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Middle school reading strategies resources for SMART Notebook
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
Smartboard - I Mustache You Text Structure Game!
Do your kiddos need practice with nonfiction text structures? This is the perfect Smartboard game and will quickly become a class favorite! It is loaded with interactive buttons, sounds, and animations. It has two sections to support differentiation. In section 1: Match & Sorts - students play games to practice definitions, signal words, and tricky cause and effect sorts. In section 2: Questions - Choose a question card and answer various questions about text structures.
If you like this p
Grades:
2nd - 6th
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
Making Thinking Visible with Patricia Polacco Mini Unit
This Mini Unit introduces 7 Making Thinking Visible thinking routines with 7 reading strategies using a variety of books by award winning author, Patricia Polacco. This is the perfect unit to introduce or review these MTV thinking strategies!
Making Thinking Visible Routines Covered:
Zoom In, Chalk Talk, Step Inside, The Explanation Game, I Used to Think...Now I Think..., Headlines, 3-2-1 Bridge
Reading Strategies Covered:
Visualizing, Making Connections, Questioning, Determining Importance,
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Fifth Grade Georgia Milestones Test Prep: Earth Science Informational Texts
I created this SMART file lesson as part of my plan for preparing my students for this year's Georgia Milestones Test. All texts, organizers, etc. are attached to the SMART file slides. The SMART mini-unit includes a poem about erosion with poem analysis sheet, links to online text structures and text features lesson with two assessments, four INFORMATIONAL TEXT handouts on Earth Science topics such as coastal erosion and glaciers, a CLOSE READING activity and more. It takes 7-8 days to complete
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Graphic Novel/Comic Text Features
From beginning to end, this resource takes students step by step through learning about and developing their own comic strips. They practice writing and drawing all text features used in graphic novels. Unit has culminating activity that has students create their own comic strip.
Comes with activity sheets and assessment page.
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4th - 8th
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Reading Strategies and Independent Reading Response Unit, SB & PDF
A best selling unit!
This unit is designed to set up your independent reading program, and to specifically teach each reading strategy through a series of 15 lessons.
This download includes the Smartboard file (50+) and all pdf handouts (70+ pages)
The unit is divided into 2 parts, the first 6 lessons are dedicated to setting up an effective independent reading program.
The second part of the unit is dedicated to teaching reading strategies through a variety of mini lessons, read-a-louds
Grades:
4th - 6th
Star Wars Greek & Latin Roots Smartboard Games
Do your kiddos need practice with Greek and Latin Root Words? This is the perfect Smartboard game and will quickly become a class favorite! It is loaded with interactive buttons, sounds, and animations. It has two sections to support differentiation. In section 1 - students identify the Root words and definitions (match & sort, pairs, vortex, letter tiles). In section 2 - students choose questions from a question board. This board includes activities to help kids strengthen their knowledge o
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3rd - 6th
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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
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
Alice In Wonderland Similes & Metaphors Smartboard Game
This Smartboard game is a creative way to provide students with multiple opportunities to identify and interpret the meaning of metaphors and similes. It is loaded with interactive buttons, sounds, and animations. It has two sections to support differentiation. In section 1 - students identify similes and metaphors (match and sort, pairs, vortex). In section 2 - students choose questions from a question board. This board includes activities to help kids strengthen their knowledge (exchange a sim
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Thankful for Predictions, Inferences, Drawing Conclusions SMARTBOARD
This interactive Smartboard lesson is played like a jeopardy game. The board has 20 slides complete with short passages and answer choices. This activity is a Thanksgiving theme and all passages and questions are about the Pilgrims, the Wampanoag Indian tribe, or Thanksgiving trivia. Skills addressed in this activity are Predicting, Inferring, Drawing Conclusions, and then some fun riddles and trivia. All slides are linked to a scoreboard and all slides are self checking. This can easily be
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Social Issues Reading Unit Smartboard
This product is a series of eight reading minilessons which focus on social issues in books. The Smartboard presentation follows the Reader's Workshop model and each lesson includes a connection, a teaching point, a teaching component, active engagement, and link (as well as other supplemental activities and slides). The lessons included in this product are:
1) What are Social Issues
2) Readers Evaluate How Characters are Treated
3) Issues Hide Within the Pages of Books That You Know Well
4) R
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Building a Reading Life Unit Smartboard
This is a unit you can use with your students to help them build their reading life at the beginning of the year. The minilessons in this unit include:
1) How to Pick a "Just Right" Book
2) What Good Readers Do
3) Rituals and Routines
4) Goal Setting
5) Logging Your Reading
6) Marking Your Spot
7) Parts Go Together
8) Reading Faster, Stronger, and Longer
9) Establishing Partnerships
10) Reading in the Company of Partners
11) Reflecting on Your Reading Life
12) Book Recommendations
13) Stepping
