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7th grade literature lessons for SMART Notebook
Introduction to Mystery Genre SMARTBOARD
This interactive lesson provides an introduction to the mystery genre with a link to a video. Vocabulary is included with additional explanations of the elements of mysteries. This is both a lesson and a review of mystery genre terms. Vocabulary includes alibi, detective, witness, sleuth, evidence, mystery, clue, crime, victim, suspect, and red herring. Slides with questions are self checking. Links are also provided for two videos. Great for grades 4-8.
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4th - 8th
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
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
Tuck Everlasting Jeopardy Chapters 21-25
This interactive Jeopardy file reviews the last five chapters of Tuck Everlasting. Each category represents a chapter. This is a great way to finish off a unit on Tuck Everlasting.
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PreK - 7th
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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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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7th - 9th
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
This is a week long unit for the study of this famous poem. The lesson focuses on the following: literary devices, inferences, theme, symbolism. The study is enhanced with lessons to activate background knowledge, vocabulary, sequencing, and writing application. There is also a bonus enrichment activity for advanced students.
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7th - 9th
Surviving the Applewhite Complete Unit (Smartboard)
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan complete SMART board unit. This unit includes reading response questions, 28 slides, 2 kahoots, 3 vocabulary reviews, and many smart board activities. Use with my "Surviving the Applewhites" reading response and vocabulary packet or by itself!
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5th - 7th
Jack London "To Build a Fire" Interactive Read Aloud Part 1
This is the first of three smartboard notebooks designed to teach common core reading standards R.L.6, R.L.4, and R.L.2. Full text, teaching ideas and student handouts are included in the 47 pages of google docs. attached to the notebook. The notebook includes images to support the text, vocabulary, figurative language, graphic organizers, ideas for Socratic Seminar. . . If you purchase this notebook, you will also want to purchase Jack London "To Build a Fire" Interactive Read Aloud Parts 2 a
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6th - 9th
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry introduction
This is the lesson that I walk through with students before we read Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. The attachments you see on the Smart Notebook file link to videos that I have downloaded through Discovery Streaming. If you have an account, look videos on Sharecropping, Jim Crow Laws, Emmit Till, etc. They give great background knowledge.
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5th - 8th
Ender's Game Unit (Smartboard)
This is a smartboard unit on the book "Ender's Game." It contains 42 slides including T-charts, compare/contrast, response questions for each chapter, 2 Venn Diagrams, 5 smart activities (including vocabulary and perception checks), 3 Kahoot links, animated gifs and activities. A great unit that is all ready to go! Use it with my Ender's Game Resources for all included worksheets and materials.
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6th - 8th
Teaching the Theme of a Novel
While reading a given novel (we read Johnny Tremain), students will put sticky notes into their novel each time a big topic comes up. Big topics include: war, independence, growing-up, love, hatred, peace, etc. Students then generate theme statements based on the textual evidence from the novel. If you use the Reader's Handbook, you can use more ideas of big topics. I like doing it this way because I want the theme of a novel to be more than one or two words. I want the students to articul
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6th - 9th
Jack London "To Build a Fire" Interactive Read Aloud Part 3
This is the third of three smartboard notebooks designed to teach common core reading standards R.L.6, R.L.4, and R.L.2. Full text, teaching ideas and student handouts are included in the 47 pp. of google docs. attached to the notebook. The notebook includes images to support the text, vocabulary, figurative language, graphic organizers, ideas for Socratic Seminar. . .If you purchase this notebook, you will also want to purchase Jack London "To Build a Fire" Interactive Read Aloud Parts 1 and
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6th - 9th
Jack London "To Build a Fire" Interactive Read Aloud Part 2
This is the second of three smartboard notebooks designed to teach common core reading standards R.L. 6, R.L.4, and R.L.2. Full text, teaching ideas and student handouts are included in the 47 pp. of google docs. attached to the notebook. The notebook includes images to support the text, vocabulary, figurative language, graphic organizers, ideas for Socratic Seminar. . . If you purchase this notebook, you will also want to purchase Jack London "To Build a Fire" Interactive Read Aloud Parts 1 a
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6th - 9th
Elements of Fiction / Plot (SmartBoard)
Here is a set SmartBoard lesson presenting the elements of fiction / elements of plot in Cornell-style notes and a plot diagram for students to label each element on. A Word document file to accompany these materials is also available from my store. Thanks for shopping! :-)
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5th - 8th
Author's Purpose - Writing Workshop Mini Lesson
This mini lesson explores why readers should consider the author's purpose when reading a given text.
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5th - 8th
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The Cay - Conflict Matching
Theodore Taylor's The Cay involves a variety of conflicts involving the two main characters, Timothy and Phillip. In this SMARTboard activity, there are 8 conflicts that happen in the story. Students must sort these conflicts based on what type it is (person vs. person, person vs. society, person vs. self, or person vs. nature). Enjoy!
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6th - 9th
Short Poetry Mood Lesson
Help students work through the steps of figuring out the mood of a poem. Requires the use of index cards or dry erase boards.
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4th - 7th
Andy Warhol Art
Guide yourself and your students through this easy notebook file to make pop art
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3rd - 7th
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Remembrance Day Morning Activities for All Grades
This notebook is designed to aid teachers in the morning of Remembrance Day.
There are is a copy of Flanders Field. - Potential for Fluency Activity
Infographic on Remembrance Day - Potential for Numeracy/Literacy Discussion
Commercial from Bell - Potential Media Literacy Discussion
The Poppy Story for K-4 - General Knowledge
The Poppy Story for 5-8 - General Knowledge
With exception of the attendance, all are resources that I have used are not mine. The authors of these resources are to be c
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K - 8th
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Rudyard Kipling's If - Reading and Creative Writing
Rudyard Kipling’s poem IF is an inspirational poem to use with all children in Years 5 and 6 as it encourages the children to be confident even when life is difficult and to be the best that they can be. Despite being written over 100 years ago, its message of how we should lead our lives with courage, humility and perseverance is stronger than ever when considering the pressures of modern life for young people.The two lessons in this Smart Notebook with 29 slides are ideally suited to the summe
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4th - 7th
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Historical Fiction Introductory Lesson
This Smart Notebook file is a brief overview of historical fiction. It is designed be an introduction to a historical fiction unit (which I may create and upload later). There are discussion questions on the slides and an exercise meant to illustrate the greater understanding of historical events that historical fiction provides. I include a document of notes that go along with the Notebook slides, and I include a handout featuring short narratives that will be used with the activity. I will als
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6th - 8th
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