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Middle school critical thinking writing-essays resources for SMART Notebook
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
Reading Strategies and Independent Reading Response Unit, SB & PDF
A best selling unit!
This unit is designed to set up your independent reading program, and to specifically teach each reading strategy through a series of 15 lessons.
This download includes the Smartboard file (50+) and all pdf handouts (70+ pages)
The unit is divided into 2 parts, the first 6 lessons are dedicated to setting up an effective independent reading program.
The second part of the unit is dedicated to teaching reading strategies through a variety of mini lessons, read-a-louds
Grades:
4th - 6th
NO PREP Main Idea Reading Response Unit, Smartboard and PDF
Just print and start teaching! This is a NO PREP resource! Students will learn to determine the main idea of a variety of high interest texts. Test their reading comprehension of a variety of non-fiction texts with a series of reading responses. Your students will be engaged and ready to rock their standardized test!
* A great unit to prep for standardized testing!*
What's Included:
Smartboard File (65 + pages)
Main Idea Unit PDF handouts (50+ pages).
All unit instructions and Assessme
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Grades:
4th - 6th
NO PREP! Inferencing Author's Message Unit, Diversity, Smartboard & PDF
UPDATED: *Clarity has been fixed on this unit!* I also added name/date headers to handouts and links to each handout on SB lesson page for easy access*
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ABOUT THE UNIT:
Teach and challenge your students to use inferencing skills! This is a reading for meaning unit where students learn the basics of inferencing and are challenged to infer the author’s message of a variety of high interest texts. The commo
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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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SMART Board Persuasion Map - Persuasive Writing Planning
This file contains a graphic organizer prepared especially for the SMART board for teaching how to plan a piece of persuasive writing. The graphic organizer helps students see a visual representation of a persuasive argument, and allows them to outline a piece before actually beginning the writing process. This slide can easily be printed and used as a handout and graphic organizer for students to use individually as well as by a whole class!
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Drafting, Revising, and Editing Lessons - Smartboard
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
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Grades:
2nd - 7th
Internet Hoaxes, Viral Emails, Viral Videos
This notebook file contains examples of true and hoax viral emails and viral videos as well as resources and guidelines for evaluating them. It is designed to give students the tools to evaluate them.
Grades:
5th - 8th
Personal Essay Writing Unit Smartboard
This Smartboard writing unit takes students through a step by step process to help them successfully write a personal essay. Here are the steps students are taken through:
1) Students begin by brainstorming themes and issues in their life 2) Students fill out a people/issues/moments chart
3) Students learn how to write a thesis
4) Students write an idea/claim/argument
5) Students learn how to "grow" ideas and "push their thinking"
6) Students organize their essay
7) Students look at examples
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Text Features Unit, No Prep Technology Infused Learning, Smartboard & PDF
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Are you looking to try out some new instructional strategies to engage your junior learners? Try incorporating some technology! From beginners to tech savvy teachers, this unit has something for everyone! You do not need a class set of tech… you can use classroom computers, laptops, ipads and even phones! You can even plan a BYOD day! (Bring Your Own Device) OR no tech at all…you
Grades:
4th - 6th
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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
Social Justice S.L.A.M. Reading Response Unit, Smartboard & PDF
A BEST seller!
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Recently updated to include BOTH SMARTboard presentation and PDF unit handouts.
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About the Unit:
As teachers we have many jobs! One is to teach and prepare our students, and the other is to inspire! Too often the second is put aside, as we get our students ready for standardized testing. I design
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Grades:
5th - 6th
Personal Narrative Writing Process - Multi Paragraph
Modeled after the Write From the Beginning writing process, this presentation walks writers through the process of creating a multi-paragraph writing piece STEP-BY-STEP! Starting off with a Circle Map, transferring ideas onto a Flow Map, Revising throughout, and Composing a Rough Draft. The Notebook presentation is created to fade in each additional piece of the writing process. You will need to become familiar with where to press on your Smartboard so that the necessary components fade in.
If
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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6th Grade Literature Unit 3: Heroes
In this 6th grade thematic literature unit, the Big Idea is "Heroes". 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, what are the three most important qualities of a hero?" Students will be required to cite textual evidence to support the claim. I have included a link to a five-paragraph argument gr
Grades:
6th
Smart Notebook: Revisions for Creating Clear and Concise Academic Writing
Smart Notebook: Revisions for Creating Clear and Concise Academic Writing created by Darla Brink
Five specific strategies with student examples. Activities provided for guided practice and reflection. Strategies include getting rid of unnecessary words, avoiding ineffective repetition, rewriting without using second person and getting to the point.
Smart Notebook: Revisions for Creating Clear and Concise Academic Writing by Darla Brink is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonComm
Grades:
5th - 8th
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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Grades:
K - 12th
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How to Write An Essay: What Is an Informative Essay? - NOTEBOOK Gr. 5-8
**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version**
View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HIT1IV6f-s
For understanding What Is an Informative Essay of How to Write an Essay, this chapter mini provides curriculum-based content in the form of reading passages, before you read and after you read questions. Also included are printables, vocabulary flash cards, graphic organizers and interactive activities. Our content meets the Common Core State St
Grades:
5th - 8th
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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Christopher Columbus and October 12th
This presentation is not only about Columbus, but also about how many Spanish speaking countries are there in the world, and other essential questions surrounding October 12th. It motivates the students to figure out the answer to these questions by involving critical thinking, and the use of cultural comparisons. It also has engaging activities that will have students wanting to know more! It includes links to videos and teacher's notes. In Spanish, with more extensive explanations in English.
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3rd - 7th
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How to Write An Essay: What Is a Persuasive Essay? - NOTEBOOK Gr. 5-8
**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version**
View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITy7uk7NcIU
For understanding What Is a Persuasive Essay of How to Write an Essay, this chapter mini provides curriculum-based content in the form of reading passages, before you read and after you read questions. Also included are printables, vocabulary flash cards, graphic organizers and interactive activities. Our content meets the Common Core State Stan
Grades:
5th - 8th
8 Strategies for Writing Topic Sentences
This lesson teaches students eight different strategies to write a topic sentence. The strategies deviate away from the overused "start with a question" or "The topic is _____" that teachers often find in student writing. The lesson allows student practice time with each strategy so that they can gain experience writing topic strong topic sentences for a variety of writing types. Once students understand the role of topic sentences, the remainder of their writing will fall into place with guided
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4th - 8th
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CCSS:
Among the Hidden Unit
This is a 44 slide unit focused on the book Among the Hidden. It covers topics such as: point of view, propaganda, character traits, writing an autobiographical poem, having a BRAWL discussion (class dicsussion), doing a research project or essay, totalitarian government, and review questions at the end. It also includes a chart where you can compare the population law in the book to the population policy in China (video clip link and text included to use). I have attached all Microsoft workshee
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Critical Thinking: Crossword - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version**
View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7VZogaRzSI
In this crossword mini, 18 vocabulary words are provided with across and down clues. This mini is great for vocabulary and comprehending all the words centered around the vocabulary in the Critical Thinking lesson plan. Vocabulary Words include: anticipate, attributes, brainstorm, conclusion, consequences, critical, evaluate, facts, independent,
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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