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High school Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa creative writing resources for SMART Notebook
A Christmas Carol activities
Smart Board activities to go with my "A Christmas Carol in symbols with questions." Includes functional reading, writing, and math activities designed for young children or those with moderate to severe cognitive handicaps. Matching symbols to words, forming sentences with symbols, simple addition and subtraction word problems, counting quarters. Appropriate for special needs students, including autism, Down Syndrome, and traumatic brain injury, and FMD. Symbols are helpful for emerging read
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PreK - 12th
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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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Christmas Trivia SmartBoard Activity
This is a very fun game to play on the SmartBoard. It is adaptable for any number of participants. You can play the game using the Smart Response clickers but they are not required. The game designed to use a koosh ball or bean bag to throw at the dancing reindeer to bring up a question. If you don't want to use this techniques students can touch the reindeer and the question will open.
Christmas Trivia by Sherri McKendree is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDer
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
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Christmas Trivia Game for Smart Boards
This is a Christmas Trivia game that can be used for all ages. It includes 24 questions and is easy to use! (You can also adapt it by having students create extra questions.)
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2nd - 12th
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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
Christmas/Holiday Brainstorm Game
This is a quick game to play during the holiday season that helps increase students' brainstorming skills.
Played like Scattegories, divide the students into groups. Have each group number a piece of paper or dry erase board from 1 to 12. One person in each group should serve as the recorder.
Press the letter tile, and groups must come up with a word or phrase (must be a noun) that starts with that letter. For example, if the letter is "s," they could have Silent Night for the song and star
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Christmas Family Feud Smartboard Activity
20 Family Feud style questions centered around Christmas and the Holidays. Each slide has the question listed at the top with the answers in a table below. Each cell of the table has a screen shade on it until you are ready to reveal the answer. Can be played in teams of two or more.
*If you print a handout version ahead of time, you have your answer key :)
**Please make sure your computer allows you to access Smart Notebook technology before downloading.
Grades:
4th - 10th
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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
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
Smartboard Presentation Frankenstein Knowledge is Dangerous
This presentation can be used with Pearson's Knowledge is Dangerous Unit Plan and the Frankenstein Unit plan Slides present images of a political cartoon of Jenner's vaccine and pose the question What is acceptable science Students view a small clip from the Frankenstein movie 1931 and through compare/contrast or argumentative writing support their claims
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11th - 12th
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak-Lesson Plans and Activities
Here are a few lesson plans and activities to complete before, during, and after reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.It includes various types of activities for differentiated instruction: interactive games, a 'quilt' making activity for hands on learners, comprehension/opinion questions and a creative writing activity which includes a task sheet and sample text.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Christmas Squares Review Game Template - Smart Notebook File
Your students will love reviewing any concept with this fun, Christmas themed, Christmas Squares Notebook file. Just add your questions and answers and you are ready to play this fun review game with your students.
This Smart Notebook Template includes a title page, how to play instructions, the main game board, 9 question pages, and 9 answer pages.
What a great and fun way to review any concept with your class!
THIS IS A SMART NOTEBOOK FILE. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SMART NOTEBOOK INSTALL
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
SMARTBOARD Christmas or Holiday Game Template
This is a Christmas game template made with Smart Notebook software. This game is completely written and ready to go with all links in place. Just simply type in questions and answers and you are done! Text boxes are already there with font in place. Just click and type. Gameboard takes you to QUESTION slide, which has a link to go to ANSWER slide, which takes you to POINTS slide that will take you back to the GAMEBOARD. The gameboard consists of all types of Christmas objects (gingerbread
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PreK - 12th
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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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Grades:
3rd - 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
Grades:
4th - 9th
12 days of Christmas editing
I get tired of those daily language review prompts where you have to find all the grammar mistakes (capitalization, punctuation, spelling, etc). So I made my own, using Christmas facts! Each slide is about a different Christmas (or winter symbol) with a fact or story about it.
This is lesson that uses Smart notebook. It is not in Word. Please only download if you have Smart notebook (for smartboards)
Grades:
4th - 12th
SMART Notebook - Christmas Carol Vocabulary Builder
This notebook contains nineteen Christmas carols written with new vocabulary. Students, teachers and staff may enjoy deciphering each of the 19 carols. Each notebook page includes a pull tab with the answer to each of the puzzles.
This can be used just for fun or as a vocabulary skill builder.
Enjoy and Happy Holidays.
This work by SMARTERTEACHER is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Grades:
4th - 12th
FRENCH:Fêtes de fin d’Année
This smartboard file presentation contains vocabulary with pictures explaining three end of year holidays: 1)Hanouka 2) Noël 3) La Fête des Rois. Links to two youtube videos on the Christmas slide and the Three Kings holiday slide.
Grades:
5th - 10th
Plagiarism Week
I have created a SMARTboard lesson that introduces students to plagiarism. The lesson covers what plagiarism is, who can commit plagiarism, and even some of the consequences of it. It includes several famous examples of "borrowing work" and has many links to additonal information for discussion. It also include a short quiz.
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5th - 12th
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Creative Writing Journal Topics
These colorful and thought-provoking Creative Writing journal prompts encourage all levels of students to write in ways both playful and serious. Most of the slides feature humorous or inspiring visuals. In my classes I gave the kids ten minutes to write, and afterwards we spent a few minutes sharing our entries. Many ideas for larger writing projects (stories, plays, memoirs, etc.) evolved from some of these prompts. Or course, if students wanted to write on another topic or alter the one that
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9th - 12th
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Expository Essay
This smart lesson walks students through what an expository essay is and what makes a great paper! It is an interactive and very engaging lesson that is easy to follow. It is broken down into 4 categories: 1. Strong and personal connection to the prompt. 2. Organization: Introduction, 1st Reason, 2nd Reason, and Conclusion. 3. Accurate use of language and conventions. 4. Descriptive Language: Idioms, Similes, Metaphors, Alliteration, $100 words/RIP words, Ba Da Bings, etc...
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Holiday Bingo
A Smart Notebook file that includes a random word chooser for a variety of Christmas items to be used for Bingo. The file includes a template and instructions for making Bingo cards that you can either use on the computer or print out.
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2nd - 12th
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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
AP Language Purposeful Memoir Smart Notebook
This Smart Notebook file contains examples, tips, and pre-writing activities to focus AP Language students on developing their voice in a purposeful memor. Goes along with my AP Language Memoir prompt and rubric.
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Grades:
11th - 12th
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