Middle school Halloween creative writing resources for SMART Notebook

Hallowe'en Science Experiments/Activities

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Four exciting, hands-on and engaging Hallowe'en Science experiments you can do with your class using simple and easy to find supplies. In the older grades you can even explain the Science behind the chemical and state reactions! This file also links to two videos on YouTube demonstrating the experiment.

Subjects:

Basic Principles, Halloween, Other (Science)

Grades:

PreK - 8th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

Plants: Lesson 2: Transpiration & the Xylem

Created by

Brittany Jerlinga

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

Subjects:

Biology, Creative Writing, Informational Text

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

Worksheets, Interactive Whiteboard

Writing Strong Endings for Narratives using Mentor Texts

Created by

Bethany Hunter

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.

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Identifying Simile or Metaphor Lesson SMART Notebook

Created by

Workaholic NBCT

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! Be sure to follow my blog for tons of freebies, Promethean ActivInspire

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Reading

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Interactive Whiteboard, Activboard Activities

SmartBoard Attendance- Halloween

Created by

Cristina Knapp

Happy Halloween! Who doesn't love Halloween? This is a fun way to have the kids take attendance by putting their candy into the trick-or-treat bag! The candy pieces that are left are considered absent students. A great tool for classroom management. Just don't save it when they are done and you will be able to use it throughout the month of October! Be sure to check out all of my smartboard attendance files for Notebook software. Enjoy!

Subjects:

Classroom Management, For All Subject Areas, Halloween

Grades:

PreK - 12th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

Realistic Fiction Writing Unit Smartboard

Created by

The Middle School Classroom

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

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

An Intro to Poetry on the SmartBoard: A Two-Week Unit Featuring 10 Poetry Forms

Created by

Dot Cates

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

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Poetry

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Centers

Halloween Character Traits SmartBoard Vocabulary Activity No Prep

Created by

HappyEdugator

Halloween Writing Activity for Smartboard. Halloween digital resource - writing motivator and vocabulary activity. Five different Halloween characters - vampire, ghost, scarecrow, skeleton, and witch. On the interactive whiteboard, students can drag the character traits they want for their chosen Halloween character into the box. They then can name their character and, in their journal, show, not tell, how their character demonstrates the traits they chose and elaborate on the character. They c

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Halloween

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

CCSS:

W.5.2b

, W.5.2d

, W.5.3d

, CCRA.W.6

, CCRA.L.6

The Very Itchy Bear Guided Reading 4 Days - Four Blocks Literacy

Created by

Learning Resources For All

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

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Reading, Special Education

Grades:

PreK - 10th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

Six-Traits of Writing: Sentence Fluency with Smooth Transitions

Created by

Arrrsome in Fifth

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.

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Figurative Language Relating to Poetry- Common Core Aligned

Created by

Teacher Creature

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!!!

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Poetry, Reading

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

Spelling SMART in Grades 5 and 6: SMARTNotebook

Created by

Mrs Creature NonStop Teacher

Spelling SMART was created by Carrie Sutton to meet the spelling needs of her Grade 5 and 6 class students. It is a SMART notebook file so that it can easily be viewed by students in the classroom. "I noticed many of them could not spell a large portion of the 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, which contained figurative language. The idea for dress-ups and sentence sta

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Grammar, Spelling

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

Halloween Ghosts and Thanksgiving Turkey Attendance for SMART Notebook

Created by

Deana Deeb Edmonds

I like to call this, Super Attendance because each student gets a DIFFERENT icon. Other attendance trackers have the same pictures with different student names. Kids LOVE how their attendance picture is special to only them. All names are easily editable in Smart Notebook with instructions provided. Each student has a different Halloween ghost in a haunted house disappearing in their own spooky way! The Thanksgiving turkey attendance is a freebie for this mini Fall holiday package.

Subjects:

Classroom Management, Halloween, Thanksgiving

Grades:

PreK - 6th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

Halloween Jeopardy Game for Smartboard

Created by

Reading is Thinking

Get your students thinking about Halloween through Halloween Jeopardy. Categories include - Halloween "Old School" Halloween Movies Halloween Cartoons Halloween Statistics Halloween Who Am I? You will need a smartboard to run this game! Enjoy!

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Halloween, Holidays/Seasonal

Grades:

5th - 10th

Types:

Activities, Games

Drafting, Revising, and Editing Lessons - Smartboard

Created by

The Middle School Classroom

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 Please rate me and "like" my store if you liked this product : )

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

2nd - 7th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Trick or Treat Jeopardy SMARTBOARD

Created by

Elizabeth Leigh Creations

This fun Halloween themed jeopardy game is all about figurative language. The categories are: Similes, Metaphors, Personification, Idioms, and Grab Bag which also includes a question on hyperbole, alliteration, and other examples of figurative language. One slide has a fun direct link to a short video clip from The Wizard of Oz showing personification. All slides are linked to an answer slide and to the scoreboard so students can have some fun competition. Cute Halloween graphics are engagin

Subjects:

Halloween, Poetry, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Games, Lesson

Attendance Halloween Interactive Smartboard Morning 30 Students

Created by

Mrs Hanson's Interactive Classroom

If you are looking for a fun way to take attendance in the morning, you will love this Halloween SmartBoard attendance file. It comes complete with a page of detailed instructions for changing your student names. I know your students will love using the SmartBoard to take attendance. Look for more of my themed attendance pages including months September through May in addition to a birthday, beehive, butterfly, computer, cookie, Easter, garden, Kite, monkey, patriotic, pizza, sports, summer, Tha

Subjects:

Back to School, Classroom Management, Halloween

Grades:

PreK - 6th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard

Music Island Partner Songs - Notebook file/unit for SMARTboard

Created by

Sue McTigue at Teach Me With a Song

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

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Problem Solving, Vocal Music

Grades:

K - 6th

Types:

Songs, Interactive Whiteboard

Holiday RAFT Writing (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) Smartboard format

Created by

Kim Harron

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

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Holidays/Seasonal

Grades:

1st - 8th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Writer's Workshop - What Writing Process Step Are My Students On?

Created by

Saving Sunday Night

Do you find it frustrating trying to keep track of who's on what step of the writing process during a writing project? Here's a handy-dandy, interactive SmartNotebook file that takes away all the stress from Writer's Workshop! Simply add your students' names to the slide, and voila! The students can slide their name card next to the Writing Process step they are on, and you have an instant visual of the progress your students are making. This is a great way to keep organized during a writing p

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing

Grades:

8th, Not Grade Specific

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Classroom Forms

Mother's Day Memoir Writing Activity - Smartboard

Created by

The Middle School Classroom

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

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

6 Word Life Memoir SMARTboard Lesson (Editable!)

Created by

Life Long Teacher

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

Subjects:

Character Education, Creative Writing, Critical Thinking

Grades:

2nd - 12th

Types:

Projects, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Writing a Memoir

Created by

Arrrsome in Fifth

Even if you have students who profess they "hate to write," they'll love writing their own personal memoir. In this set of eight SMART lessons, students will work in small groups, pairs, and individually as they learn what a memoir is, what makes a great memoir, how to plan a memoir, and how to write their own memoir. You'll start off with writing a Six-Word Memoir and end the series of lessons with writing a memoir of a life event. Each lesson has an organizer, a video, and/or some type of a

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

5th - 7th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Printables, Lesson

non-fiction model texts

Created by

Joe Curry

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.

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Grammar, Informational Text

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, English (UK)

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Middle school Halloween creative writing resources for SMART Notebook

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