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4th grade creative writing resources for SMART Notebook
Writing Strong Endings for Narratives using Mentor Texts
Do your students struggle to write a strong satisfying ending to their stories? I know my students do! I created this SMARTboard presentation to use with my students.
The presentation starts by covering the most common endings we want to move our kids away from, and then walks them through how to write a strong ending using mentor texts.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Identifying Simile or Metaphor Lesson SMART Notebook
Your students will be able to identify the differences between similes and metaphors after this 31 page Smartboard lesson. This file includes an introduction to both similes and metaphors, then follows up with some interactive activities and 12 multiple-choice Response voting questions. It even includes a simile or metaphor? activity page for you to print and give to your students as a pre or post test. Have fun learning!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
A SmartBoard Intro to Dialogue: An Interactive Presentation for 2nd - 5th Grade
Including dialogue in writing can be a wonderful way to add supporting detail, help your reader get to know characters better, or move the plot forward. However, learning how to punctuate and format dialogue correctly can be tricky!
In this presentation, students will learn about:
* Quotation marks
* Additional punctuation before the end quotation
* When to use a period and when to use a comma when ending dialogue
* The importance of attributing who is speaking
* Paragraph format when using di
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Realistic Fiction Writing Unit Smartboard
This is an outstanding unit you can use with your students to help them write well developed and interesting realistic fiction stories! The minilessons in this unit include:
1) Goal Setting and Generating Ideas
2) Imagine Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Imagining Stories We Wish Existed in the World
4) Drafting My Writing
5) Story Mountains
6) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of Our Story
7) Developing Believable Characters
8) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivation
9) Show, Dont Tell
10) Gr
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3rd - 7th
An Intro to Poetry on the SmartBoard: A Two-Week Unit Featuring 10 Poetry Forms
Hurray for Poetry! Adding a Poetry unit into a Language Arts curriculum helps students better understand alliteration and rhythm, allows them to break apart the syllabication of words and develop their reading and writing skills, and lets them get their creative juices flowing!
Poetry can be serious and introspective as well as silly and nonsensical. In this 2-week introduction to poetry, students are introduced to 10 different common poetry forms. This animated presentation introduces each
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Smartboard Writing a Super Sentence
Using a Super Sentence Organizer, students learn how to take their boring sentences and make them Super Sentences. Through step-by-step guided lessons, students brainstorm adjectives, nouns, verbs, and where and when phrases, and use them to expand a simple sentence.
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K - 4th
Poetry Unit for SMART Notebook
Looking for a great poetry unit for your Writer's Workshop? Look no further! This 30-page SMART Notebook file follows the poetry unit student guide (also available in my store) and includes instructions, pre-writing graphic organizers, whole group modeling practice, poem templates, and examples for 9 different poems!
Also included in Day 1 of the poetry unit are activities and examples for exploring meter, rhyme, stanza, and line within poems.
Poems you will write with your students in this u
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
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
The Very Itchy Bear Guided Reading 4 Days - Four Blocks Literacy
This is a SMART notebook file that forms 4 days (or 1 weeks) worth of guided reading lessons for the book The Very Itchy Bear by Nick Bland.
This file follows the Anchor, Read, Apply model and has a purpose for reading the book each day.
Included with each day's purpose is a link to the Six Hats Thinking Model.
This file was made originally for a high school special education class using the Four Block Method of Instruction but can easily be used in most school classrooms, for home school, rel
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PreK - 10th
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Six-Traits of Writing: Sentence Fluency with Smooth Transitions
This Sentence Fluency lesson concentrates on effective transitions using the popular mentor text, Meanwhile by Jules Feiffer.
The 20 slide SMART file contains 8 days of lessons, activating and summarizing strategies, detailed instructions, graphic organizers, handouts, examples, opportunities for peer and teacher conferencing, scoring rubrics, links to videos, and interactive activities.
It's everything you need to teach an engaging lesson on sentence fluency using effective transitions.
Grades:
4th - 7th
Groundhog Day SMART Board Activity Persuasive Writing and Craft Hall Display
This SMART Board activity includes plans for a craft and persuasive writing activity to accompany the book "Gretchen Groundhog It's Your Day." Common core standards for third grade are included along with the big idea and essential question. There is also an informational video link about groundhogs. Finally, students can try different hats on a groundhog by dragging the items on the SMART Board.
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1st - 4th
Figurative Language Relating to Poetry- Common Core Aligned
This highly interactive lesson introduces students to figurative language and shows them how by using it an author is able to express their own style in their writing by painting a picture in the reader's mind. It uses poetry examples to assess the students learning, and offers as many examples to practice on as your students will need! Reading poetry and understanding it is so critical in the Common Core Standards!
