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High school critical thinking writing-essays resources for SMART Notebook
Visual Word Puzzles -- 10 Fun verbal brainteasers for Smartboard
Are you m1llion (one in a million)? Do you have timing ti ming (split second timing)? Then you will love these puzzles. Try these ten verbal brain teasers with your class, and they will definitely ask for more!
The hidden answer is revealed by moving the blue circle around the page.
Grades:
3rd - 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
Writing Process Interactive Tracker
I don't know about you, but I have ZERO wall space left for writing wall charts, and personal student charts make it difficult for me to track each student's progress.
This customizable Smart Notebook file allows students to move their name across the different steps in the writing process giving them a visual method of charting their process as well as ensuring student accountability. Teachers can watch this tracker daily (be sure to save everyday!) and make decisions about who to conference
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K - 12th
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INTERACTIVE Mind Map w/Doodle Notes Geometry Basics: Segment & Angle Bisection
INTERACTIVE Mind Map with Doodle Notes HS Geometry Foundations: Segment and Angle Bisection / Partition.
Use a visual that helps establish quality work-habits and consistency in mathematical communications.
Lay down the foundations for writing geometry proofs. Make your own instructional video. Show a clear picture of the basic relationships among segments and angles, to avoid frustration with sloppy justifications later in the year.
This lesson contains 11 SmartBoard pages with probing questio
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Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Riddles and Brainteasers
This is a collection of 54 riddles/brain-teasing exercises that are great for weekly warm-up activities or as a brain break activity when students are overwhelmed. Also great to use as sub plans for an unexpected absence. Each of the questions has an answer as well as an explanation of the answer when necessary.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Libraries Face Sad Chapter
This SmartBoard presentation includes slides that contain vocabulary words, key terms definitions as well as the key elements of a writing a persuasive essay -- It also covers the terms ethos. pathos. logos and includes a link to a short video making it easy for students to understand these terms There are quick writes and vocabulary word images to keep students engaged and everything needed to project and provide direct instruction for the nonfiction persuasive essay "Libraries Face Sad Chap
Grades:
6th - 12th
SMARTBoard lesson on the writing process
This is a short SMARTBoard lesson on the steps of the writing process. Students will think about what goes into each step of writing. This is a very helpful mini lesson to use when giving out the first writing assignment, or to help improve the quality of work students are turning in.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Discovery and Inquiry Learning Strategy SmartBoard Lesson
Want to train your students for hands-on, discovery learning? This is an incredibly fun, engaging way to introduce students to the four basic steps in inquiry learning. It uses Greg Tang's Grapes of Math patterns and poems to train students to think of a viable strategy, commit it to paper, share it with others, then reflect on their strategies and the strategies of others to revise their thinking. It is a great way to introduce and use the eight Common Core math practices needed for all effec
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4th - 9th
Classroom Community - Teamwork/Comm. Blindfolded Potato Head (SmartBoard)
TEACHER'S INSTRUCTIONS
GOAL: To build classroom community by having participants use communication and teamwork to successfully assemble Mrs. Potato Head blindfolded.
COMMON CORE STANDARDS:
SL 6.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL 6.2 Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Thinking time (loads of cognitive reasoning slides)
I created 'Thinking Time' last year and now all the classes in my school are using it. There are over 100 slides. This is a brilliant tool to have in the class room. It can be used as an exciting early morning work, a time filler on any given day or as a way of really getting the kids into a thinking state of mind. There are slides appropriate to all ages and different cihldren will get different things from the activities. I use this every single day that I'm teaching and the children LOVE
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Multiple Intelligence (MI) SMARTboard (Secondary/Adult) by Jennifer A. Gates
Teaching gifted, talent development or preparing students for Common Core by teaching them to identify their strengths?
This is the perfect way to introduce Multiple Intelligence: 8 characteristics that students can use to best identify ways in which they can make positive growth. They are: nature smart, logic smart, self smart, people smart, word smart, picture smart, body smart, and music smart.
