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8th grade informational text resources for SMART Notebook under $5
Nonfiction Text Feature and Text Structure Jeopardy Game
This item is a SMARTBOARD Jeopardy Game. The game reviews the nonfiction text features and text structures. :)
Grades:
3rd - 10th
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Plants: Lesson 2: Transpiration & the Xylem
In this lesson, students will take the journey through a plant via the perspective of a water droplet (traveling with a mineral). By reading an adventure-like story and illustrating it, the teacher can easily check for understanding, then later, explain the science behind what is happening.
By using a story instead of a boring text, students are more engaged and visualize processes much better. This then, can provide an excellent foundation for building vocab or understanding larger scientific
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Behind Rebel Lines Smart Board Notebook Visual for whole book
Smartboard notebook presentation that can be edited or added to!
Includes pictures, lesson on activism and the civil war, vocabulary, maps, characters, summaries of important events in each chapter.
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Grades:
3rd - 10th
Synthesizing - Using a Magical Illusion for infering and research/Train Escape
TEACHER INFORMATION
PURPOSE: This activity combines the mystery and intrigue of an amazing illusion and students ability to synthesize new information. Students have a hard time understanding the process of synthesis. This very engaging activity will have students go through the process of synthesis by combining information presented in different media (media and text) to develop a better understanding of the topic, and draw evidence from informational text to support analysis, reflection, an
Grades:
5th - 12th
non-fiction model texts
Included are 4 model texts that can be used on the interactive whiteboard for the specific teaching of non-fiction writing. Children will enjoy seeing the language and structural skills that support creating information texts, biographies and explanations.
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Grades:
5th - 8th
MEDIEVAL TIMES UNIT FOR SMART BOARD!!!! Grades 4,5,6
Medieval Times Unit
Grades 3-6
*Make your focus topic selections based on how appropriate for the grade you teach
Time Frame approx. 2-3 weeks
Document includes:
• Full unit of smart board lessons and slides to teach Medieval Times in your classroom
• Made for a 3rd grade Gifted Class, you can adapt it for topics using books of your choice OR the books I’ve suggested.
• Graphic organizers
• Format for research paper
• Format for poster
• Materials needed
• Information about
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Martin Luther King - Letter From a Birmingham Jail - First 4 Paragraphs Analysis
This interactive analysis of the first four paragraphs of MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" contains instructional vocabulary, figurative language, graphic organizers and text. This is a great tool for teaching common core standard R.I.8. I use this as an introduction to persuasive writing.
Grades:
6th - 9th
SMARTboard interactive lesson on author's point of view and fact vs. opinion
This SMARTboard lesson covers a few reading comprehension skills: identifying author's point of view, fact vs. opinion, and evaluating an author's argument. Some slides can be used as notes for the students. Other slides are more interactive. Students have to determine if statements are facts or opinions. There is a mini reading comprehension exercise at the end where students evaluate the author's argument. This is perfect for ELA assessment preparation. It keeps the students engaged!
Grades:
6th - 8th
Argumentative Reading and Writing CommonCore Lesson
The skills covered in this unit include: identifying multiple stances for a given claim, identifying the author’s claim on an argumentative text, vocabulary for argumentative writing, analyzing claims, evaluating author’s reasons, using ethos, logos, and pathos to back up an argument, the structure for an argumentative paragraph based on text, and graphic organizers. The text that was used in this example is from www.readworks.com and is titled “Making your Mark,” and presents claims about wheth
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Deconstruction Lab - Discovering Main Idea
This is a STEM and Inquiry based lesson which the objective of having students discover organization and main idea. It was designed to be a common experience for students as the beginning of a unit on Main Idea.
The lesson meets the Language Arts common core standard:
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Students actively engage with a given text to uncover the writing's structure and orga
Grades:
6th - 9th
Close Read- Cloning for Struggling Readers grades 3-9
Are you having a difficult time finding interesting nonfiction articles to coincide with the new shifts in the CCSS? If so, this close read may be right for you.
