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5th grade english language arts unit plans for SMART Notebook
Reading Strategies and Independent Reading Response Unit, SB & PDF
A best selling unit!
This unit is designed to set up your independent reading program, and to specifically teach each reading strategy through a series of 15 lessons.
This download includes the Smartboard file (50+) and all pdf handouts (70+ pages)
The unit is divided into 2 parts, the first 6 lessons are dedicated to setting up an effective independent reading program.
The second part of the unit is dedicated to teaching reading strategies through a variety of mini lessons, read-a-louds
Grades:
4th - 6th
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
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
Realistic Fiction Writing Unit Smartboard
This is an outstanding unit you can use with your students to help them write well developed and interesting realistic fiction stories! The minilessons in this unit include:
1) Goal Setting and Generating Ideas
2) Imagine Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Imagining Stories We Wish Existed in the World
4) Drafting My Writing
5) Story Mountains
6) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of Our Story
7) Developing Believable Characters
8) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivation
9) Show, Dont Tell
10) Gr
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
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
Figurative Language and Poetry Smartboard "IPAD" Unit
I have used this "IPAD" on my smart board for many years, and it covers everything students need to know about figurative language and poetry. Watch for a students booklet that goes along with this smartboard file to be uploaded!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan - Literacy Unit
This is a SMART Notebook File aimed at years 3 and 4 but can be changed to suit students from year 3 -6.In this unit students will develop their understanding of how stories can be communicated using images– both still images and moving images. Through an in-depth study of a picture book and an animated short film they will explore how visual narratives are constructed. They will engage in interpretation of the settings, events, characters and themes expressed in these texts. They will also lear
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Our Classroom Back To School Literacy Unit, Agreements, Goals, Autobiography
You MUST PREVIEW this unit!! A BEST Seller!
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Your first month of Literacy is all here in this unit and ready to use! This is the perfect way to greet your students back to school, while creating a caring classroom community.
What's Included:
Smartboard file (76 Pages)
PDF Handouts (files linked in Smartboard file, 60 pages)
- All links to videos, copies of song lyrics
- Most readings included, you will
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Personal Narrative Writing Unit Smartboard
In this Smartboard, you will find a guide to help students successfully write a personal narrative. The beginning of the Smartboard goes over Writer's Workshop expectations (overview of workshop model, conferencing and partner expectations, stages of writing, etc). The Smartboard successfully will take you through a variety of lessons discussing the following: what is a personal narrative?, seed vs. watermelons stories, generating and writing ideas (sketch, timeline, maps), making a writing plan
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Historical Fiction Reading Unit Smartboard
This product is a series of ten reading minilessons which focus on historical fiction. 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) Constructing the Sense of Another Time
2) Synthesizing Story Elements
3) Holding On When Time Jumps Back and Forth
4) Unfolding Characters
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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
Memoir Writing Unit - Smartboard
This product is a series of fourteen writing lessons which focus on writing a memoir. 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 is a Memoir
2) Diving Deep
3) Writing Small About Big Topics
4) Internal and External Timeline of Stories
5) Reflection and Incorpora
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Personal Essay Writing Unit Smartboard
This Smartboard writing unit takes students through a step by step process to help them successfully write a personal essay. Here are the steps students are taken through:
1) Students begin by brainstorming themes and issues in their life 2) Students fill out a people/issues/moments chart
3) Students learn how to write a thesis
4) Students write an idea/claim/argument
5) Students learn how to "grow" ideas and "push their thinking"
6) Students organize their essay
7) Students look at examples
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Text Features Unit, No Prep Technology Infused Learning, Smartboard & PDF
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Are you looking to try out some new instructional strategies to engage your junior learners? Try incorporating some technology! From beginners to tech savvy teachers, this unit has something for everyone! You do not need a class set of tech… you can use classroom computers, laptops, ipads and even phones! You can even plan a BYOD day! (Bring Your Own Device) OR no tech at all…you
Grades:
4th - 6th
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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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Grades:
1st - 12th
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 Day Jitters SMARTBoard ~ 4 day lesson ~ Printables, Centers & Assessment
This is a 22 page multi-day .NOTEBOOK unit to accompany the text "First Day Jitters". THE TEXT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT. YOU MUST HAVE THE TEXT FOR MANY OF THE ACTIVITIES INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT.
The unit contains prior knowledge building, graphic organizers, and focuses on story elements. This product addresses and identifies common core standards and includes LFS Essential Questions. Links to printable graphic organizers and a two day reading packet with graphic organizer and comprehensi
Grades:
3rd - 5th
9 Poem Poetry Unit
This unit includes smart notebooks introducing 9 different kinds of poetry. This includes Haiku, Senryu, Concrete, Sound, Ode, I Used to be, Limerick, Color, and Cinquain. Each poem is explained, provides examples, and walks the students through practicing on their own. I typically have the students complete each poem in their writer's notebook and then publish as a formal poetry booklet.
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Visualizing Verbalizing - First Man In Space 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
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 12th
Stickman Guided Reading Unit - Four Blocks Literacy
This is a SMART notebook file that forms 1 weeks worth of guided reading lessons for the book Stickman.
This file has 4 purposes and an activity to be completed after each day's reading.
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.
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Grades:
1st - 10th
Grade 5 Module 1 Unit 3
This is the final unit in the Human Rights Module. The culminating activity is the students writing their scripts, using their knowledge from both Esperanza Rising and the UDHR. This Smartboard tool organizes the lessons for you and includes all the Learning Standards to begin your lesson and all the necessary student and teacher resources to guide you through your instruction. There also is a bonus on-demand writing task at the end that mirrors the state testing questions. This is an effe
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Grades:
5th
Black History Month Circle Maps with linked videos
This Black History Month item is a smartboard notebook file that includes pictures and linked classroom-appropriate youtube.com videos! I've highlighted 16 important figures during Black History Month that include Obama, Goode, Robinson, and many other important figures that we can celebrate during this month! Each page is designed as a bubble map to brainstorm facts that you know or learn about each individual and the lines at the bottom are great for guided, shared, or modeled writing!
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Hakuna Matata - Literacy & Resilience Unit
This unit looks closely at author’s artistry/craft and how they represent the theme of resilience, belonging and friendship in their texts.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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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:
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- 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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