Reading strategies resources for SMART Notebook and for homeschool

Balanced Literacy, Math, Reading Strategies

This is an interactive Smart Board lesson that can be used as either a Common Core Aligned math or literacy activity. This lesson retells Eric Carle's story: "The Grouchy Ladybug" in sequential order. It has an interactive clock that students can manipulate to tell the correct time in the story. There is also an analog clock that may be tapped on every page to reveal the correct time in the story. The characters in the story are animated and there is also a sound component for many of the cha

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PreK - 3rd, Adult Education, Staff

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Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Making Thinking Visible with Patricia Polacco Mini Unit

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Toolkit For Teachers

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,

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Close Reading, English Language Arts, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3rd - 8th

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Lesson

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Interactive Story Retell

Created by

Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies, Spring

This is an interactive story retell for the Smart Board. After reading “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” students will retell the story on the Smart Board. The images of what the caterpillar ate will fade into the screen when the weekday is tapped. This allows students to retell the story in the correct chronological order of events and check their responses on the Smart Board. Students and teachers will love this engaging, interactive lesson.

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PreK - 2nd, Staff

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Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Guide Word Game - Reading SOL Review

Created by

Teaching 3rd in VA

This carnival style game is a great way to review guide words for the 3rd grade reading SOL test. This Smart notebook activity has students shooting ping pong balls into the bucket of the correct answer for 22 guide word questions. Students can check their answers by hitting the green arrows. Great for whole group review or a math review station. THIS IS A SMART NOTEBOOK FILE AND WILL ONLY WORK WITH A SMART BOARD AND SMART NOTEBOOK SOFTWARE.

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ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts, Reading Strategies

Grades:

2nd - 4th

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Games, Centers

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Smart Board Interactive Letter Match

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Back to School, Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies

Directions for the Smart Board Activity: Students tap the die on the Smart Board. They are to name the letter on the die. After naming the letter revealed on the die, students are to write the matching capital or lower-case in the box provided. Students are to tap the moon on the Smart Board and the correct answer will appearThere are 26 slides for every letter in the alphabet in random order. This interactive activity provides alphabet recognition skills. It is a common core aligned activit

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PreK - 1st, Staff

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Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

The Very Busy Spider Interactive Story Retell for the Smart Board

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Balanced Literacy, Literature, Reading Strategies

This is an interactive story retell for Eric Carle's story; "The Very Busy Spider." This retell is a common core aligned activity that includes a sound component for the characters in the story. This activity has engaging clipart that retells the story in sequential order on the Smart Board. The characters on the page will fade into the screen as the page is entered. This engaging activity will promote and enhance reading and comprehension skills. Clipart and fonts by:Doodle Frames, Ralph an

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PreK - 2nd, Staff

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Thematic Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Cause and Effect Smartboard Lessons and Activities

Created by

Mrs Pirate Teacher

**Don't have a Smartboard? Don't worry!! This same product is now available for use with PowerPoint!** Cause and Effect Smartboard Lessons and Activities is a fun, interactive way to teach cause and effect! Multiple slides have object animation to catch students attention and keep them engaged in the learning process! This product contains a weeks worth of lessons and activities and includes a variety of different ways to practice cause and effect. Download includes: ~ 1 Title slide ~ 1 Teach

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English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

1st - 3rd

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Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Sweet Sight Words SMART Board Fun Lucy Calkins Adapted and Dolch Words

Created by

The Classroom Concierge Cheryl Davis

Sweet Sight Words SMART Board Fun Lucy Calkins adapted and Dolch Words ~Activities using the same seven sight words~ Repetition is the most important factor in learning sight words. Students must be exposed to sight words many times before they will recognize them immediately. Sweet Sight Words is a FUN way for kids to practice words adapted by Lucy Calkins high frequency word list and Sight Words on the Dolch list. The activities can be used in whole group, small group and extension activiti

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English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Valentine's Day

Grades:

K - 2nd

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English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Vocabulary

Balto and the Great Race

Created by

Babar

This is a smartboard file for the book Balto and the Great Race. The file contains slides for keeping track of character traits for the main characters. The slides also contain some key vocabulary using context clues. The file is colorful and easy to use.

