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Middle school reading strategies centers for SMART Notebook
Smartboard - I Mustache You Text Structure Game!
Do your kiddos need practice with nonfiction text structures? This is the perfect Smartboard game and will quickly become a class favorite! It is loaded with interactive buttons, sounds, and animations. It has two sections to support differentiation. In section 1: Match & Sorts - students play games to practice definitions, signal words, and tricky cause and effect sorts. In section 2: Questions - Choose a question card and answer various questions about text structures.
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
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
Thankful for Predictions, Inferences, Drawing Conclusions SMARTBOARD
This interactive Smartboard lesson is played like a jeopardy game. The board has 20 slides complete with short passages and answer choices. This activity is a Thanksgiving theme and all passages and questions are about the Pilgrims, the Wampanoag Indian tribe, or Thanksgiving trivia. Skills addressed in this activity are Predicting, Inferring, Drawing Conclusions, and then some fun riddles and trivia. All slides are linked to a scoreboard and all slides are self checking. This can easily be
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Alice In Wonderland Similes & Metaphors Smartboard Game
This Smartboard game is a creative way to provide students with multiple opportunities to identify and interpret the meaning of metaphors and similes. It is loaded with interactive buttons, sounds, and animations. It has two sections to support differentiation. In section 1 - students identify similes and metaphors (match and sort, pairs, vortex). In section 2 - students choose questions from a question board. This board includes activities to help kids strengthen their knowledge (exchange a sim
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Leprechaun Legend and Lore SMARTBOARD
This SMARTBoard lesson is full of fun and skills (but not trickery). It encompasses various language arts skills and rules while using the fun legends and lore of leprechauns and St. Patrick's Day. There is a game board that students begin with by clicking on a square with a funny leprechaun. This takes you to a slide using language arts skills such as: inferring, fact and opinion, summarization, riddles, information that is off topic, and more. All slides are linked to a score board so that stu
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Making Inferences & Drawing Conclusions Smart Notebook Lesson
Teach your students how to make inferences with this thirty page, interactive, Smart Notebook Lesson. Your students will get to read stories, draw conclusions, use background knowledge, and information from the text to complete the interactive activities within this file. Containers, magic revealers, voting, and outside resources fill this lesson and make learning how to infer super fun. A "what's in the bag" mini-game is also included! Enjoy!THIS IS A SMART NOTEBOOK FILE. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Making Inferences SMARTBOARD PLUS PRINTABLE Inferencing Card Set
This lesson is both a smartboard lesson providing practice in inferencing skills AND PRINTABLE activity cards that can be used as either teacher directed mini lesson or in an independent center or station. Level of difficulty varies to meet the needs of a differentiated classroom. Solving the mystery is fun for the students as they use their schema and clues from the passage. Three famous pictures are included in which answers will vary, and they make a great discussion piece for the class to
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Monster Mash Idiom Jeopardy for SMARTBOARD
This smartboard activity is interactive and fully self checking. It is complete with funny pictures to help students understand the figurative language of idioms. This lesson can be used as a teacher directed whole group lesson, a small group lesson, or an independent activity. Can also be used as a competitive game. Slides are fully linked for easy play. Great for students grades 1-5. Younger first grade students may need more support, but it's a great way to introduce figurative language,
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Grades:
1st - 6th
I Flip For The MAIN IDEA SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson begins with a mini lesson on what the main idea of a paragraph is and how the details in the paragraph need to support the main idea. There are practice paragraphs and students will choose details that support the main idea AND they will determine if any unnecessary sentences that were off topic need to be deleted. Also included are 8 printable PDF's of graphic organizers that students can use to show main ideas and details of their own. The mini lesson incl
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Gumball Goodies - Infer and Draw Conclusions SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson combines a mini-lesson and some fun practice slides in inferring and drawing conclusions. Begin learning what it means to infer and how this is different from drawing a conclusion. Move on through the lesson with a few different ways to make a conclusion using clues you can infer information from. Bright, fun graphics makes the lesson enjoyable. The lesson ends with 5 fun slides of mystery pictures. As students click on gumballs, more information about the pic
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Story Characters - Using "Fakebook" to create a character analysis (Smartboard)
Purpose: Character analysis is an area that students seem to have great difficulty. Readers seem to really have problem grasping and connecting with characters in the text. This engaging activity allows students to combine the authentic experience of reading social media text with the fun of creating a new “Fakebook” page that is a visual and written representation of a character’s life. In creating a “Fakebook” page, students practice character analysis, understanding literary devices, and d
Grades:
5th - 12th
Context Clues An American Historical Lesson SMARTBOOK
This interactive smartboard lesson is both a minilesson and practice that introduces what context clues are and gives students a chance to practice using context clues to determine meaning. The theme is An Hysterical - Historical American Lesson. Funny, engaging pictures help give clues as well using the context surrounding unfamiliar words to determine meaning. 20 different slides are provided to practice using context clues. Answer slides with explanation follow each question. This can easily
