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7th grade creative writing lessons for SMART Notebook
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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Grades:
3rd - 7th
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
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
Drafting, Revising, and Editing Lessons - Smartboard
This Smartboard presentation is great to show students during the drafting, revising, or editing stage of writing. It explains and takes students through each process step by step.
Each lesson follows the workshop model and includes:
1) A connection to students' lives
2) A teaching point
3) A teaching component
4) Active engagement activity
5) A link
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Grades:
2nd - 7th
Holiday RAFT Writing (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) Smartboard format
This lesson introduces RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) writing. There is a slide that explains each letter in the RAFT acronym. Following that, there are six different holiday RAFT writing prompts, with the last one being "free choice". In my class I have students roll a die (real or on the Smart board) to determine which writing prompt they will complete. We type our stories in Microsoft Word. However, this could easily be done in a writing journal or holiday writing paper.
Holiday RAFT
Grades:
1st - 8th
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
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Writing a Memoir
Even if you have students who profess they "hate to write," they'll love writing their own personal memoir.
In this set of eight SMART lessons, students will work in small groups, pairs, and individually as they learn what a memoir is, what makes a great memoir, how to plan a memoir, and how to write their own memoir.
You'll start off with writing a Six-Word Memoir and end the series of lessons with writing a memoir of a life event. Each lesson has an organizer, a video, and/or some type of a
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5th - 7th
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
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Memoir Introduction - Smartboard
This Smartboard presentation gives students an introduction to what a memoir is. It lays out the expectations for a typical memoir writing unit. It includes the following:
1) Brainstorming page about what a memoir is and why people write memoirs
2) A reading activity where you read a excerpt from Lois Lowry's memoir "Looking Back"
3) A brainstorming page to help students come up with "seed story" ideas for their collection of memoirs
4) The expectations for the memoir writing unit
5) A memoir
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Writing Narratives Package
This package breaks writing narratives into the critical elements in order to scaffold students to writing strong stories. It is broken down into: setting, problems, characters, plot, good beginnings and word choice.
When I use this package I typically focus on one element each day in order to create an in depth understanding. I encourage students to write about what they know. I have them begin with a setting they know better than anyone and base their character off of someone they know reall
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
Improving Word Choice
This writing lesson was developed to be used with the story "When I was Young in the Mountains" by Cynthia Rylant. Beginning with examples of good word choice and evaluating how authors use precise nouns, vivid verbs, and lively adjectives to improve their writing. Students will revise poor sentences with improved word choice and then compare their sentences to those in the story by Cynthis Rylant. A student handout is included within the SMARTboard presentation.
Grades:
4th - 7th
Adjectives for Showing Sentences
This SMARTboard presentation allows students to use creative writing to explore how adjectives help create showing sentences. This lesson includes four creative prompts for writing practice focused to enhance the use of adjectives in student writing.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Cause and Effect
This is a short lesson on Cause and Effect. The first two pages are a short story and answer page.
The following pages involve 5 cause and effect sentences, which the students will either fill in the cause or effect for each. For example, a picture is provided of two babies (one crying, one laughing). The sentences reads, "Mom wanted to take their picture..." This would be the cause, the students will have to write the effect.
There is also a small explanatory writing prompt on the last
Grades:
4th - 7th
Subordinating Conjunctions : Interactive Lesson!
Teach your students subordinating conjunctions in an interactive and engaging way! Includes:Defining Subordinating ConjunctionsVisualsExamplesHochman Writing ProgramWrite your own!Complete the sentenceMultiple Choice QuestionsCreative Writing Prompt Movement ActivityAnd More!
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Poetry Unit Smartboard
This product includes the following:
1) Linked to this Smartboard is a five page word document that includes a handout for students to use. The handout gives students the guidelines for their poetry writing project.
2) Figurative language pages - discusses similes and metaphors
3) Idioms page - has examples of idioms and a practice page for students
4) Alliteration page - includes examples of poems and a "fun with alliteration" page
5) Personification page - includes definition and sample poems
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Narrative Revision
This unit lesson will guide your students through the revision process. Move through the revision lessons as slowly or quickly as needed for your students. Provide writing breaks for your students to look back at their own writing and apply the following revision strategies: Show don't tell, alliteration, onomatopoeia, tone, overused words, figurative language, and dialogue. My students love how this lesson works and you can use the mini lessons with separate writing pieces.
Grades:
7th - 9th
Ravine Flyer II Smart Notebook Slides and Lesson Plan
In a study of narrative writing, shared experiences are powerful. This Smart notebook file/lesson plan is designed to be used with the Slice of Life "Ravine Flyer" mentor text on Teachers Pay Teachers. The slides include a focus for instruction, an active link to a YouTube clip that puts viewers in the front seat of this amazing roller coaster. Project this video on your Smartboard and your kids will feel like they're in Erie, PA plunging down a wooden track at sixty miles per hour. The file al
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Adjectives Writing Lessons
This SMARTboard presentation provides multiple lessons to use while studying the use of adjectives in writing. There are guided lessons and four writing prompts focused for the use of adjectives in student writing.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types of Poetry Smart Notebook
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This comprehensive Smart Notebook document is meant to be used over the course of multiple days to discuss and practice different types of poetry.
For each type of poetry included, there is:
1. An explanation
2. One or more examples
3. Practice to do as a class (with steps)
4. "Think, Pair, Share" for students to practice on their own (in their notebooks)
Types of poetry included are:
1. Acrostic
2. Haiku
3. Cinquain (2 types)
4. Limerick
5. Diamante
6. Free
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Simple, Compound and Complex Sentence Writing
An engaging and stimulating notebook file teaching students about independent and dependent clauses through the analogy of a wizard and wizard's staff.
The file moves through simple, compound and complex sentences and how to appropriately join such sentences together my identify correct clauses.
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3rd - 9th, Higher Education, Staff
Economy of Words: Learning to Write a Story Without Rambling
Do your students hand in long, rambling stories that seem to go nowhere? Are you tired of reading pages of he said-she said that doesn't contribute to the story? Take on this challenge and have your students write an entire story in a single page!
This smart notebook file includes a lesson on economy of words, an example of a one page story and how the writer planned it, an assignment page to assist students with planning and writing, and a rubric for marking. Once students learn to write stori
Grades:
4th - 8th
Daily Writing Prompts (September to November)
First set of daily writing prompts.
There is one writing prompt per day. The date and day number are at the top of each page, below that is the writing prompt. Each day asks the students to do something a little bit different.
The prompts include: Writing lists of things (activities, words, memories, etc), imagine if... questions, what is your favorite..., tell me about a time when...., and so on.
These quick writes are meant to take anywhere from 1-5 minutes. These prompts just get student
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Grades:
PreK - 8th
Sentence Wheels
Use these sentence wheels to challenge your students when working with your parts of speech unit. Student must write sentences which correctly reflect the various parts of speech indicated on the sentence wheels. This is an exciting way to review how the parts of speech are used in sentence writing.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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