5th grade english language arts literature circles for SMART Notebook

Elizabeth Leigh Creations

Expository Practice Passage NonFiction Text PUFFINS SMARTBOARD

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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

Subjects:

Close Reading, Informational Text, Reading Strategies

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Reading

Daily Five/Reading Centers

Created by

Christina Pjura

you can edit the center names if you want they are currently listed as: read to self listening word work read to someone writing there are five slides and a timer when the timer goes off just press the next page arrow and the names have rotated to the next center (use this if you don't want the students to have to more their names and/or if you want set groups for reading centers/daily five)

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 5th

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Miss Spitfire Thematic Unit

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Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, Writing

I have spent a full summer working on this thematic unit and I’m excited to share it with you! Students typically would use a spiral notebook as their “journal” to use every day of the unit. It’s organized, engaging, and most of all, encourages students to think, discuss among their peers, and be creative while being critical thinkers! Included in the thematic unit: - Author review with videos (click on bottom left globe) - Literature Circle directions - Daily Journal Writing - Daily Literature

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Balanced Literacy, Basic Reading, Education

Question Wheels: Rigorous Questions Made Easy!

Created by

Judith Taylor

These question wheels put a fun spin on reading responses. Encourage your students to spin the wheel and formulate a question for their peers using the stem that the spinner lands on. These wheels encourage a higher level of thinking and diversity among questions.

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Literature Circles

Good Fit Books Based on Author’s purpose- Common Core Aligned

Created by

Teacher Creature

This interactive and highly engaging lesson will fit perfectly into any Daily 5 literacy program. It reviews author’s purpose, and then focuses on finding good fit books based on the need of the reader. This lesson is aligned with the common core standards, and is very helpful to jumpstart a student’s ability to pick a book that will benefit them and serve their individual needs. It allows the students to examine each author’s purpose for writing to see which type of book they might find of int

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Reading

Grades:

K - 5th

Types:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Holes Smart Document

Created by

Fancy in Fifth Grade

This Smart document is a great tool to use while completing a novel study on the book Holes. You can use it to plan your lessons. It has 15 different daily activities to go with each reading section of the book. It is full of comprehension questions, hands on activities, vocabulary, and specific reading skill lessons-theme,connections, cause and effect, summarizing, inferring, questioning, and symbolism. Works great with literature circles! My students loved it!

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

English Language Arts, Phonics, Spelling

Long Vowel & Vowel Teams Word Work SMARTBOARD Games- Word Families, Phonics

Created by

A Classy Classroom

This simple but engaging game is a great way to make learning long vowel patterns fun! Your students get to click on the spinner to make a word. Then, they get to fill in the new word. You can easily add your own rules to make it more like a "Bump" game. Due to the nature of the game with the spinner, some words may be repeated!This package focuses on the long vowel patterns.The patterns included are:- a_e- ai- ay- ee- ea- i_e- igh- o_e- oa- u_e- uiThe file you will download upon purchase is a S

Subjects:

Grades:

PreK - 6th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Games, Literature Circles

Also included in: BUNDLE - SHORT & LONG VOWELS Smartboard Game - Phonics Word Families & Patterns

Daily Five Rotation Chart on Smart Notebook (Edit as needed)

Created by

Tiffany Reece

This is a daily five rotation chart I use daily to set up my rotations. This way, I can group kids in leveled groups for both work work and the teacher group. I use the "dots" if a child is going out of the room during a rotation. I use the following letters for each group: WW: Word Work WR: Work on Writing T: Teacher LR: Listen to Reading R: Read to Self RS: Read to Someone

Subjects:

English Language Arts, For All Subject Areas

Grades:

K - 8th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Literature Circles, Centers

Ground Zero - By Alan Gratz - Novel Guide

Created by

Team Tech Productions

This file is a Novel study for the book, Ground Zero by Alan Gratz. The SmartNotebook file includes thought-provoking questions for students. The file is set up in a way that has links to navigate from page to page, as well as, links to Virtual Tours of "Ground Zero" and much more. I like to print the file for my students to answer questions while I present the file on my interactive whiteboard.

Subjects:

English Language Arts

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Guided Reading Books, Literature Circles

CCSS:

RL.6.1

, RL.6.3

, RL.7.2

Smooth Sailing Through Homonyms SMARTBOARD

Created by

Elizabeth Leigh Creations

This interactive SMARTboard is a great introduction, practice, or remediation for homonyms. Plays like a game with either 2 players OR 2 teams. Or just use it as a minilesson without the game. All slides are linked for easy use. Homonyms include: sighed, side; weather, whether; bread, bred; cruise, crews; flu, flue, flew; way, weigh, whey; aloud, allowed; aisle, isle, I'll; grown, groan; border, boarder; bail, bale; collar, caller; dough, doe; scent, cent, sent; naval, navel; cell, sell; pea

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

2nd - 6th

Types:

