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Middle school Winter writing-expository resources for SMART Notebook
Attendance January Winter Interactive Smartboard Morning
If you are looking for a fun way to take attendance in the morning, you will love this January SmartBoard attendance file. It comes complete with a page of detailed instructions for changing your student names. 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, cookie, computer, Easter, garden, Halloween, Kite, monkey, patriotic, pizza, sports, su
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PreK - 6th
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2 Attendance Pages for the 100th Day of School Interactive Smartboard Morning
If you are looking for a fun way to take attendance in the morning, you will love this 100th Day of School SmartBoard attendance file. You get two different pages to choose from (one animated) and a detailed page of instructions for each. 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, cookie, computer, Easter, garden, Halloween, Kite, monkey,
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PreK - 6th
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Snowman and Winter Themed SMART Board Attendance Activity w/ Animation & Sound
Let's build a snowman to start the day!! Students click on their snowball to build a snowman and make a magical sound!
This attendance activity comes with both a numbered page (if you assign students numbers) and a page where you can change student names. Directions for changing names are included!
Created by Deb Painter, 2014
*If you are concerned about students being able to reach the higher items on a SMART Board, consider having students use a pointer. This has worked great in my clas
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Smartboard Attendance - Penguins
A fun winter way to take attendance each morning. The student just has to drag their penguin to the igloo. Any penguins that are still left are considered absent students. A great tool for classroom management. Just don't save it when they are done and you will be able to use it all winter long! Be sure to check out all of my smartboard attendance files for Notebook software. Have Fun!
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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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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
SmartBoard Attendance- Hot Chocolate
What a fun way to take attendance each morning!!! Who doesn't love hot chocolate? This attendance board for the SmartBoard allows your students to be self-sufficient in taking attendance. All they have to do is bring their marshmallows to the warm mug of cocoa. If you don't save it when they are done, you will be able to use it over and over again! This is a great tool for classroom management. Comes with instructions to change the marshmallows to your students. Be sure to check out all of
Grades:
PreK - 12th
The Cremation of Sam McGee SMARTBOARD Activities
SMARTBOARD Activities for The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service. Poetry analysis on the smart board and writing activities for the poem. This poem is set at Christmas time in the Arctic in the late 1800's. Includes links to background information on the Klondike Gold Rush, Vocabulary words and definitions, a Vocabulary Matching printable, a link to the full text of the poem, Figurative language examples and interactive quiz, Comprehension questions and answers, links to a reading of the p
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6th - 9th
Also included in: The Cremation of Sam McGee Poetry BUNDLE
Mr. Popper's Penguins SMART Respsonse
Mr. Popper's Penguins is always a winter favorite. Students love reading to find out what Mr. Popper and his 12 penguins will do next! This is a SMART Response file designed to be used to assess students' comprehension of the chapters. There are twenty chapters, so two chapters are assessed in each quiz. There are 6-9 questions per set of chapters. The questions are a variety of multiple choice, true/false, yes/no, and student input answers.
Each quiz is designed to be completed separately
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3rd - 6th
Christmas Family Feud Smartboard Activity
20 Family Feud style questions centered around Christmas and the Holidays. Each slide has the question listed at the top with the answers in a table below. Each cell of the table has a screen shade on it until you are ready to reveal the answer. Can be played in teams of two or more.
*If you print a handout version ahead of time, you have your answer key :)
**Please make sure your computer allows you to access Smart Notebook technology before downloading.
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4th - 10th
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SmartBoard Attendance- Catching Snowflakes
This is a fun way to take attendance through those winter months. The kids love using the smartboard and this is the perfect way to get everyone involved and to have attendance done! Just have them drag their snowflake to the girl catching flakes and attendance is done! Don't forget that you don't want to save it when it's done and you'll be able to use it over and over! Be sure to check out all of my smartboard attendance files for Notebook software. Enjoy!
Grades:
PreK - 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
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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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1st - 6th, Staff
Winter Fun Jeopardy SMARTBOARD
This fun interactive SMARTboard jeopardy game might be the solution to review language skills during the longer days of winter. Students will learn while having fun with humorous graphics and language arts questions. All students remain engaged because each question will require an answer from each team and then points are determined by spinning the wheel. Topics covered are vocabulary, prefixes, suffixes, grammar, synonyms, antonyms, and more. Three of the slides add fun and excitement with
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Winter Sports Attendance for SMART Board
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 child sledding/skiing/snowboarding, while interacting with the environment in their own unique ways.
Please check out my other fun attendance trackers in my TPT store!
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PreK - 6th
SMARTBOARD Christmas or Holiday Game Template
This is a Christmas game template made with Smart Notebook software. This game is completely written and ready to go with all links in place. Just simply type in questions and answers and you are done! Text boxes are already there with font in place. Just click and type. Gameboard takes you to QUESTION slide, which has a link to go to ANSWER slide, which takes you to POINTS slide that will take you back to the GAMEBOARD. The gameboard consists of all types of Christmas objects (gingerbread
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PreK - 12th
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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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4th - 6th
Attendance Hot Air Balloon Interactive Smartboard Morning
If you are looking for a fun way to take attendance in the morning, you will love this Hot Air Balloon SmartBoard attendance file. It comes complete with a page of detailed instructions for changing your student names. 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, cookie, computer, Easter, garden, Halloween, Kite, monkey, patriotic, pizza, sp
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PreK - 6th
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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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All About Winter Adjectives with 2 Dogs and a Teacher
These original 18 photos from 2 Dogs and a Teacher are the perfect way for your class to review adjectives using Smart Board technology. Each has a sentence that allows students to select adjectives by tapping on a SB tool element which allows the answer to be seen. On each page there is a higher order Bloom's writing extension that you can use as well.
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2nd - 6th
"Winter Olympics Medal Count" SMART Board Activity
Bring the thrill of the Olympics to your classroom with the "Winter Olympics Medal Count" SMART Board Activity! Keep a running tab of the USA's medal count for the duration of the Winter Games!
Students help to keep track of gold, silver, and bronze medals earned by dragging the appropriate medals to the boxes. The number of medals is recorded and changed as needed. Each time a medal is earned, students click on the Sochi olive wreath to hear the crowd cheer!
Created by Deb Painter, 2014
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PreK - 12th
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
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