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Leprechaun Legend and Lore SMARTBOARD
This SMARTBoard lesson is full of fun and skills (but not trickery). It encompasses various language arts skills and rules while using the fun legends and lore of leprechauns and St. Patrick's Day. There is a game board that students begin with by clicking on a square with a funny leprechaun. This takes you to a slide using language arts skills such as: inferring, fact and opinion, summarization, riddles, information that is off topic, and more. All slides are linked to a score board so that stu
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Multi Meaning Word Mini Lesson PLUS Printable Word Card Game
This activity is 2 lessons in one. Begin with the SMARTboard mini lesson on multi-meaning words. Slides discuss how many of our words have more than one meaning so the reader must use the context to determine the meaning. At the end of the lesson, click on the link to the printable multi-meaning word card game. There are a total of 24 word cards and 24 sentence cards to match up to the word cards. I would suggest printing it on card stock. It was produced in color but can easily be printed
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Drawing Conclusions lesson SMARTboard file for TAP observation
This is a SMARTboard file created with almost all of the components of a TAP observation including Common Core standards in kid-friendly terms, internal summaries, group work, etc. This lesson goes well with 4th grade Storytown lesson "The Stranger," but can be used for any introductory or review on drawing conclusions. Also, look for the other components to this lesson including lesson plan, independent work, differentiated group games, closing strips, etc. You must have SMART Notebook softwa
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3rd - 6th
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Making Inferences & Drawing Conclusions Smart Notebook Lesson
Teach your students how to make inferences with this thirty page, interactive, Smart Notebook Lesson. Your students will get to read stories, draw conclusions, use background knowledge, and information from the text to complete the interactive activities within this file. Containers, magic revealers, voting, and outside resources fill this lesson and make learning how to infer super fun. A "what's in the bag" mini-game is also included! Enjoy!THIS IS A SMART NOTEBOOK FILE. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Expository Practice Passage NonFiction Text PUFFINS SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson provides a nonfiction passage for your expository unit on puffins and 14 slides with questions about the nonfiction text. It also includes a printable version of the passage so your students can have a hard copy in front of them while working their way through the questions. 16 questions about the selection include: main idea, author's purpose, author's point of view, fact and opinion, context clues, and more. All questions are self checking so this lesson ma
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Character Analysis Unit for Reader's Workshop - Smartboard
This product is a series of eighteen reading lessons which focus on analyzing characters. The Smartboard presentation follows the Reader's Workshop model and each lesson includes a connection, a teaching point, a teaching component, active engagement, and link (as well as other supplemental activities and slides). The lessons included in this product are:
Lesson 1 - Thinking Over Stories with Partners
Lesson 2 - Retelling Stories By Starting at the Beginning
Lesson 3 - Learning to Listen Int
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Metacognition Lesson - Smartboard
This Smartboard presentation is a great way to explain and introduce the concept of metacognition to your students. The Smartboard explains that metacognition means "thinking about your thinking" while you read and explains how to use it as a reading strategy. Students get to make a "reading salad" to help them understand that text + their thinking = real reading. It is a great visual to provide students with.
Also, if you have students write reading responses in response to the independent re
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Book Club Introduction Smartboard
Starting book clubs up with your students? Do you need a Smartboard presentation to explain what should happen in book club, explain book club expectations, and explain book club accountability? Then this is for you! This Smartboard presentation explains:
1) What book club is about
2) What happens at book club each day of the week
3) Discusses the types of things to discuss at book club
4) Gives an explanation each type of book club job (Connector, Questioner, Synthesizer, Visualizer/Illustrato
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Catherine Called Birdy Novel Introduction-SmartBoard Interactive Lesson
I use this SmartBoard presentation as an introduction to the novel study of Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman. The presentation delivers background information about the time period of the book as well as vocabulary introduction. The information is presented in an entertaining and creative manner that grabs students' attention. The whole presentation requires student interaction. SmartBoard Smart Response Responders can be used with this SmartBoard presentation. You DO NOT need the respon
Grades:
4th - 9th
Making Inferences SMARTBOARD PLUS PRINTABLE Inferencing Card Set
This lesson is both a smartboard lesson providing practice in inferencing skills AND PRINTABLE activity cards that can be used as either teacher directed mini lesson or in an independent center or station. Level of difficulty varies to meet the needs of a differentiated classroom. Solving the mystery is fun for the students as they use their schema and clues from the passage. Three famous pictures are included in which answers will vary, and they make a great discussion piece for the class to
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
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