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Middle school creative writing activities for SMART Notebook
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
Writer's Workshop - What Writing Process Step Are My Students On?
Do you find it frustrating trying to keep track of who's on what step of the writing process during a writing project?
Here's a handy-dandy, interactive SmartNotebook file that takes away all the stress from Writer's Workshop! Simply add your students' names to the slide, and voila! The students can slide their name card next to the Writing Process step they are on, and you have an instant visual of the progress your students are making.
This is a great way to keep organized during a writing p
Grades:
8th, Not Grade Specific
Mother's Day Memoir Writing Activity - Smartboard
Mother's love nothing more than a story written by their child about a special memory or time they shared together. Use this Smartboard to help guide your students as they write a memoir about a special moment or memory they shared with their mom. There are fourteen slides that help students brainstorm ideas for their writing piece, two slides explaining what to focus on when writing the memoir, and an example of a mother's day memoir is provided at the end.
Mom's love getting these from their
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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
Spin a Story SmartBoard Narrative Writing Activity
SmartBoard Spin a Story - Narrative Writing. Create a basic storyline with this Smartboard activity. This idea generator works when students click on the spinners to generate short story elements. Who What Where and When...Character, Plot, and Setting. Will create thousands of variations to help students with story writing. Can be used to generate a whole class narrative writing assignment or use individually for student writing journals. Students with devices can type their story electronicall
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Personification
Want to teach you students interesting literary elements? Want to spruce up their writing? Interactive SmartBoard activities from Traci's Teachables is the way to go! Slides include engagement activity, a poem that uses personification and interactive classroom activities for whole class or small group instruction.
Slides Include:
Warm Up with Sponge Bob
My Chicken's On the Internet poem and sorting activity
Practice Linking Objects with Human Qualities
Examples of Personification
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
9 Poem Poetry Unit
This unit includes smart notebooks introducing 9 different kinds of poetry. This includes Haiku, Senryu, Concrete, Sound, Ode, I Used to be, Limerick, Color, and Cinquain. Each poem is explained, provides examples, and walks the students through practicing on their own. I typically have the students complete each poem in their writer's notebook and then publish as a formal poetry booklet.
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Improving Word Choice
This writing lesson was developed to be used with the story "When I was Young in the Mountains" by Cynthia Rylant. Beginning with examples of good word choice and evaluating how authors use precise nouns, vivid verbs, and lively adjectives to improve their writing. Students will revise poor sentences with improved word choice and then compare their sentences to those in the story by Cynthis Rylant. A student handout is included within the SMARTboard presentation.
Grades:
4th - 7th
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!
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Poetry Unit Smartboard
This product includes the following:
1) Linked to this Smartboard is a five page word document that includes a handout for students to use. The handout gives students the guidelines for their poetry writing project.
2) Figurative language pages - discusses similes and metaphors
3) Idioms page - has examples of idioms and a practice page for students
4) Alliteration page - includes examples of poems and a "fun with alliteration" page
5) Personification page - includes definition and sample poems
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Narrative Revision
This unit lesson will guide your students through the revision process. Move through the revision lessons as slowly or quickly as needed for your students. Provide writing breaks for your students to look back at their own writing and apply the following revision strategies: Show don't tell, alliteration, onomatopoeia, tone, overused words, figurative language, and dialogue. My students love how this lesson works and you can use the mini lessons with separate writing pieces.
Grades:
7th - 9th
Adjectives Writing Lessons
This SMARTboard presentation provides multiple lessons to use while studying the use of adjectives in writing. There are guided lessons and four writing prompts focused for the use of adjectives in student writing.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Halloween CreativeWriting Activities - SmartBoard Halloween File
6 Slides!
Use this file to get your students' creative juices flowing in the writing department! You can use this for a long writing assignment or a short, fun activity!
Activities include 6 choices!
1-Halloween word bank from which to choose and create a story
2-Animation/picture prompt - brainstorm descriptive words
3-Picture prompt for creative captions
4-Halloween Acrostic Prompt
5-Autumn Acrostic Prompt
6-Halloween Adjectives Worksheet
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Acrostic Family Poem - Smartboard
This Smartboard is for helping your students understand how to write an acrostic poem using their family's last name. These poems are great presents to parents for holidays! The Smartboard includes: an explanation of how to write the poem, examples, and other poetry activities students can do with their name.
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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Types of Poetry Smart Notebook
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This comprehensive Smart Notebook document is meant to be used over the course of multiple days to discuss and practice different types of poetry.
For each type of poetry included, there is:
1. An explanation
2. One or more examples
3. Practice to do as a class (with steps)
4. "Think, Pair, Share" for students to practice on their own (in their notebooks)
Types of poetry included are:
1. Acrostic
2. Haiku
3. Cinquain (2 types)
4. Limerick
5. Diamante
6. Free
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Grades:
4th - 8th
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
Sentence Wheels
Use these sentence wheels to challenge your students when working with your parts of speech unit. Student must write sentences which correctly reflect the various parts of speech indicated on the sentence wheels. This is an exciting way to review how the parts of speech are used in sentence writing.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Halloween Poetry
This is a fun Halloween activity that is also an introduction to different rhyming patterns of poetry. Students can underline the words that rhyme, or verbs, adjectives, etc. There are different possibilities. At the end, students have the opportunity to write their own RIP poems on a tombstone.
Here was mine:
My husband's name was Bill.
He died rolling off of a hill.
He had lots of money
and I was his honey.
Thank goodness he left me his will!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
SMART Board Chevron Swirls Background Pages
Use these fun Chevron Swirls for your morning messages using the pens on your board, or any time you'd like to have a fun background when writing. Add them to your gallery to have them at your disposal each time you want something more exciting than just a white page!
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
25 Do Now Writing Prompts
Need journal prompts or a way to start your writing class...well here are 25 writing prompts that will get your students scribbling their thoughts on the paper immediately. Each prompt has a timer on the page that you can set. There are 27 pages to this document: 25 prompts, 1 explanation page, and a journal set up page for students to follow. All pages are editable. This is a notebook file. Happy writing!
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Poetry Dice Activity
A game to challenge writers to get out of their comfort zone and try all types of figurative language and styles of poetry in a non-threatening way! Student roll each dice by touching them & they use the corresponding numbers to make their next poem.
After finishing a poem, students can roll the dice again for their next poem! :)
Grades:
4th - 6th
SMART Board Chevron Scroll Background Pages
Use these fun Chevron Scroll Background Pages for your morning messages using the pens on your board, or any time you'd like to have a fun background when writing. Add them to your gallery to have them at your disposal each time you want something more exciting than just a white page!
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Color Poem SmartBoard Slides
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These slides are made to go along with my Color Poem Activity & Organizer document, also on my TpT store!
Use this download first to introduce the concept of a Color poem and to write one together as a class. Then use the Activity & Organizer for students to review, organize, and write their own!
Poetry is such a fun unit and one poem students always seem to love is the Color Poem.
This poem is five stanzas, with each stanza focusing on one of the fiv
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Grades:
4th - 9th
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