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8th grade english language arts 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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ELA and Reading Vocabulary Review Bingo (6th grade CCSS/Georgia Milestones)
This review game combines the fun and ease of Bingo with challenging questions over language arts and reading vocabulary terms. Each question comes with an answer that you can reveal to your students with just one click. I've also given you a slide of teacher notes to guide you. Plus, the format of the Smart Notebook allows you to edit as you see fit. Use for state test review (such as the Georgia Milestones), unit test review, or as an alternate assessment!
Vocabulary Included:
*theme
*to
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Flyswatter SMART Board Review Game - Template for Any Subject & Any Grade
This is a template SMART Board lesson for the "Flyswatter Game". This is an extremely fun game that can be used for ANY Subject at ANY Grade level. Your students will love practicing skills or reviewing their knowledge of a particular unit with this exciting class game! Student race against each other to find the answer to your question. When they "swat" their answer, the word spins with SMART animation! The lesson includes the gameboard page, lesson ideas, instructions for setting up your
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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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A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley Jeopardy Review Game
This is a Jeopardy review game for the drama version of A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley. This drama is featured in the new Prentice Hall Literature books (Common Core Edition) for 7th Graders. It is formatted using Smart Notebook and is made to be used with the Smartboard. All of the categories are pre-linked to each question slide, and each question slide is linked back to the questions, making it easy and quick to navigate in class. There is also a red bar that can be taken again and a
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6th - 10th
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ZONK Monsters Review Game (SmartBoard)
Zonk is a FUN review game that can be used for all grades and all subjects! One of the best things about ZONK is that it is a game based not only knowledge, but luck as well! This keeps the students interested and those who may not know the answers are still engaged and have an opportunity to score points!
You can break the students up into groups or have them play as individuals. If playing with groups, establish your rules from the start. I typically tell the students that the person who
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K - 12th
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Animated Traditional Cursive SmartBoard Upper and Lowercase
Your students will love this interactive SmartBoard Cursive lesson. It contains 52 pages of animated upper and lowercase letters. While your students are practicing their cursive at their seats, keep the animation going on the SmartBoard so they can check their own progress.
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2nd - 12th, Adult Education
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
Figurative Language SmartBoard Activities, Games & Overview
8 Slides - ready for fun!
Slide 1 - Vortex Game - Onomatopoeia Game
Slide 2 - Overview of Simile, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Imagery
Slide 3 - Pop the Metaphor Activity
Slide 4 - Alliteration Activity - Roll the Dice
Slide 5 - Colorful Overview of Simile, Imagery, Metaphor, Hyperbole
Slide 6 - Spinner Imagery Activity
Slide 7 - Simile example
Slide 8 - Interactive Sorting Activity of 3 Figurative Language Devices
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2nd - 10th
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Reading Battleship Test Prep Review Game (6th grade CCSS/Georgia Milestones)
Tired of the same old Jeopardy? Spice up your (Review) game with this fun and engaging Battleship review! You can use this for your state test review, unit test review, or as an alternative assessment. Students pair up in teams, then answer questions to compete for the most captured ships. The Smart Notebook format makes it easy to edit as you see fit. Teacher Directions for use are included in this product.
Topics covered:
*connotation
*mood
*alliteration
*rhyme scheme
*foreshadowing
*su
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Daily Oral Language Daily Fix It Interactive SMARTBoard
This SmartNotebook interactive lesson allows you to use your own daily oral language or daily fix it sentences. Simply drag the infinitely cloned proofreading marks up to the sentences and rewrite the sentences correctly. I have provided both a younger and older student version. You can also make worksheets using your own sentences.
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1st - 9th
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SmartNotebook Hangman Game
Fun and easy classroom activity for any age student to use the SmartBoard and participate in the game.
Easy as 1) download, 2) open and 3) play.
This SmartNotebook file includes 2 pages "hangman boards" - 1 with female student and 1 with a male student.
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Grades:
1st - 12th
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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Grades:
5th - 10th
Jeopardy Game Template for SMART Notebook
Do you want to create your own Jeopardy games, but don't have the time? Now with this neatly designed, bright and colorful template you can create Jeopardy style games for your classroom in a snap! Just add your own categories, questions, answers, and save it! Create as many different jeopardy games as you like.
The scoreboard arrows keep score by the hundreds for up to 4 teams. This Smart Notebook file contains 54 pages: 25 question pages, 25 answer pages, a game board, a scoreboard, and ins
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Reading Battleship Test Prep Review Game (8th grade CCSS/Georgia Milestones)
Battleship specifically designed for 8th grade standards. The questions are written at a higher DOK level to strengthen analysis skills. You can use this for your state test review, unit test review, accelerate 7th graders, or as an alternative assessment. Students pair up in teams, then answer questions to compete for the most captured ships. The Smart Notebook format makes it easy to edit as you see fit. Teacher Directions for use are included in this product.
Topics covered:
*connotation
Grades:
7th - 8th
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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.
3
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Grades:
K - 12th
Themes in Disney Smart Board Activity
Teach theme to your students using these Disney movies. Each Disney movie has a link to the movie trailer. Watch some of the trailers with the students and have them come up with a theme. Short exercises follow.
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Grades:
4th - 12th
The Giver Jeopardy Review Game for Smartboard
This is a Jeopardy review game for Lois Lowry's novel The Giver. The game is formatted using Smart Notebook and is made to be used with the Smartboard. All of the categories are pre-linked to each question slide, and each question slide is linked back to the questions, making it easy and quick to navigate in class. There is also a red bar that can be taken again and again to cross out the category selected.
This game includes one round of regular jeopardy, one round of double jeopardy, and a
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6th - 10th
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Context Clues Passages
Once you've taught context clues, students can use these passages to practice identifying the meanings of unfamiliar words in context. Using a SMART Board, students can come up and highlight clues in the passage that lead them to the correct definitions of the words. Multiple choice answers are provided. This can also spark great discussion as students debate over which answers are the best match for the words, using the text as support. This could also be used as a quiz to assess mastery or a p
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6th - 8th
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
Action vs Linking Verb Exercise for Smartboard
This Smartboard file (Notebook software version 10) is an exercise of 5 slides with 25 example sentences for action vs. linking verbs. Students can come to the Smartboard (or use the computer mouse) and move the labels at the bottom to the lines before the sentences. After all labels are applied, move the green square graphic to the right to reveal the correct answers. Included in this file (under the “paper clip” tab) is a document listing the sentences and answers.
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Grades:
4th - 10th
Spanish Easter Games, Activities and Vocabulary - La Pascua
Felices Pascuas! Students will love learning from these colorful, fun Easter games and activities. This Notebook software Smart Board file contains 8 pages of games and activities and 2 pages of Easter vocabulary. The activity breakdown is:Title PageTable of ContentsVocabulary (2 pages containing 34 vocabulary words)Crossword with 10 cluesColors listening activity - Students move colored eggs in to the Easter basket according to teacher instructionsKeyword MatchKeyword MatchWord GuessRandom I
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3rd - 10th
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Spanish Clothing Paper Dolls and Activities - Smartboard Interactive Whiteboard
Students practice clothing words on 14 different pages of colorful, fun activities. The activities include: Page of dragging clothes to dress a boy2 pages of dragging clothes to dress different girls2 pages of dragging clothes into closets (1 for a girl, 1 for a boy)Page of dragging clothes to a washer or dryer2 pages of dragging words to the corresponding articles of clothing (1 for a girl, 1 for a boy)5 pages of images for students to describe (policeman, groom, chef, kids in Halloween costu
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Grades:
1st - 10th
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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Grades:
4th - 8th
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Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
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