Creative writing centers for SMART Notebook and for ESL-EFL-ELL

EFL - ESL - ELD, Grammar, Winter

Winter Sentence Builders for SMARTboard - CVC, Sight Words, Blends & Digraphs

Created by

Leigh Majer

This is a great Smartboard activity to use for Whole Group Instruction, during Word Work/Learning Stations/Daily 5, and also to use one on one with students for reinforcement and/or assessment. It is also a great tool for your ESL students! Students move penguins down to igloos and polar bears down to ice patches to correctly sequence words into grammatically correct sentences. Suggested instructions have students locate and pull down the word with the capital letter first. Next they locate

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Grades:

PreK - 2nd

Types:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Grammar

A SmartBoard Intro to Dialogue: An Interactive Presentation for 2nd - 5th Grade

Created by

Dot Cates

Including dialogue in writing can be a wonderful way to add supporting detail, help your reader get to know characters better, or move the plot forward. However, learning how to punctuate and format dialogue correctly can be tricky! In this presentation, students will learn about: * Quotation marks * Additional punctuation before the end quotation * When to use a period and when to use a comma when ending dialogue * The importance of attributing who is speaking * Paragraph format when using di

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Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Poetry

An Intro to Poetry on the SmartBoard: A Two-Week Unit Featuring 10 Poetry Forms

Created by

Dot Cates

Hurray for Poetry! Adding a Poetry unit into a Language Arts curriculum helps students better understand alliteration and rhythm, allows them to break apart the syllabication of words and develop their reading and writing skills, and lets them get their creative juices flowing! Poetry can be serious and introspective as well as silly and nonsensical. In this 2-week introduction to poetry, students are introduced to 10 different common poetry forms. This animated presentation introduces each

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

EFL - ESL - ELD, Grammar, Reading

Birds on a Wire - Sentence Builders for SMARTboard

Created by

Leigh Majer

Thank you for purchasing "Birds on a Wire Sentence Builders" for the Smartboard. This is a great activity to use for Whole Group Instruction, during Word Work/Learning Stations/Daily 5, and also to use one on one with students for reinforcement and/or assessment. It is also a great tool for your ESL students!Included in this pack you will receive:25 Sentence Builders (3 each of 8 different colored birds and 1 blank slide for you or your students to design your own sentences). 5 Punctuation Pract

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Grades:

PreK - 2nd

Types:

Creative Writing, Poetry, Reading

Figurative Language Relating to Poetry- Common Core Aligned

Created by

Teacher Creature

This highly interactive lesson introduces students to figurative language and shows them how by using it an author is able to express their own style in their writing by painting a picture in the reader's mind. It uses poetry examples to assess the students learning, and offers as many examples to practice on as your students will need! Reading poetry and understanding it is so critical in the Common Core Standards! This adds SO much to my reading lesson, especially when poetry is being read!!!

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Literature

Story Characters - Using Body Biographies to Help With Character Analysis

Created by

MyPaths

This Smart Board Activity uses an INTERACTIVE character to go through the instructions!! Your students are sure to love participating with the character!!! 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. A body biography is a visual and written representation of a character’s life. In creating a body biography, students practice character analysis, understanding liter

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Grades:

3rd - 12th

Types:

Kestner's Kreations Primary Pickins

Smartboard Story Writing Activity Castle Theme

Created by

This is an interactive writing activity for the entire class or for a writing center. Students move the graphics to where they want on the medieval picture. They then write a story about the picture they created. Click on the castle to open the attached writing paper and story cover.

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Short Stories

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing

Writing Fairy Tales Smartboard Activity

Created by

Hedy Dowstra-Cox

Writing Fairy Tales Smartboard Activity is a Smart Notebook file created to enhance your unit study on Fairy Tales. This activity has 10 slides to help you write and review characteristics of a fairy tale. There are four different template backgrounds to choose from and eight fairy tale characters to drag, drop, copy and paste. You can use this activity as a whole group or literacy center on your laptop or Ipad along with Smart Notebook software. You can print the fairy tales and combine them in

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Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Creative Writing, Writing

Would You Rather- Classroom Friendly Edition

Created by

Amy Dahmke

Enjoy 50 funny "Would you Rather" questions! Each question is suitable for your classroom and is made to get your students thinking! While this is a fun game, it could also be used as funny writing prompts. Your students can state what they would rather do and support their opinion with why they think it would be the better option. For example: If the student chooses Would you rather... Live in the arctic or live in the desert they could research why one is a more suitable place to live. If

Subjects:

Grades:

1st - 5th

Types:

Games, Centers

Aquarium Parts of Speech using the Smart Board

Created by

mary londergan

Are you looking for a way to support parts of speech, science, and meaningful writing? This is it!! Each page includes one original photo from the Texas Aquarium. The science content includes animals found at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi, Texas. Every page has a sentence and asks students to identify two or more parts of speech. There are over 40 total parts of speech in these 15 Smart Board pages. EVERY page asks students to find nouns and verbs and the answers are on

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

1st - 5th

Types:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing

CCSS:

W.1.1

, W.2.2

, W.3.1

, W.4.1

, W.5.1

...

