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Middle school creative writing resources for SMART Notebook and for special education
Following Oral Directions with Basic Linguistic Concepts:Smart board Interactive
This highly interactive 114 Smart board presentation will engage and dazzle your students while they practice processing and following directions embedded with basic linguistic concepts . This presentation can be used during individual therapy sessions or with an entire class of students.
Students listen to directions read aloud by the therapist; must interpret and then execute the command that contains a concept/concepts. Directions include the following linguistic concepts:
inclusion -all
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PreK - 6th
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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
Disability Awareness Activities
The SMART notebook provides the user with activities for participants to engage in that simulate various learning challenges. It is appropriate for students or for adults in a professional development seminar.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Touch-Money Counting Coins
This is a 35 page notebook lesson to be used with children that have previously used "touch-money". A variety of coin combinations with touch-points are shown for students to count. Also includes slides with a matching game.
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1st - 6th
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Cute Monsters: Synonyms and Antonyms SMARTboard Activity
This activity created by Speech Ace is a fun way to learn about synonyms and antonyms. Using the Smartboard, learn the definitions of synonym and antonym. Then, engage in matching activities for synonyms and antonyms. Finally, a "Monster Mash" game is included that allows students to be on 2 teams and identify synonyms and antonyms. An answer key is included. This activity is perfect for speech therapy, special education classes, and general education classes who are working on vocabulary b
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3rd - 7th
Writing Strong Endings for Narratives using Mentor Texts
Do your students struggle to write a strong satisfying ending to their stories? I know my students do! I created this SMARTboard presentation to use with my students.
The presentation starts by covering the most common endings we want to move our kids away from, and then walks them through how to write a strong ending using mentor texts.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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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6th - 8th
Crossing the Road Safely - Road Safety
This is a SMART notebook file for teaching a lesson about road safety. It was made for the UN World Road Safety Day, but it can be used anytime of the year to teach a lesson about crossing the road safely.
This lesson was designed for a special needs class but easily can be used for most ages and abilities. It is suitable for regular classroom teacher, but would also be great for relief teachers as a one of lesson.
The lesson includes videos, activities and an activity at the end to complete to
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PreK - 9th
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A Christmas Carol activities
Smart Board activities to go with my "A Christmas Carol in symbols with questions." Includes functional reading, writing, and math activities designed for young children or those with moderate to severe cognitive handicaps. Matching symbols to words, forming sentences with symbols, simple addition and subtraction word problems, counting quarters. Appropriate for special needs students, including autism, Down Syndrome, and traumatic brain injury, and FMD. Symbols are helpful for emerging read
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PreK - 12th
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Identifying Simile or Metaphor Lesson SMART Notebook
Your students will be able to identify the differences between similes and metaphors after this 31 page Smartboard lesson. This file includes an introduction to both similes and metaphors, then follows up with some interactive activities and 12 multiple-choice Response voting questions. It even includes a simile or metaphor? activity page for you to print and give to your students as a pre or post test. Have fun learning!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Community Helpers Workers Smart Board Lesson
This lesson was created for speech therapy groups working on helpers and workers in the community. It can be used for all ages in any classroom working on this topic. It includes songs, a story, smart board interactive activities to get the kids up and interactive with the lesson. Targets sorting/categories, identifying/labeling, following directions, and more.
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Special Education Morning Meeting Template
This Morning Meeting Template allows for students to discuss their schedule, the day, date, month, year, season, weather, temperature, and what the lunch menu will be while placing it in the new My Plate food categories. This is to be used with Smart Notebook Software so that students can interactively complete the sentences by writing on the board. Includes a link for students to look up the weather on www.weather.com. Students are able to fill in a graph compiling the weather forecasts for eac
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PreK - 12th
ELA Writing Alternate Assessments for Special Education Autism
Common Core aligned Smart Board Presentations, Activities, Assessments, and Artifacts to teach and assess students with special needs, giving them access to grade-level standards. These artifacts are cut and paste sentence strips with increasing numbers of lines and increasing difficulty in vocabulary and numbers of words in the sentences. All artifacts can be made with the included clip art to illustrate the paragraphs. I use the Smart Board slides to teach the lesson and to model sequencing ti
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2nd - 10th
Community and Safety Signs Review
This is a simple 42 page Notebook lesson that shows a different community or safety sign on each page for students to identify. This has been used with special education students.
