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Middle school reading strategies resources for SMART Notebook and for special education
Following Oral Directions with Basic Linguistic Concepts:Smart board Interactive
This highly interactive 114 Smart board presentation will engage and dazzle your students while they practice processing and following directions embedded with basic linguistic concepts . This presentation can be used during individual therapy sessions or with an entire class of students.
Students listen to directions read aloud by the therapist; must interpret and then execute the command that contains a concept/concepts. Directions include the following linguistic concepts:
inclusion -all
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PreK - 6th
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Social Story - I Shouldn't Always Say What I Am Thinking
This is a social story created for the middle or high school level special education class. This story helps students to understand when it is not acceptable to just blurt out what they may be thinking and why. Relevant examples are used as they would be seen in the school day. 10 - 15 minute notebook file and discussion.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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
Disability Awareness Activities
The SMART notebook provides the user with activities for participants to engage in that simulate various learning challenges. It is appropriate for students or for adults in a professional development seminar.
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
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
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
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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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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
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
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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,
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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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4th - 8th
Touch-Money Counting Coins
This is a 35 page notebook lesson to be used with children that have previously used "touch-money". A variety of coin combinations with touch-points are shown for students to count. Also includes slides with a matching game.
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1st - 6th
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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
Cute Monsters: Synonyms and Antonyms SMARTboard Activity
This activity created by Speech Ace is a fun way to learn about synonyms and antonyms. Using the Smartboard, learn the definitions of synonym and antonym. Then, engage in matching activities for synonyms and antonyms. Finally, a "Monster Mash" game is included that allows students to be on 2 teams and identify synonyms and antonyms. An answer key is included. This activity is perfect for speech therapy, special education classes, and general education classes who are working on vocabulary b
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3rd - 7th
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
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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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4th - 8th
Crossing the Road Safely - Road Safety
This is a SMART notebook file for teaching a lesson about road safety. It was made for the UN World Road Safety Day, but it can be used anytime of the year to teach a lesson about crossing the road safely.
This lesson was designed for a special needs class but easily can be used for most ages and abilities. It is suitable for regular classroom teacher, but would also be great for relief teachers as a one of lesson.
The lesson includes videos, activities and an activity at the end to complete to
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PreK - 9th
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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
A Christmas Carol activities
Smart Board activities to go with my "A Christmas Carol in symbols with questions." Includes functional reading, writing, and math activities designed for young children or those with moderate to severe cognitive handicaps. Matching symbols to words, forming sentences with symbols, simple addition and subtraction word problems, counting quarters. Appropriate for special needs students, including autism, Down Syndrome, and traumatic brain injury, and FMD. Symbols are helpful for emerging read
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PreK - 12th
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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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3rd - 6th
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