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7th grade english language arts centers for SMART Notebook
Boggle for the Smartboard
This is a Boggle game for the smartboard. Its FREE, all I ask is you leave feed back and/or a rating please!
This has extra letter pieces and a colorful template. To create a new game board just rearrange the letters or add in some new ones which are provided. It also has a timer feature to add a little intensity and a word bank to allow students to share words they found with the class.
Ways to use this:
1. Smartboard center during daily 5 or guided reading.
2. Early finishers activity.
3
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Grades:
K - 12th
Dependent and Independent Clauses SMARTBOARD Pirate Theme
Students will love this interactive whiteboard/SMARTboard activity with a pirate theme. The first part of this SMARTboard lesson is an introduction to dependent and independent clauses. The second half of the lesson is an activity that allows students to practice the skill of recognizing the difference between dependent and independent clauses. Examples of how to make a dependent clause complete (independent) are given on many slides. All slides are self checking so lesson can be used as a mi
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3rd - 7th
Paraphrasing Tips and Practice SMARTBOARD
This SMARTboard lesson and activity introduces what paraphrasing is and gives the students a chance to put it into practice. Complete with tips and ways to learn to paraphrase for any report. Linked to You Tube video to help explain paraphrasing and plagiarism. Great for whole group/teacher directed lesson or center activity. Grades 4-8. MUST have SMART Notebook to download and use.
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4th - 8th
Introduction to Mystery Genre SMARTBOARD
This interactive lesson provides an introduction to the mystery genre with a link to a video. Vocabulary is included with additional explanations of the elements of mysteries. This is both a lesson and a review of mystery genre terms. Vocabulary includes alibi, detective, witness, sleuth, evidence, mystery, clue, crime, victim, suspect, and red herring. Slides with questions are self checking. Links are also provided for two videos. Great for grades 4-8.
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4th - 8th
Recognzing Different Types of Writing
This is a SmartBoard lesson that helps students recognize three different types of writing. It gives them quick exerts of each and then test their newly learned skills with a couple of fun games.
Grades:
2nd - 9th
Sopa de letras y números - Para el reconocimiento de letras y números y su orden
¡Aquí tienen una manera excelente para que sus estudiantes independientemente practiquen el reconocimiento de las letra y números 0-31, el orden alfabético, y el orden numérico!
Los estudiantes pueden autoevaluar si mismos haciendo click en cualquier letra, número, o rectángulo verde. ¡Es una actividad buenísima para el tiempo de centros/estaciones!
Para empezar, el estudiante hace click en la estrella amarilla para escuchar las instrucciones, y luego juega hasta que nada queda en el bol de s
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PreK - 12th
Prefixes and Suffixes Lights, Camera, Action SMARTBOARD
This interactive smartboard lesson provides practice in making new words and changing words by adding the prefixes inter, in, pre, mis, post, trans, AND suffixes of: ess, ant, tion, ive, ness, and ment . Students have an opportunity to make words complete a sentence or story by adding the prefix or suffix or both to root words to change their meaning. Great for grades 4-7 and may be challenging for grade 3. All slides are self checking so it's easy to use as teacher directed in whole group or
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Phonics - Long Vowel Sounds - Magic e - Interactive Whiteboard
Having trouble teaching the long vowel sounds when words are made with an e at the end of the word? eg, cake, line, rope.
Here are 35 pages of interactive activities and games using your SMART Board to help students learn and better UNDERSTAND how the long vowels sounds (a, i, o, u) are made in words, particularly when they are made with the 'magic e' at the end of the word.
Copy and paste this link into your web browser to watch a video about how to use and teach these phonetical understandin
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K - 7th
Story Characters - Using Body Biographies to Help With Character Analysis
This Smart Board Activity uses an INTERACTIVE character to go through the instructions!! Your students are sure to love participating with the character!!!
Purpose: Character analysis is an area that students seem to have great difficulty. Readers seem to really have problem grasping and connecting with characters in the text. A body biography is a visual and written representation of a character’s life. In creating a body biography, students practice character analysis, understanding liter
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3rd - 12th
Story Characters - Using "Fakebook" to create a character analysis (Smartboard)
Purpose: Character analysis is an area that students seem to have great difficulty. Readers seem to really have problem grasping and connecting with characters in the text. This engaging activity allows students to combine the authentic experience of reading social media text with the fun of creating a new “Fakebook” page that is a visual and written representation of a character’s life. In creating a “Fakebook” page, students practice character analysis, understanding literary devices, and d
Grades:
5th - 12th
Visualizing Verbalizing - Spirit Rover Unit - Comprehension, Smartboard
This Smartboard Unit was created by me for classroom instruction. It is presented Sentence x Sentence, with vocabulary and comprehension, higher order thinking questions. This unit is READY TO GO! This lesson is uploaded for .Notebook for Smartboard. The PDF version can be found on my store.
