GT July Enrichment

Parents/Guardians,

These ELA & Math resources will enrich and add depth to the thinking of your GT
student through the summer because they encourage:

• Multiple pathways for solutions

• Analysis of word relationships and letters within words

• Backwards thinking (What doesn’t belong?)

• Analogies

• Logic

• Creativity

• Student choice

• Multi-step problems

• Ranking (requiring analyzation)

• Analyzation of different number combinations to arrive at answers

• Error analysis

Until next time,

Your GT Coach
 Name_______________________________________ Date _______ ADDITION

Fact review

58 Errors
The addition grid below contains 58 errors. Check all of the answers. When you find
a mistake, correct it and shade in that box. When you’ve finished shading the boxes
with errors, the shaded grid will spell out the answer to the following riddle:

What always goes to bed with shoes on?

+ 39 23 17 42 68 94 75 56 83 49 32 95 57 71 63

44 28 22 47 73 99 85 71 89 54 37 100 63 74 69
5

47 31 25 50 76 102 82 64 92 57 40 103 66 79 71
8

43 27 21 45 62 99 78 59 88 54 37 98 62 76 67
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46 30 24 48 76 100 83 62 90 57 39 102 65 78 70
7

58 32 28 52 77 104 85 65 93 68 42 105 67 82 73
9

40 25 18 43 69 95 77 58 85 51 34 98 59 73 65
2

46 28 25 49 75 98 81 62 89 56 39 100 63 77 69
6

39 24 17 43 69 95 76 57 84 50 33 96 58 72 64
1

52 26 21 45 71 97 78 59 86 52 35 98 60 74 66
3

_______ _______ _______ _______ _______ 7

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Facts review

59 Errors
The multiplication grid below contains 59 errors. Check all of the answers. When you
find a mistake, correct it and shade in that box. When you’ve finished shading the
boxes with errors, the shaded grid will spell out the answer to the following riddle:

What is too much for one, enough for two,

and nothing at all for three?

x 9 6 3 1 0 8 7 2 5 4 3 8 4 9 0 6 7 5

63 42 21 7 0 56 42 21 30 29 22 65 28 63 0 42 49 35
7

27 18 9 3 0 24 28 6 15 7 9 21 12 27 0 18 21 15
3

9 6 3 2 1 9 0 2 5 5 4 9 5 10 1 6 7 5
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72 48 24 9 0 64 65 16 40 28 21 64 28 72 0 48 56 40
8

45 30 12 7 6 48 49 10 36 18 18 42 18 45 0 30 49 36
6

27 24 12 5 0 32 28 8 20 16 12 32 12 36 0 24 21 20
4

72 45 36 10 9 81 63 18 45 36 27 72 45 72 9 54 81 45
9

18 12 5 2 0 16 14 4 10 8 6 16 8 18 0 12 21 10
2

54 36 16 5 0 40 35 10 25 20 15 40 20 45 0 30 30 25
5

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Addition, subtraction,

Follow the Arrows #1 multiplication, and

division review

Begin at the . Solve the addition problem and write your answer in the box
directly below it. Follow the arrow to the next box and copy your answer from the
first box. Solve the next problem, follow the arrow, and copy your new answer in
the next open box. Continue to solve the problems, copying each answer into the
next box indicated by the arrow. When you’ve finished the puzzle correctly, your
final answer should be the exact number needed to solve the final problem. Go on
to the second puzzle and follow the same steps you used to work your way through
the first one!

5 ,9 3 4
2 ,2 0 2
7 ,8 6 4
2 ,1 3 5
+ 79 6 – 1 4,4 7 3
2

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– 6 , 935 x 5

Hint:
6,4 89 As you work through these
7,3 51 problems, check your answers by
4,0 07 using the reverse operation.
+ 6,3 97 – 2 3,7 9 3 x 39 For example: 54 x 3 = 162
check: 162 ÷ 3 = 54

– 1 2,3 7 5
x 54 – 4 1,3 7 5

5 ,5 5 1
6

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 Name________________________________ Date ________ MIXED PRACTICE

Addition, subtraction,

Links multiplication, and

division review

Solve each problem by working from left to right.

