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8th grade Hispanic Heritage Month informational text resources for SMART Notebook
Nonfiction Text Feature and Text Structure Jeopardy Game
This item is a SMARTBOARD Jeopardy Game. The game reviews the nonfiction text features and text structures. :)
Grades:
3rd - 10th
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Plants: Lesson 2: Transpiration & the Xylem
In this lesson, students will take the journey through a plant via the perspective of a water droplet (traveling with a mineral). By reading an adventure-like story and illustrating it, the teacher can easily check for understanding, then later, explain the science behind what is happening.
By using a story instead of a boring text, students are more engaged and visualize processes much better. This then, can provide an excellent foundation for building vocab or understanding larger scientific
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Behind Rebel Lines Smart Board Notebook Visual for whole book
Smartboard notebook presentation that can be edited or added to!
Includes pictures, lesson on activism and the civil war, vocabulary, maps, characters, summaries of important events in each chapter.
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Grades:
3rd - 10th
Synthesizing - Using a Magical Illusion for infering and research/Train Escape
TEACHER INFORMATION
PURPOSE: This activity combines the mystery and intrigue of an amazing illusion and students ability to synthesize new information. Students have a hard time understanding the process of synthesis. This very engaging activity will have students go through the process of synthesis by combining information presented in different media (media and text) to develop a better understanding of the topic, and draw evidence from informational text to support analysis, reflection, an
Grades:
5th - 12th
non-fiction model texts
Included are 4 model texts that can be used on the interactive whiteboard for the specific teaching of non-fiction writing. Children will enjoy seeing the language and structural skills that support creating information texts, biographies and explanations.
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Grades:
5th - 8th
MEDIEVAL TIMES UNIT FOR SMART BOARD!!!! Grades 4,5,6
Medieval Times Unit
Grades 3-6
*Make your focus topic selections based on how appropriate for the grade you teach
Time Frame approx. 2-3 weeks
Document includes:
• Full unit of smart board lessons and slides to teach Medieval Times in your classroom
• Made for a 3rd grade Gifted Class, you can adapt it for topics using books of your choice OR the books I’ve suggested.
• Graphic organizers
• Format for research paper
• Format for poster
• Materials needed
• Information about
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Martin Luther King - Letter From a Birmingham Jail - First 4 Paragraphs Analysis
This interactive analysis of the first four paragraphs of MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" contains instructional vocabulary, figurative language, graphic organizers and text. This is a great tool for teaching common core standard R.I.8. I use this as an introduction to persuasive writing.
Grades:
6th - 9th
SMARTboard interactive lesson on author's point of view and fact vs. opinion
This SMARTboard lesson covers a few reading comprehension skills: identifying author's point of view, fact vs. opinion, and evaluating an author's argument. Some slides can be used as notes for the students. Other slides are more interactive. Students have to determine if statements are facts or opinions. There is a mini reading comprehension exercise at the end where students evaluate the author's argument. This is perfect for ELA assessment preparation. It keeps the students engaged!
Grades:
6th - 8th
Argumentative Reading and Writing CommonCore Lesson
The skills covered in this unit include: identifying multiple stances for a given claim, identifying the author’s claim on an argumentative text, vocabulary for argumentative writing, analyzing claims, evaluating author’s reasons, using ethos, logos, and pathos to back up an argument, the structure for an argumentative paragraph based on text, and graphic organizers. The text that was used in this example is from www.readworks.com and is titled “Making your Mark,” and presents claims about wheth
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Deconstruction Lab - Discovering Main Idea
This is a STEM and Inquiry based lesson which the objective of having students discover organization and main idea. It was designed to be a common experience for students as the beginning of a unit on Main Idea.
The lesson meets the Language Arts common core standard:
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Students actively engage with a given text to uncover the writing's structure and orga
Grades:
6th - 9th
Close Read- Cloning for Struggling Readers grades 3-9
Are you having a difficult time finding interesting nonfiction articles to coincide with the new shifts in the CCSS? If so, this close read may be right for you.
This close read is about cloning and has two separate articles included in it. The first article is at a 3rd grade level and is designed to both introduce the concept of cloning, promoting background knowledge, and boost student confidence as they move to the second article. The second article ranges between grades 6-9 and is more adva
Grades:
3rd - 9th
Text Feature Game
Smartboard lesson where students look at the definitions and identify the text feature associated with that feature.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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I am Malala: Chapters 6-9 Smart Response Clicker Quiz
This item can be opened with Smart Notebook Software and given to students as a clicker quiz. It is aligned with the information in Chapters 6-9 of the book and has five multiple choice questions.
