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8th grade Autumn literature resources for SMART Notebook
Figurative Language SmartBoard Activities, Games & Overview
8 Slides - ready for fun!
Slide 1 - Vortex Game - Onomatopoeia Game
Slide 2 - Overview of Simile, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Imagery
Slide 3 - Pop the Metaphor Activity
Slide 4 - Alliteration Activity - Roll the Dice
Slide 5 - Colorful Overview of Simile, Imagery, Metaphor, Hyperbole
Slide 6 - Spinner Imagery Activity
Slide 7 - Simile example
Slide 8 - Interactive Sorting Activity of 3 Figurative Language Devices
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2nd - 10th
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"Whooo's Here Today?" Owl & Back to School Theme SMART Board Attendance w/ SOUND
Whooo's here today?? Students click their owl to hear a real owl hooting and then watch it disappear. Any owls left on the page indicate students who are absent for the day.
This attendance activity comes with both a numbered page (if you assign students numbers) and a page where you can change student names. Directions for changing names are included!
*If you are concerned about students being able to reach the higher items on a SMART Board, consider having students use a pointer. This has
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PreK - 8th
The Giver Jeopardy Review Game for Smartboard
This is a Jeopardy review game for Lois Lowry's novel The Giver. The game is formatted using Smart Notebook and is made to be used with the Smartboard. All of the categories are pre-linked to each question slide, and each question slide is linked back to the questions, making it easy and quick to navigate in class. There is also a red bar that can be taken again and again to cross out the category selected.
This game includes one round of regular jeopardy, one round of double jeopardy, and a
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6th - 10th
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Graphic Novel/Comic Text Features
From beginning to end, this resource takes students step by step through learning about and developing their own comic strips. They practice writing and drawing all text features used in graphic novels. Unit has culminating activity that has students create their own comic strip.
Comes with activity sheets and assessment page.
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4th - 8th
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Introduction to Mystery Genre SMARTBOARD
This interactive lesson provides an introduction to the mystery genre with a link to a video. Vocabulary is included with additional explanations of the elements of mysteries. This is both a lesson and a review of mystery genre terms. Vocabulary includes alibi, detective, witness, sleuth, evidence, mystery, clue, crime, victim, suspect, and red herring. Slides with questions are self checking. Links are also provided for two videos. Great for grades 4-8.
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4th - 8th
A Christmas Carol activities
Smart Board activities to go with my "A Christmas Carol in symbols with questions." Includes functional reading, writing, and math activities designed for young children or those with moderate to severe cognitive handicaps. Matching symbols to words, forming sentences with symbols, simple addition and subtraction word problems, counting quarters. Appropriate for special needs students, including autism, Down Syndrome, and traumatic brain injury, and FMD. Symbols are helpful for emerging read
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PreK - 12th
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Homeworkopoly Interactive SMART Notebook File - Fully EDITABLE! Loads of fun.
Finding it hard to get students to complete their homework on time?Well, look no further! This homework rewards based system is engaging for all grade levels and will inspire students to complete homework on a regular basis. This can also be used for a rewards based system for your class as well.This Homeworkopoly system has been proven to increase levels of homework and productivity in and outside the classroom. Your class will be talking about the cool and engaging chance wheels and challenges
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K - 12th
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
Genre Review Task Cards - SMARTboard Version
Included in this packet are 32 genre task cards and an answer key.
Each card has selection title and short synopsis of a reading selection. Students are to label the genre and subgenre of the selection. This is a great way to review genre types with students, especially before any kind of state testing.
These are the same as my Genre Review Task Cards.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Figurative Language Review Jeopardy Game
This item is a SMARTBOARD Jeopardy game reviewing figurative language.
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5th - 10th
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A Christmas Carol in symbols with questions
An adapted version of the classic story of Scrooge. Appropriate for special needs students, including autism, Down Syndrome, and traumatic brain injury, and FMD. Symbols are helpful for emerging readers of all ages. Also see the matching SmartBoard activities at my store, Alternate Route Educational Products, for only $1.
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PreK - 12th
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Third Person Point of View Notebook Presentation
This Notebook presentation for the smart board introduces students to the three types of third person narration: Limited, Objective & Omniscient.
