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High school informational text resources for SMART Notebook
Nonfiction Text Feature and Text Structure Jeopardy Game
This item is a SMARTBOARD Jeopardy Game. The game reviews the nonfiction text features and text structures. :)
Grades:
3rd - 10th
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Behind Rebel Lines Smart Board Notebook Visual for whole book
Smartboard notebook presentation that can be edited or added to!
Includes pictures, lesson on activism and the civil war, vocabulary, maps, characters, summaries of important events in each chapter.
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Grades:
3rd - 10th
Synthesizing - Using a Magical Illusion for infering and research/Train Escape
TEACHER INFORMATION
PURPOSE: This activity combines the mystery and intrigue of an amazing illusion and students ability to synthesize new information. Students have a hard time understanding the process of synthesis. This very engaging activity will have students go through the process of synthesis by combining information presented in different media (media and text) to develop a better understanding of the topic, and draw evidence from informational text to support analysis, reflection, an
Grades:
5th - 12th
Martin Luther King - Letter From a Birmingham Jail - First 4 Paragraphs Analysis
This interactive analysis of the first four paragraphs of MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" contains instructional vocabulary, figurative language, graphic organizers and text. This is a great tool for teaching common core standard R.I.8. I use this as an introduction to persuasive writing.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Media Studies: The Problem with Pornography
Package is a Smart Board lesson that introduces the prevalence and problems of pornography. We use it after we have used my Media Studies Introduction units, which include lessons on explicit and implicit media images and on the construction and reconstruction of problematic social norms of women, men, race, and violence through implicit media images. After this Introduction, we find it effective to show the TED Talk, "Why I Stopped Using Pornography." All of this material is available here on T
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Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Media Studies Bundle
Deconstruction Lab - Discovering Main Idea
This is a STEM and Inquiry based lesson which the objective of having students discover organization and main idea. It was designed to be a common experience for students as the beginning of a unit on Main Idea.
The lesson meets the Language Arts common core standard:
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Students actively engage with a given text to uncover the writing's structure and orga
Grades:
6th - 9th
Close Read- Cloning for Struggling Readers grades 3-9
Are you having a difficult time finding interesting nonfiction articles to coincide with the new shifts in the CCSS? If so, this close read may be right for you.
This close read is about cloning and has two separate articles included in it. The first article is at a 3rd grade level and is designed to both introduce the concept of cloning, promoting background knowledge, and boost student confidence as they move to the second article. The second article ranges between grades 6-9 and is more adva
Grades:
3rd - 9th
I am Malala: Chapters 6-9 Smart Response Clicker Quiz
This item can be opened with Smart Notebook Software and given to students as a clicker quiz. It is aligned with the information in Chapters 6-9 of the book and has five multiple choice questions.
It could also be printed for students to take on paper (especially absent students), but if you would rather have a paper version and answer key of the quiz, please see the item listed separately in my store!
Grades:
5th - 9th
I am Malala: Chapters 1-5 Smart Response Clicker Quiz
This item can be opened with Smart Notebook Software and given to students as a clicker quiz. It is aligned with the information in Chapters 1-5 of the book and has five multiple choice questions.
It could also be printed for students to take on paper (especially absent students), but if you would rather have a paper version and answer key of the quiz, please see the item listed separately in my store!
Grades:
5th - 9th
I am Malala: Prologue Smart Response Clicker Quiz
This item can be opened with Smart Notebook Software and given to students as a clicker quiz. It is aligned with the information in the Prologue of the book and has five multiple choice questions.
It could also be printed for students to take on paper (especially absent students), but if you would rather have a paper version and answer key of the quiz, please see the item listed separately in my store!
Grades:
5th - 9th
Libraries Face Sad Chapter
This SmartBoard presentation includes slides that contain vocabulary words, key terms definitions as well as the key elements of a writing a persuasive essay -- It also covers the terms ethos. pathos. logos and includes a link to a short video making it easy for students to understand these terms There are quick writes and vocabulary word images to keep students engaged and everything needed to project and provide direct instruction for the nonfiction persuasive essay "Libraries Face Sad Chap
Grades:
6th - 12th
America the Beautiful Song Lyrics
This eleven slide Smartboard file teaches students the first verse of the song America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates . Each slide has one line of the lyrics with a picture. Activities include a) random image selection with multiple choice responses. Pictures and words are: sea, fruit, sky, grain, brotherhood, mountain, America, purple, majesties and good. b) A cloze reading exercise is a summary and includes eight missing words from the lyrics for the students to complete. The answer
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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Roald Dahl
This is a Smart Notebook file that forms a lesson on Roald Dahl. It was originally made for a special needs class but can easily be used for a class of nearly any age or ability. It includes links to videos and a worksheet to be completed at the end to summarise the lesson.
