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Middle school Thanksgiving writing-expository resources for SMART Notebook
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
Thanksgiving Themed Jeopardy Game for Smartboard - SMART Notebook
What a fun way for your students to learn about the Thanksgiving holiday! This Jeopardy game includes 25 categories, with each category having five questions each. The categories are: Pilgrims, Fun Facts, Math, Grammar, and Turkey! A scoreboard for three teams is included on the main page, as well as all buttons and questions needed to play the game. This Smart Notebook file is 28 pages long and features cute graphics in a Jeopardy style game.
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2nd - 7th
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Attendance Thanksgiving Interactive Smartboard Morning
If you are looking for a fun way to take attendance in the morning, you will love this Thanksgiving SmartBoard attendance file. It comes complete with a page of detailed instructions for changing your student names and three different attendance pages to choose from. 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, computer, cookie, Easter, gar
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PreK - 6th
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Thanksgiving Then and Now Smartboard Activity
Thanksgiving Now and Then SmartBoard Venn diagram activity comparing the food of the first Thanksgiving to Thanksgiving today. Add to your Thanksgiving activities. Using the movable text on a SMART interactive whiteboard, students drag the names of Thanksgiving foods to where they think they should go on the diagram. Then they can check the key to see if they are right on the next page, and link to an interesting informational article to read about the first Thanksgiving! Fun November activity!
Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in: Thanksgiving Activities Bundle Grades 3 - 6
Writing Hooks - Fishing For A Hook Activity (Smart Notebook Version)
Students have a hard time understanding hooks, and the importance of a good "hook". This engaging lesson will have students literally "fishing for hooks". They will discover the importance of hooks in their persuasive writing. After students learn what a hook is, they will actually fish for hooks in a plastic swimming pool using a fishing pole and magnet. Once they fish out a "hook" they will read the hook and determine its effectiveness. This activity provides an engaging way to teach stud
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Grades:
4th - 9th
Recognzing Different Types of Writing
This is a SmartBoard lesson that helps students recognize three different types of writing. It gives them quick exerts of each and then test their newly learned skills with a couple of fun games.
Grades:
2nd - 9th
Halloween Ghosts and Thanksgiving Turkey Attendance for SMART Notebook
I like to call this, Super Attendance because each student gets a DIFFERENT icon. Other attendance trackers have the same pictures with different student names. Kids LOVE how their attendance picture is special to only them. All names are easily editable in Smart Notebook with instructions provided. Each student has a different Halloween ghost in a haunted house disappearing in their own spooky way! The Thanksgiving turkey attendance is a freebie for this mini Fall holiday package.
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PreK - 6th
SmartBoard Attendance- Turkey Theme
I must admit, that this is another one of my favorites! It's perfect for November and the fall! Once the students put their feather behind the turkey for attendance it looks really cute - and attendance is done for the day! Just make sure you don't save it at the end of attendance and it can be used over and over again! Be sure to check out all of my smartboard attendance files for Notebook software. Have Fun!
Grades:
PreK - 12th
Spanish Thanksgiving Games, Vocabulary and Activities for SmartBoard
This Spanish Thanksgiving SmartBoard resource contains 9 games and activities, plus a page with vocabulario and corresponding images. The games and activities use mostly Spanish food vocabulary but also a few words associated with the Thanksgiving holiday. Examples are family, airplane, football, t.v. and deer.Activities included are:Word BizImage MatchImage SelectWord GeneratorWord GuessRandom Image ChooserTable with 12 Food Words and Pictures for Vocabulary PresentationDrag Food Pictures to
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Grades:
3rd - 12th
Smart Notebook: Revisions for Creating Clear and Concise Academic Writing
Smart Notebook: Revisions for Creating Clear and Concise Academic Writing created by Darla Brink
Five specific strategies with student examples. Activities provided for guided practice and reflection. Strategies include getting rid of unnecessary words, avoiding ineffective repetition, rewriting without using second person and getting to the point.
Smart Notebook: Revisions for Creating Clear and Concise Academic Writing by Darla Brink is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonComm
Grades:
5th - 8th
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
PERSONAL NARRATIVE COMPLETE UNIT WITH LITERATURE AS INSPIRATION FOR SMARTBOARD
Personal Narrative
Writing Unit (about 2-3 weeks)
Grades 2,3,4 but can be adapted for older or younger grades
EACH LESSON INCLUDES A LEARNING OBJECTIVE!
This Unit incorporates the use of literature as inspiration for writing our personal narrative. It's created for a 2nd or 3rd grade Personal Narrative writing Unit.