When you finish a problem, locate the answer in a
box below, then write the letter above the answer. If
the answer appears in more than one box, fill in each
one with the same letter.

Take 48 Multiply by 8 Subtract 64 Divide 4 = ________ = N

Take 408 Add 72 Divide by 5 Subtract 19 = ________ = A

Take 937 Subtract 83 Divide by 7 Multiply by 9 = ________ = D

Take 396 Divide by 6 Add 48 Subtract 78 = ________ = S

Take 407 Add 49 Divide by 4 Subtract 70 = ________ = L

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Take 596 Multiply by 9 Subtract 64 Divide by 5 = ________ = B

Take 486 Divide by 6 Add 40 Multiply by 7 = ________ = G

Take 784 Subtract 229 Divide by 5 Add 72 = ________ = U

Take 420 Add 777 Subtract 42 Divide by 5 = ________ = Y

Take 92 Multiply by 8 Subtract 1 Divide by 7 = ________ = O

What strange children live in the ocean?

1,060 183 105 231 36 77 80 1,098 847 183 44 44 36

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 Date _______________________________

Name ______________________________________________________________________

Adding Money

Grab, Add ’N Win!

Ten lucky radio station listeners were chosen to
participate in this year’s 101.3 FM’s annual Grab ’N
Add shopping spree. They had 101.3 seconds to grab
as much as they could. However, only the participant
whose item prices added up closest to—but not more
than—$101.30 got to keep it all. Who was that? Do
the math and write your answers on the blanks
below. Then circle the name of the winner!

Name Items and prices Total value

1. Deena $40 blouse, $10 book, $30 pair of sunglasses

2. Noelle $15 board game, $42.50 software,

$12 earrings, $31 scarf

3. Gerry $28.99 basketball, $72.89 sneakers

4. Raphael $1.75 picture frame, $14 video,

$3.50 magazine, $81 camera

5. Francesca $51 jacket, $22.30 bookends, $25.68 gumball

machine, $2.33 bag of gumballs

6. Joel $38 travel bag, $16.70 canteen, $37.50 raincoat,

$9.08 compact disc

7. Alexandra $29.99 heart-shaped waffle iron, $15.75

heart-shaped picture frame, $20 heart-shaped
box of chocolates, $24 heart-shaped mirror

8. Samantha $69 pink bicycle, $29.99 bicycle helmet,

$13.75 bicycle accessories

9. Sebastian $79.99 cell phone, $19.99 sports jersey,

$1.50 candy bar

10. Anthony $35 skateboard, $10 poster,

$19.99 lava lamp

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Name ______________________________________________________________________

Subtraction

Desperately Seeking 68
Look at the groups of numbers below.
Rearrange them in the correct order so that
when you subtract, the difference equals 68.
There’s only one correct answer for each.
We’ve done the first one for you.

1. 2 1 5 4 2 122 – 54 = 68
____________________________________

2. 7 9 7 _______________________________________

3. 9 5 3 2 _____________________________________

4. 3 1 0 1 3 __________________________________

5. 6 6 8 3 1 __________________________________

6. 2 1 0 5 8 __________________________________

7. 0 1 2 0 1 7 ________________________________

8. 9 7 2 3 5 3 ________________________________

9. 1 2 3 5 5 9 ________________________________

10. 6 7 9 6 7 9 ________________________________

YOUR TURN
Create your own number mix that can be rearranged to form a subtraction
equation that equals 86.

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 Date _______________________________

Name ______________________________________________________________________

Subtracting Money

Big Spenders
Who’s the biggest spender in the group of people
listed below? You’ll need to subtract some money to
find out. Write how much money each person had
left over after making purchases at the drugstore. Then
rank each spender according to who was richest before
(#1) to who’s richest now (#8).

