2nd grade literature resources for SMART Notebook

Christmas Jeopardy Smartboard Language Arts Lesson

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This smartboard lesson is a (Christmas Jeopardy-like) lesson that I made up for the smartboard. The categories are fact - opinion, synonyms, antonyms, cause and effect, and homophones. A Smartboard is not required. You can get a free download from Smartech.com to use. This activity would be a great review for anytime, but works especially well during the Christmas season. Made by Scott O'Toole (Scott OToole) Christmas smartboard lesson, Christmas smartboard jeopardy format, smartboard

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2nd - 6th

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Polar Express Christmas Jeopardy Smartboard Skills Lesson

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This smartboard lesson is a (Polar Express Christmas Jeopardy-like) lesson that I made up for the smartboard. The categories are fact - opinion, synonyms, antonyms, cause and effect, and homophones. A Smartboard is not required. You can get a free download from Smartech.com to use. This activity would be a great review for anytime, but works especially well during the Christmas season. Made by Smartboard Smarty. Polar Express Smartboard Lesson, Polar Express Lesson, Lessons Polar Expre

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Grades:

2nd - 6th

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English Language Arts, Literature

Figurative Language SmartBoard Activities, Games & Overview

Created by

The Bright Bunch

8 Slides - ready for fun! Slide 1 - Vortex Game - Onomatopoeia Game Slide 2 - Overview of Simile, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Imagery Slide 3 - Pop the Metaphor Activity Slide 4 - Alliteration Activity - Roll the Dice Slide 5 - Colorful Overview of Simile, Imagery, Metaphor, Hyperbole Slide 6 - Spinner Imagery Activity Slide 7 - Simile example Slide 8 - Interactive Sorting Activity of 3 Figurative Language Devices

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Grades:

2nd - 10th

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Interactive Whiteboard, Games

Smartboard - I Mustache You Text Structure Game!

Created by

Passion for Education

Do your kiddos need practice with nonfiction text structures? This is the perfect Smartboard game and will quickly become a class favorite! It is loaded with interactive buttons, sounds, and animations. It has two sections to support differentiation. In section 1: Match & Sorts - students play games to practice definitions, signal words, and tricky cause and effect sorts. In section 2: Questions - Choose a question card and answer various questions about text structures. If you like this p

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Informational Text, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

2nd - 6th

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Assessment, Interactive Whiteboard, Centers

Common Core Reading: The Cherokee Story of "The First Strawberries"

Created by

That Southern Chick

You will need SMART Notebook software to use this file. This SMART Board presentation is a week-long unit (4 days of activities) focusing on the Cherokee legend of the first strawberries. This unit focuses upon Joseph Bruchac's book, "The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story." Common Core Standards addressed in this unit include: RL2.1, RL2.2, RL2.7, RL2.9. Students will also learn about choosing books: by a favorite author or by a purpose for reading. These slides can be printed and copied

Subjects:

Literature, Native Americans, Reading

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Reading Genres Smartboard Game!!

Created by

Passion for Education

Do your kiddos need practice with identifying reading genres? This is the perfect Smartboard game and will quickly become a class favorite! It is loaded with interactive buttons, sounds, and animations. It has two sections to support differentiation. In section 1 - students identify the genres. In section 2 - students choose the correct genre from groups of books, book trailers, and short passages. If you like this product check out my other Smartboard Games: Smartboard Wizard of Oz: Idioms,

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Interactive Whiteboard, Games, Centers

Grades:

2nd - 5th

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Polar Express Smartboard "Race to the North Pole" Jeopardy lesson

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This smartboard lesson is a (Polar Express Christmas Jeopardy-like) lesson that I made up for the smartboard. The questions are trivia questions from the book and movie. As students get the answer correct they go to a gameboard in which their train races another train to the North Pole. A Smartboard is not required. You can get a free download from Smartech.com to use. This activity would be a great review for anytime, but works especially well during the Christmas season. Made by Smartb

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2nd - 6th

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Christmas Cause and Effect Smartboard Language Arts Lesson

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This 24-Page Interactive Smartboard Lesson works on cause/effect realtionships with a Christmas theme. The students come to the board to click, drag, and write the correct answer. Made by Smartboard Smarty. Christmas smartboard lesson, Christmas cause and effect lesson, interactive smartboard lesson, smartboard lessons for Christmas, cause effect lessons for the smartboard, language arts lessons for the smartboard, language arts smartboard lesson, cause and effect, Christmas, Holiday Smartboar

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2nd - 5th

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Halloween Fact and Opinion Smartboard Language Arts Lesson

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EFL - ESL - ELD, English Language Arts, Literature

This smartboard lesson is an interactive 14 - page fact or Opinion lesson that can be used anytime, but especially on Halloween. It introduces fact and opinion, gives some example of common facts and opinions, and then the students come to the board to tell whether a statement is a fact or opinion. When they click on the picture it fades away revealing the correct answer. Made by Scott O'Toole (Scott OToole) Halloween smartboard lesson, fact or opinion smartboard, Halloween fact or opinion le

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2nd - 5th

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Alternate Route Educational Products

A Christmas Carol activities

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Smart Board activities to go with my "A Christmas Carol in symbols with questions." Includes functional reading, writing, and math activities designed for young children or those with moderate to severe cognitive handicaps. Matching symbols to words, forming sentences with symbols, simple addition and subtraction word problems, counting quarters. Appropriate for special needs students, including autism, Down Syndrome, and traumatic brain injury, and FMD. Symbols are helpful for emerging read

Subjects:

Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Literature, Special Education

Grades:

PreK - 12th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

Common Core Detective Work 2.RL.1 Ask and Answer Questions

Created by

Common Core Toolbox

Turn-key lesson for Common Core Standard 2.RL.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how. This is a Smart board lesson for five days covering that standard for 2nd grade. The Smart board itself has four days of interactive lessons teaching the standard including a review assessment on the last day using the clickers (Senteo). The last day of lessons is a review using those slides in which you know your students need most. On the paperclip of the Smart board you will

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Literature, Reading

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

Chrysanthemum Name Graph

Created by

Nellie's Niche

An interactive name graph for your students to compare the length of their name to their classmates.

