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High school english language arts lessons for SMART Notebook
Reading Activity - My Life- Why reading is so important simulation
TEACHER DIRECTIONS
Purpose: A simulation activity that allows students to see the realize the consequences of not trying to become better at reading and writing. This activity puts students into random socioeconomic groups based on a random number on a die. This number will determine how much money they get to spend on six different areas of their life (house, location where they live, food, entertainment, transportation, and college). Students will have to make some difficult choices based
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5th - 10th
Calvin and Hobbes comics SmartBoard Cloze Activity Inferencing
This minilesson is very engaging for students because it uses Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, and the SmartBoard. It can be used for teaching using context clues or inferencing. The file contains comics that have words missing. The students must use the context of the comic to figure out the misssing word. The slide after that will have the original comic to check their work.
*If you do not have a SmartBoard you can still use this with a projector and print out the comics for students to w
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1st - 9th
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
Murder Mystery!! Inferences (Notebook Guide)
This notebook files guides the class along as they solve the Murder Mystery clues using inferences.
NOTEBOOK FILE ACCOMPANIES Murder Mystery!!! Inferences resource that is available for purchase in my store.
Great and fun way to have students make and understand inferences!
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3rd - 9th
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Writing Hooks - Fishing For A Hook Activity (Smart Notebook Version)
Students have a hard time understanding hooks, and the importance of a good "hook". This engaging lesson will have students literally "fishing for hooks". They will discover the importance of hooks in their persuasive writing. After students learn what a hook is, they will actually fish for hooks in a plastic swimming pool using a fishing pole and magnet. Once they fish out a "hook" they will read the hook and determine its effectiveness. This activity provides an engaging way to teach stud
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4th - 9th
The Poisonwood Bible: Understanding Author Technique
This Smart file has fifteen slides that ask students to take a close look at two passages from “Genesis”. The first one is a quote that develops the character of Rachel. Students will do a close read and decide on Kingsolver’s purpose. Then, I provide them with a rough draft paragraph that analyzes the passage, and ask them to evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. Next, they will look at a second draft, which is much better, but could use some improvements. Students will discuss this as w
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10th - 12th
The Cremation of Sam McGee SMARTBOARD Activities
SMARTBOARD Activities for The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service. Poetry analysis on the smart board and writing activities for the poem. This poem is set at Christmas time in the Arctic in the late 1800's. Includes links to background information on the Klondike Gold Rush, Vocabulary words and definitions, a Vocabulary Matching printable, a link to the full text of the poem, Figurative language examples and interactive quiz, Comprehension questions and answers, links to a reading of the p
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6th - 9th
Also included in: The Cremation of Sam McGee Poetry BUNDLE
William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience
This Notebook presentation introduces William Blake, the Romantic era, and his two bodies of poetry; The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience.
The file contains:
- Blake's artwork from each body for comparison purposes.
- "The Chimney Sweeper" (Innocence & Experience)
- Poetic Devices
- Analytical questions
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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
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5th - 12th
Diagramming Sentences (Sentence Diagramming): A SmartBoard Notebook File
A 44-page Smart Notebook resource file that covers the basics of diagramming and includes pages of manipulative examples and several diagramming templates. Excellent resource for kinesthetic learners.This 44-page Smart Notebook file covers the basics of diagramming (simple and compound sentences; simple and compound subjects/predicates; adjectives/adverbs; prepositional phrases). The file includes pages of manipulative examples and several diagramming templates. Excellent resource for kinestheti
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5th - 12th
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
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2nd - 12th
Story Characters - Using "Fakebook" to create a character analysis (Smartboard)
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. This engaging activity allows students to combine the authentic experience of reading social media text with the fun of creating a new “Fakebook” page that is a visual and written representation of a character’s life. In creating a “Fakebook” page, students practice character analysis, understanding literary devices, and d
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5th - 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
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3rd - 12th
FANBOYS SmartBoard Mini-Lesson
The FANBOYS SmartBoard Mini- Lesson contains the SmartBoard file for the FANBOYS Mini-Lesson. This lesson is designed for both an introduction to the FANBOYS as well as a review of the concepts. The lesson allows teachers to introduce the what, when, who, and how of the FANBOYS and include both guided and independent practice. This information is partnered with the FANBOYS Student Documents as well as the FANBOYS Teacher Documents.
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4th - 9th
Daily Grammar & Parts of Speech Warm-Ups
This SmartBoard/ Interactive Whiteboard file contains 48 warm-ups about grammar and parts of speech. There are warm-ups for nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, 4 types of sentences, subject & predicate, compound sentences, capitalization. These interactive warm-ups help reinforce the skills all students need to know. You can easily adapt the slides to fit your needs. For example, change the names used in the warm-ups to the names of you
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2nd - 9th
Spanish Greetings Farewells and Basics Vocabulary-Notebook
This Notebook Software / Smart Board presentation includes 40 vocabulary words and phrases to teach or review basic greetings, leave takings, introductions, basic questions/responses like: how are you/I'm well, thanks, What's your name?, How old are you? etc. Accent marks and the silent h have different color font to highlight these from the very first time that students see them. There's also a brief explanation about the difference between masculine and feminine adjective endings. Created b
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2nd - 10th
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
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Media Studies Bundle
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.
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6th - 9th
Smartboard Lesson - sentence fragments and run-ons
This is a Smartboard Lesson with interactive components for students.
Teaches about sentence fragments and run-on sentences
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1st - 12th
FRENCH: LES PARTIES DU CORPS
Introduce your French students to the parts of the body vocabulary using Auguste Rodin statues! Four statues can be viewed: le Penseur, Le Baiser, Les Mains et Burghers Close. Last two slides are summary tactile activities 1) students click the body part word and then it's matching action to uncover Le Baiser. 2) Image sort: students click the rapidly changing pics and identify them through multiple choices below. Also contains Youtube video clip in French of Le Penseur being restored. Great f
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8th - 10th
Analyzing Quotations
Students often struggle to analyze quotations and write about them. This is an interactive, step by step process to get them thinking about the "How and Why" of analyzing quotes. Included are additional quotes to practice after walking through the steps as a class.
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5th - 10th
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Scientific Method Bell Ringers
5 minute journal prompts for a scientific method unit. Includes responses that require writing. Allows scaffolding for students- they must begin the prompt independently, then the teacher may remove a box that will give hints and additional parts to each answer. Includes 18 journals.
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5th - 9th
Echo and Narcissus
This unit was developed to use on your SMARTboard as an introduction to mythology. The unit includes student surveys, vocabulary development, contextual clue practice, true/false questions, comprehension questions, and an enrichment activity for advanced students.
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Grades:
7th - 9th
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
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