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Middle school english language arts centers for SMART Notebook
Boggle for the Smartboard
This is a Boggle game for the smartboard. Its FREE, all I ask is you leave feed back and/or a rating please!
This has extra letter pieces and a colorful template. To create a new game board just rearrange the letters or add in some new ones which are provided. It also has a timer feature to add a little intensity and a word bank to allow students to share words they found with the class.
Ways to use this:
1. Smartboard center during daily 5 or guided reading.
2. Early finishers activity.
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K - 12th
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
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2nd - 6th
Dependent and Independent Clauses SMARTBOARD Pirate Theme
Students will love this interactive whiteboard/SMARTboard activity with a pirate theme. The first part of this SMARTboard lesson is an introduction to dependent and independent clauses. The second half of the lesson is an activity that allows students to practice the skill of recognizing the difference between dependent and independent clauses. Examples of how to make a dependent clause complete (independent) are given on many slides. All slides are self checking so lesson can be used as a mi
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3rd - 7th
Paraphrasing Tips and Practice SMARTBOARD
This SMARTboard lesson and activity introduces what paraphrasing is and gives the students a chance to put it into practice. Complete with tips and ways to learn to paraphrase for any report. Linked to You Tube video to help explain paraphrasing and plagiarism. Great for whole group/teacher directed lesson or center activity. Grades 4-8. MUST have SMART Notebook to download and use.
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4th - 8th
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
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
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2nd - 6th
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
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
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3rd - 6th
I Love Language Arts Game SMARTBOARD
This lesson "game" is a great way to engage your students as they review and reinforce various language arts skills. Students have a game board and they will click on a square that takes them to a question. Answers are provided on each slide. In addition there is a Point Value assigned to each question so that this can easily be played as a group or even whole classroom game. Just divide the class or group into 2 groups and watch them have fun as they discuss and support their answers. Valentine
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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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3rd - 6th
An Intro to Poetry on the SmartBoard: A Two-Week Unit Featuring 10 Poetry Forms
Hurray for Poetry! Adding a Poetry unit into a Language Arts curriculum helps students better understand alliteration and rhythm, allows them to break apart the syllabication of words and develop their reading and writing skills, and lets them get their creative juices flowing!
Poetry can be serious and introspective as well as silly and nonsensical. In this 2-week introduction to poetry, students are introduced to 10 different common poetry forms. This animated presentation introduces each
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3rd - 6th
Revise and Edit Turn Sour Writing Sweet SMARTBOARD
This fun SMARTboard lesson can be both a lesson and practice. It works well as a teacher directed lesson allowing for discussion, distance learning, or even an independent center. All slides are self checking. Students will edit samples of writing by choosing correct punctuation, adding and deleting sentences, correcting grammar, and making decisions about how to write a sentence better. Examples include how to punctuate compound sentences, quotations, addresses, word usage, adding informatio
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3rd - 6th
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
Making Inferences SMARTBOARD PLUS PRINTABLE Inferencing Card Set
This lesson is both a smartboard lesson providing practice in inferencing skills AND PRINTABLE activity cards that can be used as either teacher directed mini lesson or in an independent center or station. Level of difficulty varies to meet the needs of a differentiated classroom. Solving the mystery is fun for the students as they use their schema and clues from the passage. Three famous pictures are included in which answers will vary, and they make a great discussion piece for the class to
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2nd - 6th
Phonics - Long a Vowel Sound - Magic e - Interactive Whiteboard
Having trouble teaching the long vowel sounds when words are made with an e at the end of the word? eg, cake, line, rope.
Here are 10 pages of interactive activities and games using your SMART Board to help students learn and better UNDERSTAND how the long a sound is made in words, particularly when they are made with the 'magic e' at the end of the word.
Copy and paste the link below to view a video about how to effectively use this Notebook file as a teaching and learning tool...
http://yout
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K - 6th
Figurative Language Relating to Poetry- Common Core Aligned
This highly interactive lesson introduces students to figurative language and shows them how by using it an author is able to express their own style in their writing by painting a picture in the reader's mind. It uses poetry examples to assess the students learning, and offers as many examples to practice on as your students will need! Reading poetry and understanding it is so critical in the Common Core Standards!
This adds SO much to my reading lesson, especially when poetry is being read!!!
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3rd - 6th
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
Trick or Treat Language Skills Jeopardy SMARTBOARD
This interactive smartboard lesson is a jeopardy game that reviews parts of speech including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs. This lesson also reviews punctuation. All slides are linked to an answer slide so the game is self checking. Can be used as a whole group/teacher directed lesson, small group minilesson, or as a station that students can play while the teacher is working in small groups. Halloween theme makes game fun. Great for grades 3-6.
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3rd - 6th
Uno's Garden Smart Notebook
Uno's Garden is a picture book written and illustrated by Australian children's author Graeme Base. The story features themes of environmental degradation, conservation of nature and habitat, and extinction.
This notebook includes comprehension tasks you can use in conjunction with the book Uno's Garden.
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2nd - 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
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3rd - 6th
Sopa de letras y números - Para el reconocimiento de letras y números y su orden
¡Aquí tienen una manera excelente para que sus estudiantes independientemente practiquen el reconocimiento de las letra y números 0-31, el orden alfabético, y el orden numérico!
Los estudiantes pueden autoevaluar si mismos haciendo click en cualquier letra, número, o rectángulo verde. ¡Es una actividad buenísima para el tiempo de centros/estaciones!
Para empezar, el estudiante hace click en la estrella amarilla para escuchar las instrucciones, y luego juega hasta que nada queda en el bol de s
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PreK - 12th
Prefixes and Suffixes Lights, Camera, Action SMARTBOARD
This interactive smartboard lesson provides practice in making new words and changing words by adding the prefixes inter, in, pre, mis, post, trans, AND suffixes of: ess, ant, tion, ive, ness, and ment . Students have an opportunity to make words complete a sentence or story by adding the prefix or suffix or both to root words to change their meaning. Great for grades 4-7 and may be challenging for grade 3. All slides are self checking so it's easy to use as teacher directed in whole group or
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3rd - 7th
Suffix Magic Tunnels
This smart board activity includes 18 pages of suffixes to help your students practice suffixes in a fun and interactive way. Students will start by defining the word on the left side of the page then dragging the word through the "magic tunnel" to reveal the meaning of the word with the suffix. This can be used during enrichment, whole group, small group, reteaching or an additional practice for state assessments.
My kids LOVE this activity and actually the first time I've heard kids say
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2nd - 6th
Phonics - Long Vowel Sounds - Magic e - Interactive Whiteboard
Having trouble teaching the long vowel sounds when words are made with an e at the end of the word? eg, cake, line, rope.
Here are 35 pages of interactive activities and games using your SMART Board to help students learn and better UNDERSTAND how the long vowels sounds (a, i, o, u) are made in words, particularly when they are made with the 'magic e' at the end of the word.
Copy and paste this link into your web browser to watch a video about how to use and teach these phonetical understandin
Grades:
K - 7th
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