Seedfolks Thematic Unit

Created by

Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, Literature

I have spent a full summer working on this thematic unit and I’m excited to share it with you! Students typically would use a spiral notebook as their “journal” to use every day of the unit. It’s organized, engaging, and most of all, encourages students to think, discuss among their peers, and be creative while being critical thinkers! Included in the thematic unit: - Author review with videos (click on bottom left globe) - Literature Circle directions - Daily Journal Writing - Daily Literature

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Literature Circles

Homonym Bugs - Multi-Meaning INTERMEDIATE Words SMARTBOARD

Created by

Elizabeth Leigh Creations

Do bugs bug you? Practice homonyms (words that are spelled the same, have the same pronunciation, but have different meanings).This interactive smartboard lesson provides practice in using meanings of words to decide which homonym correctly fits the sentence. Level of difficulty increases throughout the lesson. Students will choose the correct meaning of a word that has multiple meanings. All slides are self checking so this lesson can easily be used as a teacher directed mini lesson or as i

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Bad Beginning Thematic Unit

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Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, Literature

I have spent a full summer working on this thematic unit and I’m excited to share it with you! Students typically would use a spiral notebook as their “journal” to use every day of the unit. It’s organized, engaging, and most of all, encourages students to think, discuss among their peers, and be creative while being critical thinkers! Included in the thematic unit: - Author review with videos (click on bottom left globe) - Literature Circle directions - Daily Journal Writing - Daily Literature

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Literature Circles

Holes Thematic Unit

Created by

Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, Writing

I have spent a full summer working on this thematic unit and I’m excited to share it with you! Students typically would use a spiral notebook as their “journal” to use every day of the unit. It’s organized, engaging, and most of all, encourages students to think, discuss among their peers, and be creative while being critical thinkers! Included in the thematic unit: - Author review with videos (click on bottom left globe) - Literature Circle directions - Daily Journal Writing - Daily Literature

Subjects:

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Literature Circles

Comprehension Retell Questions --- Smartboard

Created by

AndyKate

Use these questions to walk students through a retell of a fictional text. Helps students learn what story events are important and gives a good flow of the order of the story. Can work well with most fictional texts. Students can then be transitioned to do this as an oral discussion only, then independently.

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, English Language Arts, Reading Strategies

Grades:

1st - 5th

Types:

Close Reading, Informational Text, Reading Strategies

Author's Voice SmartBoard Gary Soto Reading Street the Gymnast

Created by

MrSalearno's

*This goes with my lesson plan, graphic organizers, and three texts, for author's voice titled "Reading Street - Author's Voice - The Gymnast" I suggest you purchase both. But if you have to do a lesson on Author's Voice, you need the lesson plan, this is complimentary, but well worth it. It displays a learning target, look fors, a graphic organizer, and the texts, as well as an exit ticket. Reading Street - Author's Voice - The Gymnast Enhance reading comprehension by teaching author's voi

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

Graphic Organizers, Literature Circles, Centers

Daily 5 Centers

Created by

Megan Boss

Expectations and activities for all 5 listening centers read to self read to someone listen to reading working with words work on writing

Subjects:

Reading, Reading Strategies, Vocabulary

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Activities, Literature Circles, Centers

Danger in the Desert Test Chapters 11-15

Created by

MsPearson

This test covers the Danger in the Desert Lit study chapters 11-15. It has vocabulary, written response, and multiple choice questions.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Literature Circles

Word Study Practice Sorts

Created by

Fourth Grade Success

This is a SMART board file with word study practice sorts. I use this with my students when I first introduce word study at the beginning of the year. We practice sorting the words together on the SMART board before students are assigned to their word study groups. This allows students to understand how I expect them to sort their words each week.

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Spelling, Vocabulary

Grades:

3rd - 5th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Literature Circles, Centers

Where the Red Fern Grows chapter 1-2 Smartboard Activities 5 slides

Created by

Lindsey Stapleton

This is a great review on the first 2 chapters on the book. I am currently working on the entire book and it will be available soon!

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Literature Circles

Daily 5 Rotation Chart Editable

Created by

Tiffany Reece

I modify this chart daily when I set up my rotations. The chart includes: WW:Word Work, WR: Work on Writing, RS: Read to Someone, R: Read to Self, T: Teacher, LR: Listen to Reading and bubbles in case a child is out during that rotation. By using this chart, children can be grouped together by levels in various subject areas.

Subjects:

For All Subject Areas, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

K - 8th

Types:

Literature Circles, Centers

Daily 5 Rotations (Smartboard)

Created by

Whitney Richardson

Here is a Rotation schedule for students to select their choices. Just change the names.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Phonics, Reading

Grades:

K - 5th

Types:

Library Skills, Literature, Reading

After Happily Ever After Series by Tony Bradman

Created by

Library and Literature

This Smart Notebook file contains a What we know/Prior Knowledge Pop the Balloon page, Book Cover previews, Before and After questioning and a Series Book Cover Concentration Activity to introduce the students to this wonderful Fairy Tale Series. This is best used to introduce the series or before reading a book from this series.

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Grades:

1st - 5th

Types: