3rd grade creative writing resources for SMART Notebook

Grades:

3rd

Types:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing

Writing Strong Endings for Narratives using Mentor Texts

Created by

Bethany Hunter

Do your students struggle to write a strong satisfying ending to their stories? I know my students do! I created this SMARTboard presentation to use with my students. The presentation starts by covering the most common endings we want to move our kids away from, and then walks them through how to write a strong ending using mentor texts.

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

First Grade Focused Finds

Writer's Workshop - Small Moments - Unit 1 Lucy Calkins - Grade 1

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Complete set of mini-lessons in order to follow the Lucy Calkins' Writer's Workshop program. Developmentally appropriate for all first graders. Mini-Lesson slides are sequential and in the Smart Notebook format to allow for easy teaching on the spot. Your class will thrive! -Smart Notebook Format - Easy to Use! 46 Slides included! -Follows Unit 1 in Writer's Workshop -Classroom Tested and Approved -Empower your young writers! -Makes mini-lessons easy to teach HINT: I always put on a Minnie H

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson

Identifying Simile or Metaphor Lesson SMART Notebook

Created by

Workaholic NBCT

Your students will be able to identify the differences between similes and metaphors after this 31 page Smartboard lesson. This file includes an introduction to both similes and metaphors, then follows up with some interactive activities and 12 multiple-choice Response voting questions. It even includes a simile or metaphor? activity page for you to print and give to your students as a pre or post test. Have fun learning! Be sure to follow my blog for tons of freebies, Promethean ActivInspire

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Reading

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

PowerPoint Presentations, Interactive Whiteboard, Activboard Activities

A SmartBoard Intro to Dialogue: An Interactive Presentation for 2nd - 5th Grade

Created by

Dot Cates

Including dialogue in writing can be a wonderful way to add supporting detail, help your reader get to know characters better, or move the plot forward. However, learning how to punctuate and format dialogue correctly can be tricky! In this presentation, students will learn about: * Quotation marks * Additional punctuation before the end quotation * When to use a period and when to use a comma when ending dialogue * The importance of attributing who is speaking * Paragraph format when using di

Subjects:

Interactive Whiteboard, Centers

Grades:

2nd - 5th

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Realistic Fiction Writing Unit Smartboard

Created by

The Middle School Classroom

This is an outstanding unit you can use with your students to help them write well developed and interesting realistic fiction stories! The minilessons in this unit include: 1) Goal Setting and Generating Ideas 2) Imagine Stories from Ordinary Moments 3) Imagining Stories We Wish Existed in the World 4) Drafting My Writing 5) Story Mountains 6) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of Our Story 7) Developing Believable Characters 8) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivation 9) Show, Dont Tell 10) Gr

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

An Intro to Poetry on the SmartBoard: A Two-Week Unit Featuring 10 Poetry Forms

Created by

Dot Cates

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

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Poetry

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Centers

Smartboard Writing a Super Sentence

Created by

Kestner's Kreations Primary Pickins

Using a Super Sentence Organizer, students learn how to take their boring sentences and make them Super Sentences. Through step-by-step guided lessons, students brainstorm adjectives, nouns, verbs, and where and when phrases, and use them to expand a simple sentence.

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

K - 4th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 2 Lesson 8 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 2 Lesson 9: The Harvest Birds. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies -Context Clues Ph

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Grades:

3rd

Types:

Creative Writing, Poetry, Writing

Poetry Unit for SMART Notebook

Created by

LoveLearnLead

Looking for a great poetry unit for your Writer's Workshop? Look no further! This 30-page SMART Notebook file follows the poetry unit student guide (also available in my store) and includes instructions, pre-writing graphic organizers, whole group modeling practice, poem templates, and examples for 9 different poems! Also included in Day 1 of the poetry unit are activities and examples for exploring meter, rhyme, stanza, and line within poems. Poems you will write with your students in this u

Subjects:

Grades:

2nd - 5th

Types:

Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Stretching a Sentence Smartboard Going From Good to Great Sentences

Created by

Kestner's Kreations Primary Pickins

This is a Smartboard activity. I have used this method to help my students go from writing simple sentences to visual sentences. It works in second grade and can work in upper grades. Kids love the way their writing improves when they start using adjectives and adverbs in their writing. You must have Notebook software to use this activity. 12 slides.

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing-Expository

Grades:

2nd - 4th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard

CCSS:

L.2.1f

, L.3.1i

3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 5 Lesson 21 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 4 Lesson 21: Sarah, Plain and Tall. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies - Prefix non-

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Grades:

3rd

Types:

Learning Resources For All

The Very Itchy Bear Guided Reading 4 Days - Four Blocks Literacy

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This is a SMART notebook file that forms 4 days (or 1 weeks) worth of guided reading lessons for the book The Very Itchy Bear by Nick Bland. This file follows the Anchor, Read, Apply model and has a purpose for reading the book each day. Included with each day's purpose is a link to the Six Hats Thinking Model. This file was made originally for a high school special education class using the Four Block Method of Instruction but can easily be used in most school classrooms, for home school, rel

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Reading, Special Education

Grades:

PreK - 10th

Types:

3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 2 Lesson 6 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 2 Lesson 6: Bat Loves the Night. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies - Suffixes -abl

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Grades:

3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 5 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 5: Roberto Clemente. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom.

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Grades:

3rd

Types:

Creative Writing, Thanksgiving, U.S. History

Hip Hip Hooray for Thanksgiving Day! (Notebook 11)

Created by

Marleen Moffitt

Hip Hip Hooray for Thanksgiving Day is an interactive SmartBoard Lesson that is intended to last several days. Day 1-Complete the first two sections of a KWL about Thanksgiving. There is also a short lesson to introduce the students to the Pilgrims, the Mayflower and the Wampanoags. It compares the journey of the Pilgrims to a trip to the moon. Day 2-The Mayflower Day 3-The Pilgrims Day 4-The Wampanoag Each of these pages are linked to Scholastic.com where your class will be able to watc

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Grades:

K - 3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 3 Lesson 11 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 3 Lesson 11: Technology Wins the Game The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies - Suffixes

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Grades:

3rd

Types:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Winter

Groundhog Day SMART Board Activity Persuasive Writing and Craft Hall Display

Created by

Teresa Lewis

This SMART Board activity includes plans for a craft and persuasive writing activity to accompany the book "Gretchen Groundhog It's Your Day." Common core standards for third grade are included along with the big idea and essential question. There is also an informational video link about groundhogs. Finally, students can try different hats on a groundhog by dragging the items on the SMART Board.

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Grades:

1st - 4th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Printables, Bulletin Board Ideas

3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 2 Lesson 10 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 2 Lesson 10: Young Thomas Edison The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies - Shades of Mea

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Grades:

3rd

Types:

Creative Writing, Poetry, Reading

Figurative Language Relating to Poetry- Common Core Aligned

Created by

Teacher Creature

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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Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 2 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 2: The Trial of Cardigan Jonesl. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies Diction

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Grades:

3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 3 Lesson 12 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 3 Lesson 12: Tops and Bottoms The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies - Idioms Phonics -

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Grades:

3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 6 Lesson 26 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 6 Lesson 26: The Foot Race Across America. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies suffix

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Grades:

3rd

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