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7th grade close reading lessons for SMART Notebook
Making Thinking Visible with Patricia Polacco Mini Unit
This Mini Unit introduces 7 Making Thinking Visible thinking routines with 7 reading strategies using a variety of books by award winning author, Patricia Polacco. This is the perfect unit to introduce or review these MTV thinking strategies!
Making Thinking Visible Routines Covered:
Zoom In, Chalk Talk, Step Inside, The Explanation Game, I Used to Think...Now I Think..., Headlines, 3-2-1 Bridge
Reading Strategies Covered:
Visualizing, Making Connections, Questioning, Determining Importance,
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Context Clues An American Historical Lesson SMARTBOOK
This interactive smartboard lesson is both a minilesson and practice that introduces what context clues are and gives students a chance to practice using context clues to determine meaning. The theme is An Hysterical - Historical American Lesson. Funny, engaging pictures help give clues as well using the context surrounding unfamiliar words to determine meaning. 20 different slides are provided to practice using context clues. Answer slides with explanation follow each question. This can easily
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
BEE A WORD DETECTIVE Context Clues SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson provides practice using context clues to determine the meaning of words. Students have 18 slides with unfamiliar words used in sentences. Each slide has 4 answer choices and the correct answers can be found with a quick click of the mouse. This is a great lesson to use as a multiple minilessons so the teacher can discuss with the students exactly what words within the text gave the students a hint or necessary information to determine the meaning of the wor
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Character Study using "Each Little Bird that Sings" - Smart Notebook Slides
A Character Study using the mentor text "Each Little Bird that Sings" by Deborah Wiles - 5-6 week Interactive Notebook unit!
Getting students to understand characters in fiction texts can be challenging. This unit helps students navigate the core components of character analysis using "Each Little Bird that Sings" by Deborah Wiles.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Smartboard Slides to Accompany Read Aloud of: Pictures of Hollis Woods
Need to give your Read Alouds more structure and a bigger impact on students? Check out these Smartboard slides to accompany a Read Aloud of Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff.
Slides include 16 lessons to accompany the book. Each lesson focuses on one of the seven reading strategies:
*Predicting
*Connecting
*Synthesizing
*Inferring
*Creating a visual / Noticing author’s craft
*Questioning/Critiquing
*Determining Importance
Daily prompts for student discussion or written response
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Reciprocal Teaching
Reciprocal Teaching is an instructional strategy where students share in the role of the teacher using four strategies that guide instruction.
5 interactive smartboard mini lessons including
Questioning (Thin and Thick)
Summarizing
Predicting
Clarifying
Each lesson involves a graphic organizer for a work time
Grades:
5th - 8th
The Impact of Setting on Characters
This lesson is from the Literary Analysis unit. The lesson revisits the topic of setting, then moves into how the setting affect the characters of the text. Students and teacher are involved in close reading, peer discussion, and whole class share. Strategies used include: peer share, think aloud, questioning, and I Do, We Do, You Do!
Grades:
7th - 9th
CCSS:
Summarizing
Mini- Lesson that reviews what a summary is, what should be included in one, and how to gather that information.
Grades:
4th - 8th
"Annabel Lee" - Stop and Think (Notebook 11 file)
With this simple editable lesson, you will be able to help your students analyze "Annabel Lee," by Edgar Allan Poe. This lesson includes the learning objectives, do now, stop-and-think exercise, and a closing. Students should have been introduced to the poem, literary devices, and vocabulary before completing this "Stop and Think" exercise. This lesson was designed for transitioning/expanding English language learners. (Answer key is included.)
Grades:
7th - 12th
Types:
Questioning (right there questions)
mini lesson teaches students to ask themselves questions to help guide their reading
Grades:
5th - 8th
Making Predictions
Mini Lesson teaching students when to make predictions, to base them on different text features, sentence starters, and a graphic organizer to complete as you read.
Grades:
5th - 8th
Notice and Note: Tough Questions
Introductory lesson for the Notice and Note signpost, Tough Questions. Includes linked Powtoon video to introduce the concept, plus linked videos to relate to the students' own experience using movie clips. Also included is a slide reviewing how we use sticky notes to record annotations that answer the anchor question, using additional guiding questions as a means to make students think more deeply about the text.
Grades:
4th - 9th
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