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8th grade close reading resources for SMART Notebook under $5
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
Types:
Character Study using "Each Little Bird that Sings" - Smart Notebook Slides
A Character Study using the mentor text "Each Little Bird that Sings" by Deborah Wiles - 5-6 week Interactive Notebook unit!
Getting students to understand characters in fiction texts can be challenging. This unit helps students navigate the core components of character analysis using "Each Little Bird that Sings" by Deborah Wiles.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Smartboard Slides to Accompany Read Aloud of: Pictures of Hollis Woods
Need to give your Read Alouds more structure and a bigger impact on students? Check out these Smartboard slides to accompany a Read Aloud of Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff.
Slides include 16 lessons to accompany the book. Each lesson focuses on one of the seven reading strategies:
*Predicting
*Connecting
*Synthesizing
*Inferring
*Creating a visual / Noticing author’s craft
*Questioning/Critiquing
*Determining Importance
Daily prompts for student discussion or written response
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Literary Devices Introduction SmartBoard
A way to make literary devices fun! This SmartBoard presentation helps students understand key literary/ dramatic devices. Students are first given the term and examples, then guess to figure out what the device might be. Following, the teacher pulls in the definition (hidden with arrows) and additional (more literary) examples. Links are provided to show examples for several of the devices. (A "link" image appears next to the object linked.)
Grades:
7th - 12th
Cell Theory Close Read and Timeline SmartBoard Presentation
This is a presentation to be used to close read about the cell theory. It gives two different options for the close read. My store has a bundle that includes the article, student graphic organizer, questions, etc.
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 12th
The Impact of Setting on Characters
This lesson is from the Literary Analysis unit. The lesson revisits the topic of setting, then moves into how the setting affect the characters of the text. Students and teacher are involved in close reading, peer discussion, and whole class share. Strategies used include: peer share, think aloud, questioning, and I Do, We Do, You Do!
Grades:
7th - 9th
CCSS:
Summarizing
Mini- Lesson that reviews what a summary is, what should be included in one, and how to gather that information.
Grades:
4th - 8th
"Annabel Lee" - Stop and Think (Notebook 11 & Nearpod)
With this simple editable lesson , you will be able to help your students analyze "Annabel Lee," by Edgar Allan Poe. This lesson includes the learning objectives, a do now, a stop-and-think exercise, and a closing. Students should have been introduced to the poem, literary devices, and vocabulary, before completing this stop-and-think exercise. This lesson was designed for transitioning/expanding English language learners. The lesson is provided in two different formats, Notebook 11 and Nearpod.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Types:
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
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
"Annabel Lee" - Stop and Think (Notebook 11 file)
With this simple editable lesson, you will be able to help your students analyze "Annabel Lee," by Edgar Allan Poe. This lesson includes the learning objectives, do now, stop-and-think exercise, and a closing. Students should have been introduced to the poem, literary devices, and vocabulary before completing this "Stop and Think" exercise. This lesson was designed for transitioning/expanding English language learners. (Answer key is included.)
Grades:
7th - 12th
Types:
PARCC-Like Smart Board Activity for "The All-American Slurp"
After reading "The All-American Slurp, students will create a summary with important events in the order they happened. This activity is done on the Smart Board and is very similar to the drag and drop questions they will see on PARCC.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Freak the Mighty Smart Notebook Whole Book resource/ Visual display/ by chapter.
Questions, pictures, summaries, and vocabulary for each chapter of freak the mighty.
For smart notebook
Able to be edited
Whole Book!!
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 9th
Author's Voice SmartBoard Gary Soto Reading Street the Gymnast
*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
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Questioning (right there questions)
mini lesson teaches students to ask themselves questions to help guide their reading
Grades:
5th - 8th
Making Predictions
Mini Lesson teaching students when to make predictions, to base them on different text features, sentence starters, and a graphic organizer to complete as you read.
Grades:
5th - 8th
Cogheart Reading Chapter 1
This is a guided reading sequence on Cogheart chapter 1. It has non-fiction as part of it, to help develop understanding on Victorian Schools, and focuses on inference, retrieval and Words in Context style SATs questions. Ideal for Years 5 and 6.
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 8th
Types:
Sticky Note Activity for "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury (smartboard)
Sticky note small group activity with instructions
I use this activity with "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury. I included a link in the document to a copy of the story I found online. I do not know if the story was uploaded legally. Please obtain your own legal copy of the story.
This is easily edited to use with any short story.
It's essentially a graphic organizer for the smartboard.
I do not own the rights to any graphics or pictures used.
THIS IS A SMART DOCUMENT TO USE WITH A SMART
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Close Reading Chart SmartBoard
You may keep this up on the Smartboard or print out a personal copy for your students to keep taped to their desk.
Included: 1 slide that guides close reading. Well worth it. Helps students mark up the text.
When we read, we read passages/articles more than once. Our elementary school district preaches "1st and 2nd" reads when presented with a passage.
When we preform our "first read" we simply read for fluency as well as establish the author's purpose. Once we establish the author's purp
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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