Introduce and explore Multiple Intelligence in depth with students the elementary or primary and
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Smart Board - Character Essay - The Outsiders
Guide students through a character analysis with a sample opening and closing paragraph. Students focus on character development and details that bring the character to life. My students enjoy this part of the unit as they get a chance to describe attributes of their favored character. S.E. Hinton is a character author who develops rich characters with depth and complexity. Please view my other products for The Outsiders.
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7th - 9th
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Writing from Sources: How to Write an Argumentative Essay
This lesson provides students with a step-by-step guide on how to write an essay. Instruction includes: how to organize a three concept thesis, how to gather supporting evidence, how to properly punctuate quotations and citations (using MLA style), how to use an ellipsis, how to paraphrase, and how to write a body paragraph.
This lesson is a Smart Board file of 24 pages. It is also available as a Power Point or Nearpod upon request.
The lesson is designed to address the Common Core standard
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Smart Board - Suspense in "The Monkey's Paw"
This is a companion to a word document I sell on "The Monkey's Paw". Walk students through the process of writing about suspense in this short story.
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7th - 10th
TELL Con Pragraph Structure
Use this SMARTboard presentation to introduce TEL(L)Con paragraph structure to your students. Links to the original graphic organizer, rubric, and student level explanations are included in this lesson. TEL(L)Con paragraph structure will help your students improve their paragraphing skills.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Expository Research 5-Paragraph Essay SMART Response Assessment
After learning the components of a 5-paragraph essay, students can take this as a formative assessment to show the teacher that they are ready to submit their final draft. If students do not do well with it, the teacher can see what they may need to revisit and revise, before students are finished with the final product. Answer Key is embedded in the document.
There is a paper version of this test in my store, as well.
Grades:
6th - 9th
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The Great Gatsby / Roaring Twenties SmartBoard Presentation
The collision of artistic, political, and cultural forces of our early 21st experience is easily matched with a look back at the “Roaring Twenties,” the era which inspired Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. This SmartBoard presentation (a social studies/ELA interdisciplinary experience) gives students a colorful look at the many forces which gave us the first “youth generation” in American history. Along with the better-known details (college pranks, stock market booms), many incidents in A
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11th - 12th
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SMARTBoard Lesson: Parts of an Essay, Attention Grabbers
This is a three page SMARTBoard notebook file. The first page reviews the parts of the essay. You need to click on each box to reveal the notes for each section of the essay. The second page is a note reveal page, reviewing ways to grab your reader's attention in the introduction. The last page is another note reveal page on how to revise your piece. Perfect to use as a mini lesson during a writing assignment.
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6th - 9th
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IB Theory of Knowledge - Perception and Culture
A series of SmartBoard Notebook slides with discussion prompts that ask students to consider whether or not their life experience affects the way they view and perceive the world. This discussion can be preceded or followed by an explanation of the role of sensation and interpretation. The prompts could also be used as a ToK in-class writing assignment. The file is easily convertible to PDF format if you choose to use it as a handout.
Grades:
11th - 12th
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SMART Board - Writing the Introduction
SMART Board interactive presentation on writing the introduction. On the first page, I had my students tell me what they thought went into an introduction. Then we went more deeply into what each part meant.
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5th - 12th
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Essay Writing Bootcamp
This is a presentation for a preview or review of helpful writing tips. Things covered include: thesis vs topic sentences, using quotes, mood & tone, show don't tell, etc. There are a number of different reveals, pulls, and shades used. There are also links to 3 different videos that already contain the links to youtube.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Can You Help These Scarecrows Figure Out Their Names?
Pick the scarecrow whose name you want to figure out and place the
"?" card under his picture. Then follow the numbered cards with the clues to figure out your scarecrows name, then place the pink name card under your scarecrow once you know his name. Have fun!!
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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Smartboard Writing Chart
I've used this chart with expository writing to help students organize their thoughts. It's a good tool. Students responded to it well.
This is a SMART Board file - you must have the SMART software program to view the file. Please do not leave a negative rating if you cannot open the file. Contact me or tpt.
Grades:
5th - 9th
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SMART Response: Rhetorical Devices Quiz
A Notebook SMART Response quiz to review definitions and apply various rhetorical devices.
Grades:
10th - 12th
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