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Informational text activities for SMART Notebook
Reference Sources SMARTboard Lesson
Are you looking for fun, interactive lessons to teach your students about Reference Sources? These detective themed SMARTboard activities involve searching for clues to find the correct resource to use. The sources covered include dictionary, atlas, encyclopedia, glossary, almanac and thesaurus. The skills covered include guide words, multiple meaning words and synonyms. All pages are self-checking and can be used whole group, small group or in a center. Here’s what’s included:*Just the Fac
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Nonfiction Text Features - Introduction / Examples
An important part of learning to read nonfiction texts is being able to identify nonfiction features and to understand how they help you as a reader.
While using the smartboard to teach these features, I also use a student activity book. The activity book has an activity page to go along with each feature.
You can view the activity book by clicking on the link below:
Link-Features-of-Nonfiction-Texts Student Activity Book
12 nonfiction features are included:
photographs
labels
captions
compa
Grades:
K - 3rd
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All Around Town Map Skills Lesson SMARTBOARD
This interactive smartboard lesson provides practice is cardinal directions and reading a map. A little red car can be moved around the board to make the lesson more concrete and easier to understand. Skills begin easy by asking what street buildings are on to get students accustomed to reading the map. As you move through the lesson, questions become more difficult and higher level thinking skills are needed. Students practice east, north, south, west, cardinal directions, locations on map,
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Text Features Smartboard Lessons and Activities
**Don't have a Smartboard? Don't worry!! This exact same product is now available for use with PowerPoint!**
Text Features Smartboard Lessons and Activities is a fun, interactive way to teach text features! Slides have object animation to catch students attention and keep them engaged in the learning process! This Smartboard unit covers the following text features: titles, index, bold words, labels, captions, table of contents, charts & graphs, and glossary.
Text Features Smartboard Lesso
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Grade 5 ELA Module 2A Unit 1: Biodiversity in the Rainforests
This is all you will need to guide you through Unit 1 of Module 2A. It includes all the learning targets, graphic organizers, necessary visuals and web links. It is colorful and engaging and organized to make the teachers job much easier:)
Grades:
5th
All About Ants - Smartboard Unit - Life Cycle and SO MUCH MORE!
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Wow! I set out to make a Mini Unit on the Life Cycle of the Ant for Smartboard but what emerged was a COMPLETE interactive unit jam packed with goodness. Between interactive files, hyperlinked videos, informative slides, fact/opinion slides and games, life lessons learned from ants etc - this unit has EVERYTHING you need for now and years to come! Please check out the p
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Grades:
PreK - 3rd
Argument Game (Practise persuasive / exposition / debating language)
This is a notebook slide adapted from a simple 'argument' game. I used this in my fourth grade class as a fun game to practise persuasive language.
Two students at a time (could be played in teams). Each student presses interactive dice which determines which topic will be argued. Students then need to give 2 arguments for their side. Class can vote on who had the better points. Winner can continue with new opponent.
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Smart board Activity The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
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.
Grades:
K - 2nd
Talking About Geography!: SMARTBOARD Activities
If you want to supplement your study of GEOGRAPHY, this is the resource for you! This file is complete with TWELVE different social studies activities that can be used in your classroom for whole group instruction, small group work, or individual practice! This SMART Board file includes the following:Geography VocabularyKWL ChartLabelsMap KeyContinentsGlobesMapsCardinal DirectionsVenn DiagramSortingBuilding Your Own MapLand and WaterThis file was created using SMART Board 15 and is supported by
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
Synthesizing - Using a Magical Illusion for infering and research/Train Escape
TEACHER INFORMATION
PURPOSE: This activity combines the mystery and intrigue of an amazing illusion and students ability to synthesize new information. Students have a hard time understanding the process of synthesis. This very engaging activity will have students go through the process of synthesis by combining information presented in different media (media and text) to develop a better understanding of the topic, and draw evidence from informational text to support analysis, reflection, an
Grades:
5th - 12th
Author's Purpose -PIE ~ on the SMARTboard
Author's Purpose, SMARTboard, Activities, Interactive, Persuasive, Informative, Entertainment
This interactive SMARTboard file is a fun way to teach the author's purpose. Students will learn about the different authors' purposes and then practice them.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.6 Craft and Structure: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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Go Around Dollar Reading SMARTboard multi-day unit; Aligned to 3rd Grade CCSS
This is an 18 page multi-day .NOTEBOOK unit to accompany the expository & realistic fiction text "The Go-Around Dollar". This story is found in the 3rd grade Imagine It Series Unit 3 and this unit was designed to be used with the series, however it is more aligned to CCSS than the series. The text is a trade book and you do not have to the curriculum series for this product. THE TEXT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT. YOU MUST HAVE THE TEXT FOR MANY OF THE ACTIVITIES INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT.
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
ELA Grade 3 Module 4 Units 1, 2, AND 3 BUNDLE! NEW!!!
