3rd grade balanced literacy lessons for SMART Notebook

Inferences Minilesson - Garbage Bag Inferences (Smartboard)

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This is a unique and engaging way to introduce how to make an inference with your students. For this lesson you will tell students that you want them to help you solve a mystery. Tell them that you have some new neighbors that you have never met before and the family keeps to themselves. Explain that you wanted to find out more about them and you got lucky: it was garbage bag day and they left a small bag of garbage on the curb. Hold up the premade bag of "garbage" you made to share with student

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Grades:

2nd - 7th

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Balanced Literacy, Math, Reading Strategies

The Grouchy Ladybug: A Smart Board Interactive Story Retell

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jane oconnell

This is an interactive Smart Board lesson that can be used as either a Common Core Aligned math or literacy activity. This lesson retells Eric Carle's story: "The Grouchy Ladybug" in sequential order. It has an interactive clock that students can manipulate to tell the correct time in the story. There is also an analog clock that may be tapped on every page to reveal the correct time in the story. The characters in the story are animated and there is also a sound component for many of the cha

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PreK - 3rd, Adult Education, Staff

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First Grade Focused Finds

Writer's Workshop - Small Moments - Unit 1 Lucy Calkins - Grade 1

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Complete set of mini-lessons in order to follow the Lucy Calkins' Writer's Workshop program. Developmentally appropriate for all first graders. Mini-Lesson slides are sequential and in the Smart Notebook format to allow for easy teaching on the spot. Your class will thrive! -Smart Notebook Format - Easy to Use! 46 Slides included! -Follows Unit 1 in Writer's Workshop -Classroom Tested and Approved -Empower your young writers! -Makes mini-lessons easy to teach HINT: I always put on a Minnie H

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Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson

Arctic Animal Wonderland w Penguins, Seals, Walrus', Polar Bears SMARTboard

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Tiny Toes

Welcome to our Arctic Animal Wonderland for SMARTboard (.notebook) This Smartboard file includes 13 delightfully created activities: Label the Polar Bear Fun Facts about the Polar Bear with word bank Label the Walrus Fun Facts about the Walrus with word bank Label the Seal Fun Facts about the Seal with word bank Label the Penguin Fun Facts about the Penguin with word bank 1, 2, and 3 syllable word sort Circle the Initial Sound Sort the Arctic Animals from smallest to largest Arrange the words i

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Balanced Literacy, General Science, Winter

Grades:

K - 3rd

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Interactive Whiteboard, Games, Lesson

Stranger Danger Safety

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Littlest Wizards

This is a great interactive unit for any time of year! Includes… Interactive graphic organizers All lesson outlines (tied to read alouds) Writing Activities Fill-in the blanks Oral language discussion cards Drama activities (popsicle-stick puppets & emergency phone call dramatization) Media Literacy (influence of t.v. commerials) Circle the stranger (diagnostic assessment) True or False (summative assessment) All printables

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Balanced Literacy, For All Subject Areas, Writing

Grades:

1st - 3rd

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Printables, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson

Common Core Detective Work 2.RL.1 Ask and Answer Questions

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Common Core Toolbox

Turn-key lesson for Common Core Standard 2.RL.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how. This is a Smart board lesson for five days covering that standard for 2nd grade. The Smart board itself has four days of interactive lessons teaching the standard including a review assessment on the last day using the clickers (Senteo). The last day of lessons is a review using those slides in which you know your students need most. On the paperclip of the Smart board you will

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Balanced Literacy, Literature, Reading

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

ABC Order for the SMART Board: Alphabetical Order to the 1st, 2nd, & 3rd Letter

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Smartboard Kathy

Now UPDATED to use SMART Notebook 17! 62 interactive SMART Notebook pages in this alphabetical order resource! Introduce, practice or reinforce alphabetical order with your SMART Board! Ready to go! No prep! All you need to do is connect your SMART Board and you’re ready! What a fun way for your students to learn about ABC order! These pages use fun themes such as dinosaurs, space, and kids’ names plus easy-to-decode words so your students can focus on alphabetizing. SMART Lab games and

