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Middle school informational text resources for SMART Notebook $5-10
Smartboard - I Mustache You Text Structure Game!
Do your kiddos need practice with nonfiction text structures? This is the perfect Smartboard game and will quickly become a class favorite! It is loaded with interactive buttons, sounds, and animations. It has two sections to support differentiation. In section 1: Match & Sorts - students play games to practice definitions, signal words, and tricky cause and effect sorts. In section 2: Questions - Choose a question card and answer various questions about text structures.
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Fifth Grade Georgia Milestones Test Prep: Earth Science Informational Texts
I created this SMART file lesson as part of my plan for preparing my students for this year's Georgia Milestones Test. All texts, organizers, etc. are attached to the SMART file slides. The SMART mini-unit includes a poem about erosion with poem analysis sheet, links to online text structures and text features lesson with two assessments, four INFORMATIONAL TEXT handouts on Earth Science topics such as coastal erosion and glaciers, a CLOSE READING activity and more. It takes 7-8 days to complete
Grades:
4th - 6th
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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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6th Grade Literature Unit 2: Fairness
In this Smartboard unit, the big idea is fairness. Each of the text selections will relate back to the theme of fairness and the essential questions. The text selections for this unit include: "Nadia the Willful" by Sue Alexander, "Sibling Face-Off" (a nonfiction article on readworks.org), "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros, "Prince and the Pauper" dramatized by Joellen Bland, and "Women's Rights" a nonfiction article by Alice Boynton and Wiley Blevins (found in the Scholastic resource - Nonfiction Pas
Grades:
6th
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
Reading Comprehension Strategies
This Smart Notebook lesson goes through different reading comprehension strategies with sentence stems.
Included strategies:
Clarify Vocabulary
Text Connections
Visualization
Synthesize
Determining Importance
Inference
Mentor Texts to help teach the strategies!
Grades:
4th - 6th
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African American Leaders and Inventors using Smart Board #2
African American Leaders and Inventors using Smart Board #2 focuses on ten prominent men and women including: Benjamin Banneker, Rebecca Cole, Archibald Alexander, Benjamin Bradley, Thomas L. Jennings, Edward A. Bouchet, Daniel Hale Williams, Norbert Rillieux, David N. Crosthwait, and Fredrick M. Jones. This group was born from 1731 to 1893. This is an 18 page Smart Board lesson and has fast facts on each person as well as a photo. In fact, on the first page you will see an activity to e
Grades:
2nd - 6th
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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Hakuna Matata - Literacy & Resilience Unit
This unit looks closely at author’s artistry/craft and how they represent the theme of resilience, belonging and friendship in their texts.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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
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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Using an organizer to set up your writing
This SMART notebook file has samples of informational, persuasive, and narrative writings. The prewriting includes one sample of each mode of writing using the four-square method of brainstorming. There is one model draft is using the informational mode. This writing really models what the expectations are for wriitng in the late-elementary grade levels.
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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6th Grade Literature Unit 4: Responsibility
In this 6th grade thematic literature unit, the Big Idea is "Responsibility". All text selections (both fiction and nonfiction) will connect back to the theme and the Essential Questions. The unit will end with a culminating writing performance demonstration. The writing type is argument and the prompt is "In your opinion, do you think video games are harmful or helpful?" Students will be required to cite textual evidence to support the claim. I have included a link to a five-paragraph argument
Grades:
6th
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