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Middle school creative writing activity interactive whiteboards
101 Quick Writes Daily Writing Prompts **Google Slides**
Use these Quick Write Daily Prompts with your students to promote creativity, social emotional learning, spelling, grammar, writing skills, and so much more! You can display these Google Slides to your students in either a face to face class setting, or virtually! Have your students copy the sentence starter in their journals and let their creativity flow! A mini writing checklist is also included as a reminder for them each day!The Google Slides are also editable and customizable if you would l
Grades:
K - 6th
Writing Prompt Photos: 40 Funny People Writing Photo Prompts
Students love funny photos and they will love writing about these 40 funny people photos! Use a SmartBoard or projector to show a Writing Photo Prompt onto your board for a memorable writing activity! I love to do this every Monday morning so students see the picture when they first walk in!40 Silly People Writing Photo Prompts are included in 3 formats: 1. Full-page high-quality photo (8.5 x 11 inches) 2. Full-page high-quality photo with a short caption/story starter 3. Four photos per page t
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Realism and Fantasy
This interactive power point covers realism vs. fantasy. It defines what the two terms mean and gives clues for students on how to tell the difference. It also includes a thorough interactive notebook to keep the kids engaged and following along during the presentation. Students will love the vibrant pictures and custom animations. It is designed as a lecture, but has several interactive slides included a short interactive quiz.
This Power Point is part of my Huge reading Power Point Resource B
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Also included in: Huge Reading Interactive Power Points Bundle
50 Visual Creative Writing Prompts
The perfect creative writing prompts for your classroom! Great for English content based on thinking imaginatively and creatively. This resource is a 50-page PDF presentation that assists in the development of descriptive writing and language techniques. Each slide contains an engaging image and a prompt that encourages deep thinking and builds strong vocabulary. This can be used as a fun warm-up activity or an entire lesson, best suited for Year 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 students!Contains a magnificen
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Weekly Writing Prompts - Middle School 6th, 7th, & 8th Grades - Full Year Bundle
This is a bundle of my interactive whiteboard weekly writing prompts for middle school grades 6, 7, and 8. Each set has 36 weekly writing prompts. You get all three sets. These engaging writing prompts are perfect for bell ringers and anchor activities. Although each set is designed for a specific grade, the prompts can also be used across grade levels and will work for all middle grade levels. Buy the entire set and save money and get more choices to choose from. All slides are editable.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Descriptive Writing Activities & Examples - 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Grade
This packet contains two unique hands-on descriptive writing activities for 3rd through 6th grade students.
The first activity, Spice It Up, is designed to help students during a quick editing process (such as during a writing assessment) to replace their 'run of the mill' vocabulary with more effective word choices to influence the reader. This activity has students working in teams with the vocabulary cards (templates included) to create a list of synonyms to improve their writing.
The se
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Daily Whiteboard Messages - Morning Messages FULL YEAR
This product will be the start of a new ENGAGING and FUN way for you students to start the day or begin a new period!Included is 185 DAILY SLIDES with a morning message for each day.You project the prompt onto the board and students walk in, grab a dry erase marker and write their response. This is such a fun way to start the morning and have some on-task talk time at the start of the day! An incredibly non-intimidating way to persuade even the most reluctant students to participate! Use in t
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Figurative Language Review - Interactive Pear Deck
This Google Slides presentation focuses on a review of eight major forms of figurative language. They are: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, idioms, and imagery. For each figurative language, I provide a brief definition as well as several examples that show the figurative language in context. Then, there is a Check for Understanding for each type that students complete on their own devices using the Pear Deck add-on app. Pear Deck allows teachers to watc
Grades:
4th - 7th
Myths, Legends and Fables Writing Pack
Fancy yourself a courageous knight? Want to have a chat with a talking animal? All of this is possible and more with our Myths, Legends and Fables pack. Combining elements of all three types of story, this pack opens up a world of supernatural creatures, brave legends, and breath-taking battles. Through a unique and stimulating collection of written and oral exercises, children will learn how to create their own ancient story, with legendary figures and mythical creatures going head to head. Add
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Photo Friday - Morning Work - Writing Prompts - Inferencing
Writing Prompts and Conversation Starters for morning work or literacy centers every Friday for the WHOLE YEAR!I made this resource because the students in my class struggled to use inference in their reading and writing. Their writing was lacking depth and they didn’t know how to make it more interesting. As a part of morning work, I introduced “Photo Friday” where students practiced using using their inference skills to describe a picture.To start with I would copy the PDF page using snipping
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Grades:
K - 6th
Sentence, Writing, Structure, Complete, Capitalization, Spaces, Punctuation, ELA
Do your students struggle with making sentences? Let's Talk Sentence! is a NO PREP PowerPoint to learn about a sentence, its structure, capitalization, punctuation, spacing, and stretching a sentence.It includes short rules and lots of examples:what is a sentencecomplete and incompletesubject and predicatecapital lettersfinger spacespunctuationstretching a sentencesNO PREP. Open the slides, read, and discuss. You can use 2-3 slides a day, so that it can be a 2-3 week learning course.If you like
Grades:
K - 6th
Also included in: Let's Talk Sentence! Reading, Writing, Structure, Creative Writing, ELA
Solar System Lesson plans + resources (Earth, Sun and Moon)
Teach children all about the Sun, Earth and Moon with this block of differentiated lesson plans and resources.
These seven lessons take children on a journey from the developing understanding of the Solar System models to writing their own reports.