This adds SO much to my reading lesson, especially when poetry is being read!!!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Writing Introductions & Conclusions SMARTboard Lesson with Printable Organizers
This is .notebook file for two mini-lessons on writing Introductions and Conclusions.
Included in the file is a two page chart of introductions and conclusions that can printed as posters or put in the students writing folder to be used as a resource. Also included are organizers that students can use to practice the six types of introductions and conclusions.
NOTE: All my SMARTboard files allow for teacher editing, adding, or deleting of pages to meet your instructional needs. You must have
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Writing Sentences - Spivey Main Sentence Trunks and Action Expanders
This Smartboard Notebook file introduces or reviews Main Sentence Trunks with students, providing opportunities to practice coding the Main Sentence Trunks. It then moves on to introducing each Action Expander: who descriptor, what, where, when, and why. The students use the MSTs and add each Action Expander that is being focused on in the slide. The presentation concludes reminding children that when we write sentences, we should try to include at least 3 Action Expanders in their sentence, HOW
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1st - 4th
Drafting, Revising, and Editing Lessons - Smartboard
This Smartboard presentation is great to show students during the drafting, revising, or editing stage of writing. It explains and takes students through each process step by step.
Each lesson follows the workshop model and includes:
1) A connection to students' lives
2) A teaching point
3) A teaching component
4) Active engagement activity
5) A link
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Grades:
2nd - 7th
Music Island Partner Songs - Notebook file/unit for SMARTboard
This Notebook file for Interactive Whiteboard is intended to be used by itself as a complete unit, or in combination with your own lessons, in particular, partner songs. Elementary age students are given the role of community singers who have been asked to travel to Music Island to help bring the people of different areas together through music. Their goal is to create a list of partner songs for a sing-a-long concert event to emphasize living in harmony, just like the songs do! There are 15 n
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K - 6th
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Holiday RAFT Writing (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) Smartboard format
This lesson introduces RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) writing. There is a slide that explains each letter in the RAFT acronym. Following that, there are six different holiday RAFT writing prompts, with the last one being "free choice". In my class I have students roll a die (real or on the Smart board) to determine which writing prompt they will complete. We type our stories in Microsoft Word. However, this could easily be done in a writing journal or holiday writing paper.
Holiday RAFT
Grades:
1st - 8th
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
6 Word Life Memoir SMARTboard Lesson (Editable!)
This activity encourages critical thinking and higher order questioning by having students write their own 6-word memoir. The lesson is a SMARTboard file, so you can edit it to fit your needs!
Started by Ernest Hemingway and popularized in the book "Not Quite What I Was Planning," students will write a story about their lives. The only catch - they can only use 6 words!
In my classroom, I had my students draw an illustration to accompany their six word memoir. We bound the memoirs in a boo
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Spelling SMART in Grades 3 and 4: SMARTNotebook
I created Spelling SMART to be used on a SMARTBoard or interactive whiteboard to meet the spelling needs of my Grade 3 and 4 students.
I noticed most of them could not spell high frequency words. I also wanted them to use these lessons to learn how to write good sentences with varied beginnings and lengths, and of different types. The idea for dress-ups and sentence starters came from Betty Wiebe's Blended Structure and Style in Writing program. I also wanted the students to attempt some fi
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3rd - 4th
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Writing Strong Narrative Beginnings using Mentor Texts
Do your students struggle to write a strong beginning to their stories? I know my students do! I created this SMARTboard presentation to use with my students. The presentation starts by covering the most common, "not so good" beginnings and then walks them through, using mentor texts strong beginnings.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Writing a Summary Paragraph EDI Lesson
This is an EDI (Explicit Direct Instruction) Lesson using California Content Standards. It can be edited to be used with any state's content standards. It is written using 2nd grade standards and objectives but of course those may be changed to suit your grade level. For this lesson, I used An Octopus is Amazing to model and do guided practice
of the summary paragraph lesson. I used the story Ant, from our reading book for the independent practice, but you can use any story you wish. Non-fi
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Misery Guts by Morris Gleitzman Shared Reading Unit Smartboard Pages
These smartboard pages following by already uploaded unit of work for the book Misery Guts by Morris Gleitzman. I found these to be very handy to use when completing this unit as all the comprehension questions are here, as well as the writing activities that students are required to do. The children love completing the visualisation of the chapter as I am reading. This is a great way for them to remember what has already happened in the book.
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3rd - 4th
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