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4th grade Thanksgiving close reading resources for SMART Notebook
Aaron Copland & "Simple Gifts": Upper Elementary Music Lessons for Smart Board
*This is a SMART NOTEBOOK file, please make sure you have a version of smart notebook in order to use this product*This is a musical mini unit on Aaron Copland, “Appalachian Springs,” and the song “Simple Gifts.” I love doing this lesson with my upper elementary students around Thanksgiving, but it’s such an important message for any time of the year! This year, my 4th graders performed “Simple Gifts” with the folk dance for our Thanksgiving sing-along. National Standards:*Singing in unison and
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3rd - 5th
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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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
Thanksgiving Themed Jeopardy Game for Smartboard - SMART Notebook
What a fun way for your students to learn about the Thanksgiving holiday! This Jeopardy game includes 25 categories, with each category having five questions each. The categories are: Pilgrims, Fun Facts, Math, Grammar, and Turkey! A scoreboard for three teams is included on the main page, as well as all buttons and questions needed to play the game. This Smart Notebook file is 28 pages long and features cute graphics in a Jeopardy style game.
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2nd - 7th
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Expository Practice Passage NonFiction Text PUFFINS SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson provides a nonfiction passage for your expository unit on puffins and 14 slides with questions about the nonfiction text. It also includes a printable version of the passage so your students can have a hard copy in front of them while working their way through the questions. 16 questions about the selection include: main idea, author's purpose, author's point of view, fact and opinion, context clues, and more. All questions are self checking so this lesson ma
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Attendance Thanksgiving Interactive Smartboard Morning
If you are looking for a fun way to take attendance in the morning, you will love this Thanksgiving SmartBoard attendance file. It comes complete with a page of detailed instructions for changing your student names and three different attendance pages to choose from. I know your students will love using the SmartBoard to take attendance. Look for more of my themed attendance pages including months September through May in addition to a birthday, beehive, butterfly, computer, cookie, Easter, gar
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PreK - 6th
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Thanksgiving Then and Now Smartboard Activity
Thanksgiving Now and Then SmartBoard Venn diagram activity comparing the food of the first Thanksgiving to Thanksgiving today. Add to your Thanksgiving activities. Using the movable text on a SMART interactive whiteboard, students drag the names of Thanksgiving foods to where they think they should go on the diagram. Then they can check the key to see if they are right on the next page, and link to an interesting informational article to read about the first Thanksgiving! Fun November activity!
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities Bundle Grades 3 - 6
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
Thanksgiving Math; Factor Feast and Mayflower Multiples
A Freebie Factor and Multiple SMARTboard lesson with a Thanksgiving theme--especially designed as a thank you to all you fabulous fourth grade teachers!! It comes attached with a prime number poster and 2 student worksheets! This will make teaching factors and multiples easy!! Enjoy!
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Grades:
4th - 5th
Halloween Ghosts and Thanksgiving Turkey Attendance for SMART Notebook
I like to call this, Super Attendance because each student gets a DIFFERENT icon. Other attendance trackers have the same pictures with different student names. Kids LOVE how their attendance picture is special to only them. All names are easily editable in Smart Notebook with instructions provided. Each student has a different Halloween ghost in a haunted house disappearing in their own spooky way! The Thanksgiving turkey attendance is a freebie for this mini Fall holiday package.
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PreK - 6th
Tom the Turkey Persuasive Writing SMARTboard Lesson
Six Traits Writing Lesson with students writing a persuasive friendly letter. Let your students creativity run wild as they create a disguise to hide a turkey so it doesn't land on the Thanksgiving table. Motivate your students to write as they then write a letter to a farmer persuading him why he can't eat the turkey in their disguise. Revising and Editing checklists included. LFS RAFT organizer used in the lesson. Common Core Standards addressed: persuasive writing, author's point of view, fr
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3rd - 5th
SmartBoard Attendance- Turkey Theme
I must admit, that this is another one of my favorites! It's perfect for November and the fall! Once the students put their feather behind the turkey for attendance it looks really cute - and attendance is done for the day! Just make sure you don't save it at the end of attendance and it can be used over and over again! Be sure to check out all of my smartboard attendance files for Notebook software. Have Fun!
