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Middle school oral communication 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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Social Story - I Shouldn't Always Say What I Am Thinking
This is a social story created for the middle or high school level special education class. This story helps students to understand when it is not acceptable to just blurt out what they may be thinking and why. Relevant examples are used as they would be seen in the school day. 10 - 15 minute notebook file and discussion.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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.
If you like this p
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Speech Writing Public Speaking on the Smartboard
17 Pages. Check out the file by downloading the preview first. If you like what you see then you may purchase it. The file for public speaking and speech writing. Please note that this is the same speech file that I have offered in PDF and Word format, but this is on the Smartboard.
Included are :
A) A Speech Outline
B) Speech Topics
C) Writing an Introduction
D) Using Cue Cards
E) Writing the Body of Your Speech
F) Writing a Conclusion
G) Student Speech Planner Outline
H) Speech Evaluation
Grades:
3rd - 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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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
Expository Practice Passage NonFiction Text PUFFINS SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson provides a nonfiction passage for your expository unit on puffins and 14 slides with questions about the nonfiction text. It also includes a printable version of the passage so your students can have a hard copy in front of them while working their way through the questions. 16 questions about the selection include: main idea, author's purpose, author's point of view, fact and opinion, context clues, and more. All questions are self checking so this lesson ma
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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
Text Structure
This Smartboard Notebook file is a GREAT way to teach your students about text structure. Text Structure is a major component of Common Core Standards and PARCC testing, so make sure your students are prepared!
This Smart Notebook file explains what text structure is and why it is needed from both the reader's and writer's perspective. The five types of text structure this covers is: description, sequence, problem/solution, cause/effect, and compare/contrast. Each part includes an explanat
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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
Interactive Dice Spanish Weather Vocabulary Activity with Worksheets
Correlates with Text:
Realidades 1A - Para Empezar - Weather
This NOTEBOOK file utilizes easily recognized visuals for basic weather expressions throughout all aspects of the activity. Students are challenged to interactively match up basic Spanish weather expressions with visuals and also to randomly create sentences related to months, weather and seasons. Sentences are created using a virtual dice roller that includes visuals for the weather expressions. Students may also create actual d
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Grades:
6th - 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
Snowflake Bentley - A Symmetrical Adventure
In this hands-on activity, students will apply mathematical concepts to everyday life while using technology based learning to create and display discoveries based on concepts and principals of rotational symmetry. Through internet research and inquiry-based learning, students will discover just who the Snowflake Man was and his contributions to math, art, and literature.
While working in pairs, students will use the notes they take from the various website viewings and create a PowerPoint p
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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Pirates Ahoy! --- the Antonym Game
Play this fun and exciting game with your students! In Pirates Ahoy, your students will take turns selecting cards from a "messy" pile. If they select a "pirate", the student must provide an antonym for the word on the bottom of the card. If they are able to give an antonym, they get to keep the card. If not, they must put the card back into the pile.
2 specialty cards are also in the deck: a pirate ship and a treasure chest. If they draw a ship, they are ordered to "walk the plank" and m
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Grades:
1st - 6th
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Pop culture
This is a fun game which requires students to reveal pictures of hidden objects and label/identify what they are. These pictures are all related to today's pop culture.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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EDITABLE SmartBoard lesson for John Muir and Camping with the President
I created this SmartBoard file for my own personal use with a read aloud of Camping With the President by Ginger Wadsworth in conjunction with the NYC Grade 4 John Muir Common Core Task Bundle.
Common Core Standards RI.4.1 and RI. 4.10.
Slide 1: Discuss who John Muir was and his conservation efforts.
Read aloud Camping With the President by Ginger Wadsworth.
Slide 2: Review vocabulary and what it means to be a conservationist.
Slide 3: Describe the setting of the story
Slide 4: Ide
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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
Interactive Problem and Solution Smartboard Lesson
Help your students understand the problem/solution text structure with this interactive Smartboard lesson. The lesson begins with a definition of problem/solution followed by review of signal words, graphic organizer practice, and a writing frame.
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Grades:
5th - 7th
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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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Table of Contents TEI Practice
Wonderful test prep for those tricky TEI items! Practice Table of Content questions of all sorts. Aligned with VA SOL 3.7.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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
Morning Meeting Resources and Ideas
Morning meetings generally last fifteen to thirty minutes and offer an opportunity for children to practice social-emotional and academic skills. The structure usually has four components: greetings, sharing, group activity (games) and a morning message. Each component is included in this 45 page resource along with a section of "cheers" and "closings" that can be used throughout the day. Components are grouped and labeled for easy retrieval!
Grades:
K - 8th
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