Lesson One - Reading comprehension task learning about the geocentric and heliocentric models
Lesson Two - Developing understanding of the Earth's orbit
Lesson Three - Developing understanding of the Earth's orbit and rotation
Lesson Four - Develop
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
8th Grade Weekly Writing Prompts - 36 Weeks - Full Year Editable
Engaging 8th Grade Writing Prompts: Weekly Bellringers and Journal Activities for a full year. Looking for a comprehensive set of writing prompts to spark creativity and critical thinking in your 8th-grade students? This high-interest 8th Grade Weekly Writing Prompts resource includes 36 editable open-ended prompts designed to encourage expressive writing. Includes an introduction, student directions, and teacher directions on the last slide. Key Features:Editable Prompts: Customize the prompts
Grades:
8th
7th Grade Weekly Writing Prompts - 36 Weeks - Full Year Editable
Engaging 7th Grade Writing Prompts: Weekly Bellringers and Journal Activities for a full year. Looking for a comprehensive set of writing prompts to spark creativity and critical thinking in your 7th-grade students? This high-interest 7th Grade Weekly Writing Prompts resource includes 36 editable open-ended prompts designed to encourage expressive writing. Includes an introduction, student directions, and teacher directions on the last slide. Key Features:Editable Prompts: Customize the prompts
Grades:
7th
6th Grade Weekly Writing Prompts - 36 Weeks - Full Year Editable
Engaging 6th Grade Writing Prompts: Weekly Bellringers and Journal Activities for a full year. Looking for a comprehensive set of writing prompts to spark creativity and critical thinking in your 6th-grade students? This high-interest 6th Grade Weekly Writing Prompts resource includes 36 editable open-ended prompts designed to encourage expressive writing. Includes an introduction, student directions, and teacher directions on the last slide. Key Features:Editable Prompts: Customize the prompts
Grades:
6th
Creative Writing: Describing a Winter Setting
This resource focuses on describing setting during creative writing.It begins with a starter which focused on personification and teaches learners how to use personification and create it.The resource then shows a number of winter settings and encourages learners to describe the setting using the five senses. This can be printed as a page for learners to complete independently or in small groups. Alternatively, it can be completed as a whole class on the interactive whiteboard.The resource then
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Halloween Character Traits SmartBoard Vocabulary Activity No Prep
Halloween Writing Activity for Smartboard. Halloween digital resource - writing motivator and vocabulary activity. Five different Halloween characters - vampire, ghost, scarecrow, skeleton, and witch. On the interactive whiteboard, students can drag the character traits they want for their chosen Halloween character into the box. They then can name their character and, in their journal, show, not tell, how their character demonstrates the traits they chose and elaborate on the character. They c
Grades:
5th - 8th
Informal Email
In this lesson, your students will learn about the meanings of the words "informal" and "email". They will also practice and improve their reading skills by using various techniques. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to plan and write their emails.
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Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
SOUND DEVICES - ALLITERATION, ONOMATOPOEIA, REPETITION, RHYME, METER: BOOM CARDS
These Boom Cards are perfect for teaching Rhetorical Sound Devices – Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Sibilance, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, Rhyme and Meter. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these self-grading exercises that are gamified for student engagement.After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy based Boom Cards students will be able to:Match the terms associated with rhetorical sound devices with their meanings.Identify th
Grades:
2nd - 10th
Also included in: SOUND DEVICES - ALLITERATION ONOMATOPOEIA REPETITION RHYME METER: BUNDLE
April Morning Work Slides with Timers
DescriptionConsider incorporating a daily routine for your ELA bell ringers throughout February to engage your students and enhance their language skills. This resource provides 20 quick activities for ELA students to reinforce language skills, review essential concepts, and practice speaking.Project a slide or share your screen during distance learning to initiate these activities at the beginning of class.The versatile nature of these activities allows for paperless completion, use in notebook
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Language Techniques - Persuasive Language
Lesson plan and PowerPoint on Language Techniques and Language devices e.g. alliteration, hyperbole, power of 3, facts etc.
The students all seem to enjoy this lesson which has the videos and resources provided. The writing activity based on the TV show 'Goldenballs' always goes down well too!!
Text 1 - http://youtu.be/RS4Z61TpCyI
Text 3 - http://youtu.be/PCV_koyJ1Fk
Goldenballs clip - http://youtu.be/p3Uos2fzIJ0
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education
Features of a Newspaper Article
This resource teaches learners how to write a newspaper article by looking at the main features.It coversNames of newspapersHeadlinesBylines/leadlinesFormal toneIt provides various examples and teaches learners how to identify and use each feature.
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Grades:
4th - 10th
Spin a Story! Interactive Digital Spinner- Distance Learning-Zoom Activity
Looking for a fun and engaging distance learning activity? Spin a story is great for an interactive Whiteboard activity or to use during Zoom or Google Meet meetings! For this fun writing activity, click on each wheel and watch it spin! A second click stops the wheel on a selection. Click a wheel for setting, characters, and genre. Have fun seeing what combinations you get, and practice creating and writing stories in an fun and engaging way. For example, when spinning the wheel you may get: "P
Grades:
K - 7th
Fun Writing Prompts/Journal Entry Prompts - PowerPoint
Here are 20 fun & exciting journal entries to use with your students. They can be used as bell-work or a writing lesson. Allow them to get creative while still using the writing strategies you have been working on throughout the year.
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
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