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Middle school writing-expository activities for SMART Notebook
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
Connotation Denotation Lesson
Encourage your students to use better word choice in their writing as they discover how to correctly apply connotation to enhance the tone of their writing. Students will create connotation lines and apply selected words to their own piece of writing.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Cause and Effect
This is a short lesson on Cause and Effect. The first two pages are a short story and answer page.
The following pages involve 5 cause and effect sentences, which the students will either fill in the cause or effect for each. For example, a picture is provided of two babies (one crying, one laughing). The sentences reads, "Mom wanted to take their picture..." This would be the cause, the students will have to write the effect.
There is also a small explanatory writing prompt on the last
Grades:
4th - 7th
Subordinating Conjunctions : Interactive Lesson!
Teach your students subordinating conjunctions in an interactive and engaging way! Includes:Defining Subordinating ConjunctionsVisualsExamplesHochman Writing ProgramWrite your own!Complete the sentenceMultiple Choice QuestionsCreative Writing Prompt Movement ActivityAnd More!
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Expository Revision
Students will use this SMARTboard lesson to revise their expository essay. The pages will help your students add elaboration, voice, support, details, transitions, and fluency to their rough draft. They will proof their essay with a guided peer editing session. This lesson is full of writing activities that may be used individually or as a unit.
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Revising for Transitions
Use this lesson during the revision process to encourage students to use effective transition words in their writing. Students will identify various transitions and chart them before the go back to their own writing sample and revise by adding transitions.
Grades:
7th - 9th
Finding & Creating Vivid Descriptions
This lesson uses passages from Ray Bradbury short stories as examples of vivid, elaborate description. It also includes an activity in which students write a vivid description of one of their own ordinary objects.
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Step by Step Theme Essay In Groups
Students will read the picture book Pink and Say. Once the story is complete students will be taken step by step throughout the process of writing an essay. Each individual step will be discussed and reviewed starting with a thesis statement to the final draft. Instruction will allowed for differentiation based on needs and abilities. Students can then show their ability to write an essay by working on their own based on the novel of their choice.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Structure of the Earth
This multimedia Smart board lesson introduces the layers of the Earth in a thorough creative way. The lesson begins with basic information and continues with internet activities and interactive whole class comprehension check-ins. As a culminating activity, students form groups and write poetry, raps, and dance in a game-like atmosphere.
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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