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8th grade Hispanic Heritage Month english language arts 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
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
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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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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Grades:
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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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
Foreshadowing and Flashback-Interactive Lesson
Students will be able to define and identify instances of foreshadowing and flashback in a text.
Each page invites your learner to interactive with the subject to engage the information. Lessons use audio, animation, virtual manipulatives and other engaging experiences. Our Lessons are compete with a lesson plan and a companion quiz so you can quickly prepare and evaluate your learners’ progress.
To use these lessons you will need a free viewer from SMART Technologiesâ„¢ called SMART Noteboo
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Special Education Morning Meeting Template
This Morning Meeting Template allows for students to discuss their schedule, the day, date, month, year, season, weather, temperature, and what the lunch menu will be while placing it in the new My Plate food categories. This is to be used with Smart Notebook Software so that students can interactively complete the sentences by writing on the board. Includes a link for students to look up the weather on www.weather.com. Students are able to fill in a graph compiling the weather forecasts for eac
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PreK - 12th
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
Murder Mystery!! Inferences (Notebook Guide)
This notebook files guides the class along as they solve the Murder Mystery clues using inferences.
NOTEBOOK FILE ACCOMPANIES Murder Mystery!!! Inferences resource that is available for purchase in my store.
Great and fun way to have students make and understand inferences!
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
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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
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
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5th - 8th
The Cremation of Sam McGee SMARTBOARD Activities
SMARTBOARD Activities for The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service. Poetry analysis on the smart board and writing activities for the poem. This poem is set at Christmas time in the Arctic in the late 1800's. Includes links to background information on the Klondike Gold Rush, Vocabulary words and definitions, a Vocabulary Matching printable, a link to the full text of the poem, Figurative language examples and interactive quiz, Comprehension questions and answers, links to a reading of the p
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in:Â The Cremation of Sam McGee Poetry BUNDLE
Diagramming Sentences-Interactive Lesson
Students will be able to correctly diagram various types of sentences and phrases.
Each page invites your learner to interactive with the subject to engage the information. Lessons use audio, animation, virtual manipulatives and other engaging experiences. Our Lessons are compete with a lesson plan and a companion quiz so you can quickly prepare and evaluate your learners’ progress.
To use these lessons you will need a free viewer from SMART Technologiesâ„¢ called SMART Notebook interactive
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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
William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience
This Notebook presentation introduces William Blake, the Romantic era, and his two bodies of poetry; The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience.
The file contains:
- Blake's artwork from each body for comparison purposes.
- "The Chimney Sweeper" (Innocence & Experience)
- Poetic Devices
- Analytical questions
Grades:
8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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
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5th - 12th
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
Diagramming Sentences (Sentence Diagramming): A SmartBoard Notebook File
A 44-page Smart Notebook resource file that covers the basics of diagramming and includes pages of manipulative examples and several diagramming templates. Excellent resource for kinesthetic learners.This 44-page Smart Notebook file covers the basics of diagramming (simple and compound sentences; simple and compound subjects/predicates; adjectives/adverbs; prepositional phrases). The file includes pages of manipulative examples and several diagramming templates. Excellent resource for kinestheti
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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
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1st - 8th
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
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
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
Grammar & Diagramming SmartBoard Activities
Students can label parts of a sentence and diagram the sentences while interacting with the SmartBoard during this activity. A *great* daily warm-up! Covers subject, verb, direct objects, indirect objects, and basic modifiers (prep. phrases, adjectives, adverbs). Contains 50 sentences & diagrams!
Look for a new, more advanced addition to this set, coming soon.
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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