Grades:
2nd - 9th
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What time is it? (SMARTBOARD FILE)
This is an interactive file intended to teach ELL students how to tell time in American English. Vocabulary includes: clock, grandfather clock, hour glass, watch. Once slide is matching English to English synonyms such as: AM/ in the morning, an hour/ 60 minutes, half an hour/ 30 minutes, a quarter of an hour/ 15 minutes, it's 12:00/ it's noon etc. As students match the synonyms a secret picture is revealed: Salvador Dali's painting Clocks That Melt. Also includes informational text in a sh
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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Secondary Website Evaluation
Teach your students the R.O.C.A.A. method when using the internet to research topics. Interactive Smartboard Lesson keeps students engaged and helps them understand what it takes to make a website valid for research.
Grades:
8th - 12th
Main Idea Unit with Passages, Games, Etc. for Middle School .Notebook Smartboard
Looking to teach the strategies of Main Idea to a group of students? Look no more! This unit has motivations, games, activities, passages, and graphic organizers to help students learn how to utilize main idea in their own books/passages/test prep! Passages were pulled from various test prep Common Core materials generated by other teachers. Can be used for grades 5-9 depending on level.
Pages in this .Notebook file include:
Motivation games
Song Lyrics- finding the main idea
Graphic Organizers
Grades:
4th - 10th
PARCC-like Smart Board Activity - Franklin Roosevelt
Students will read an article about Rooselvelt. and then create a summary with important events in the order they happened. This activity is done on the Smart Board and is very similar to the drag and drop questions they will see on PARCC.
Grades:
5th - 12th
AP Language Charlie Hebdo Paris Cover Argument Practice Smart Notebook
This is an editable Smart Notebook file containing a quick write regarding the Nov. 18 Charlie Hebdo cover (visual rhetoric) in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris on Fri. Nov. 13. The quick write leads into a review of the types of claims, types of thesis statement, and types of evidence. Follows nicely with Chapter 3 in The Language of Composition textbook, but is not necessary to have the textbook to implement the lesson. Check out my word document file that follows along with the less
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Grades:
11th - 12th
Expository Research 5-Paragraph Essay SMART Response Assessment
After learning the components of a 5-paragraph essay, students can take this as a formative assessment to show the teacher that they are ready to submit their final draft. If students do not do well with it, the teacher can see what they may need to revisit and revise, before students are finished with the final product. Answer Key is embedded in the document.
There is a paper version of this test in my store, as well.
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Expository Research Unit Smart Response Clicker Quiz
This item works with the Smart Response System for Smart Boards and can be used at the end of a research unit. It could also be used as a formative assessment at the beginning a research unit, as well. There are 11 questions and an answer key at the end. The answers are embedded in the quiz, so the system will grade it for the teacher! I also have a paper version of this item in my store, as well.
***BUNDLE ALERT: This will also be sold as part of a bundle for the whole unit, when the bundle i
Grades:
7th - 12th
To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 2 SMARTNotebook file
This is the SMARTboard NOTEBOOK file I use with Chapter 2 of To Kill a Mockingbird. You may recall this chapter involves Scout's first day of school. Because of the increased use of nonfiction articles on the Virginia SOL tests, this day's activity involves students reading nonfiction to connect to the novel. This is a full class lesson of exploring the chapter, investigating one of the allusions, connecting literature to nonfiction, making inferences, and assessing comprehension of character
Grades:
8th - 11th
L'énigme d'Einstein
A fun riddle that was supposed to have been created by Einstein himself. I've made an activity for French classes to traverse the riddle and come to there own answer. The video is in English; however, this can be done without watching the video if you like. They can do this individually or in groups. Aimed at French immersion or intermediate French Core.Will require Smart Notebook 11 or lower to open this lesson.
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6th - 9th
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Martin Luther King - Letter From a Birmingham Jail - First 4 Paragraphs Argument
This interactive product will help you teach common core standard R.I.8. I followed Coleman's analysis from the common core state standards videos.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Nonfiction Texts
Full lesson supporting students to identify a variety of text features from nonfiction texts. Students discuss the purpose of text features and their importance to nonfiction texts and use this this further analyse nonfiction texts. By the end of the lesson students are supported to write their own nonfiction text including these text features. This lesson was designed for the aspect ratio of the new wide-screen SMARTboards, but can still be used on older models or SLSO by zooming in.
Grades:
6th - 9th
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