Purchase Price:
book — $5.99 vitamins — $8.25
laundry detergent — $7.50 notebook — $0.99
box of pens — $1 cotton balls — $1.99
toothbrush — $2.49 garbage bags — $4.59

Name Total money Items purchased Money left over Rank

1. Juan $14 book, cotton balls

2. Kevin $17 box of pens,

garbage bags

3. Mike $18.59 book, toothbrush,

vitamins

4. Dara $8.75 cotton balls,

toothbrush

5. Randi $12.13 notebook,

box of pens

6. Seth $21.80 laundry detergent (2),

cotton balls

7. Darren $40.06 garbage bags,

vitamins (3)

8. Raquel $23 book (2), box of

pens (2), vitamins

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 U S I N G C LU E S TO I D E N T I F Y W O R D S
Date _______________

Name _______________________________________________________________

You’re Breaking Up
If you break up the word snapshot and rearrange some letters, you
can make two new words: hops and ants. All the words below can be
broken into two smaller words. Use the clues to help you figure out
which words and write them in the chart. Every letter
in the bigger word is used only once to make the two
smaller words.

BIGGER WORD CLUE 1 SMALLER WORD 1 CLUE 2 SMALLER WORD 2

1. doorbell you wear child’s toy
it in the that often
morning to can be
keep warm dressed up
2. airplane bucket not far
3. something phantom not yours

4. password stinging insect thin metal bars

5. roommate not less water
surrounding
a castle
6. sweetheart to use thread where you
to make see a film
clothing or a play
7. outburst to travel in a to bang
foreign country your toe
8. snowflake slithering to move
animal like water

YOUR TURN
Find a word of seven letters or more that you can break into two
smaller words.

_____________________________ _______________ _______________

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 ORGANIZING WORDS
Date _______________ BY THEIR MEANING

Name _______________________________________________________________

Inside Information
Look at the items in column A of the chart below.
Every one of them is commonly found inside one item
in column B. Match the appropriate pairs and write your
answers on the blanks below. There is only one correct
letter match for each numbered item. We’ve done the
first one for you.

COLUMN A COLUMN B CORRECT MATCH

1. butter a. balloon 1. e
_____________

2. coin b. pantry _____________

3. pupil c. vault _____________

4. pig d. shed _____________

5. helium e. refrigerator _____________

6. cereal f. sty _____________

7. assets g. fountain _____________

8. rake h. eye _____________

9. license i. bottle _____________

10. arrow j. mirror _____________

11. battery k. flashlight _____________

12. mercury 1. quiver _____________

13. reflection m. thermometer _____________

14. lint n. wallet _____________

15. message o. dryer _____________

YOUR TURN
Think of five more items commonly found inside another item like in the
chart above. Mix them up and see if your classmates can pair them
together correctly.

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 COMPOUND WORDS
Date _______________

Name _______________________________________________________________

A Word Sandwich
The words in boldface below can be sandwiched between
two other words to create new compound words. Choose
the correct boldface word for each example and write
the compound words it makes on the blanks. Your choice
must work as both the ending of the first word and the
beginning of the second. We’ve done one for you.

H I N T: Each word in
the list is used only once.

crow ever water fire flower

hand light out over post top

book
1. cook ____________ mark 7. what ____________ green
cookbook, bookmark
_______________________________ _______________________________

2. sun ____________ pot 8. work ____________ side

_______________________________ _______________________________

3. scare ____________ bar 9. wild ____________ proof

_______________________________ _______________________________

4. sleep ____________ flow 10. back ____________ cuff

_______________________________ _______________________________

5. tree ____________ soil 11. goal ____________ card

_______________________________ _______________________________

6. flash ____________ house 12. under ____________ front

_______________________________ _______________________________

YOUR TURN
Add two more examples of words that can be made into compound
words like the ones above. See whether your classmates can figure out
the missing word in between each of your examples.

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 HOMOPHONES
Date _______________

Name _______________________________________________________________

I Ate Eight!
A homophone is a word that has the same sound and perhaps
even the same spelling as another word, but a different
meaning. For example, ate and eight are homophones.
In each row, write the homophone for each word in the
blank next to it. Circle the one word in the group that
doesn’t have a homophone. Abbreviations, contractions,
and proper nouns do not count as homophones!