SAVE BY BUYING THE BUNDLE RATHER THAN INDIVIDUALLY PURCHASING ALL OF ITS CONTENTS! Grade 3 ELA Module 4 Units 1, 2, AND 3! Aligned with the New York State Common Core Learning Standards. These 568 SmartBoard slides will engage students of all learning styles. These lessons will save you hours of designing, scanning, copying, pasting, and typing. These SmartBoard Notebook files were created by veteran 3rd grade teachers with Master's Degrees in the area of Literacy. Enjoy and let us know how well
Grades:
3rd
All About Summer (An Interactive SmartBoard Activity that includes sounds!)
This comprehensive interactive SmartBoard activity is all about summer! Students can answer questions about the summer season using the picture symbol choices provided in the activity. This SmartBoard activity includes colorful visuals and sounds!
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Grades:
PreK - 5th
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Cause & Effect Smartboard Lesson for the Common Core Standards
Cause and Effect Smartboard lesson is a complete guided interactive instructional lesson that will introduce and give explicit instruction to meet the Cause and Effect Core Curriculum Standard. This file includes 21 slides of classroom resources to assist you in your classroom instruction from planning your goals and objects to essential questions. This Smart Notebook file includes classroom posters along with student activity pages and literacy center forms. This lesson will assist differentia
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Time For Spring Smart Notebook Unit
A full, thematic done-for-you unit centered around the theme of Spring, made for you on the Smart Board. It is packed with HD photography, videos, widgets, and interdisciplinary lessons including poem analysis, hibernation, migration, plant and tree life cycles, temperature, weather, holidays, calendar math, and graphing. This unit is differentiated with a simple poem and more challenging informtion given in the form of an avatar with a child's voice, to be engaging and entertaining. Because
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Grades:
PreK - 2nd
What is Memorial Day? (GRADE 2 ELA )
This SMARTBOARD file was created to introduce a second grade class to the Memorial Day holiday. Contains an illustrated reading passage, three interactive slides with tactile activities inclusive of: identifying the pictures, creating an original sentence and word definitions. Also includes lots of "real life" pictures so students may use words and phrases they have learned as a response to the text. Summarizes student understanding with who? what? when? where ? and why questions. Uses the f
Grades:
2nd
Reading Comprehension Senteo test, nonfiction passage,SOL Review, test prep
The first slide of this senteo is the passage "A Pop!ular Invention: Bubblegum" from superteacherworksheet.com. It is a non fiction passage about bubblegum. The following slides are test questions on narrative elements, comprehension of nonfiction, main idea, word analysis and follow the VA SOLs for third graders. The passage is a fourth grade reading level but could be used for 2nd-5th graders easily, among other grades. If you do not use the senteo student response clicker system you could ada
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Hanukkah SMARTboard Lesson; Story & comprehension questions, craft, game, recipe
Celebrate Hanukkah in your classroom with this SMARTboard file. Share some background knowledge about the holiday and assess students comprehension with the printable comprehension questions. Have students create a Star of David, a popular Jewish symbol, create their own Dreidel and learn how to play the game, and follow the recipe to make your own potato latkes. Great practice applying reading skills to read and follow directions for a craft, game, and recipe reading as well.
Everything you
Grades:
2nd - 5th
ELA Grade 3 Module 3B Units 1, 2, AND 3 BUNDLE! UPDATED!
SAVE BY BUYING THE BUNDLE RATHER THAN INDIVIDUALLY PURCHASING ALL OF ITS CONTENTS! Grade 3 ELA Module 3B Units 1, 2, AND 3! Aligned with the New York State Common Core Learning Standards. These 440 SmartBoard slides will engage students of all learning styles. These lessons will save you hours of designing, scanning, copying, pasting, and typing. These SmartBoard Notebook files were created by veteran 3rd grade teachers with Master's Degrees in the area of Literacy. Enjoy and let us know how wel
Grades:
3rd
SMARTboard interactive lesson on author's point of view and fact vs. opinion
This SMARTboard lesson covers a few reading comprehension skills: identifying author's point of view, fact vs. opinion, and evaluating an author's argument. Some slides can be used as notes for the students. Other slides are more interactive. Students have to determine if statements are facts or opinions. There is a mini reading comprehension exercise at the end where students evaluate the author's argument. This is perfect for ELA assessment preparation. It keeps the students engaged!
Grades:
6th - 8th
Grade 5 Module 2A Rainforests Unit 3
All of the learning targets, organizers, web links, pictures and more are included to organize the module for you! This is an engaging and easy way to present the module in your classroom. The work is done for you!
Grades:
5th
Reading Informational Texts James Oglethorpe Biography for Common Core
You will need SMART Notebook software to use this file. This 14 slide SMART presentation will take you through 5 lessons on reading informational texts, specificially, a biography. All you will need is a biography of James Oglethorpe to use with your class. Activities include: essential questions, turn and talk partner discussion questions, and a recording sheet for each day. You can use the recording sheet in whole group on your SMART board or print for students to use with a group, partner
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Main Topic Detectives Informational Texts
- Students can act like detectives as they use key detail clues from real books to solve for the main topic!
- 9 slides of key details with the main topic hidden underneath the yellow box. Students slide to unveil the answer!
- Each slide features a real informational book which is also discovered underneath the yellow box!
-Split the students into teams and keep points of who can guess the main topic. Check out the scoreboard to tally up the final scores on the last slide!
-Play as a review
Grades:
1st - 2nd
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