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2nd - 4th

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Second Grade Sight Word Games and Activities for the Smart Board

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Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies, Spelling

Directions and Contents of Product: This Smart Board activity set contains 20 Smart Board activities to enhance sight word recognition and spelling skills for the second grade. These activities use the second grade Dolch sight word list. It is a common core aligned activity unit for the Smart Board. These activities may be used during whole-group word work skills or independently in a literacy center. The activities include: Two pages that have random word chooser which randomly choses a word

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1st - 3rd, Staff

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Elizabeth Leigh Creations

High Frequency Word Spinners SMARTBOARD

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Check out the High Frequency Word spinners. So versatile - can be used so many different ways. A year's worth of high frequency words on 12 different spinners. Interactive Smartboard/whiteboard fun. Can be used as part of the morning calendar fun; center activities; whole group teacher directed; mini-lesson; games; and much more. Spin the spinner and see what high frequency word you land on. Grades K-2 Total of 100 high frequency words. The last slide is blank so you can make spinners for

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Vocabulary

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

Poetry-How to Read It! Mood, Tone and More

Created by

Kristy Carter

This Smartboard slide is designed to introduce students to a technique called "4 Square" that they will use to interpret poetry. Often it is hard for kids to infer the meanings from poems and so the 4 Square requires students to record parts of the poem such as: a short summary of action, speaker, tone, mood and more. There are several examples of poems to teach the skills introduced.

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Poetry, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3rd - 5th

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Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Where the Wild Things Are Literacy and Math for the Smart Board

Created by

Reading Strategies, Spelling, Word Problems

This is a Common Core Aligned product for the Smart Board.It is a 34 page Notebook file that may be printed to accompany the mini-lessons or centers.The product features:-10 interactive subtraction slides/pagesStudents will read the subtraction problem. After reading the subtraction sentence, students are to tap the correct amount of "wild things" out of the slide. The wild things will fade out of screen. After they write the problem on the line provided, they can tap the tree to fade and reveal

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PreK - 2nd, Staff

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Learning Resources For All

Very Hungry Caterpillar Guided Reading Purposes Week Lessons

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This is a SMART notebook file that forms 1 weeks worth of lessons for the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar guided reading. This file has 4 purposes and an activity to be completed after each day's reading. This file was made originally for a special education class using the Four Block Method of instruction but can easily be used in most junior school classrooms.

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Special Education

Grades:

PreK - 8th

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English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Spelling

SMARTboard Long A activity

Created by

FIRST grade is a HOOT

Newly updated with more activities and visual appeal. This is a SMART notebook file that can introduce and reinforce the concept of the long vowel A. With lots of interactive activities to teach the long vowel patterns of ai, ay and a magic e. Students can work on hearing the sounds, seeing the word patterns and even unscrambling some long A words. My kids love using these files for phonics and spelling patterns. Thank you for checking me out! Hopefully you find this file as useful as I d

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1st - 2nd

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Three Little Pigs Literacy & Math Centers and Activites for the Smart Board

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Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies, Word Problems

This is Common Core Aligned Smart Board unit for The Three Little Pigs. This product is 57 pages of interactive literacy and math that may be used during whole-group instruction or in literacy and math centers. Each page contains self-revealing answers so that students may self-correct their own work in a center. This product may be printed to accompany each lesson or center. The product contains the following:-10 pages of Three Little Pig interactive sentences to be unscrambled -2 pages of inte

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PreK - 2nd, Staff

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Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies

Smart Board - Character Traits

Created by

Shopgirl Mrs V

Students sort out the named characters with their matching traits. I use this after the first few chapters to introduce the characters and their traits. This item matches up with the following printable item. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Character-Chart-for-The-Outsiders This is a SMART Board file - you must have the program to view the file. Please do not leave a negative rating if you cannot open the file. Contact me or tpt.

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7th - 10th

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Alternate Route Educational Products

Word Families -eam and -eed Interactive Games

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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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Phonics, Reading Strategies, Special Education

Grades:

PreK - 12th

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Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Games

Word Family Literacy Centers

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Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies, Spelling

This is an interactive literacy center or the product may used in mini-lessons. It has 26 individual slides for the Smart Board. This product is a common core aligned activity that has self-revealing answers so that children may work independently in a literacy center. It has a slide for each of the following word families: "at", "an", "ap" ,"ag", "ed", "en", "et", "ell", "it", "in"," ip", "ill", "og", "ot", "ock", "op", "ug", "up", "un" and "ud."The students are asked to look at the image, pull

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PreK - 2nd, Staff

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Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? Math & Literacy Activities and Centers

Created by

Applied Math, Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies

This is an interactive Smart Board product for the Eric Carle/Bill Martin Jr. story:“Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?” This product contains 55 pages of interactive literacy and math activities, which may be used during whole-group instruction or in math or literacy centers. The product contains an audio component for each character in the story. It has self-revealing answers, which allow students to self-correct their own work in their centers.The product contains the following:• An i

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PreK - 2nd, Staff

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