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Middle school creative writing resources for SMART Notebook
Writing Strong Endings for Narratives using Mentor Texts
Do your students struggle to write a strong satisfying ending to their stories? I know my students do! I created this SMARTboard presentation to use with my students.
The presentation starts by covering the most common endings we want to move our kids away from, and then walks them through how to write a strong ending using mentor texts.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Plants: Lesson 2: Transpiration & the Xylem
In this lesson, students will take the journey through a plant via the perspective of a water droplet (traveling with a mineral). By reading an adventure-like story and illustrating it, the teacher can easily check for understanding, then later, explain the science behind what is happening.
By using a story instead of a boring text, students are more engaged and visualize processes much better. This then, can provide an excellent foundation for building vocab or understanding larger scientific
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Identifying Simile or Metaphor Lesson SMART Notebook
Your students will be able to identify the differences between similes and metaphors after this 31 page Smartboard lesson. This file includes an introduction to both similes and metaphors, then follows up with some interactive activities and 12 multiple-choice Response voting questions. It even includes a simile or metaphor? activity page for you to print and give to your students as a pre or post test. Have fun learning!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Realistic Fiction Writing Unit Smartboard
This is an outstanding unit you can use with your students to help them write well developed and interesting realistic fiction stories! The minilessons in this unit include:
1) Goal Setting and Generating Ideas
2) Imagine Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Imagining Stories We Wish Existed in the World
4) Drafting My Writing
5) Story Mountains
6) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of Our Story
7) Developing Believable Characters
8) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivation
9) Show, Dont Tell
10) Gr
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
An Intro to Poetry on the SmartBoard: A Two-Week Unit Featuring 10 Poetry Forms
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
Halloween Character Traits SmartBoard Vocabulary Activity No Prep
Halloween Writing Activity for Smartboard. Halloween digital resource - writing motivator and vocabulary activity. Five different Halloween characters - vampire, ghost, scarecrow, skeleton, and witch. On the interactive whiteboard, students can drag the character traits they want for their chosen Halloween character into the box. They then can name their character and, in their journal, show, not tell, how their character demonstrates the traits they chose and elaborate on the character. They c
Grades:
5th - 8th
Six-Traits of Writing: Sentence Fluency with Smooth Transitions
This Sentence Fluency lesson concentrates on effective transitions using the popular mentor text, Meanwhile by Jules Feiffer.
The 20 slide SMART file contains 8 days of lessons, activating and summarizing strategies, detailed instructions, graphic organizers, handouts, examples, opportunities for peer and teacher conferencing, scoring rubrics, links to videos, and interactive activities.
It's everything you need to teach an engaging lesson on sentence fluency using effective transitions.
Grades:
4th - 7th
Figurative Language Relating to Poetry- Common Core Aligned
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
Spelling SMART in Grades 5 and 6: SMARTNotebook
Spelling SMART was created by Carrie Sutton to meet the spelling needs of her Grade 5 and 6 class students. It is a SMART notebook file so that it can easily be viewed by students in the classroom.
"I noticed many of them could not spell a large portion of the high frequency words. I also wanted them to use these lessons to learn how to write good sentences with varied beginnings and lengths, and of different types, which contained figurative language. The idea for dress-ups and sentence sta
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5th - 8th
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The Very Itchy Bear Guided Reading 4 Days - Four Blocks Literacy
This is a SMART notebook file that forms 4 days (or 1 weeks) worth of guided reading lessons for the book The Very Itchy Bear by Nick Bland.
This file follows the Anchor, Read, Apply model and has a purpose for reading the book each day.
Included with each day's purpose is a link to the Six Hats Thinking Model.
This file was made originally for a high school special education class using the Four Block Method of Instruction but can easily be used in most school classrooms, for home school, rel
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Grades:
PreK - 10th
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Drafting, Revising, and Editing Lessons - Smartboard
This Smartboard presentation is great to show students during the drafting, revising, or editing stage of writing. It explains and takes students through each process step by step.
Each lesson follows the workshop model and includes:
1) A connection to students' lives
2) A teaching point
3) A teaching component
4) Active engagement activity
5) A link
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Grades:
2nd - 7th
Music Island Partner Songs - Notebook file/unit for SMARTboard
This Notebook file for Interactive Whiteboard is intended to be used by itself as a complete unit, or in combination with your own lessons, in particular, partner songs. Elementary age students are given the role of community singers who have been asked to travel to Music Island to help bring the people of different areas together through music. Their goal is to create a list of partner songs for a sing-a-long concert event to emphasize living in harmony, just like the songs do! There are 15 n
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K - 6th
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Holiday RAFT Writing (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) Smartboard format
This lesson introduces RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) writing. There is a slide that explains each letter in the RAFT acronym. Following that, there are six different holiday RAFT writing prompts, with the last one being "free choice". In my class I have students roll a die (real or on the Smart board) to determine which writing prompt they will complete. We type our stories in Microsoft Word. However, this could easily be done in a writing journal or holiday writing paper.