Subjects:

Back to School, Graphing, Literature

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Activboard Activities, Interactive Notebooks, Centers

Smartboard sort - Ferdinand the Bull

Created by

Elementary Elliott

Using the vocabulary from the story Ferdinand - student will sort the icons from Ferdinand into categories of Person, Place, and Thing on the Smartboard.

Subjects:

Literature, Vocabulary

Grades:

PreK - 3rd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

Homeworkopoly Interactive SMART Notebook File - Fully EDITABLE! Loads of fun.

Created by

Scrap Paper Teacher

Finding it hard to get students to complete their homework on time?Well, look no further! This homework rewards based system is engaging for all grade levels and will inspire students to complete homework on a regular basis. This can also be used for a rewards based system for your class as well.This Homeworkopoly system has been proven to increase levels of homework and productivity in and outside the classroom. Your class will be talking about the cool and engaging chance wheels and challenges

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Literature, Math

Grades:

K - 12th

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Interactive Whiteboard, Homework

Smart board Activity The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett

Created by

lisa Lee

An interactive smart board activity to use in the classroom after reading your favorite non-fiction book or books about polar bears and Jan Brett's "The Three Snow Bears." Compare and contrast the original story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears to "The Three Snow Bears," using a venn diagram. Interactive write an informative piece about polar bears, using can, have and are. Includes links to facts about polar bears and a link to Teacher tube for a video.

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Informational Text, Literature

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

English Language Arts, Literature, Writing

"I want a new room" Friendly Letter/Persuasive Writing

Created by

Megan Hawkins

Smartboard to accompany the story, I want a new room. Students are able to review the parts of a friendly letter, then complete their own letter persuading their parents.

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Grades:

K - 2nd

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Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Pumpkin Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington for Special Ed

Created by

Mrs Benner

This file contains a full lesson plan and everything you need to teach Pumpkin Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington to younger grades or any elementary special education classroom. The file contains a link to a you tube video reading of the story (in case you don't have a copy). There are review slides with visuals and the file ends with a quiz. This is a great fall lesson about pumpkins that teaches students to sequence and recall key details about the text.

Subjects:

Autumn, Literature, Special Education

Grades:

PreK - 5th

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Worksheets, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1

The Very Busy Spider Interactive Story Retell for the Smart Board

Created by

jane oconnell

This is an interactive story retell for Eric Carle's story; "The Very Busy Spider." This retell is a common core aligned activity that includes a sound component for the characters in the story. This activity has engaging clipart that retells the story in sequential order on the Smart Board. The characters on the page will fade into the screen as the page is entered. This engaging activity will promote and enhance reading and comprehension skills. Clipart and fonts by:Doodle Frames, Ralph an

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

PreK - 2nd, Staff

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

A Christmas Carol in symbols with questions

Created by

Alternate Route Educational Products

An adapted version of the classic story of Scrooge. Appropriate for special needs students, including autism, Down Syndrome, and traumatic brain injury, and FMD. Symbols are helpful for emerging readers of all ages. Also see the matching SmartBoard activities at my store, Alternate Route Educational Products, for only $1.

Subjects:

Literature, Reading Strategies, Special Education

Grades:

PreK - 12th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

The Mitten Attendance - SMARTBoard

Created by

Kindergarten Planet

This is a fun, seasonal attendance file to go along with Jan Brett's book The Mitten. Students will move their animal into the mitten if present. This is also a good opportunity to have students practice vocabulary and using complete sentences. Students can state, "I am here today." or the teacher can ask a question of the day and as the students moves their animal, they must also answer the question.

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, Literature, Winter

Grades:

PreK - 2nd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

Thanksgiving Cause and Effect Smartboard Language Arts Lesson

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This 24-Page Interactive Smartboard Lesson works on cause/effect realtionships with a Thanksgiving theme. The students come to the board to click, drag, and write the correct answer. Made by Scott O'Toole (Scott OToole) Thanksgiving smartboard lesson, Thanksgiving cause and effect lesson, interactive smartboard lesson, smartboard lessons for Thanksgiving, cause effect lessons for the smartboard, language arts lessons for the smartboard, language arts smartboard lesson, cause and effect

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2nd - 5th

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Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies

RL.1 Ask Questions While you Read Bees SMARTBoard Lesson

Created by

Kelly Mahaffey

This is one Reading Workshop SMARTBoard Lesson that can be used with any read aloud. The lesson introduces question words and creating questions while you read. Then students practice the skill on their own independently in their own leveled books while the timer is going. I created this lesson to introduce the Common Core Standard 1.RL.1 - ask and answer questions about key details in a text. This lesson includes: -one SMARTBoard lesson -Lesson Title Page - slide 1 -Common Core Standard - s

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Grades:

K - 2nd

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Click Clack Moo, Cows That Type SmartBoard comprehension activity

Created by

Richelle Votaw

Students answer the questions after reading the book, Click, Clack, Moo, Cow's That Type. They can erase inside the frame to reveal the correct answer and see if they were correct. The sample image shows the first page, there are seven total.

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Grades:

1st - 3rd

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