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6th grade english language arts graphic organizers for SMART Notebook
Poetry: Lyrics Analysis of "Firework" by Katy Perry
This Lyrics Analysis Smart file lesson is all about Katy Perry's popular song Firework. I use this series of lessons as my culminating activity for our Poetry Unit. My students love it as much as I love teaching it.
The SMART file lesson is colorful, engaging, challenging, and just plain ol' fun! Everything you'll need to teach the lessons is attached to the SMART file.
There is also a writing component and a compare and contrast of two poems activity included after the Firework lessons/activi
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Grades:
5th - 7th
SMART Board Persuasion Map - Persuasive Writing Planning
This file contains a graphic organizer prepared especially for the SMART board for teaching how to plan a piece of persuasive writing. The graphic organizer helps students see a visual representation of a persuasive argument, and allows them to outline a piece before actually beginning the writing process. This slide can easily be printed and used as a handout and graphic organizer for students to use individually as well as by a whole class!
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Sentence Diagram - Diagramming Workspace/Template for SmartBoard
Sentence Diagramming Workspace/Template for SmartBoard - complete with all lines/connectors.
Sentence diagramming allows students to look at sentences the way architects look at blue prints, engineers look at schematics, and mechanics look at a car's engine.
Sentence diagrams are one of the most effective graphic organizers for reinforcing grammar and parts of speech.
Diagram any sentence on your SmartBoard with this workspace. All lines/connectors are included as well as a quick link for d
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Characterization Smartboard Lesson
This minilesson teaches characterization using the STEAL acronym. The lesson contain definitions, examples, and charts to complete while reading.
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Grades:
4th - 7th
PERSONAL NARRATIVE COMPLETE UNIT WITH LITERATURE AS INSPIRATION FOR SMARTBOARD
Personal Narrative
Writing Unit (about 2-3 weeks)
Grades 2,3,4 but can be adapted for older or younger grades
EACH LESSON INCLUDES A LEARNING OBJECTIVE!
This Unit incorporates the use of literature as inspiration for writing our personal narrative. It's created for a 2nd or 3rd grade Personal Narrative writing Unit.
Each day requires:
*reading a book
*teacher models a graphic organizer
*students complete their own organizer
*short paragraphs written for each organizer
Skills touched upon in
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1st - 6th, Staff
Fiction vs Nonfiction Venn Diagram for Smartboard
Venn Diagram comparing fiction and nonfiction characteristics.
This year, for our state standardized test (we're not a Common Core State), our students will have "technology enhanced items", which means they will have to manipulate items within the question to get the right answer. There may be more than one answer blank. One of the most common graphic organizers that we should see on the new test is the Venn Diagram.
*MUST HAVE SMART NOTEBOOK TO OPEN! IT IS FOR THE SMARTBOARD ONLY!*
Grades:
4th - 8th
EDITABLE SmartBoard lesson for John Muir and Camping with the President
I created this SmartBoard file for my own personal use with a read aloud of Camping With the President by Ginger Wadsworth in conjunction with the NYC Grade 4 John Muir Common Core Task Bundle.
Common Core Standards RI.4.1 and RI. 4.10.
Slide 1: Discuss who John Muir was and his conservation efforts.
Read aloud Camping With the President by Ginger Wadsworth.
Slide 2: Review vocabulary and what it means to be a conservationist.
Slide 3: Describe the setting of the story
Slide 4: Ide
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4th - 7th
Poetry Comprehension and Analysis Mini-unit
In this SMART file you will find everything you'll need to teach a mini-unit on poetry comprehension and analysis. All of the resources you'll need are attached to the SMART file including texts, video links, graphic organizers, handouts, and assessments.
The following poems are used in the lessons: Casey at the Bat by E.L. Thayer, Mother to Son by Langston Highes, and The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
Please check out my store, Arrrsome in Fifth, for more ELA lessons and resources. Thank y
Grades:
5th - 7th
Shiloh SMARTboard Lesson Treasures Series
Shiloh SMARTboard lessons for one week. Includes standards, prior knowledge, vocabulary, graphic organizer, inferencing slides, and additional pages. Created to accompany Shiloh story in Unit 2 of 5th grade Treasures series by Macmillan/McGraw Hill Treasures Series.
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4th - 6th
Wrinkle in Time Character Chart
This is an interactive character chart for the novel A Wrinkle In Time created in SMARTboard. It can be used as a whole class activity or students can use this file to create their own character charts. Attached in the file is a video tutorial explaining how to use the file and a student handout.