What A Random Story! Smartboard Game

Created by

Overtime Academy

This smartboard file is a way to mix up, literally, how students tackle stories. The activity is incredibly diverse with the potential to be comedic, functional (works well with Words Their Way), or for enrichment. It all depends on how you want to use the game. With two clicks you will unleash your students into a combination of randomness that will challenge them to think outside of the box to build a story that fits the model of the traditional story. In this highly modifiable activity, s

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Grades:

4th - 9th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Games, Centers

Making Words- smart board edition

Created by

Owl Take You There

This smart board file is a great addition to your word work routines! Fully customizable to fit your class needs. Create letter tiles and word tiles. Give your students the opportunity to be tactile and visual learners while building their word base and review key concepts such as consonants, vowels, beginning/middle/ending sounds, blends, digraphs, etc. I am willing to customize the files to your specific word bank for a negotiable fee!

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, English Language Arts, Speech Therapy

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Kestner's Kreations Primary Pickins

Smartboard Story Writing Activity Farm Theme

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This is an interactive writing activity for the entire class or for a writing center. Students move the graphics to where they want on the farm picture. They then write a story about the picture they created. Click on the barn to open the attached writing paper and story cover.

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Short Stories

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Learning with Little Birdies

Onset Rhyme Silly sentences

Created by

On set rhyme & Silly sentences This is a wonderful interactive activity for your Smart board. Blending and sounding words with on set rhyme will have your students excited about literacy Silly sentences: Student construct a sentence with the words provided to match the picture. This is wonderful for teaching blending and sentence segmenting. Rhyme Blending Phonics Sentence construction

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, Phonics, Spelling

Grades:

PreK - 2nd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Activboard Activities, Centers

ABCSs by the Sea - Oceans of Alphabet Fun for the SMARTboard Letter Mm Freebie

Created by

Leigh Majer

Using this slide your students can: *Use a SMARTboard marker to trace the uppercase and lowercase letter. *Learn the Sign Language for the letter. *Practice Phonemic Awareness skills and Build Vocabulary by saying the name of pictures and placing the one that does not belong in the trash can. *Work on Visual Discrimination by circling creatures with the appropriate letter and putting an X through the letters that do not belong. These slides are excellent for: *Introducing letters at beginnin

Subjects:

EFL - ESL - ELD, English Language Arts, Vocabulary

Grades:

PreK - 1st

Types:

Kestner's Kreations Primary Pickins

Smartboard Story Writing Activity Picnic Theme

Created by

This is an interactive writing activity for the entire class or for a writing center. Students move the graphics to where they want on the picture. They then write a story about the picture they created. Click on the picnic table to open the attached writing paper.

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Short Stories

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

EFL - ESL - ELD, Reading Strategies, Spelling

The -ace Word Family

Created by

joy weiss

This interactive smartboard lesson promotes mastery of the -ace word family. Can be used as a mini-lesson or independent practice.

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Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Creative Writing, Vocabulary, Writing

Sentence Builder for Early Learners

Created by

Teacher Troy

'Sentence Builder for Early Learners' is designed to be used in 'dual page display' on an IWB and is suited to small groups of 1-5 students, however enough lines are added for a whole class. To use this interactive, students must drag the words across to their line on the opposite page. Students should verbally construct their sentence as they physically construct it. Once their sentence is complete and it makes sense, students should double-click the first word and insert a capital letter. Stud

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Grades:

PreK - 1st

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Graphic Organizers, Centers

CCSS:

L.K.1b

, L.K.1c

, L.K.1d

, L.K.1e

, L.K.1f

...

Poetry Dice Activity

Created by

Nikole Cooper

A game to challenge writers to get out of their comfort zone and try all types of figurative language and styles of poetry in a non-threatening way! Student roll each dice by touching them & they use the corresponding numbers to make their next poem. After finishing a poem, students can roll the dice again for their next poem! :)

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Poetry

Grades:

4th - 6th

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