and reasoning.  

 

Detailed Cost Summary

Each of the e-books will be used for e-learning whenever necessary.
Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Bundle (Book and e-book) Grade 5 ($81.00)- 5th grade gifted students will be able to comprehend and analyze fiction and nonfiction reading passages after completing activities in the book.
Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Bundle (Book and ebook) Grade 4 ($81.00)- 4th grade gifted students will be able to comprehend and analyze fiction and nonfiction reading passages after completing activities in the book.
Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Bundle (Book and ebook) Grade 3 ($81.00)- 3rd grade gifted students will be able to comprehend and analyze fiction and nonfiction reading passages after completing activities in the book.
Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Bundle (Book and e-book) Grade 2 ($81.00)- 2nd grade gifted students will be able to comprehend and analyze fiction and nonfiction reading passages after completing activities in the book.

Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Bundle (Book and ebook) Grade 1-2 ($81.00)- 1st and 2nd grade gifted students will be able to comprehend and analyze fiction and nonfiction reading passages after completing activities in the book.
Each grade level program focuses on moving gifted students from concrete thinking to critical thinking.
 

 

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