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4th grade short stories resources for SMART Notebook
Making Inferences & Drawing Conclusions Smart Notebook Lesson
Teach your students how to make inferences with this thirty page, interactive, Smart Notebook Lesson. Your students will get to read stories, draw conclusions, use background knowledge, and information from the text to complete the interactive activities within this file. Containers, magic revealers, voting, and outside resources fill this lesson and make learning how to infer super fun. A "what's in the bag" mini-game is also included! Enjoy!THIS IS A SMART NOTEBOOK FILE. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU
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3rd - 6th
Legends, Myths, Fairy Tales, Fables, & Tall Tales - Smartboard
This 30 slide smartboard lesson intorduces the four main genres of legends, myths, fairy tales, and tall tales, listing their characteristics, and examples of each.
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2nd - 5th
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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble -- KEY VOCABULARY PREVIEW/REVIEW
This SMART notebook file will allow you to preview challenging vocabulary in "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" by William Steig. The 13 page file includes definitions, words in context, and picture files (where appropriate). It culminates with a match-the-word quiz game and a match-the-picture quiz game for further review and assessment. Excellent support for ALL students, especially English-Language learners and students with limited ability to comprehend complex text. Please provide feedbac
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K - 5th
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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
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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K - 4th
Writing Narratives Package
This package breaks writing narratives into the critical elements in order to scaffold students to writing strong stories. It is broken down into: setting, problems, characters, plot, good beginnings and word choice.
When I use this package I typically focus on one element each day in order to create an in depth understanding. I encourage students to write about what they know. I have them begin with a setting they know better than anyone and base their character off of someone they know reall
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3rd - 9th
Fables Smart Board Resource
Elements of a fable
Fable checklist
Planning table: character / characteristics / Moral
Familiar fable table
Match the fable to the moral
Write your own fable planner
Character planner
Punctuation and vocab brainstorm
Animal to characteristics match
Animal groups match
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in:Â Fable bundle
Chris Van Allsburg Author Study Unit Smartboard
This 15 day lesson incooperates several books and is based on America's Choice Author Study. Includes 6 teachers guides, a powerpoint lesson, 22 slides notebook slides and an independent task for the students everyday.
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3rd - 5th
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.
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2nd - 5th
Monster Short Story Unit
Everyone do 'The Monster Mash!' What elementary student doesn't like monsters? Motivating students to write is often difficult, so making the writing process fun is absolutely necessary. This writing unit goes through the entire process of writing a short story about a student created monster.
This unit includes the following elements:
-A review of several of the 6 + 1 Traits of Writing
-An organization rubric so students will know what the daily expectations are
-Self- assessing questions
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1st - 4th
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
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4th - 12th
Black History Study
This flip chart can be used as a guide to help you and your students study black history. The chart consists of readings, videos and thinking maps based on famous people and events in history. You will read Henry's Freedom Box, watch a video on Jackie Robinson, and listen to music from four famous black musicians.
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K - 5th
Reading the Rainbow Comprehension
This Activity was created to help my students remember to go back to a text read to find the answer to a question. It is based on color coding and repetition. The answers can be written in or can be dragged.
When you feel they are ready you can generalize to unfamiliar text. It has really helped my students comprehension levels increase. On the next page is data taken through the years since I began using this way of teaching/introducing comprehension (based on grade equivalent).
A ful
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1st - 4th
Personal Narrative 5 Day Lesson
A step-by-step guide to writing personal narratives. Includes brainstorming, adding dialogue and imagery, revising, and writing a final draft.
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3rd - 7th
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Patrick and the Great Molasses Explosion test
This is a SMART Response Notebook file to go along with the story "Patrick and the Great Molasses Explosion". Included in the Notebook file are a variety of questions about the story, and the very last page has 2 short answer questions for the students to answer on a sheet of paper. These questions focus on the skill of cause/effect, which is a great skill to teach alongside this story. Students will look forward to taking reading tests when they get to answer the questions with their clickers!
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3rd - 4th
Context Clues interactive whiteboard
Students will read short passages to use context clues and inference to answer questions. Can be used whole class or small group.
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1st - 4th
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig test
This is a SMART Response Notebook file to go along with the story "The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig". Included in the Notebook file are a variety of questions about the story, and the very last page has 2 short answer questions for the students to answer on a sheet of paper. Students will look forward to taking reading tests when they get to answer the questions with their clickers!! It is so much fun.
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2nd - 4th
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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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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1st - 4th
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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PreK - 8th
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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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.
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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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4th - 7th
Miss Nelson is Missing test
This is a SMART Response Notebook file to go along with the story "Miss Nelson is Missing". Included in the Notebook file are a variety of questions about the story, and the very last page has 2 short answer questions for the students to answer on a sheet of paper. Students will look forward to taking reading tests when they get to answer the questions with their clickers!! It is so much fun.
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2nd - 4th
The Three Hawaiian Pigs and the Big Bad Shark test
This is a SMART Response Notebook file to go along with the story "The Three Hawaiian Pigs and the Big Bad Shark". Included in the Notebook file are a variety of questions about the story, and the very last page has 3 short answer questions for the students to answer on a sheet of paper. One of the short answer questions requires students to have previously read "The Three Little Javelinas" in order to work on the skill of compare and contrast. You can substitute that story with any version of
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
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