Holiday RAFT
Grades:
1st - 8th
Writer's Workshop - What Writing Process Step Are My Students On?
Do you find it frustrating trying to keep track of who's on what step of the writing process during a writing project?
Here's a handy-dandy, interactive SmartNotebook file that takes away all the stress from Writer's Workshop! Simply add your students' names to the slide, and voila! The students can slide their name card next to the Writing Process step they are on, and you have an instant visual of the progress your students are making.
This is a great way to keep organized during a writing p
Grades:
8th, Not Grade Specific
Mother's Day Memoir Writing Activity - Smartboard
Mother's love nothing more than a story written by their child about a special memory or time they shared together. Use this Smartboard to help guide your students as they write a memoir about a special moment or memory they shared with their mom. There are fourteen slides that help students brainstorm ideas for their writing piece, two slides explaining what to focus on when writing the memoir, and an example of a mother's day memoir is provided at the end.
Mom's love getting these from their
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
non-fiction model texts
Included are 4 model texts that can be used on the interactive whiteboard for the specific teaching of non-fiction writing. Children will enjoy seeing the language and structural skills that support creating information texts, biographies and explanations.
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Grades:
5th - 8th
6 Word Life Memoir SMARTboard Lesson (Editable!)
This activity encourages critical thinking and higher order questioning by having students write their own 6-word memoir. The lesson is a SMARTboard file, so you can edit it to fit your needs!
Started by Ernest Hemingway and popularized in the book "Not Quite What I Was Planning," students will write a story about their lives. The only catch - they can only use 6 words!
In my classroom, I had my students draw an illustration to accompany their six word memoir. We bound the memoirs in a boo
Grades:
2nd - 12th
Writing a Memoir
Even if you have students who profess they "hate to write," they'll love writing their own personal memoir.
In this set of eight SMART lessons, students will work in small groups, pairs, and individually as they learn what a memoir is, what makes a great memoir, how to plan a memoir, and how to write their own memoir.
You'll start off with writing a Six-Word Memoir and end the series of lessons with writing a memoir of a life event. Each lesson has an organizer, a video, and/or some type of a
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Writing Strong Narrative Beginnings using Mentor Texts
Do your students struggle to write a strong beginning to their stories? I know my students do! I created this SMARTboard presentation to use with my students. The presentation starts by covering the most common, "not so good" beginnings and then walks them through, using mentor texts strong beginnings.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Story Characters - Using Body Biographies to Help With Character Analysis
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
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Connotation Denotation Lesson
Encourage your students to use better word choice in their writing as they discover how to correctly apply connotation to enhance the tone of their writing. Students will create connotation lines and apply selected words to their own piece of writing.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Spin a Story SmartBoard Narrative Writing Activity
SmartBoard Spin a Story - Narrative Writing. Create a basic storyline with this Smartboard activity. This idea generator works when students click on the spinners to generate short story elements. Who What Where and When...Character, Plot, and Setting. Will create thousands of variations to help students with story writing. Can be used to generate a whole class narrative writing assignment or use individually for student writing journals. Students with devices can type their story electronicall
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Personification
Want to teach you students interesting literary elements? Want to spruce up their writing? Interactive SmartBoard activities from Traci's Teachables is the way to go! Slides include engagement activity, a poem that uses personification and interactive classroom activities for whole class or small group instruction.
Slides Include:
Warm Up with Sponge Bob
My Chicken's On the Internet poem and sorting activity
Practice Linking Objects with Human Qualities
Examples of Personification
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Memoir Introduction - Smartboard
This Smartboard presentation gives students an introduction to what a memoir is. It lays out the expectations for a typical memoir writing unit. It includes the following:
1) Brainstorming page about what a memoir is and why people write memoirs
2) A reading activity where you read a excerpt from Lois Lowry's memoir "Looking Back"
3) A brainstorming page to help students come up with "seed story" ideas for their collection of memoirs
4) The expectations for the memoir writing unit
5) A memoir
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Grades:
5th - 7th
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