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Short stories activities for SMART Notebook
There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves Smartboard activity
This is a notebook file for smart-boards. This smart-board activity goes along with the book "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves." In this activity students can move the objects and have the lady swallow them into her stomach. This help in retelling the story! One slide has where the students COMPARE the story "The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat" and "The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed some Leaves." Students get to sort which items were swallowed in what book. Students will have
Grades:
PreK - 3rd
Gift of the Magi Smartboard Activities
This is a set of Smartboard activities that correspond with Gift of the Magi. It includes study questions, a vocabulary exercise, compare and contrast, theme, and pre reading and post reading activities. I also have posted a set of printables that goes along with this presentation.
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Elements of Plot Drag-and-drop whole-class activity - FUN!
This activity is a true gem for the literature classroom. Take any story you're reading with your students and double-click the events in this document to add your own.
Then, students take turns dragging and dropping the events to the right spot on the diagram.
Kids love this activity!
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Smartboard Story Writing Activity Castle Theme
This is an interactive writing activity for the entire class or for a writing center. Students move the graphics to where they want on the medieval picture. They then write a story about the picture they created. Click on the castle to open the attached writing paper and story cover.
Grades:
K - 3rd
Narrative Fiction Writing Lesson for the Smart Board
Use this Smart Board Lesson to introduce or review narrative fiction writing. There are 3 sample stories to show children how you can take a real life event (like shoe shopping) and easily turn it into fictional writing piece by simply changing the character from a person to an animal (ex. Sally can be changed to a "mouse" ).
There are also slides to keep on the smart board while students are independently writing so they can remember important things to include (characters, setting, problem
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Grades:
K - 4th
"Amigo Brothers" Character Trait Match
Students enjoy the short story "Amigo Brothers" by Piri Tomas. Even more, they enjoy matching the character traits on the Smart Board. I have students search for traits and place them in their Interactive Notebook (journal) then add additional traits they may have missed. There are two slides with 15 traits total. You must have access to a Smartboard and the Smartboard software to use the product.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Fun Halloween Smart Notebook lessons
Great and Awesome Powerpoint lessons for Halloween. Filled with short stories, video clips, and a read loud of Jerry Seinfeld's Halloween book which is great for all ages. Presentation also includes fun facts, DOK questions to excerpts, and interesting videos about the history of Halloween. I can guarantee that your students will have a fun and spooky time.
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Friends of Ten Party
Join the Friends of Ten at their party.
Discover 1-10 combinations using visual counters combined with fun rhyming. 1 through to 10 all go to a party. They do weird and wacky activities at the party.
Once the party activity is complete enjoy the number combinations' balloon pop. Your students and children will store and remember the 1-10 number combinations forever by using the magic of rhyme and counting. Perfect for elementary and infant years. This activity will be adored by your little one
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Grades:
PreK - 3rd
Smartboard Richard Connell's Most Dangerous Game
This Smartboard will keep students engaged guaranteed! Nineteen slides There are links within the slides that take you to video clips from the new movie trailer to "Family Guy" using examples of the literary device allusion which is frequently used in Connell's short story and more click on clips to reinforce the literary elements allusion, oxymoron and other literary terms including figurative language and vocabulary from the text. Click an arrow or image and you will be linked to two addi
Grades:
4th - 12th
Smartboard Story Writing Activity Farm Theme
This is an interactive writing activity for the entire class or for a writing center. Students move the graphics to where they want on the farm picture. They then write a story about the picture they created. Click on the barn to open the attached writing paper and story cover.
Grades:
K - 3rd
Representation of the Divine in Story (SmartPresentation and Writing Activities)
I used this Smartboard presentation when exploring "Representations of the Divine" in Ethics and Religious Culture, for secondary 2. Enough material for at least a week worth of lessons.
This lecture explores how the Divine is represented in different stories in different religious traditions. Students will be able to compare and contrast how different traditions explore representations of the divine. Students will also look at THEME vs. MORAL and fill out a chart as a group.
There are You
Grades:
7th - 9th
Character Suitcase
Use this lesson to complete a study of character traits. This lesson includes an introduction to character traits and how to isdentify them. You students will create a "suticase" using a file folder which highlights their selected character's traits. Additional resoucres and a rubric are also included.