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PreK - 6th
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Realistic Fiction Writing Unit Smartboard
This is an outstanding unit you can use with your students to help them write well developed and interesting realistic fiction stories! The minilessons in this unit include:
1) Goal Setting and Generating Ideas
2) Imagine Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Imagining Stories We Wish Existed in the World
4) Drafting My Writing
5) Story Mountains
6) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of Our Story
7) Developing Believable Characters
8) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivation
9) Show, Dont Tell
10) Gr
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3rd - 7th
An Intro to Poetry on the SmartBoard: A Two-Week Unit Featuring 10 Poetry Forms
Hurray for Poetry! Adding a Poetry unit into a Language Arts curriculum helps students better understand alliteration and rhythm, allows them to break apart the syllabication of words and develop their reading and writing skills, and lets them get their creative juices flowing!
Poetry can be serious and introspective as well as silly and nonsensical. In this 2-week introduction to poetry, students are introduced to 10 different common poetry forms. This animated presentation introduces each
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3rd - 6th
Halloween Character Traits SmartBoard Vocabulary Activity No Prep
Halloween Writing Activity for Smartboard. Halloween digital resource - writing motivator and vocabulary activity. Five different Halloween characters - vampire, ghost, scarecrow, skeleton, and witch. On the interactive whiteboard, students can drag the character traits they want for their chosen Halloween character into the box. They then can name their character and, in their journal, show, not tell, how their character demonstrates the traits they chose and elaborate on the character. They c
Grades:
5th - 8th
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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Food Chain lesson for Special Education
This is a food chain lesson the includes a repeated story line, 5 interactive comprehension questions, and a vocabulary page. It focuses on the definition of food chain, producer, consumer, herbivore, and carnivore. It is great for special education students including students with autism.
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6th - 12th
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Six-Traits of Writing: Sentence Fluency with Smooth Transitions
This Sentence Fluency lesson concentrates on effective transitions using the popular mentor text, Meanwhile by Jules Feiffer.
The 20 slide SMART file contains 8 days of lessons, activating and summarizing strategies, detailed instructions, graphic organizers, handouts, examples, opportunities for peer and teacher conferencing, scoring rubrics, links to videos, and interactive activities.
It's everything you need to teach an engaging lesson on sentence fluency using effective transitions.
Grades:
4th - 7th
Figurative Language Relating to Poetry- Common Core Aligned
This highly interactive lesson introduces students to figurative language and shows them how by using it an author is able to express their own style in their writing by painting a picture in the reader's mind. It uses poetry examples to assess the students learning, and offers as many examples to practice on as your students will need! Reading poetry and understanding it is so critical in the Common Core Standards!
This adds SO much to my reading lesson, especially when poetry is being read!!!
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3rd - 6th
Spelling SMART in Grades 5 and 6: SMARTNotebook
Spelling SMART was created by Carrie Sutton to meet the spelling needs of her Grade 5 and 6 class students. It is a SMART notebook file so that it can easily be viewed by students in the classroom.
"I noticed many of them could not spell a large portion of the high frequency words. I also wanted them to use these lessons to learn how to write good sentences with varied beginnings and lengths, and of different types, which contained figurative language. The idea for dress-ups and sentence sta
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5th - 8th
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A Christmas Carol in symbols with questions
An adapted version of the classic story of Scrooge. Appropriate for special needs students, including autism, Down Syndrome, and traumatic brain injury, and FMD. Symbols are helpful for emerging readers of all ages. Also see the matching SmartBoard activities at my store, Alternate Route Educational Products, for only $1.
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PreK - 12th
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Word Bonanza! SmartBoard Vocabualry Games
An interactive smart board game that incorporates a variety of vocabulary strategies.
1. Let's Get Together (categorization): Read the question and words. Think of those words go together (what category). Click on the letters to spell that category name and earn points.
2. Word Detectives (identify word from description): Read the clues presented. Think of the word that is being described. Click on the letters to spell that word and earn points.
3. Odd Man Out (Which doesn't belong): Read
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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