Gifted and advanced (page 14)
Harder puzzles, deeper projects and room to go further.
- The Rainy Recess Game: 3rd grade reading passage with questionsReading
A fiction passage about solving boredom for 3rd grade, 137 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- The Thirsty Bean Plant: 3rd grade reading passage with questionsReading
A fiction passage about caring for a plant for 3rd grade, 147 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- How Owls Hunt at Night: 4th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about animal senses for 4th grade, 159 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Making Change at the Store: 4th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about money math for 4th grade, 166 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- How Paper Is Made: 4th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about how things are made for 4th grade, 169 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- The Pony Express Rides: 4th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about American history for 4th grade, 162 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- A critical review of flipped classroom challenges in K-12 education: possible solutions and recommendations for future research (2017)Page
In K–12 studies, flipping had a neutral or positive effect on achievement compared with traditional classes, and students' attitudes were mixed. The review sorts the challenges of flipping into student, teacher and…
- A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement (2019)Page
A short online growth mindset lesson (under an hour) improved grades among lower-achieving students and increased enrollment in advanced math courses. Grades changed mainly in schools where peer norms supported the…
- An Educational Psychology Success Story: Social Interdependence Theory and Cooperative Learning (2009)Page
More than 1,200 studies over 11 decades have compared cooperative, competitive and individual work. The authors trace how that research shaped social interdependence theory and the teacher's role in formal cooperative…
- Assessing the Effect of Project-Based Learning on Science Learning in Elementary Schools (2023)Page
Third graders taught four project-based science units, with materials and professional learning for teachers, scored higher on a standardized science test than the control group and reported more self-reflection and…
- Biscuit and the Missing Shoes: 4th grade reading passage with questionsReading
A fiction passage about pets and mysteries for 4th grade, 174 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Current State of the Evidence: Examining the Effects of Orton-Gillingham Reading Interventions for Students With or at Risk for Word-Level Reading Disabilities (2021)Page
Orton-Gillingham reading interventions did not statistically significantly improve foundational skills (phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, spelling) or vocabulary and comprehension for students with or at risk…
- Differentiated Instruction in Secondary Education: A Systematic Review of Research Evidence (2019)Page
Only eleven studies qualified, and they defined differentiated instruction in many different ways. Most showed small to moderate positive effects on achievement, which the authors read as some indication of benefit,…
- Effective Programs in Middle and High School Mathematics: A Best-Evidence Synthesis (2009)Page
New math textbooks and computer-assisted instruction had very small effects. Positive effects were found for two cooperative learning programs. The authors conclude that programs that change daily teaching and how…
- Effects of Flipped Classroom Instruction: Evidence from a Randomized Trial (2021)Page
A flipped classroom produced short-term gains in math and no effect in economics. Gains went mainly to higher-achieving students, widening the achievement gap, and there were no long-term average effects on learning,…
- Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Studies of Inquiry-Based Science Teaching (2012)Page
Inquiry-based science teaching had a positive overall effect on learning. Studies where students did the reasoning work of science (explaining, arguing from evidence) had the largest effects, and teacher-led inquiry…
- Formative Assessment and Elementary School Student Academic Achievement: A Review of the Evidence (2017)Page
In elementary school, formative assessment had a positive effect on achievement on average. Effects were larger in math than in reading and writing, and larger when a teacher or a computer program directed the…
- Formative Assessment: A Meta-Analysis and a Call for Research (2011)Page
Formative assessment had a positive but modest effect, well below the 0.40 to 0.70 often claimed for it. Effects looked larger in English language arts than in math or science, and larger when it came with professional…
- Is learning styles-based instruction effective? A comprehensive analysis of recent research on learning styles (2015)Page
Reviewing research published after the 2008 review by Pashler and colleagues, the more methodologically sound studies tended to refute the matching hypothesis, while learning styles still enjoyed broad acceptance in…
- Meta-Analysis of Inquiry-Based Learning (2016)Page
Guidance during inquiry-based learning had positive effects on what students did during inquiry, how well they performed, and what they learned. The type of guidance mattered for performance but not for the other…
- Phonemic Awareness Instruction Helps Children Learn to Read: Evidence From the National Reading Panel's Meta-Analysis (2001)Page
Phonemic awareness instruction had a large effect on phonemic awareness and moderate effects on reading (including comprehension) and spelling, for typical, at-risk and disabled readers. It worked better taught with…
- Principles of Instruction: Research-Based Strategies That All Teachers Should Know (2012)Page
Ten principles of instruction drawn from cognitive science, studies of master teachers and research on scaffolding: begin with review, present new material in small steps, ask many questions and check every student,…
- Project Based Learning: Evaluation Report and Executive Summary (2016)Page
A year of project-based learning for first-year secondary pupils had no clear impact on literacy or on engagement with school. There was a possible negative effect for pupils eligible for free school meals, which the…
- Putting PjBL to the Test: The Impact of Project-Based Learning on Second Graders’ Social Studies and Literacy Learning and Motivation in Low-SES School Settings (2021)Page
Second graders whose teachers taught four project-based social studies units, with professional development, grew more in social studies and informational reading than the comparison group, but not in writing or…