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Making Inferences SmartBoard Lesson and Activity
This is a Smart Board Lesson on making inferences. It is designed for students to take notes along with the lecture. This lends itself well to classes using Reading Notebooks. It includes a page students can cut and paste into their notes as well as an activity after the notes have been completed. The activity and notes include passages and comics to practice their inferencing skills. These have been added as separate downloads (which are free). Please download them for free to go with the
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Grades:
5th - 7th
"We Were There, Too": Compare and Contrast, Journeys 3.15, Smartboard
This Smartboard Notebook file is a companion for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2012) Journeys fifth grade story "We Were There, Too". Students complete a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the characters Sybil and Joseph. My students score higher on comprehension assessments when they complete organizers like this while reading.
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4th - 6th
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Main Idea & Summarizing: "Vaqueros:...", Journeys 5.23 Smartboard
This Smartboard Notebook file is a graphic organizer for the Journeys-5 selection "Vaqueros: America's First Cowboys" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), lesson 5.23. Students add main ideas and details to the organizer. There is also a summarizing exercise. My students score better on comprehension assessments when they use a graphic organizer while reading. The format of the exercise mimics items on the Smarter Balance ELA practice test.
The product is also available as a Word Docx. This fil
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Main Idea Unit with Passages, Games, Etc. for Middle School .Notebook Smartboard
Looking to teach the strategies of Main Idea to a group of students? Look no more! This unit has motivations, games, activities, passages, and graphic organizers to help students learn how to utilize main idea in their own books/passages/test prep! Passages were pulled from various test prep Common Core materials generated by other teachers. Can be used for grades 5-9 depending on level.
Pages in this .Notebook file include:
Motivation games
Song Lyrics- finding the main idea
Graphic Organizers
Grades:
4th - 10th
Speech Language Schema SMART Notebook
Speech Language Schema
This resource was created for use with students struggling with understanding the language used for common objects / concepts. Each page can be used for whole group discussion or with individual students.
It is very helpful when used with English-as-a-second-language learners and with students who struggle with schematic thinking. The circles are colour coded to help make associations. For example, in the yellow circle, we put information about where in the environm
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1st - 6th
Biography Timeline and ABC Chart
The first slide is of an editable timeline for your famous person. The following slides are of the alphabet with blanks available to fill in words that apply to the famous person. This can be used to guide a biography unit or organize ideas for biography writing.
Grades:
4th - 6th
Daily 5 SMARTBoard
If you are looking for a way to keep track of which station each of your students choose each day for daily 5, here is your answer!!
This SMARTBoard slide has 7 stations for the kids to choose from including: trade in books, read to self, writing, work with words, read to someone, ipad, and listen to reading.
Use a specialty marker to mark which station each child choose each round of daily 5. Restricts kids to only a couple times at some of the stations.
Add your students names!
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Grades:
PreK - 8th
TELL Con Pragraph Structure
Use this SMARTboard presentation to introduce TEL(L)Con paragraph structure to your students. Links to the original graphic organizer, rubric, and student level explanations are included in this lesson. TEL(L)Con paragraph structure will help your students improve their paragraphing skills.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Hamburger Writing Graphic Organizer for Smartboard
I have taken my favorite graphic organizer for writing and turned it into a notebook file!!! Adding a little details to further explain the different parts of a main idea summary. Enjoy!!!
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Grades:
2nd - 9th
Personal Narrative Intro using "Owl Moon" by Jane Yolen (Smartboard Slideshow)
I do not own rights to any clip art, photos used. I also do not own rights to any youtube video links or the story "owl moon" by jane yolen.
included:
intro slide
class notes slide (adapt it to meet your needs)
link to personal narrative song (youtube)
owl moon by jane yolen slide (link to read aloud video youtube)
two graphic organizer slides for "owl moon" by jane yolen, identifying the pieces of a personal narrative (character details, setting details, descriptive words, topic, 1st person p
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Persuasive Writing Organizer
Use this organizer to teach how to plan a piece of persuasive writing using the SMART board and/or print it off and photocopy it and use as a handout and graphic organizer for your students!
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5th - 12th
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Stages of Plot Activity Slideshow for "The Dinner Party" by Gardner (smartboard)
Stages of plot activity
for the smartboard, using smartboard program
I use it with "the dinner party" by Mona Gardner
I found the story here: https://my.hrw.com/support/hos/hostpdf/host_text_103.pdf
I do not know if that's a legally uploaded copy of the story.
Please obtain your own legal copy of the story or use a different story for the last portion of this activity.
covers:
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution
includes graphic organizers
includes a plot mountain y
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Summarizing Reading Strategy
This notebook file is a visual addition to your summarizing lessons. Included in this lesson is:
-Anticipatory set
-Interactive link to "into the book website for guided practice"
-Examples of summarizing
-Acronym
-5 Finger fact
Grades:
4th - 6th
Skinny Bones by Barbara Parks Chpt 7 Hard-Boiled Egghead
This is a 13 slide SMART set of lessons focusing on vocabullary, figurative language, note takeing, use of graphic organizer, comparison of realistic to fantasy character traits, main idea, and details.
Skinny Bone by Barbara Parks Chpt 7 by Susan Russell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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