19 results
Writing-expository activities for SMART Notebook
Nonfiction Chapter Books Lucy Calkins SmartBoard Slides for Writing Workshop
Do you teach Lucy Calkins' Writing Units of Study for first grade? If so, these SmartBoard slides will make your writing workshop time more engaging and easy to follow! There are 3-5 slides per session. All include the teaching point, the mid-workshop teaching point, and visuals, videos, and/or interactive activities that go along with the day's lesson. These also help keep the minilesson on track as well as give a great visual and integrate technology!I used several HelloFonts (Hello Big Sky, H
Grades:
1st
Stretching a Sentence Smartboard Going From Good to Great Sentences
This is a Smartboard activity. I have used this method to help my students go from writing simple sentences to visual sentences. It works in second grade and can work in upper grades. Kids love the way their writing improves when they start using adjectives and adverbs in their writing. You must have Notebook software to use this activity. 12 slides.
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Writing Hooks - Fishing For A Hook Activity (Smart Notebook Version)
Students have a hard time understanding hooks, and the importance of a good "hook". This engaging lesson will have students literally "fishing for hooks". They will discover the importance of hooks in their persuasive writing. After students learn what a hook is, they will actually fish for hooks in a plastic swimming pool using a fishing pole and magnet. Once they fish out a "hook" they will read the hook and determine its effectiveness. This activity provides an engaging way to teach stud
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 9th
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
Persuasive Writing with the Hamburger Model
This is a lesson for persuasive writing that uses William & Mary's Hamburger Model. I took Lesson 10 from the Beyond Words unit and created it into an interactive SmartBoard lesson for students. Students will move objects, erase to reveal, underline sentences, and learn how this powerful graphic organizer can help them write powerful persuasive pieces!
Grades:
2nd - 4th
Connotation Denotation Lesson
Encourage your students to use better word choice in their writing as they discover how to correctly apply connotation to enhance the tone of their writing. Students will create connotation lines and apply selected words to their own piece of writing.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Six Traits Organization Smartboard Lesson
This Smartboard lesson will help your students understand how to organize their writing. Included is a story that can be read and listened to see how it is organized. After reading there is a sequencing activity to go with it. Created by dijobaker.
Six Traits, Six Traits Lesson, Six Traits Organization
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Six Traits Word Choice Smartboard
Use this Smartboard lesson to help your students master the concept of word choice. Students need to be aware that they have an audience for their writing and so their objective is not only to inform but entertain. There are several slides devoted to brainstorming for interesting word choices to help students write more vividly. There is also a story to listen to and talk about interesting, descriptive words.
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Cause and Effect
This is a short lesson on Cause and Effect. The first two pages are a short story and answer page.
The following pages involve 5 cause and effect sentences, which the students will either fill in the cause or effect for each. For example, a picture is provided of two babies (one crying, one laughing). The sentences reads, "Mom wanted to take their picture..." This would be the cause, the students will have to write the effect.
There is also a small explanatory writing prompt on the last
Grades:
4th - 7th
Subordinating Conjunctions : Interactive Lesson!
Teach your students subordinating conjunctions in an interactive and engaging way! Includes:Defining Subordinating ConjunctionsVisualsExamplesHochman Writing ProgramWrite your own!Complete the sentenceMultiple Choice QuestionsCreative Writing Prompt Movement ActivityAnd More!
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 7th
Expository Revision
Students will use this SMARTboard lesson to revise their expository essay. The pages will help your students add elaboration, voice, support, details, transitions, and fluency to their rough draft. They will proof their essay with a guided peer editing session. This lesson is full of writing activities that may be used individually or as a unit.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Types:
Endangered Species SMARTboard file with Writing Task
Studying endangered species? Here is a SMARTboard .notebook file with a writing task that requires students to research an endangered species, complete a research worksheet that is attached, and then create a poster to share with their classmates. WORD document attached with research questions for students to complete on their species.
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Revising for Transitions
Use this lesson during the revision process to encourage students to use effective transition words in their writing. Students will identify various transitions and chart them before the go back to their own writing sample and revise by adding transitions.
Grades:
7th - 9th
Introduction to 3 Paragraph Expository Essay SMART File
Interactive lessons to teach 3 paragraph expository writing. You must have SMART software to run this file.
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Finding & Creating Vivid Descriptions
This lesson uses passages from Ray Bradbury short stories as examples of vivid, elaborate description. It also includes an activity in which students write a vivid description of one of their own ordinary objects.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
5th - 7th
Step by Step Theme Essay In Groups
Students will read the picture book Pink and Say. Once the story is complete students will be taken step by step throughout the process of writing an essay. Each individual step will be discussed and reviewed starting with a thesis statement to the final draft. Instruction will allowed for differentiation based on needs and abilities. Students can then show their ability to write an essay by working on their own based on the novel of their choice.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
Structure of the Earth
This multimedia Smart board lesson introduces the layers of the Earth in a thorough creative way. The lesson begins with basic information and continues with internet activities and interactive whole class comprehension check-ins. As a culminating activity, students form groups and write poetry, raps, and dance in a game-like atmosphere.
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
ClassBuilders/Character Lessons, Character Traits, research pre-writing, +
This is a SmartNotebook I created to help teach all of the above mentioned topics. Pull the tabs over to read explanations on the pages.
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Common Core Types of Writing - Second Grade
This is a SMART Notebook file that helps students to understand the difference between the 3 types of writing covered in the Common Core. Students are given components of each type of writing. Then the follow slides show examples of each. As a group, we discussed which type of writing was shown based on the already covered components (the answer is hidden at the top of each slide, click the solid box to reveal the answer). Students also went through each example and identified the introductor
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Showing 1-19 of 19 results
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands