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8th grade problem solving close reading resources for SMART Notebook
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
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Visual Word Puzzles -- 10 Fun verbal brainteasers for Smartboard
Are you m1llion (one in a million)? Do you have timing ti ming (split second timing)? Then you will love these puzzles. Try these ten verbal brain teasers with your class, and they will definitely ask for more!
The hidden answer is revealed by moving the blue circle around the page.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Visualizing Verbalizing - Spirit Rover Unit - Comprehension, Smartboard
This Smartboard Unit was created by me for classroom instruction. It is presented Sentence x Sentence, with vocabulary and comprehension, higher order thinking questions. This unit is READY TO GO! This lesson is uploaded for .Notebook for Smartboard. The PDF version can be found on my store.
This unit is adapted from concepts learned from the Visualizing/Verbalizing Program by Lindamood-Bell for classroom Instruction, that helps students improve reading comprehension, language comprehension, an
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Grades:
1st - 12th
Riddles and Brainteasers
This is a collection of 54 riddles/brain-teasing exercises that are great for weekly warm-up activities or as a brain break activity when students are overwhelmed. Also great to use as sub plans for an unexpected absence. Each of the questions has an answer as well as an explanation of the answer when necessary.
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Visualizing Verbalizing - First Man In Space Unit - Comprehension, Smartboard
This Smartboard Unit was created by me for classroom instruction. It is presented Sentence x Sentence, with vocabulary and comprehension, higher order thinking questions. This unit is READY TO GO! This lesson is uploaded for .Notebook for Smartboard. The PDF version can be found on my store.
This unit is adapted from concepts learned from the Visualizing/Verbalizing Program by Lindamood-Bell for classroom Instruction, that helps students improve reading comprehension, language comprehension, an
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 12th
Wonder Thematic Unit
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
Toothpick Geometry
This is a SMART Notebook file full of geometry puzzles. There are 18 puzzles that students can solve. With each puzzle, there is a linked solution page that is animated to show the movement required for each puzzle. From the solutions pages, there is a link to get back to the next puzzle. This is a great activity to do the day after a test or right before holiday break. Enjoy!
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Grades:
5th - 12th
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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
Plants: Lesson 6: Creating an Experimental Design
Overview:
Before conducting their own experiments on plants, students must first understand the thought processes behind experimental design.
This lesson introduces control, independent and dependent variables through a series of brainstorming activities. Using graphic organizers and students' own thoughts, we work through the design process and rationale. Students should be able to metacognate or "think aloud" why the variables are important, look for connections between them, and differentia
Grades:
6th - 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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Classroom Community - Teamwork/Comm. Blindfolded Potato Head (SmartBoard)
TEACHER'S INSTRUCTIONS
GOAL: To build classroom community by having participants use communication and teamwork to successfully assemble Mrs. Potato Head blindfolded.
COMMON CORE STANDARDS:
SL 6.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL 6.2 Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Types:
Reciprocal Teaching
Reciprocal Teaching is an instructional strategy where students share in the role of the teacher using four strategies that guide instruction.
5 interactive smartboard mini lessons including
Questioning (Thin and Thick)
Summarizing
Predicting
Clarifying
Each lesson involves a graphic organizer for a work time
Grades:
5th - 8th
Thinking time (loads of cognitive reasoning slides)
I created 'Thinking Time' last year and now all the classes in my school are using it. There are over 100 slides. This is a brilliant tool to have in the class room. It can be used as an exciting early morning work, a time filler on any given day or as a way of really getting the kids into a thinking state of mind. There are slides appropriate to all ages and different cihldren will get different things from the activities. I use this every single day that I'm teaching and the children LOVE
Grades:
PreK - 12th
MATH GO FOR THE SMART BOARD
IF YOUR STUDENTS LOVE POKEMON GO THEY WILL LOVE “MATH GO”.
THIS IS A SMART BOARD PROGRAM WHERE STUDENTS CAN WORK AT THEIR OWN PACE. THE STUDENTS SOLVE A VARIETY OF MATH PROBLEMS (CONVERTING MEASUREMENT, WORD PROBLEMS, AND UNDERSTANDING MATH NUMBERS). THE STUDENTS CHOOSE FROM THREE ANSWERS. IF THEY TAP ON THE CORRECT ANSWER THEY WILL BE SENT TO A SCREEN WHERE THEY CAPTURE A “MATH GO” CHARACTER. IF THEY TAP ON A WRONG ANSWER THEY WILL BE TOLD THEY ARE WRONG AND SENT BACK TO THE QUESTION AGAIN
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Grades:
5th - 9th
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.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Smartboard Guide to Close Reading and mastering annotation
This Smartboard presentation is a must have for any grade level and can be used for all texts nonfiction, fiction, short stories articles DBQs etc... Slides have vibrant colors and graphics to help students annotate easily. With the slide at the front of the board students mark their texts and follow along. Have them write the question posed at the bottom of the text to insure they find evidence to support their response. Slides can be edited easily to include your text title and questions yo
Grades:
4th - 12th
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Seedfolks Thematic Unit
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
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
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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
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
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