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Prediction Smart Notebook
This Smart Notebook activity works on the prediction strategy/skill with the book, "Wild Toboggan Ride". It has a self-evaluation at the end of the lesson.
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Grades:
1st - 4th
Smartboard Story Writing Activity Picnic Theme
This is an interactive writing activity for the entire class or for a writing center. Students move the graphics to where they want on the picture. They then write a story about the picture they created. Click on the picnic table to open the attached writing paper.
Grades:
K - 3rd
Daily Writing Prompts (September to November)
First set of daily writing prompts.
There is one writing prompt per day. The date and day number are at the top of each page, below that is the writing prompt. Each day asks the students to do something a little bit different.
The prompts include: Writing lists of things (activities, words, memories, etc), imagine if... questions, what is your favorite..., tell me about a time when...., and so on.
These quick writes are meant to take anywhere from 1-5 minutes. These prompts just get student
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Grades:
PreK - 8th
The Three Little Pigs Adapted Smart Notebook
This is an interactive book. Many of the pages include counting, matching the characters and labeling the different materials from which each house is that made. You can also able to hear each of the characters as you match them. You can either access the Smart Board or interact t from your seat on your laptop.
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Grades:
PreK - 3rd
Dice Reading Review
Throw away your foam dice and use your SMARTboard for an interactive dice review. Students will answer questions selected as the roll the oversized dice. Use this handy tool for group response, literature circles, or a pop quiz. There are eight different pages with additional resources for group responses on the last page.
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
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Personal Narrative Intro using "Owl Moon" by Jane Yolen (Smartboard Slideshow)
I do not own rights to any clip art, photos used. I also do not own rights to any youtube video links or the story "owl moon" by jane yolen.
included:
intro slide
class notes slide (adapt it to meet your needs)
link to personal narrative song (youtube)
owl moon by jane yolen slide (link to read aloud video youtube)
two graphic organizer slides for "owl moon" by jane yolen, identifying the pieces of a personal narrative (character details, setting details, descriptive words, topic, 1st person p
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Smartboard Story Writing Activity Christmas Theme
This is an interactive writing activity for the entire class or for a writing center. Students move the graphics to where they want in the winter scene They then write a story about the picture they created. Click on the sleigh to open the attached writing paper.
Grades:
K - 3rd
Beginning, Middle, End - Caps for Sale with Smart Board
Read the story "Caps for Sale" and during the Beginning, Middle, End unit, complete this activity using the SmartBoard!
Very fun and interactive for the students!
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Reading Comprehension for Young Readers
These activities are intended to provide reading comprehension practice, which are designed to assist struggling readers. The activities include short 3-5 sentence story passages, which can also be incorporated into social story instruction, involving emotions, play, and behaviors. Each story has activities incorporated into them. The picture pages are provided to provide practice to students for story retell and sequencing (Sequencing sheet are the sheets with the blank squares. Students ca
Grades:
1st - 2nd
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Raymond's Run Koosh Ball Game
Game focuses on examples of dialect, allusion, simile, metaphor, and slang (Common Core State Standards 4 and 5 for Reading Literature) found in the short story by Toni Cade Bambara. Students throw a koosh ball at the SmartBoard to reveal a question to answer. Directions, variations, and an answer key are provided within the file. This is a NOTEBOOK file for the SMARTBOARD. File WILL NOT WORK on older SmartBoards with the black frames due to the older hardware.
Raymond's Run Koosh Ball Game by K
Grades:
6th - 8th
Those Three Wishes by Judith Gorog Smartboard presentation
This is a Smartboard activity for the story, Those Three Wishes by Judith Gorog. If you do not have the story, it can be found online at:
http://campuses.fortbendisd.com/campuses/documents/Teacher/2007/teacher_20071116_1636.pdf
This contains vocabulary for the story, including a page where they can move the definitions around in order to identify the meaning. It also contains a chart for students to complete and a test I give with words from this story as well as "Young Ladies Don't Slay Drago
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Water Cycle Story
This is a smart document that gives students directions to write a story, from the point of view of a drop of water, to tell the process of changing from a liquid to a solid to a gas.
Grades:
4th - 6th
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