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2nd grade english language arts unit plans for SMART Notebook
Friendly Letter Writing Unit for SMARTBoard
Your students will love learning about writing friendly letters on the SMARTBoard.
With your purchase you will get:
Instructions for saving and printing
Lesson page with description of the parts of a letter.
4 Practice pages putting the parts of the letter in order.
3 Different writing stationary
2 Parts of a Letter posters (one boy and one girl)
1 Page of Internet links for student practice and the parts of the letter song.
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1st - 3rd
A SMARTboard Second Edition Level 1 Unit 1 Companion File
A SMARTboard Second Edition Level 1 Unit 1 Companion File provides three weeks of virtual manipulatives and activities to use with Fundations. Unit 1 is a three week unit that introduces Level 1 and the letters, keywords, and sounds. Aligned with Fundations, a critical component in teaching your students to read and spell using Science of Reading principles. Share the screen for Distance Learning! This product is being offered at a discounted price to help you as you begin the school year.T
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Character Traits Week Long Unit-SMARTBoard Lesson
This is a five day SMARTBoard lesson unit. Each day has an introduction, interactive activities, and a reading goal. There are links to interactive websites as well as printable versions of graphic organizers linked in the lesson.
Topics Covered Include:
Who, What, When, Where, Why of a Story... Why=Character
Character Traits
Changes in Character
Inferencing About a Character
Comparing and Contrasting Characters
NOTE: This IS a SMART notebook file. If you wish to use this lesson, you can
Grades:
1st - 4th
6 + 1 Traits of Writing SmartBoard Slides
What a fun way to start the year with writing. This interactive unit follows the 6 + 1 Primary Traits of Writing book by Ruth Culhan. There are approximately two 30 minute lessons for each trait (Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, Presentation). The lessons get the students involved and get them excited about writing. Ready, Set, WRITE!
See my free day by day planning document to go along with this unit.
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1st - 3rd
Y as a Vowel for the SMART Board
Now UPDATED to be compatible with SMART Notebook 17! Focused instruction for your SMART Board on Y as a vowel! “Y as a Vowel for the SMART Board” is fun and engaging with this interactive SMART Board resource. Ready to go! No prep! All you need to do is connect your SMART Board and you’re ready to teach your students the foundations Y as a vowel. My students love it and so will yours!
67 pages of SMART Board activities to support your reading, phonics, and spelling instruction! Please note:
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
Short Vowel "U" Unit for the SMART Board
Now UPDATED to be compatible with SMART Notebook 17! Wouldn't you like to have everything you need to teach short vowel "u" to your students? No need to create your own interactive pages for your Smart board...it's here!
Please note: This file is made to use SMART Notebook software. You should have this software to use the file. It is not compatible with other interactive whiteboard software such as ActivBoard (Active Inspire) or Promethean boards.
There are:
• 7 SMART Board pages on identif
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Poetry Unit for SMART Notebook
Looking for a great poetry unit for your Writer's Workshop? Look no further! This 30-page SMART Notebook file follows the poetry unit student guide (also available in my store) and includes instructions, pre-writing graphic organizers, whole group modeling practice, poem templates, and examples for 9 different poems!
Also included in Day 1 of the poetry unit are activities and examples for exploring meter, rhyme, stanza, and line within poems.
Poems you will write with your students in this u
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
Recognzing Different Types of Writing
This is a SmartBoard lesson that helps students recognize three different types of writing. It gives them quick exerts of each and then test their newly learned skills with a couple of fun games.
Grades:
2nd - 9th
Long Vowels Review Unit for the SMART Board
Now UPDATED to be compatible with SMART Notebook 17! Reviewing long vowel concepts is fun and engaging with this interactive SMART Board resource. Ready to go! No prep! All you need to do is connect your SMART Board and you’re ready to teach your students the foundations of long vowels. My students love it and so will yours!
Please note: This file is made to use SMART Notebook software. You should have this software to use the file. It is not compatible with other interactive whiteboard softwa
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
1st Grade Treasures Smart Start Week 1 Companion Pages
This 63 page Smart Board file has activities for your class to practice the following skills:
*Letter Sounds for m, s, p, t, short a, n, c, f and h
*Handwriting for the letters listed above
*Beginning Sound Discrimination
*Letter Name/Sound Automaticity
*Brainstorming templates
Grades:
K - 2nd
Persuasive Writing Unit: Writer's Workshop Version Smart Notebook CC Applicable
Teach your students persuasive writing through this colorful, engaging writer's workshop version of persuasive paragraph writing. This is a 3 week unit of lessons and activities, each modeled through engaging smart notebook visuals, mentor texts, and tech integration options. Students are walked through the process of planning, crafting, and editing a persuasive paragraph. Written specifically for 3rd graders but very applicable for both 2nd or 4th. This resource is 25 slides long.
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2nd - 4th
Bats: Informational Text and Fact Or Opinion Sort-Smartboard 11.4-Windows OS
IMAGINE the look of wonder on your students’ faces as they read and apply fact/opinion skills while exploring the AMAZING world of bats! This complete unit includes:
-Fact/Opinion Introduction and Lessons
-KWL Fact Chart
-Opinion Graph
-Fact/Opinion Sign (signaling)
-Factual Informational Text Booklet
-Craftivity Bat (to hold booklet)
-Real-Life Micro- and Mega- Bat Pictures
-Fact/Opinion Sort-Apply Skills
-Craftivity Bat Cave for Fact/Opinion Sort
-Bat Anatomy-Label Body Parts
-Recommended Rea
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Contractions for the SMART Board
Now UPDATED to be compatible with SMART Notebook 17! 117 interactive SMART Board pages in this SMART Notebook resource! Introduce, practice or review contractions with your SMART Board! Ready to go! No prep! All you need to do is connect your SMART Board and you’re ready! What a fun way for your students to learn about contractions. My students love it and so will yours!