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Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Other (ELA)

Grades:

1st - 3rd

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Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

Helping Verbs am, is, are, was, were Winter/Penguin Theme for SMARTboard

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Tiny Toes

A fun Winter/Penguin Theme to interactively teach Helping Verbs: am, is, are, was, were for Language Arts Grades 1, 2, or 3. This is a SMARTboard .notebook file. Perfect for whole or small group practice. Five fun pages using the "magic" magnifying glass! Students make their choice, then move the magnifying glass over the answer space to reveal the correct answer. While this lesson DOES open with a Mac, the Mac interface messes up the "secret" colors in this lesson. If you are projecting f

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Balanced Literacy, Grammar, Winter

Grades:

1st - 3rd

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Character Analysis Unit for Reader's Workshop - Smartboard

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This product is a series of eighteen reading lessons which focus on analyzing characters. The Smartboard presentation follows the Reader's Workshop model and each lesson includes a connection, a teaching point, a teaching component, active engagement, and link (as well as other supplemental activities and slides). The lessons included in this product are: Lesson 1 - Thinking Over Stories with Partners Lesson 2 - Retelling Stories By Starting at the Beginning Lesson 3 - Learning to Listen Int

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Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Grades:

3rd - 7th

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Realistic Fiction Writing Unit Smartboard

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Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing

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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Grades:

3rd - 7th

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Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 1 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 1: A Fine, Fine School. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies context clues Ph

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3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 5 Lesson 21 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 4 Lesson 21: Sarah, Plain and Tall. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies - Prefix non-

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3rd

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Book Club Introduction Smartboard

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Starting book clubs up with your students? Do you need a Smartboard presentation to explain what should happen in book club, explain book club expectations, and explain book club accountability? Then this is for you! This Smartboard presentation explains: 1) What book club is about 2) What happens at book club each day of the week 3) Discusses the types of things to discuss at book club 4) Gives an explanation each type of book club job (Connector, Questioner, Synthesizer, Visualizer/Illustrato

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 5 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 5: Roberto Clemente. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom.

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Grades:

3rd

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Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Other (ELA)

Inferencing Lesson Using the book - No David!

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Catherine Devins

This is a Smartboard activity/lesson on inferring. It is to be used in conjunction with the book entitled No, David! written by David Shannon. This is a great book with lots of examples of things that David does and then the students will nee to infer about what happens next. The Smartboard activity has pages that give examples of a quote from the book and students must infer. There are also additional slides that give simple sentences for students to infer about. Then it moves up into para

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Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Reading Strategies Smartboard Bundle

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This product includes all of my reading strategy lessons. It includes lessons on: 1) Metacognition 2) Schema 3) Making Connections 4) Questioning/Making Predictions 5) Visualization 6) Inferring (Garbage Bag Inferences) 7) Synthesizing 8) Determining Importance 9) 7 Keys to Comprehension posters (Inferring, Evaluating, Making Connections, Visualizing, Fixing Up, Questioning, Synthesizing) The lessons include fun activities that help you better explain what the strategy means and explains how y

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Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Grades:

3rd - 8th

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 2 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 2: The Trial of Cardigan Jonesl. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies Diction

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3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 6 Lesson 26 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 6 Lesson 26: The Foot Race Across America. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies suffix

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3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 3 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 3: Destiny's Gift. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies Dictionary/Glossary P

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3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 4 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 4: Pop's Bridge. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies Dictionary/Glossary Pho

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3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 5 Lesson 25 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 5 Lesson 25: Mountain: Surviving on Mt. Everest. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies

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3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 4 Lesson 19 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 4 Lesson 19: Two Bear Cubs. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies - Prefixes pre-, re-,

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3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 3 Lesson 15 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 3 Lesson 15: Ramona Quimby, Age 8. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies - Using a Thes

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3rd

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