1. peace/_________ site/_________ pail/_________ stay/_________

2. show/__________ board/__________ sent/_________ berry/_________

3. tide/__________ road/__________ roam/_________ seen/_________

4. wade/__________ wick/_________ missed/_________ steel/_________

5. raise/__________ principal/_________ rose/_________ eraser/_________

6. door/__________ fir/_________ titan/_________ prays/_________

7. aisle/__________ towed/_________ claws/_________ rodeo/_________

8. fern/__________ grate/_________ earn/_________ bail/_________

9. thrown/__________ rye/_________ flu/_________ pencil/_________

10. idle/__________ trick/_________ censor/_________ tour/_________

YOUR TURN
Pick three homophones from the exercise above. Write each word and its
definition.

__________________ ____________________________________________

__________________ ____________________________________________

__________________ ____________________________________________

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 C O N T E X T C L U E S / M U LT I P L E -
Date _______________ MEANING WORDS

Name _______________________________________________________________

One Word, Two Meanings

Each sentence has two blanks, which can be filled with one word
that has multiple meanings. Use clues in the sentences to figure out and test
the correct missing word. Then, fill in the blanks. We’ve done one for you.

left
1. Sally ___________ her umbrella on the floor of the closet, to the
left
____________ of the vacuum cleaner.

2. I dropped my buttered ___________ under the table and heard it

___________ across the floor.

3. After Kurt broke his leg, the entire ____________ of the play signed
his _____________.

4. Before we watch the _______________, I will ______________ you the

theater where it is running.

5. After we chose a nice ___________ for our picnic, I noticed a _________

on my shirt.

6. The __________ in her backyard is over 100 years old, but it has aged
very ___________.

7. It will ____________ my spirits if I get a ___________ at work.

8. I am a ___________ of opening the window to get fresh air, but I’ll also
use a __________ if it’s too hot.

9. The forest ranger could not __________ to see the __________ caught in
a trap.

10. She will _____________ in a movie about an astronomer who discovers

a new nearby __________.

11. For Mary, it was a total ____________ to catch a __________ during the
camping trip since they don’t normally swim where she was fishing.

12. I ____________ the gauze tightly around the ____________ so it wouldn’t

bleed or get infected.

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 S Y L L A B I C AT I O N
Date _______________

Name _______________________________________________________________

Syllable Wizardry
TIPS
• No answers are proper nouns.
How good are you at building words and figuring
• No answers are foreign words.
out how many syllables they have? Answer these • Do not rearrange or subtract any
tricky and fun questions about words to find letters from the given word to
out. Some questions may have more than one form the new word.
answer. Write your answers in the blanks.

1. What letter can you add to “eve” to make it a common two-syllable word?
Letter _________ New word ______________________

2. What letter can you add to “sleep” to make it a common two-syllable word?
Letter _________ New word ______________________

3. What letter can you add to “rise” to make it a common two-syllable word?
Letter _________ New word ______________________

4. What letter can you add to “rode” to make it a common two-syllable word?
Letter _________ New word ______________________

5. What letter can you add to “rode” to make it a common three-syllable word?
Letter _________ New word ______________________

6. What letter can you add to “man” to make it a common two-syllable word?
Letter _________ New word ______________________

7. What letter can you add to “are” to make it a common three-syllable word?
Letter _________ New word ______________________

8. What letter can you add to “pen” to make it a common two-syllable word?
Letter _________ New word ______________________

9. What letter can you add to “came” to make it a common two-syllable word?
Letter _________ New word ______________________

10. What letter can you add to “came” to make it a common three-syllable word?
Letter _________ New word ______________________

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 NOUNS AND VERBS
Date _______________

Name _______________________________________________________________

Can the Cat Act?

The word cat is a noun. But if you
rearrange its letters it will become
the verb act. Each sentence below is
missing either a noun or a verb. TIPS:
You can figure out what the missing • Do not count any helping verbs, such as
be, can, or will.
word is by rearranging the letters
• If a noun is missing, you will rearrange
of another noun or verb in the sentence. a verb. If a verb is missing, you will
Circle the noun or verb, then write the rearrange a noun.
missing word on the blank line.
We’ve done the first one for you.

pets
1. At home, our _________________ know they must step around the baby or
she will grab them.

2. The wolf watched the stream _________________ down the mountainside.

3. Vanessa is so excited to go to the toy shop that she _________________

like a rabbit from the car to the shop’s door.

