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6th grade Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa reading 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. :)
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3rd - 10th
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Christmas Jeopardy Smartboard Language Arts Lesson
This smartboard lesson is a (Christmas Jeopardy-like) lesson that I made up for the smartboard. The categories are fact - opinion, synonyms, antonyms, cause and effect, and homophones. A Smartboard is not required. You can get a free download from Smartech.com to use. This activity would be a great review for anytime, but works especially well during the Christmas season. Made by Scott O'Toole (Scott OToole)
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2nd - 6th
Thanksgiving Jeopardy Smartboard Language Arts Lesson
This smartboard lesson is a (Thanksgiving Jeopardy-like) lesson that I made up for the smartboard. The categories are fact - opinion, synonyms, antonyms, cause and effect, and homophones. A Smartboard is not required. You can get a free download from Smartech.com to use. This activity would be a great review for anytime, but works especially well during the Thanksgiving season. Made by Scott O'Toole (Scott OToole)
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2nd - 6th
Family Culture Project: Activities, Resources, Google Slides and Lessons
The Family Culture Project offers an engaging exploration of students' ancestral roots, inviting them to delve into the rich tapestry of their family histories and original countries. Through interactive activities and research, elementary and middle school participants embark on a journey of discovery, celebrating cultural diversity and fostering a deeper understanding of their heritage. With hands-on projects and presentations, students not only learn about their own backgrounds but also gain
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1st - 8th
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Polar Express Christmas Jeopardy Smartboard Skills Lesson
This smartboard lesson is a (Polar Express Christmas Jeopardy-like) lesson that I made up for the smartboard. The categories are fact - opinion, synonyms, antonyms, cause and effect, and homophones. A Smartboard is not required. You can get a free download from Smartech.com to use. This activity would be a great review for anytime, but works especially well during the Christmas season. Made by Smartboard Smarty.
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Attendance January Winter Interactive Smartboard Morning
If you are looking for a fun way to take attendance in the morning, you will love this January SmartBoard attendance file. It comes complete with a page of detailed instructions for changing your student names. 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, cookie, computer, Easter, garden, Halloween, Kite, monkey, patriotic, pizza, sports, su
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PreK - 6th
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SMARTBOARD Figurative Language in Christmas Songs Activity
Smartboard Christmas activity - identify figurative language in Christmas songs. Students have to read through the lyrics of different winter tunes and Christmas songs and identify types of figurative language, such as metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, or idiom. This is a digital resource. YOU MUST HAVE SMART NOTEBOOK SOFTWARE for this version.* Lyrics have examples highlighted in different colors, so they can try to figure out the color code. Each song has a snowflake link to a mus
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
Halloween Cause and Effect Smartboard Lesson
This 27-Page Interactive Smartboard Lesson works on cause effect realtionships with a Halloween theme. The students come to the smartboard to find the cause or effect by clicking, draging, and writing the correct answer. Made by Scott O'Toole (Scott OToole)
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2nd - 6th
Reading Activity - My Life- Why reading is so important simulation
TEACHER DIRECTIONS
Purpose: A simulation activity that allows students to see the realize the consequences of not trying to become better at reading and writing. This activity puts students into random socioeconomic groups based on a random number on a die. This number will determine how much money they get to spend on six different areas of their life (house, location where they live, food, entertainment, transportation, and college). Students will have to make some difficult choices based
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5th - 10th
Figurative Language Smartboard Language Arts Lesson
This is a 38-page language arts smartboard lesson that covers figurative language. It defines Idioms, Similes, Metaphors, Hyperbole, Bandwagon, Personification, Alliteration, and Onomatopoeia and then has a 9-page interactive quiz. The students come to the board and touch what they believe is the correct label. If they are correct the answer is linked to a page that congratulates them. If they are not correct it is linked to a page that tells them to try again. Made by Scott OToole (Scott O
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3rd - 6th
Smart STEM Tallest Christmas Tree
Tis the season for holiday STEM! Here is a SmartBoard activity that I made for a 2nd grade class. This Smart has directions, materials, charts and timers for the activity. Students are to build the tallest Christmas tree that they can in 15 minutes. At the beginning, I have the jobs broken down. For my class, I will not assign specific jobs, but for some classes it could be needed. For older grades, have the students graph their data they collected.
Grades:
1st - 8th
Boggle for the Smartboard
This is a Boggle game for the smartboard. Its FREE, all I ask is you leave feed back and/or a rating please!
This has extra letter pieces and a colorful template. To create a new game board just rearrange the letters or add in some new ones which are provided. It also has a timer feature to add a little intensity and a word bank to allow students to share words they found with the class.
Ways to use this:
1. Smartboard center during daily 5 or guided reading.
2. Early finishers activity.
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Grades:
K - 12th
Author's Purpose, Context Clues, Rhythm, and Rhyme in Poetry- Common Core Align.