This close read is about cloning and has two separate articles included in it. The first article is at a 3rd grade level and is designed to both introduce the concept of cloning, promoting background knowledge, and boost student confidence as they move to the second article. The second article ranges between grades 6-9 and is more adva
Grades:
3rd - 9th
I am Malala: Chapters 6-9 Smart Response Clicker Quiz
This item can be opened with Smart Notebook Software and given to students as a clicker quiz. It is aligned with the information in Chapters 6-9 of the book and has five multiple choice questions.
It could also be printed for students to take on paper (especially absent students), but if you would rather have a paper version and answer key of the quiz, please see the item listed separately in my store!
Grades:
5th - 9th
I am Malala: Chapters 1-5 Smart Response Clicker Quiz
This item can be opened with Smart Notebook Software and given to students as a clicker quiz. It is aligned with the information in Chapters 1-5 of the book and has five multiple choice questions.
It could also be printed for students to take on paper (especially absent students), but if you would rather have a paper version and answer key of the quiz, please see the item listed separately in my store!
Grades:
5th - 9th
I am Malala: Prologue Smart Response Clicker Quiz
This item can be opened with Smart Notebook Software and given to students as a clicker quiz. It is aligned with the information in the Prologue of the book and has five multiple choice questions.
It could also be printed for students to take on paper (especially absent students), but if you would rather have a paper version and answer key of the quiz, please see the item listed separately in my store!
Grades:
5th - 9th
Roald Dahl
This is a Smart Notebook file that forms a lesson on Roald Dahl. It was originally made for a special needs class but can easily be used for a class of nearly any age or ability. It includes links to videos and a worksheet to be completed at the end to summarise the lesson.
Grades:
2nd - 9th
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PARCC-like Smart Board Activity - Franklin Roosevelt
Students will read an article about Rooselvelt. and then 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:
5th - 12th
Teaching How to Trace and Delineate an Author's Claim
These slides use graphic organizers to teach students how to delineate an author’s claim for any expository text. The sample used is the story of Romulus and Remus, but it can be used for any text. The graphic organizer really helps students understand how to delineate and trace an author’s claim. The slides include vocabulary related to the skill of tracing a claim as well as scaffolding for students who need it. I’ve also included a student printout so that students have access to the graphic
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Expository Research Unit Smart Response Clicker Quiz
This item works with the Smart Response System for Smart Boards and can be used at the end of a research unit. It could also be used as a formative assessment at the beginning a research unit, as well. There are 11 questions and an answer key at the end. The answers are embedded in the quiz, so the system will grade it for the teacher! I also have a paper version of this item in my store, as well.
***BUNDLE ALERT: This will also be sold as part of a bundle for the whole unit, when the bundle i
Grades:
7th - 12th
10 Computer Short Computer Research Activities
You can fill in time or teach research skills with these ten activities. Students will need access to a computer and the internet to complete these. Answers are provided where applicable.
Grades:
5th - 8th
SMARTboard Lesson on Text Structures
This SMARTboard lesson is designed to teach the five basic text structures in informational texts (description, comparison/contrast, cause and effect, process or sequence, and problem and solution). The presentation is 17 slides. The first half of the slides present characteristics and signal words for each type of structure. The last five slides give the students a short piece to read and analyze the text structure. This is perfect to use for introducing text structures before you present a mor
Grades:
6th - 8th
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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
To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 2 SMARTNotebook file
This is the SMARTboard NOTEBOOK file I use with Chapter 2 of To Kill a Mockingbird. You may recall this chapter involves Scout's first day of school. Because of the increased use of nonfiction articles on the Virginia SOL tests, this day's activity involves students reading nonfiction to connect to the novel. This is a full class lesson of exploring the chapter, investigating one of the allusions, connecting literature to nonfiction, making inferences, and assessing comprehension of character
Grades:
8th - 11th
Module 2A Unit 1 Lesson 2 Common Core Curriculum ELA 8
This is a Smartboard/Notebook file that includes lesson materials for Module 2A Unit 1 Lesson 2 published by Expeditionary Learning. Accompanying handouts featured in this file can be downloaded for free from EngageNY. Search Module 2A ELA 8 and open the pdf file. Scroll to Lesson 2. You will find all the handouts listed in this file. I have simply created the teaching tool needed to implement this lesson.
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8th
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Text Features SMARTBOARD
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Grades:
5th - 8th
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