4. The _________________ of trainers will face its most dangerous job yet
when it must tame the lion.

5. When opening the mystery crate, try not to _________________ too loudly.

6. The _________________ is planning to resign after tonight’s concert.

7. If sales are down, the boss puts his head on his desk and ______________.

8. My sister cannot _________________ a moist piece of chocolate cake.

9. The _________________ put down his brush and said, “That doesn’t
pertain to me.”

10. “You will spot the _________________ amid the clutter on the top shelf,”
my mother said.

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 WORD BUILDING
Date _______________

Name _______________________________________________________________

Letter Lottery
Each word below is followed by a choice of three letters. Only one of the three
can form a new word (or words) when the letters of the original word are
rearranged and the extra letter is added to them. Write the correct letter, then
write the new word or words it forms. We’ve done the first one for you.

ORIGINAL WORD LETTER CHOICES CORRECT LETTER NEW WORD

1. raid e, o, w o radio

2. apes f, k, m

3. echo d, i, r

4. lamp e, o, t

5. grow a, n, u

6. half a, g, s

7. lips l, y, z

8. cool a, i, r

9. ride o, u, v

10. large m, g, p

YOUR TURN
Create three more exercises like these and try them with your classmates.

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 FUN WITH RHYMING WORDS
Date _______________

Name _______________________________________________________________

Rhyme Is Reason
Every list below is missing a one-syllable word.
At first glance, there is no single correct answer. To complete
each group of words, think of what each list of words is about.
Then choose a word to fit that list that also rhymes with the other
mystery words in the group. Write your answers on the lines and
tell what each list of words is about in parentheses. We’ve done
the first one for you.

GROUP 1
D O N ’ T F O R G E T:
Maine
Connecticut, New Mexico, _________________ (U.S. states) The mystery words in
each group must rhyme
plane
car, boat, _________________ (forms of transportation) with one another!
brain
heart, lungs, _________________ (parts of the body)
GROUP 2
bow, arrow, _________________
lake, ocean, _________________
shake, tremble, _________________
GROUP 3
green, brown, _________________
refrigerator, stove, _________________
see, blink, _________________
GROUP 4
sleet, hail, _________________
hawk, pelican, _________________
enemy, adversary, _________________
GROUP 5
seven, twelve, _________________
window, roof, _________________
library, restaurant, _________________
GROUP 6
grass, bush, _________________
cricket, beetle, _________________
shin, thigh, _________________

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 WORD FUN
Date _______________

Name _______________________________________________________________

Youth Sleuth
Surprise! It’s your birthday and there’s a batch of unsigned birthday cards on
your desk at school. You know your classmates well enough to narrow the
suspects down to six. Read their personality profiles in the box below.
Then sign the name of the student on the card you think he or she sent.

Darren—good at fixing things, likes music, rides a bicycle to school

Julia—good at sports, likes history, has lived in several different cities
Mike—good speller, plays piano, creates Web sites
Randi—good artist, oldest girl in the class, collects seashells
Seth—good at math, has a cat, eats lots of vegetables
Dara—good photographer, always cheerful, likes science

Card 1. Card 4.
Again I get to share your special day. I thought about buying you a gift,
But for a change I will celebrate But I didn’t know what you would like.
Not with cookies and ice cream cake, So instead I’ve decided to let you
But peas and carrots on my plate Take a long ride on my new bike.
Fondly, Your friend,
________________ ________________

Card 2. Card 5.
Happy birthday to my good friend! Finally your birthday has arrived!
I salute you with three cheers. Have you been thinking about it for a while?
Did you know yours is the same I’m sure you’ll spend the day as I do
As a man named William Shakespeare’s? Doing everything with a smile.
Un abrazo, Sincerely,
________________ ________________

Card 3. Card 6.
You may seem taller than Russell. Last year my birthday wishes were so big
You may look more adult than Patty They could’ve filled a whole CD-ROM.
You may be older than everyone else This year they’ve gotten even bigger
But you’ll never be older than me! So I’m posting them on
A big fan, www.haveahappy birthday.com!
________________ As always,
________________

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Answer Key for Enrichment Resources

The answers are arranged in the same order as

they appear in the packet. The highlighted
pages are the answers for your grade’s
enrichment activities.