Understanding poetry is the toughest for students to grasp! The new Common Core Standards integrate all types of texts into our lessons and activities. This highly engaging lesson incorporates author's purpose, context clues, rhythm, and rhyme into a powerful lesson where they can examine poetry to interpret meaning. Your students will love it, and you will love how easily you can work poetry into any reading lesson!
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3rd - 6th
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Inferences Minilesson - Garbage Bag Inferences (Smartboard)
This is a unique and engaging way to introduce how to make an inference with your students. For this lesson you will tell students that you want them to help you solve a mystery. Tell them that you have some new neighbors that you have never met before and the family keeps to themselves. Explain that you wanted to find out more about them and you got lucky: it was garbage bag day and they left a small bag of garbage on the curb. Hold up the premade bag of "garbage" you made to share with student
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Grades:
2nd - 7th
Dependent and Independent Clauses SMARTBOARD Pirate Theme
Students will love this interactive whiteboard/SMARTboard activity with a pirate theme. The first part of this SMARTboard lesson is an introduction to dependent and independent clauses. The second half of the lesson is an activity that allows students to practice the skill of recognizing the difference between dependent and independent clauses. Examples of how to make a dependent clause complete (independent) are given on many slides. All slides are self checking so lesson can be used as a mi
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Christmas Lights SMART Board Attendance Activity w/ Animation and Sound
Let's have a day that's merry and bright! Students tap their Christmas light to turn it on. A Christmas bell chimes as the light turns from white to red or green!
This attendance activity comes with both a numbered page (if you assign students numbers) and a page where you can change student names. Directions for changing names are included!
Created by Deb Painter, 2013
*If you are concerned about students being able to reach the higher items on a SMART Board, consider having students use
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Polar Express Smartboard "Race to the North Pole" Jeopardy lesson
This smartboard lesson is a (Polar Express Christmas Jeopardy-like) lesson that I made up for the smartboard. The questions are trivia questions from the book and movie. As students get the answer correct they go to a gameboard in which their train races another train to the North Pole. A Smartboard is not required. You can get a free download from Smartech.com to use. This activity would be a great review for anytime, but works especially well during the Christmas season. Made by Smartb
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2nd - 6th
Paraphrasing Tips and Practice SMARTBOARD
This SMARTboard lesson and activity introduces what paraphrasing is and gives the students a chance to put it into practice. Complete with tips and ways to learn to paraphrase for any report. Linked to You Tube video to help explain paraphrasing and plagiarism. Great for whole group/teacher directed lesson or center activity. Grades 4-8. MUST have SMART Notebook to download and use.
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4th - 8th
Calvin and Hobbes comics SmartBoard Cloze Activity Inferencing
This minilesson is very engaging for students because it uses Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, and the SmartBoard. It can be used for teaching using context clues or inferencing. The file contains comics that have words missing. The students must use the context of the comic to figure out the misssing word. The slide after that will have the original comic to check their work.
*If you do not have a SmartBoard you can still use this with a projector and print out the comics for students to w
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Grades:
1st - 9th
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
Christmas Songs: Set #1 (Total of 7 Songs)
Want to sing some fun Christmas Songs? This Smart Notebook file (Smartboard software) is complete with song lyrics, music notation, and PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT for a total of 7 songs.
Included in the file is "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Deck the Halls, Let it Snow, We Wish you a Merry Christmas, Winter Wonderland, and Frosty the Snowman."
Examine music notation concepts or just sing the songs for fun. This Smartboard file is a great resource for any classroom!
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1st - 6th
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Historical Fiction Mini-Lessons
These useful Smartboard mini-lessons will help your students how to better understand and read historical fiction. This Smart Notebook collection of lessons include a few introductory lessons and 4 mini-lessons you can immediately use in your class. This collection can easily fill an entire week of mini-lessons for your historical lesson unit. As a bonus, I included some journal prompts at the end. Enjoy!*Please Confirm You Have Access to Smart Notebook in Order to Open This File*
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Diptongos - Interactive Whiteboard Presentation
Teach your students to read/write the diphthongs in Spanish. This Interactive Whiteboard Presentation has been created on Smartech (SmartBoard) Notebook Software. This document contains each of the diphthongs (ue, ia, ei, iu, oi, io, ua, uo, ai, eu, ey, oy). It has the diphthong highlighted in a different color. You can have students add words to the pages as they find them in their reading. Many of the words also have pictures to help students build their vocabulary in Spanish.
This docu
Grades:
1st - 12th
NO PREP Main Idea Reading Response Unit, Smartboard and PDF
Just print and start teaching! This is a NO PREP resource! Students will learn to determine the main idea of a variety of high interest texts. Test their reading comprehension of a variety of non-fiction texts with a series of reading responses. Your students will be engaged and ready to rock their standardized test!
* A great unit to prep for standardized testing!*
What's Included:
Smartboard File (65 + pages)
Main Idea Unit PDF handouts (50+ pages).
All unit instructions and Assessme
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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