This unit is adapted from concepts learned from the Visualizing/Verbalizing Program by Lindamood-Bell for classroom Instruction, that helps students improve reading comprehension, language comprehension, an
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1st - 12th
Context Clues An American Historical Lesson SMARTBOOK
This interactive smartboard lesson is both a minilesson and practice that introduces what context clues are and gives students a chance to practice using context clues to determine meaning. The theme is An Hysterical - Historical American Lesson. Funny, engaging pictures help give clues as well using the context surrounding unfamiliar words to determine meaning. 20 different slides are provided to practice using context clues. Answer slides with explanation follow each question. This can easily
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Smart Notebook: Revisions for Creating Clear and Concise Academic Writing
Smart Notebook: Revisions for Creating Clear and Concise Academic Writing created by Darla Brink
Five specific strategies with student examples. Activities provided for guided practice and reflection. Strategies include getting rid of unnecessary words, avoiding ineffective repetition, rewriting without using second person and getting to the point.
Smart Notebook: Revisions for Creating Clear and Concise Academic Writing by Darla Brink is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonComm
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5th - 8th
BEE A WORD DETECTIVE Context Clues SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson provides practice using context clues to determine the meaning of words. Students have 18 slides with unfamiliar words used in sentences. Each slide has 4 answer choices and the correct answers can be found with a quick click of the mouse. This is a great lesson to use as a multiple minilessons so the teacher can discuss with the students exactly what words within the text gave the students a hint or necessary information to determine the meaning of the wor
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
OO Sound
An interactive game that helps students think about the two ways of saying the 'oo' sound (book, moon).
Grades:
K - 7th
Editable Literacy Station Rotation Board
This literacy station rotation board is fully editable to customize for your kiddos! Stations included:
Poetry Station
ABC Station
Sight Word Notebook Station
Writing Station
Colorful Writing Station (my kiddos can use colorful pens at this one)
Blocks Station
Sand Table Station
Ipad Station
Computer Station
Listen and Learn Station
Arts & Crafts Station
Retelling Station
Puppet Station
Puzzle Station
Listening Station
Read the Room Station
Write the Room Station
Game Station
Stamp Station
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Grades:
PreK - 9th
What A Random Story! Smartboard Game
This smartboard file is a way to mix up, literally, how students tackle stories. The activity is incredibly diverse with the potential to be comedic, functional (works well with Words Their Way), or for enrichment. It all depends on how you want to use the game.
With two clicks you will unleash your students into a combination of randomness that will challenge them to think outside of the box to build a story that fits the model of the traditional story.
In this highly modifiable activity, s
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4th - 9th
Using Context Clues for Vocabulary- find the meaning of nonsense words
In this SmartBoard activity, students use the context of each passage to determine the meaning of unknown vocabulary words (the words are made up). Students touch the circle to reveal the correct answer. This lesson can be used on the SmartBoard for large or small group mini lesson, or the slides can be printed and used in a literacy center.
Total of 4 passages.
*Passages used from Scholastic Comprehension Mini Lessons
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1st - 10th
Using Context Clues to figure out the meaning of unknown words
In this SmartBoard activity, students use the context of the passage to determine the meaning of 3 unknown vocabulary words. Students touch the star to reveal the correct answer. This lesson can be used on the SmartBoard for large or small group mini lesson, or the slides can be printed and used in a literacy center.
Total of 3 slides/vocab words.
*Passage used from Scholastic Comprehension Mini Lessons
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Grades:
3rd - 10th
Visualizing Verbalizing - First Man In Space Unit - Comprehension, Smartboard
This Smartboard Unit was created by me for classroom instruction. It is presented Sentence x Sentence, with vocabulary and comprehension, higher order thinking questions. This unit is READY TO GO! This lesson is uploaded for .Notebook for Smartboard. The PDF version can be found on my store.
This unit is adapted from concepts learned from the Visualizing/Verbalizing Program by Lindamood-Bell for classroom Instruction, that helps students improve reading comprehension, language comprehension, an
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Grades:
1st - 12th
Daily Five Rotation Chart on Smart Notebook (Edit as needed)
This is a daily five rotation chart I use daily to set up my rotations. This way, I can group kids in leveled groups for both work work and the teacher group. I use the "dots" if a child is going out of the room during a rotation. I use the following letters for each group:
WW: Word Work
WR: Work on Writing
T: Teacher
LR: Listen to Reading
R: Read to Self
RS: Read to Someone
Grades:
K - 8th
Turkey Tales Story Trivia Game
Story Trivia for many ages!! Older kids will have fun thinking back to some of their favorite titles from elementary school and elementary school kids will love playing this game about current titles they may be reading. This is a jeopardy-type game. Divide your class into 2, 3, or 4 teams OR let 2, 3, 4 people play in a center or station. This is set up so that each player or team answers each question and has a chance to earn all points. Fun questions range from remembering lines in a favor
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2nd - 9th
Daily 5 SMARTBoard
If you are looking for a way to keep track of which station each of your students choose each day for daily 5, here is your answer!!
This SMARTBoard slide has 7 stations for the kids to choose from including: trade in books, read to self, writing, work with words, read to someone, ipad, and listen to reading.
Use a specialty marker to mark which station each child choose each round of daily 5. Restricts kids to only a couple times at some of the stations.
Add your students names!
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Grades:
PreK - 8th
Context Clues Lesson and Practice SMARTBOARD
Help your students score higher on tests and practice the skill of using context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. This interactive SMARTboard lesson begins with a mini lesson about context clues. Students are then given practice in reading the context surrounding an unfamiliar word. All slides are self checking and provide opportunity for good discussion about clues given to help determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word. Context is provided for the following words: appr
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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