Each day requires:
*reading a book
*teacher models a graphic organizer
*students complete their own organizer
*short paragraphs written for each organizer
Skills touched upon in
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Grades:
1st - 6th, Staff
History of Thanksgiving SMART Notebook
Use this SMART Notebook file to introduce your students to the history of Thanksgiving. This 11 Page file includes 3 linked videos that are embedded within the notebook. The videos are: History of Thanksgiving, Mayflower Deconstructed, and Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Grades:
K - 6th
Thanksgiving Turkey Talk Editing Jeopardy - SMARTBOARD
This interactive "Jeopardy -like" game is a fun way for students to show what they know about various language arts skills. However, different from other jeopardy games because all players or teams must submit an answer to each question, keeping all engaged in the lesson. Questions include: grammar, sentence structure, punctuation including commas, figurative language, vocabulary, and more. Interactive scoreboard included and a spinner on each answer page so that teams (or players) will take
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Thanksgiving Math Game
This Smart Notebook has a Thanksgiving theme while addressing several of the math common core standards. The notebook contains a total of 18 slides with 13 slides containing problems, a title slide with directions, a homepage slide and a slide that details all the common core standards the notebook addresses. It has word problems that contain adding, subtracting and division of fractions/mixed numbers with unlike denominators, changing fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions, equivalen
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5th - 7th
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Strategies to Improve Reports: a SmartBoard Presentation for 4th-6th Grade
As students move into the upper Elementary grades and Middle school, strong expository writing skills and research skills are critical. Students are inherently curious, ask questions and look for answers, but what do they do with their facts once they have found information and done the research? This presentation goes through 9 critical strategies for writing and improving research papers
In this interactive SmartBoard presentation, fourth through sixth graders will learn about:
1. Strateg
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Argumentative Reading and Writing CommonCore Lesson
The skills covered in this unit include: identifying multiple stances for a given claim, identifying the author’s claim on an argumentative text, vocabulary for argumentative writing, analyzing claims, evaluating author’s reasons, using ethos, logos, and pathos to back up an argument, the structure for an argumentative paragraph based on text, and graphic organizers. The text that was used in this example is from www.readworks.com and is titled “Making your Mark,” and presents claims about wheth
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4th - 8th
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PlayDoh Writing Process
SmartBoard slides to accompany a lesson that teaches the writing process using PlayDoh. Last slide is a compare/contrast chart to guide students through the similarities of creating art and creating a piece of writing! The lesson plan can be found on-line.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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Turkeys in Disguise -- English Professions
Looking for an engaging way to teach some professions in English? Looking for something fun for November with a Thanksgiving theme? Look no further. This SMARTboard file features some very silly turkeys in disguise as the following professions/people/fantasy characters:
1. Santa Claus
2. Singer
3. Ballerina
4. Princess
5. Pirate
6. Astronaut
7. Doctor
8. Hawaiian
9. Egyptian
10. Fairy
11. Sheriff
12. Superhero
13. Turkey
Student will hear audio as the images are pressed. Vocabulary is set up i
Grades:
PreK - 6th
A Paragraph is Like a Cheeseburger
This is a fun creative thinking/writing lesson that will help students build a clear understanding of the parts of a paragraph and can extend to the parts of an essay using an analogy between paragraphs and cheeseburgers. It would also be a fun review for paragraph writing.
Included is a SMART Notebook file which includes the teacher lesson plan notes and all materials needed for the lesson.
Created by Sarah Allred Follow me on Twitter @RockstarTchr
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Thanksgiving Turkey Attendance for Smartboard
27 names and turkeys for kids to sign in on the Smartboard in the morning!
Complete with instructions on how to change names to your students'.
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K - 7th
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Plagiarism Week
I have created a SMARTboard lesson that introduces students to plagiarism. The lesson covers what plagiarism is, who can commit plagiarism, and even some of the consequences of it. It includes several famous examples of "borrowing work" and has many links to additonal information for discussion. It also include a short quiz.
Grades:
5th - 12th
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French Turkeys in Disguise: Fun with Professions
Looking for an engaging way to teach some professions in French? Looking for something fun for November with a Thanksgiving theme? Look no further! This SMARTboard file features some very silly turkeys in disguise as the following professions/people/fantasy characters:
1. Le Père Noël
2. un chanteur
3. une ballerine
4. une princesse
5. un pirate
6. un astronaute
7. un médecin
8. un Hawaïen
9. un Égyptien
10. une fée
11. un shérif
12. un superhéro
Student will hear audio as the images are press
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Grades:
PreK - 8th
Expository Essay
This smart lesson walks students through what an expository essay is and what makes a great paper! It is an interactive and very engaging lesson that is easy to follow. It is broken down into 4 categories: 1. Strong and personal connection to the prompt. 2. Organization: Introduction, 1st Reason, 2nd Reason, and Conclusion. 3. Accurate use of language and conventions. 4. Descriptive Language: Idioms, Similes, Metaphors, Alliteration, $100 words/RIP words, Ba Da Bings, etc...
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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