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Middle school informational text resources for SMART Notebook and for homeschool
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
Types:
Landforms SMARTboard interactive activity- games and Discovery Education links
Check out the video PREVIEW of this lesson.
I am SUPER excited about this lesson! This is a fun, interactive SMARTboard .notebook whiteboard activity for Landforms.
Landforms included are:
oceans, canyons, valleys, mountains, plains, volcano, island, lakes, hills, deserts, and rivers
For EACH landform is a link to Discovery Education videos. Your school has to be subscribed to this for the link to work. If your school does not have a subscription, YouTube has many videos. The SMARTboard l
Grades:
1st - 5th
Who What When Where Why How for the SMART Board
Who What When Where Why How for the SMART BoardThis Common Core-Aligned interactive SMART Board lesson exposes students to the rigor of pulling out information from nonfiction informational texts. Lesson includes a You Tube video link to a catchy song about the 5 W's (lesson engagement), an interactive matching game, one practice story, and several nonfiction articles to distinguish and practice between the who, what, when, where, why, and how using graphic organizers to gather and organize inf
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Nonfiction Text Features - Introduction / Examples
An important part of learning to read nonfiction texts is being able to identify nonfiction features and to understand how they help you as a reader.
While using the smartboard to teach these features, I also use a student activity book. The activity book has an activity page to go along with each feature.
You can view the activity book by clicking on the link below:
Link-Features-of-Nonfiction-Texts Student Activity Book
12 nonfiction features are included:
photographs
labels
captions
compa
Grades:
K - 3rd
CCSS:
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
Types:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Text Features Smartboard Lessons and Activities
**Don't have a Smartboard? Don't worry!! This exact same product is now available for use with PowerPoint!**
Text Features Smartboard Lessons and Activities is a fun, interactive way to teach text features! Slides have object animation to catch students attention and keep them engaged in the learning process! This Smartboard unit covers the following text features: titles, index, bold words, labels, captions, table of contents, charts & graphs, and glossary.
Text Features Smartboard Lesso
Grades:
1st - 3rd
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.
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 10th
Smart board Activity The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
An interactive smart board activity to use in the classroom after reading your favorite non-fiction book or books about polar bears and Jan Brett's "The Three Snow Bears." Compare and contrast the original story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears to "The Three Snow Bears," using a venn diagram. Interactive write an informative piece about polar bears, using can, have and are. Includes links to facts about polar bears and a link to Teacher tube for a video.
Grades:
K - 2nd
How To Generic Structure Notebook Slides
Use these Notebook slides to help you teach the generic structure of How To writing. Included are slides that have students study and discuss what they notice about How-to writing (1 slide), the overall structure of How To writing (1 slide), specific slides for an introduction page (1 slide), You will need page (1 slide), sequence words (1 slide) and conclusion page (1 slide). This has 6 slides total. You can use these slides for whole or small group!
Grades:
K - 2nd
Types:
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
Zoos? Persuasive/Informative COMMON CORE WRITING TASK Smart Board presentation
Use this Smart Board presentation to help organize your classes ideas on Zoos.
In my class we:
* Students draw two KWL chart in their writing notebooks
** One should be labeled "Animals that live in zoos," the other "Animals that live in the wild"
* I model 1 example for each chart
* Then, have the students work on the K for EACH chart K(know- what they know)
* While you're reading books to the class or while they are reading individually or in small groups they should be taking notes o
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd - 5th, Staff
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.
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Media Studies: The Problem with Pornography
Package is a Smart Board lesson that introduces the prevalence and problems of pornography. We use it after we have used my Media Studies Introduction units, which include lessons on explicit and implicit media images and on the construction and reconstruction of problematic social norms of women, men, race, and violence through implicit media images. After this Introduction, we find it effective to show the TED Talk, "Why I Stopped Using Pornography." All of this material is available here on T
Subjects:
Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Media Studies Bundle
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
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
Types:
CKLA Grade 2: Domain 5 The War of 1812
CKLA Grade 2: Domain 5 The War of 1812
Enhance your teaching and student's engagement with this Smartnotebook file. All lessons are included with this download. Including story images, image cards and all questions are included. For a total of 197 slides to enhance your teaching.
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd
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
Subjects:
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
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