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Middle school reading strategies resources for SMART Notebook $5-10
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
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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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
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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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
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
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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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
Reading Strategies Smartboard Bundle
This product includes all of my reading strategy lessons. It includes lessons on:
1) Metacognition
2) Schema
3) Making Connections
4) Questioning/Making Predictions
5) Visualization
6) Inferring (Garbage Bag Inferences)
7) Synthesizing
8) Determining Importance
9) 7 Keys to Comprehension posters (Inferring, Evaluating, Making Connections, Visualizing, Fixing Up, Questioning, Synthesizing)
The lessons include fun activities that help you better explain what the strategy means and explains how y
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan - Literacy Unit
This is a SMART Notebook File aimed at years 3 and 4 but can be changed to suit students from year 3 -6.In this unit students will develop their understanding of how stories can be communicated using images– both still images and moving images. Through an in-depth study of a picture book and an animated short film they will explore how visual narratives are constructed. They will engage in interpretation of the settings, events, characters and themes expressed in these texts. They will also lear
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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Historical Fiction Reading Unit Smartboard
This product is a series of ten reading minilessons which focus on historical fiction. 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) Constructing the Sense of Another Time
2) Synthesizing Story Elements
3) Holding On When Time Jumps Back and Forth
4) Unfolding Characters
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Plants: Lesson 8: Pollination & Angiosperm Reproduction
Students explore pollination and angiosperm reproduction by looking at real flowers, playing online games, reading stories, drawing and more. As a brain break, students also have a run-around scavenger hunt to review previous plant information.
This lesson may take 2-3 class periods, depending on how long your class periods are. I did this in 2 90 minute periods. That being said, there are additional relevant do-nows, hooks etc. included at the end so you can rearrange each day as you like.
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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
Text Features Unit, No Prep Technology Infused Learning, Smartboard & PDF
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Are you looking to try out some new instructional strategies to engage your junior learners? Try incorporating some technology! From beginners to tech savvy teachers, this unit has something for everyone! You do not need a class set of tech… you can use classroom computers, laptops, ipads and even phones! You can even plan a BYOD day! (Bring Your Own Device) OR no tech at all…you
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Wizard of Oz: Idioms, Adages, & Proverbs Smartboard Game
This Smartboard game is a creative way to practice a difficult topic. Provide your students with multiple opportunities to identify, interpret and create meaning from Idioms. This game is loaded with interactive buttons, sounds, and animations. It has many sections to support differentiation. In section 1 - students identify idiom, proverbs, & adages (match and sort, pairs, vortex). In section 2 - students choose questions from a question board. Section 3 - students write the meaning of the
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Word Families -eam and -eed Interactive Games
Intended for early elementary or special education students of any grade level, these activities teach phonics in a fun, interactive way. Students are presented with four pages of pictures that can be tapped to hear the word spoken, then use digital manipulatives to spell that word. There are also 2 activities for rhyming words and one to recognize real words vs. nonsense words in these word families.
These activities can be used with any interactive whiteboard or on student computers with
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Grades:
PreK - 12th
La LLorona The Weeping Woman
File includes a smart board presentation to go along with the short story "La LLorona, The Weeping Woman" by Joe Hayes. File does not include the story.
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Common Language for Teaching Reading Strategies Smartboard
Common Language for Teaching Reading Strategies. The 1st half of the SMART file includes the Teacher instruction. The 2nd half of the SMART file includes the actual Reading Strategy Lesson to be used with students. There is a full size version of my Reading Strategy Poster included on one of the slides. I have also included a PDF gray scale version of the student Reading Strategy Bookmarks that I designed for your use as well. These could be printed on card stock and laminated for daily use
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PreK - 6th
Reading Comprehension Strategies
This Smart Notebook lesson goes through different reading comprehension strategies with sentence stems.
Included strategies:
Clarify Vocabulary
Text Connections
Visualization
Synthesize
Determining Importance
Inference
Mentor Texts to help teach the strategies!
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Jeopardy ELA Grades 5-8
A SmartBoard File including a comprehensive jeopardy game for grades 5-8 including categories such as context clues, sentence errors, idioms, and homophones. Reluctant readers love this game!
Grades:
5th - 8th
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
Problem Solving with Clue Chapter Books
Help teach your students problem solving skills by reading aloud the Clue chapter books. This smartboard includes the layout of the mansion and the detective notepad. The first page has links to the pictures of the characters, rooms, and weapons to familiarize your students with the story. You will need to order the Clue chapter books off Ebay or Amazon because they are no longer being sold through scholastic.
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2nd - 12th
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How To Steal A Dog By Barbara O Connor Book Guide and Questions
This product will take you through the entire book, How To Steal A Dog By Barbara O Connor Book. Includes turn and talk prompts, comprehension questions, and writing prompts.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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