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Middle school reading strategies resources for SMART Notebook and for homeschool
SOL Reading Review Carnival Game
This carnival style Jeopardy review game is a great way to review for the 3rd grade reading SOL test. It covers the topics of author's purpose, reference resources, context clues, syllables, and root words. THIS IS A SMART NOTEBOOK FILE AND WILL ONLY WORK WITH A SMART BOARD AND SMART NOTEBOOK SOFTWARE.
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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
Who What When Where Why How for the SMART Board
Who What When Where Why How for the SMART BoardThis Common Core-Aligned interactive SMART Board lesson exposes students to the rigor of pulling out information from nonfiction informational texts. Lesson includes a You Tube video link to a catchy song about the 5 W's (lesson engagement), an interactive matching game, one practice story, and several nonfiction articles to distinguish and practice between the who, what, when, where, why, and how using graphic organizers to gather and organize inf
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Nonfiction Text Features - Introduction / Examples
An important part of learning to read nonfiction texts is being able to identify nonfiction features and to understand how they help you as a reader.
While using the smartboard to teach these features, I also use a student activity book. The activity book has an activity page to go along with each feature.
You can view the activity book by clicking on the link below:
Link-Features-of-Nonfiction-Texts Student Activity Book
12 nonfiction features are included:
photographs
labels
captions
compa
Grades:
K - 3rd
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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
The Grouchy Ladybug: A Smart Board Interactive Story Retell
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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Grades:
PreK - 3rd, Adult Education, Staff
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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Grades:
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
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Interactive Story Retell
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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Grades:
PreK - 2nd, Staff
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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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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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
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
Guide Word Game - Reading SOL Review
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.
Grades:
2nd - 4th
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
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Smart Board Interactive Letter Match
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
Grades:
PreK - 1st, Staff
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
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
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
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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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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