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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
Building Better Sentences w/ Tom Turkey Smartboard Activity & Literacy Center
Building Better Sentences with Tom Turkey activity helps students develop sentence structure skills in building excellent sentences. Your students will experience the importance of the Who, What, Where, When, and Why’s of a sentence. The students will enjoy the Thanksgiving theme as they create meaningful sentences about our Thanksgiving past.
This activity is a Smart board activity with an embedded printable literacy center (PDF file) in one. This smartboard activity can be implemented with
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Grades:
2nd - 4th
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
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
Spanish Thanksgiving Games, Vocabulary and Activities for SmartBoard
This Spanish Thanksgiving SmartBoard resource contains 9 games and activities, plus a page with vocabulario and corresponding images. The games and activities use mostly Spanish food vocabulary but also a few words associated with the Thanksgiving holiday. Examples are family, airplane, football, t.v. and deer.Activities included are:Word BizImage MatchImage SelectWord GeneratorWord GuessRandom Image ChooserTable with 12 Food Words and Pictures for Vocabulary PresentationDrag Food Pictures to
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Guess the Covered Word
I have created a smart notebook file using passages from some of the Elementary Battle of the Books titles for 2015-2016 school year. Using this rich literature and strategy aids in not only word decoding but also comprehension and it does so on third through fifth grade students reading levels. I have also included instructions on how to create your own Guess the Covered word passage. This is especially great for science and social studies teachers. It can also be used in math.
Grades:
3rd - 5th
History of Thanksgiving SMART Notebook
Use this SMART Notebook file to introduce your students to the history of Thanksgiving. This 11 Page file includes 3 linked videos that are embedded within the notebook. The videos are: History of Thanksgiving, Mayflower Deconstructed, and Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Grades:
K - 6th
Thanksgiving Turkey Talk Editing Jeopardy - SMARTBOARD
This interactive "Jeopardy -like" game is a fun way for students to show what they know about various language arts skills. However, different from other jeopardy games because all players or teams must submit an answer to each question, keeping all engaged in the lesson. Questions include: grammar, sentence structure, punctuation including commas, figurative language, vocabulary, and more. Interactive scoreboard included and a spinner on each answer page so that teams (or players) will take
Grades:
3rd - 6th
4 November Interactive SmartBoard Calendars to Choose From
These SmartBoard Calendar pages are excellent for using during your morning meeting routines. The themed graphics make the new month exciting for your students. You can use it year after year!
You Get a Basic Calendar with place to write the date in short and long form.
Thanksgiving Themed Calendar - Today is.... Yesterday was.... tomorrow will be.......
Holiday Calendar
Calendar with specials for the day like art, gym, library, and music
I also provide you with detailed instructions on how to e
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PreK - 5th
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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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Grades:
3rd - 7th
4th Grade Author's Purpose Workshop Minilesson
Used for a formal observation in a 4th grade predominantly ENL setting, this minilesson uses Teacher's College-like teaching points and follows a workshop model.
It requires the use of the passage, "The Story of Chocolate" which is released online at engageny.com and is practice material for the NYS ELA exam.
See store for colorful take-away charts using the strategy for students who need a reminder of the steps (used for SWDs and ENL students).
I suggest students read the article prior t
Grades:
4th
A Plump and Perky Turkey a November Smartboard Language Unit
As an SLP we are always working on providing strategies to improve a variety of language skills. This unit encompasses a wide range of activities that support a variety of language objectives.
This unit includes activities for language students to work on the following concepts and strategies:
- describing
- compare/contrast
- context clues
- vocabulary (synonyms, antonyms, multiple meaning words)
- main idea/details
- retell with cohesive tie words
- sequencing
- figurative language
- cause
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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