It could also be printed for students to take on paper (especially absent students), but if you would rather have a paper version and answer key of the quiz, please see the item listed separately in my store!
Grades:
5th - 9th
I am Malala: Chapters 1-5 Smart Response Clicker Quiz
This item can be opened with Smart Notebook Software and given to students as a clicker quiz. It is aligned with the information in Chapters 1-5 of the book and has five multiple choice questions.
It could also be printed for students to take on paper (especially absent students), but if you would rather have a paper version and answer key of the quiz, please see the item listed separately in my store!
Grades:
5th - 9th
I am Malala: Prologue Smart Response Clicker Quiz
This item can be opened with Smart Notebook Software and given to students as a clicker quiz. It is aligned with the information in the Prologue of the book and has five multiple choice questions.
It could also be printed for students to take on paper (especially absent students), but if you would rather have a paper version and answer key of the quiz, please see the item listed separately in my store!
Grades:
5th - 9th
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
America the Beautiful Song Lyrics
This eleven slide Smartboard file teaches students the first verse of the song America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates . Each slide has one line of the lyrics with a picture. Activities include a) random image selection with multiple choice responses. Pictures and words are: sea, fruit, sky, grain, brotherhood, mountain, America, purple, majesties and good. b) A cloze reading exercise is a summary and includes eight missing words from the lyrics for the students to complete. The answer
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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Roald Dahl
This is a Smart Notebook file that forms a lesson on Roald Dahl. It was originally made for a special needs class but can easily be used for a class of nearly any age or ability. It includes links to videos and a worksheet to be completed at the end to summarise the lesson.
Grades:
2nd - 9th
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What time is it? (SMARTBOARD FILE)
This is an interactive file intended to teach ELL students how to tell time in American English. Vocabulary includes: clock, grandfather clock, hour glass, watch. Once slide is matching English to English synonyms such as: AM/ in the morning, an hour/ 60 minutes, half an hour/ 30 minutes, a quarter of an hour/ 15 minutes, it's 12:00/ it's noon etc. As students match the synonyms a secret picture is revealed: Salvador Dali's painting Clocks That Melt. Also includes informational text in a sh
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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Secondary Website Evaluation
Teach your students the R.O.C.A.A. method when using the internet to research topics. Interactive Smartboard Lesson keeps students engaged and helps them understand what it takes to make a website valid for research.
Grades:
8th - 12th
Main Idea Unit with Passages, Games, Etc. for Middle School .Notebook Smartboard
Looking to teach the strategies of Main Idea to a group of students? Look no more! This unit has motivations, games, activities, passages, and graphic organizers to help students learn how to utilize main idea in their own books/passages/test prep! Passages were pulled from various test prep Common Core materials generated by other teachers. Can be used for grades 5-9 depending on level.
Pages in this .Notebook file include:
Motivation games
Song Lyrics- finding the main idea
Graphic Organizers
Grades:
4th - 10th
Research Unit (Ancient Egypt)
Help your students develop and refine their research skills. This lesson teaches important research skills including how to gather research, a research record for student use, models for research paragraphs, formatting in-text citations, and paraphrasing information. The content of this research project is based on Ancient Egypt, while the focus for the research project is “How did the Ancient Egyptians use narratives and myths to explain the world around them?” Links to online passages are incl
Grades:
4th - 8th
PARCC-like Smart Board Activity - Franklin Roosevelt
Students will read an article about Rooselvelt. and then create a summary with important events in the order they happened. This activity is done on the Smart Board and is very similar to the drag and drop questions they will see on PARCC.
Grades:
5th - 12th
Teaching How to Trace and Delineate an Author's Claim
These slides use graphic organizers to teach students how to delineate an author’s claim for any expository text. The sample used is the story of Romulus and Remus, but it can be used for any text. The graphic organizer really helps students understand how to delineate and trace an author’s claim. The slides include vocabulary related to the skill of tracing a claim as well as scaffolding for students who need it. I’ve also included a student printout so that students have access to the graphic
Grades:
4th - 8th
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