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7th grade reading 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
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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2nd - 7th
Dependent and Independent Clauses SMARTBOARD Pirate Theme
Students will love this interactive whiteboard/SMARTboard activity with a pirate theme. The first part of this SMARTboard lesson is an introduction to dependent and independent clauses. The second half of the lesson is an activity that allows students to practice the skill of recognizing the difference between dependent and independent clauses. Examples of how to make a dependent clause complete (independent) are given on many slides. All slides are self checking so lesson can be used as a mi
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3rd - 7th
Paraphrasing Tips and Practice SMARTBOARD
This SMARTboard lesson and activity introduces what paraphrasing is and gives the students a chance to put it into practice. Complete with tips and ways to learn to paraphrase for any report. Linked to You Tube video to help explain paraphrasing and plagiarism. Great for whole group/teacher directed lesson or center activity. Grades 4-8. MUST have SMART Notebook to download and use.
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4th - 8th
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
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
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
Literary Devices: Foreshadowing,Flashback, Symbolism and Irony NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version**
View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu0U3W5Tg7s
For understanding Foreshadowing, Flashback, Symbolism & Irony of Literary Devices, this chapter mini provides curriculum-based content in the form of Reading Passages, Before you Read and After you Read questions. Also included are printables, vocabulary flash cards, graphic organizers and interactive activities.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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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Grades:
4th - 9th
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
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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3rd - 7th
Reading Comprehension: Drawing Conclusions - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version**
View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPU8PNIhjc0
For understanding Drawing Conclusions of Reading Comprehension, this chapter mini provides curriculum-based content in the form of Reading Passages, Before you Read and After you Read questions. Also included are printables, vocabulary flash cards, graphic organizers and interactive activities.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Reading Comprehension: Making Inferences - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version**
View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjp-fbl-Tmg
For understanding Making Inferences of Reading Comprehension, this chapter mini provides curriculum-based content in the form of Reading Passages, Before you Read and After you Read questions. Also included are printables, vocabulary flash cards, graphic organizers and interactive activities.
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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
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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4th - 7th
Reading Comprehension: Sequencing - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version**
View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4R5xA9NXiQ
For understanding Fact Sequencing of Reading Comprehension, this chapter mini provides curriculum-based content in the form of Reading Passages, Before you Read and After you Read questions. Also included are printables, vocabulary flash cards, graphic organizers and interactive activities.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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
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
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3rd - 7th
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
Literary Devices: Point of View - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version**
View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GKCNp2qP3U
For understanding Point of View of Literary Devices, this chapter mini provides curriculum-based content in the form of Reading Passages, Before you Read and After you Read questions. Also included are printables, vocabulary flash cards, graphic organizers and interactive activities.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Reading Comprehension: Context Clues - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version**
View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgDWVpVOiGI
For understanding Context Clues of Reading Comprehension, this chapter mini provides curriculum-based content in the form of Reading Passages, Before you Read and After you Read questions. Also included are printables, vocabulary flash cards, graphic organizers and interactive activities.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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