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7th grade reading strategies 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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Grades:
5th - 10th
Inferences Minilesson - Garbage Bag Inferences (Smartboard)
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
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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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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Grades:
4th - 8th
Social Issues Reading Unit Smartboard
This product is a series of eight reading minilessons which focus on social issues in books. 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:
1) What are Social Issues
2) Readers Evaluate How Characters are Treated
3) Issues Hide Within the Pages of Books That You Know Well
4) R
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Building a Reading Life Unit Smartboard
This is a unit you can use with your students to help them build their reading life at the beginning of the year. The minilessons in this unit include:
1) How to Pick a "Just Right" Book
2) What Good Readers Do
3) Rituals and Routines
4) Goal Setting
5) Logging Your Reading
6) Marking Your Spot
7) Parts Go Together
8) Reading Faster, Stronger, and Longer
9) Establishing Partnerships
10) Reading in the Company of Partners
11) Reflecting on Your Reading Life
12) Book Recommendations
13) Stepping
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Character Analysis Unit for Reader's Workshop - Smartboard
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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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Reading Strategies Smartboard Bundle
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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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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
Grades:
5th - 12th
Determining Importance Minilesson - Smartboard
This minilesson helps students understand why it is important to determine importance while reading. Students go through a variety of activities that help them ask themselves, "What is going on and what is the most important thing I should take away from this?"
Students go through a variety of activities that require them to determine importance when looking at a CNN website, when going through a purse, when listening to a song, when looking at a piece of artwork, and much more!
It is a creat
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Trick or Treat Jeopardy SMARTBOARD
This fun Halloween themed jeopardy game is all about figurative language. The categories are: Similes, Metaphors, Personification, Idioms, and Grab Bag which also includes a question on hyperbole, alliteration, and other examples of figurative language. One slide has a fun direct link to a short video clip from The Wizard of Oz showing personification. All slides are linked to an answer slide and to the scoreboard so students can have some fun competition. Cute Halloween graphics are engagin
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Mystery Reading Unit - Smartboard
This Smartboard presentation is based on the Reader's Workshop model. Each minilesson includes a cover page, connection, teaching point, teaching component, active engagement, and link. The following minilessons are included:
1) Beginning a Mystery Story
2) Paying Close Attention to the Details
3) Using Predictions to Think About Text in New Ways
4) Reflect and Sythesize on Mystery Text
5) Asking Questions and Tracking Our Musings
6) Collecting Thick Questions to Lead to Deeper Understanding
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Fantasy Book Club Unit - Smartboard
This Smartboard presentation can be used to supplement and guide a fantasy book club unit in reading. The Smartboard introduces the genre of fantasy/science fiction and lays out the expectations for book clubs. Students will also be making a "strategy log" to track their progress as they read. The focus of this unit is on comprehension skills so there are lessons on making connections, visualizing, determining importance, quote analysis, synthesis, and questioning.
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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
Grades:
5th - 12th
Characterization Smartboard Lesson
This minilesson teaches characterization using the STEAL acronym. The lesson contain definitions, examples, and charts to complete while reading.
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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
Prefixes and Suffixes Lights, Camera, Action SMARTBOARD
This interactive smartboard lesson provides practice in making new words and changing words by adding the prefixes inter, in, pre, mis, post, trans, AND suffixes of: ess, ant, tion, ive, ness, and ment . Students have an opportunity to make words complete a sentence or story by adding the prefix or suffix or both to root words to change their meaning. Great for grades 4-7 and may be challenging for grade 3. All slides are self checking so it's easy to use as teacher directed in whole group or
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Close Read- Cloning for Struggling Readers grades 3-9
Are you having a difficult time finding interesting nonfiction articles to coincide with the new shifts in the CCSS? If so, this close read may be right for you.
This close read is about cloning and has two separate articles included in it. The first article is at a 3rd grade level and is designed to both introduce the concept of cloning, promoting background knowledge, and boost student confidence as they move to the second article. The second article ranges between grades 6-9 and is more adva
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3rd - 9th
Reading Comprehension Main Idea & Drawing Conclusions SMARTBOARD Scotland Theme
This lesson targets main idea and drawing conclusions while learning a little bit about the country of Scotland. A trip to this area inspired me to use my new knowledge in a reading comprehension activity. The lesson provides 11 different passages - each details an interesting fact or trivia about Scotland. Then the students must determine either the main idea or a conclusion that can be made from reading the passage. So much information that this activity can easily be divided into several
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Cupid's Caper SMARTBOARD All About The Main Idea
Help your students determine the main idea of a selection or write their own. This interactive SMARTboard is both a lesson in finding the main idea and a practice activity. Beginning with the lesson works well for either introduction or remediation of finding the main idea. Then move to the activity of 10 different selections that require the students to choose the correct main idea. The practice activity can be used for discussion, practice, or even take a grade on this as classwork. Ficti
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Synthesizing - Using an Illusion for infering and research/Places In The World
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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Grades:
5th - 12th
Non Fiction Text Structures SMARTBOARD Lesson
This SMARTBOARD interactive lesson introduces the 5 text structures used by nonfiction authors (cause & effect, problem/solution, compare & contrast, sequence of events or chronological order, and description). After a description of each and an example, the lesson provides sample writing so the student may decide which text structure was used. Slides are self checking. Great for mini-lessons, small group, distance learning, or large group lessons. Perfect way to introduce or review
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
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