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
What's The Buzz About Homophones SMARTBOARD PLUS Printable Card Set
This interactive SMARTboard lesson gives students an opportunity to buzz about homophones. Also included is a PRINTABLE card set game of homophones. Card set consists of 25 task cards plus 25 answer cards. Most of the homophones in the card set are different from the homophones used in the lesson. A variety of activities allows students to choose the correct homophone based on the context of the sentence. Great for introduction, practice, or review. All slides are self - checking and linked fo
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Wizard of Oz: Idioms, Adages, & Proverbs Smartboard Game
This Smartboard game is a creative way to practice a difficult topic. Provide your students with multiple opportunities to identify, interpret and create meaning from Idioms. This game is loaded with interactive buttons, sounds, and animations. It has many sections to support differentiation. In section 1 - students identify idiom, proverbs, & adages (match and sort, pairs, vortex). In section 2 - students choose questions from a question board. Section 3 - students write the meaning of the
Grades:
3rd - 6th
FACT and OPINION SMARTboard PLUS PRINTABLE Card Set
Bright and engaging SMARTboard lesson that begins with minilesson on the difference between Facts and Opinions. 16 practice slides give students a chance to determine whether they are facts and opinions and allows for discussion about what it makes it one or the other. PLUS included in this SMARTboard lesson is a card set of 44 fact and opinion cards with so many uses. Use it as a memory game or match game; have students hunt around the room to find one fact and one opinion card (22 of each i
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Winter Fun Jeopardy SMARTBOARD
This fun interactive SMARTboard jeopardy game might be the solution to review language skills during the longer days of winter. Students will learn while having fun with humorous graphics and language arts questions. All students remain engaged because each question will require an answer from each team and then points are determined by spinning the wheel. Topics covered are vocabulary, prefixes, suffixes, grammar, synonyms, antonyms, and more. Three of the slides add fun and excitement with
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Reading With Intention - Infer, Predict, Main Idea, Draw Conclusions SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson provides 11 different passages about bugs giving students a chance to read closely to determine main idea, predict, draw a conclusion, or infer. Passages include both expository and narrative pieces. Students will also read a table or look closely at illustrations to arrive at an answer. Get your students ready for testing coming up. This can easily be used as multiple mini lessons which allow for discussion as to why the correct answer is the best choice an
Grades:
3rd - 6th
BEE A WORD DETECTIVE Context Clues SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson provides practice using context clues to determine the meaning of words. Students have 18 slides with unfamiliar words used in sentences. Each slide has 4 answer choices and the correct answers can be found with a quick click of the mouse. This is a great lesson to use as a multiple minilessons so the teacher can discuss with the students exactly what words within the text gave the students a hint or necessary information to determine the meaning of the wor
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3rd - 7th
Prefixes and Suffixes with Pete and Sally SMARTBOARD
This SMARTBOARD lesson is all about prefixes and suffixes and how they change the meaning of a word when added to a base word. Begin with a mini lesson and an introduction to all the prefixes and suffixes in the lesson that include: un, pre, re, mis, in, im, dis, ly, ful, or, er, ed, and ing. Many different activities allow students to practice and work with prefixes and suffixes in different ways. This SMARTBOARD could easily be divided into several lessons or just divide into 2 lessons: prefi
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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
Grades:
3rd - 7th
"BEE" A Biography Detective SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard begins with a lesson about biographies and autobiographies. Included are elements of biographies : Birth/Death; Family; Early Childhood and Education; Adulthood; Reason for Fame; Hobbies; Interesting Facts and Stories. Several interactive activities keep students engaged while learning. Can be used as introduction, practice, or review. All slides are self checking. MUST have SMART Notebook to download and use this lesson.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
SMARTBOARD Reading Strategies - Infer, Summarize, and More PLUS PRINTABLE Cards
This SMARTboard lesson is selection of 5 different passages with 4 questions per passage. Questions include: drawing conclusions, inferring, summarizing, media, author's purpose and viewpoint, and more. Also included is a link to access PRINTABLE cards with the same questions. Versatile to use with large group, small group, partner work, centers and stations. Answer Key included. Passage subject areas: Amelia Earhart, Football, Facts about Dolphins, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Fire at Notre
Grades:
3rd - 6th
NonFiction/Expository Text Features Lesson and Activity SMARTBOARD
This SMARTboard lesson is a compilation of nonfiction or expository text features. I have included 17 different features such as Heading, Caption, Index, Glossary, Illustration, Table of Contents, Bullet Points, Text Box, Timeline, and more. This is a great lesson (or set of multiple mini lessons) to introduce nonfiction text features. Several questions at the end of the lesson provide practice in identifying text features. Bright, colorful format with engaging pictures and illustrations. Also
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Why Writers Write - Author's Purpose SMARTBOARD
Author's Purpose - Is it to entertain, persuade, explain, or inform? This interactive smartboard lesson provides both a mini lesson to teach 4 reasons why writers write followed by various practice passages to determine what the author's purpose was. All slides are self checking so it works well in either a small group, large group, literacy center, or as partner work. This could also be broken down into several lessons as each passage provides an opportunity to discuss what makes it either: e
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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