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Middle school reading strategies lessons for SMART Notebook
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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5th - 10th
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
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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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
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
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
Making Inferences & Drawing Conclusions Smart Notebook Lesson
Teach your students how to make inferences with this thirty page, interactive, Smart Notebook Lesson. Your students will get to read stories, draw conclusions, use background knowledge, and information from the text to complete the interactive activities within this file. Containers, magic revealers, voting, and outside resources fill this lesson and make learning how to infer super fun. A "what's in the bag" mini-game is also included! Enjoy!THIS IS A SMART NOTEBOOK FILE. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Expository Practice Passage NonFiction Text PUFFINS SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson provides a nonfiction passage for your expository unit on puffins and 14 slides with questions about the nonfiction text. It also includes a printable version of the passage so your students can have a hard copy in front of them while working their way through the questions. 16 questions about the selection include: main idea, author's purpose, author's point of view, fact and opinion, context clues, and more. All questions are self checking so this lesson ma
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Character Analysis Unit for Reader's Workshop - Smartboard
This product is a series of eighteen reading lessons which focus on analyzing characters. 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:
Lesson 1 - Thinking Over Stories with Partners
Lesson 2 - Retelling Stories By Starting at the Beginning
Lesson 3 - Learning to Listen Int
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Metacognition Lesson - Smartboard
This Smartboard presentation is a great way to explain and introduce the concept of metacognition to your students. The Smartboard explains that metacognition means "thinking about your thinking" while you read and explains how to use it as a reading strategy. Students get to make a "reading salad" to help them understand that text + their thinking = real reading. It is a great visual to provide students with.
Also, if you have students write reading responses in response to the independent re
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Book Club Introduction Smartboard
Starting book clubs up with your students? Do you need a Smartboard presentation to explain what should happen in book club, explain book club expectations, and explain book club accountability? Then this is for you! This Smartboard presentation explains:
1) What book club is about
2) What happens at book club each day of the week
3) Discusses the types of things to discuss at book club
4) Gives an explanation each type of book club job (Connector, Questioner, Synthesizer, Visualizer/Illustrato
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Reading Strategies Smartboard Bundle
This product includes all of my reading strategy lessons. It includes lessons on:
1) Metacognition
2) Schema
3) Making Connections
4) Questioning/Making Predictions
5) Visualization
6) Inferring (Garbage Bag Inferences)
7) Synthesizing
8) Determining Importance
9) 7 Keys to Comprehension posters (Inferring, Evaluating, Making Connections, Visualizing, Fixing Up, Questioning, Synthesizing)
The lessons include fun activities that help you better explain what the strategy means and explains how y
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Monster Mash Idiom Jeopardy for SMARTBOARD
This smartboard activity is interactive and fully self checking. It is complete with funny pictures to help students understand the figurative language of idioms. This lesson can be used as a teacher directed whole group lesson, a small group lesson, or an independent activity. Can also be used as a competitive game. Slides are fully linked for easy play. Great for students grades 1-5. Younger first grade students may need more support, but it's a great way to introduce figurative language,
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1st - 6th
I Flip For The MAIN IDEA SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson begins with a mini lesson on what the main idea of a paragraph is and how the details in the paragraph need to support the main idea. There are practice paragraphs and students will choose details that support the main idea AND they will determine if any unnecessary sentences that were off topic need to be deleted. Also included are 8 printable PDF's of graphic organizers that students can use to show main ideas and details of their own. The mini lesson incl
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Reading Response Notebook: Getting Started Smartboard
If you have students keep a reader's notebook and write reading responses, then this product is for you! I show this Smartboard presentation at the beginning of every year to lay out what my expectations are for reading responses and to explain how to set up their reader's notebook. The Smartboard contains pictures of example reading responses and also lists potential options for students' reading responses. I have attached a few possible ideas below:
Creative Venn Diagram - shape of faces, he
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Synthesizing - Using a Magical Illusion for infering and research/Train Escape
TEACHER INFORMATION
PURPOSE: This activity combines the mystery and intrigue of an amazing illusion and students ability to synthesize new information. Students have a hard time understanding the process of synthesis. This very engaging activity will have students go through the process of synthesis by combining information presented in different media (media and text) to develop a better understanding of the topic, and draw evidence from informational text to support analysis, reflection, an
Grades:
5th - 12th
Determining Importance Minilesson - Smartboard
This minilesson helps students understand why it is important to determine importance while reading. Students go through a variety of activities that help them ask themselves, "What is going on and what is the most important thing I should take away from this?"
Students go through a variety of activities that require them to determine importance when looking at a CNN website, when going through a purse, when listening to a song, when looking at a piece of artwork, and much more!
It is a creat
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Trick or Treat Jeopardy SMARTBOARD
This fun Halloween themed jeopardy game is all about figurative language. The categories are: Similes, Metaphors, Personification, Idioms, and Grab Bag which also includes a question on hyperbole, alliteration, and other examples of figurative language. One slide has a fun direct link to a short video clip from The Wizard of Oz showing personification. All slides are linked to an answer slide and to the scoreboard so students can have some fun competition. Cute Halloween graphics are engagin
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Historical Fiction Reading Unit Smartboard
This product is a series of ten reading minilessons which focus on historical fiction. 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) Constructing the Sense of Another Time
2) Synthesizing Story Elements
3) Holding On When Time Jumps Back and Forth
4) Unfolding Characters
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Gumball Goodies - Infer and Draw Conclusions SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson combines a mini-lesson and some fun practice slides in inferring and drawing conclusions. Begin learning what it means to infer and how this is different from drawing a conclusion. Move on through the lesson with a few different ways to make a conclusion using clues you can infer information from. Bright, fun graphics makes the lesson enjoyable. The lesson ends with 5 fun slides of mystery pictures. As students click on gumballs, more information about the pic
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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