117 pages of SMART Board Activities to support your reading, phonics, and spelling instruction! Please note: This file u
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
Visualizing Verbalizing - Spirit Rover Unit - Comprehension, Smartboard
This Smartboard Unit was created by me for classroom instruction. It is presented Sentence x Sentence, with vocabulary and comprehension, higher order thinking questions. This unit is READY TO GO! This lesson is uploaded for .Notebook for Smartboard. The PDF version can be found on my store.
This unit is adapted from concepts learned from the Visualizing/Verbalizing Program by Lindamood-Bell for classroom Instruction, that helps students improve reading comprehension, language comprehension, an
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1st - 12th
Bossy R /AR/ for the SMART Board
Now UPDATED to be compatible with SMART Notebook 17! Bossy R /AR/ for the SMART Board! Use this fun, interactive, and engaging unit to teach the tricky /AR/ phoneme with your SMART Board! No prep! Perfect for introducing and practicing the Bossy R sound and teaching your children the foundations of reading and writing Bossy R words! Everything you need to teach AR with your SMART Board! Perfect for literacy stations or independent work too! Your students will love using the SMART Board to
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
Hairy Nose Itchy Butt Guided Reading Lessons - Four Blocks Literacy
This is a SMART notebook file that forms 4 days (or 1 weeks) worth of guided reading lessons for the book Hairy Nose Itchy Butt.
This file follows the Anchor, Read, Apply model and has a purpose for reading the book each day.
This file was made originally for a high school special education class using the Four Block Method of Instruction but can easily be used in most school classrooms, for home school, relief teaching, etc.
This file also features the 6 Hats Thinking Model.
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Grades:
1st - 10th
First (1st) Grade Treasures Companion for "Little Rabbit"
This 40+ page file contains Smart Board Pages full of activities to supplement your First Grade Treasures Reading Program. Activities include vowel y (bunny) phonemic awareness and spelling, comprehension for summarizing and story mapping and grammar work for contractions with not.
Grades:
K - 2nd
First (1st) Grade Treasures Companion for "Kids' Inventions"
This 40+ page file includes pages and activities correlated to the skills practiced in the Treasure First Grade Reading Program for unit 5.3. Activities include, writing (how to), phonemic awareness and phonics(ar), grammar, high frequency words and spelling.
Grades:
K - 2nd
First (1st) Grade Treasures Companion for "A Fruit is a Suitcase..."
This forty plus page Smart Board file includes activities for the following areas:
*phonemic awareness and phonics (ir, er, ur)
*grammar (prefixes and book titles)
*writing (poetry)
*high frequency word practice
*spelling practice
*editing
*fluency (ir, er, ur)
*comprehension (sort and classify)
Grades:
K - 2nd
Me on the Map, Map Skills and Main Idea Smartboard Unit
(This is an extension on my other Maps Unit- its the same but incorporates ELA standards of Main Idea and details). This was created by our first grade team to align with the common core standards for first grade. This smartboard file contains an entire unit plan for map skills (3-4 weeks)! It starts out introducing features of a map (symbols, map key, compass rose, cardinal directions, etc.) There are links to read aloud books you can use from the website Pebble Go, BrainPop Jr. and Bookfli
Grades:
K - 2nd
Laura Numeroff Author's Study
This is a smart notebook lesson which is an author's study on the author Laura Numeroff. In the lesson students learn what cause and effect are and have a chance to read and discover some of her books like "If you give a Mouse A Cookie, etc.) Then they brainstorm their own cause and effect story titles and finally write their own story in the style of Laura Numeroff.
Grades:
K - 3rd
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Bossy R /OR/ for the SMART Board
Now UPDATED to be compatible with SMART Notebook 17! Bossy R /OR/ for the SMART Board! Use this fun, interactive, and engaging unit to teach the tricky /OR/ phoneme with your SMART Board! No prep! Perfect for introducing and practicing the Bossy R sound and teaching your children the foundations of reading and writing Bossy R words! Everything you need to teach OR with your SMART Board! Perfect for literacy stations or independent work too! Your students will love using the SMART Board to
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Grades:
1st - 2nd
Reading Informational Texts James Oglethorpe Biography for Common Core
You will need SMART Notebook software to use this file. This 14 slide SMART presentation will take you through 5 lessons on reading informational texts, specificially, a biography. All you will need is a biography of James Oglethorpe to use with your class. Activities include: essential questions, turn and talk partner discussion questions, and a recording sheet for each day. You can use the recording sheet in whole group on your SMART board or print for students to use with a group, partner
Grades:
1st - 2nd
Fairytales Unit- Focus Three Pigs and The True Story of the Wolf
Fairytales Unit- Focusing on Three Pigs and The True Story of the Wolf
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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Importance of learning English language arts
English language arts (ELA) concepts — reading, writing, listening, and speaking — empower students to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. They are the foundation for all other types of learning as students must rely on ELA skills to master content from other subject areas and communicate what they’ve learned.
Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
Benefits of learning English language arts
Learning English language arts offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. It helps students:
- Develop effective communication skills
- Build critical thinking and analytical skills
- Nurture their creativity and imagination
By ensuring that students have a solid foundation in English language arts, teachers can help set them up for future success.
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