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High school creative writing resources for SMART Notebook and for homeschool
A SmartBoard Intro to Dialogue: An Interactive Presentation for 2nd - 5th Grade
Including dialogue in writing can be a wonderful way to add supporting detail, help your reader get to know characters better, or move the plot forward. However, learning how to punctuate and format dialogue correctly can be tricky!
In this presentation, students will learn about:
* Quotation marks
* Additional punctuation before the end quotation
* When to use a period and when to use a comma when ending dialogue
* The importance of attributing who is speaking
* Paragraph format when using di
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
The Very Itchy Bear Guided Reading 4 Days - Four Blocks Literacy
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
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PreK - 10th
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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
Story Characters - Using Body Biographies to Help With Character Analysis
This Smart Board Activity uses an INTERACTIVE character to go through the instructions!! Your students are sure to love participating with the character!!!
Purpose: Character analysis is an area that students seem to have great difficulty. Readers seem to really have problem grasping and connecting with characters in the text. A body biography is a visual and written representation of a character’s life. In creating a body biography, students practice character analysis, understanding liter
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Connotation Denotation Lesson
Encourage your students to use better word choice in their writing as they discover how to correctly apply connotation to enhance the tone of their writing. Students will create connotation lines and apply selected words to their own piece of writing.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Smartboard Presentation Frankenstein Knowledge is Dangerous
This presentation can be used with Pearson's Knowledge is Dangerous Unit Plan and the Frankenstein Unit plan Slides present images of a political cartoon of Jenner's vaccine and pose the question What is acceptable science Students view a small clip from the Frankenstein movie 1931 and through compare/contrast or argumentative writing support their claims
Grades:
11th - 12th
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Spin a Story SmartBoard Narrative Writing Activity
SmartBoard Spin a Story - Narrative Writing. Create a basic storyline with this Smartboard activity. This idea generator works when students click on the spinners to generate short story elements. Who What Where and When...Character, Plot, and Setting. Will create thousands of variations to help students with story writing. Can be used to generate a whole class narrative writing assignment or use individually for student writing journals. Students with devices can type their story electronicall
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3rd - 6th
Personification
Want to teach you students interesting literary elements? Want to spruce up their writing? Interactive SmartBoard activities from Traci's Teachables is the way to go! Slides include engagement activity, a poem that uses personification and interactive classroom activities for whole class or small group instruction.
Slides Include:
Warm Up with Sponge Bob
My Chicken's On the Internet poem and sorting activity
Practice Linking Objects with Human Qualities
Examples of Personification
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak-Lesson Plans and Activities
Here are a few lesson plans and activities to complete before, during, and after reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.It includes various types of activities for differentiated instruction: interactive games, a 'quilt' making activity for hands on learners, comprehension/opinion questions and a creative writing activity which includes a task sheet and sample text.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Writing Narratives Package
This package breaks writing narratives into the critical elements in order to scaffold students to writing strong stories. It is broken down into: setting, problems, characters, plot, good beginnings and word choice.
When I use this package I typically focus on one element each day in order to create an in depth understanding. I encourage students to write about what they know. I have them begin with a setting they know better than anyone and base their character off of someone they know reall
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
What A Random Story! Smartboard Game
This smartboard file is a way to mix up, literally, how students tackle stories. The activity is incredibly diverse with the potential to be comedic, functional (works well with Words Their Way), or for enrichment. It all depends on how you want to use the game.
With two clicks you will unleash your students into a combination of randomness that will challenge them to think outside of the box to build a story that fits the model of the traditional story.
In this highly modifiable activity, s
Grades:
4th - 9th
Fables Smart Board Resource
Elements of a fable
Fable checklist
Planning table: character / characteristics / Moral
Familiar fable table
Match the fable to the moral
Write your own fable planner
Character planner
Punctuation and vocab brainstorm
Animal to characteristics match
Animal groups match
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
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Also included in:Â Fable bundle
Plagiarism Week
I have created a SMARTboard lesson that introduces students to plagiarism. The lesson covers what plagiarism is, who can commit plagiarism, and even some of the consequences of it. It includes several famous examples of "borrowing work" and has many links to additonal information for discussion. It also include a short quiz.
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5th - 12th
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Creative Writing Journal Topics
These colorful and thought-provoking Creative Writing journal prompts encourage all levels of students to write in ways both playful and serious. Most of the slides feature humorous or inspiring visuals. In my classes I gave the kids ten minutes to write, and afterwards we spent a few minutes sharing our entries. Many ideas for larger writing projects (stories, plays, memoirs, etc.) evolved from some of these prompts. Or course, if students wanted to write on another topic or alter the one that
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9th - 12th
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Expository Essay
This smart lesson walks students through what an expository essay is and what makes a great paper! It is an interactive and very engaging lesson that is easy to follow. It is broken down into 4 categories: 1. Strong and personal connection to the prompt. 2. Organization: Introduction, 1st Reason, 2nd Reason, and Conclusion. 3. Accurate use of language and conventions. 4. Descriptive Language: Idioms, Similes, Metaphors, Alliteration, $100 words/RIP words, Ba Da Bings, etc...
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Subordinating Conjunctions : Interactive Lesson!
Teach your students subordinating conjunctions in an interactive and engaging way! Includes:Defining Subordinating ConjunctionsVisualsExamplesHochman Writing ProgramWrite your own!Complete the sentenceMultiple Choice QuestionsCreative Writing Prompt Movement ActivityAnd More!
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Narrative Revision
This unit lesson will guide your students through the revision process. Move through the revision lessons as slowly or quickly as needed for your students. Provide writing breaks for your students to look back at their own writing and apply the following revision strategies: Show don't tell, alliteration, onomatopoeia, tone, overused words, figurative language, and dialogue. My students love how this lesson works and you can use the mini lessons with separate writing pieces.
Grades:
7th - 9th
AP Language Purposeful Memoir Smart Notebook
This Smart Notebook file contains examples, tips, and pre-writing activities to focus AP Language students on developing their voice in a purposeful memor. Goes along with my AP Language Memoir prompt and rubric.
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Grades:
11th - 12th
Acrostic Poems
This is a Smart Notebook file about acrostic poetry. It forms the base of a lesson on acrostic poetry. It was originally designed for a special education classroom but can be adapted for nearly any age or ability level. This file includes links a worksheet to use at the end as well as interactive parts and videos.
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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Simple, Compound and Complex Sentence Writing
An engaging and stimulating notebook file teaching students about independent and dependent clauses through the analogy of a wizard and wizard's staff.
The file moves through simple, compound and complex sentences and how to appropriately join such sentences together my identify correct clauses.
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Grades:
3rd - 9th, Higher Education, Staff
Let's Write!
15 Smart Board Interactive slides for working with your class on a variety of writing skills and proofreading.
It has some videos for different types of writing, as well.
The Unit is set up to have the teacher be interactive with full class, or small groups, and culminates in students working independently
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Graphic Organizer for Writing Primary
This is a Smart Board Slide that is set up as a simple graphic organizer for beginning writing in primary grades. It includes leading questions to guide the process. It's great for modeling to full group or for student to use independently at a desktop computer.
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
SMART Board Chevron Swirls Background Pages
Use these fun Chevron Swirls for your morning messages using the pens on your board, or any time you'd like to have a fun background when writing. Add them to your gallery to have them at your disposal each time you want something more exciting than just a white page!
Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Poetry Dice Activity
A game to challenge writers to get out of their comfort zone and try all types of figurative language and styles of poetry in a non-threatening way! Student roll each dice by touching them & they use the corresponding numbers to make their next poem.
After finishing a poem, students can roll the dice again for their next poem! :)
Grades:
4th - 6th
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