This Notebook presentation can be used as a part of a Point of View unit, and is designed for use with the Danielson & Common Core Aligned Point of View Lesson Plan (available FREE through my TpT account). This presentation matches up exactly with the differentiated guided notes (available for purchase). Do now, independent practice and exit
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3rd - 8th
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Story Characters - Using Body Biographies to Help With Character Analysis
This Smart Board Activity uses an INTERACTIVE character to go through the instructions!! Your students are sure to love participating with the character!!!
Purpose: Character analysis is an area that students seem to have great difficulty. Readers seem to really have problem grasping and connecting with characters in the text. A body biography is a visual and written representation of a character’s life. In creating a body biography, students practice character analysis, understanding liter
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3rd - 12th
Story Characters - Using "Fakebook" to create a character analysis (Smartboard)
Purpose: Character analysis is an area that students seem to have great difficulty. Readers seem to really have problem grasping and connecting with characters in the text. This engaging activity allows students to combine the authentic experience of reading social media text with the fun of creating a new “Fakebook” page that is a visual and written representation of a character’s life. In creating a “Fakebook” page, students practice character analysis, understanding literary devices, and d
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5th - 12th
Gift of the Magi Smartboard Activities
This is a set of Smartboard activities that correspond with Gift of the Magi. It includes study questions, a vocabulary exercise, compare and contrast, theme, and pre reading and post reading activities. I also have posted a set of printables that goes along with this presentation.
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5th - 12th
Elements of Plot Drag-and-drop whole-class activity - FUN!
This activity is a true gem for the literature classroom. Take any story you're reading with your students and double-click the events in this document to add your own.
Then, students take turns dragging and dropping the events to the right spot on the diagram.
Kids love this activity!
Grades:
3rd - 12th
"Never Shall I Forget" - Elie Wiesel - SmartBoard Presentation
A great addition to my lesson on Elie Wiesel's poem "Never Shall I Forget." File is compatible with Smart Technology.
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8th - 12th
Utopia and Dystopia: Smartboard Presentation
This is to help teachers introduce the Utopian and Dystopian Genre to Students. This is a Smartboard Presentation. Please download the student worksheet and teachers guide (sold separately for 4$). Together, the presentation and Work together will take about 2 class periods. The work can also be assigned as homework - its pretty much a review of what was discussed in class.
Smartboard Presentation: A lecture and interactive activity that has the class define utopia/dystopia and come up with
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Grades:
7th - 11th
SMART Notebook File - Fall Background
This file has includes one SMART Notebook pages (within one file). This SMART Notebook background is perfect if you are looking for an easy way to incorporate stimulating visuals that tie into the season!IMPORTANT NOTE: You need SMART Notebook for this file to work! This file only includes sample text, and is intended to be a background for your own content.
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PreK - 8th
Smart Board - Character Traits
Students sort out the named characters with their matching traits. I use this after the first few chapters to introduce the characters and their traits. This item matches up with the following printable item.
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Character-Chart-for-The-Outsiders
This is a SMART Board file - you must have the program to view the file. Please do not leave a negative rating if you cannot open the file. Contact me or tpt.
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7th - 10th
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Analyzing Quotations
Students often struggle to analyze quotations and write about them. This is an interactive, step by step process to get them thinking about the "How and Why" of analyzing quotes. Included are additional quotes to practice after walking through the steps as a class.
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5th - 10th
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Smartboard Attendance/ Lunch Count
This is a fall template that you can manipulate for use with your students. It comes with instructions on how to change the names on each leaf. You will also get a password to watch a video on how to create your own!
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K - 12th
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Morning Message AND Homework Board
Display your Morning Message and Homework Board on your SmartBoard every Morning. My students write their homework in the morning from the this file, and love to watch as the themes change monthly. When buying this you will have a different display for the months of August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, and May. These will make your life easier and even provide a clock, so you ensure you take roll in time! Enjoy!
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PreK - 12th
"Amigo Brothers" Character Trait Match
Students enjoy the short story "Amigo Brothers" by Piri Tomas. Even more, they enjoy matching the character traits on the Smart Board. I have students search for traits and place them in their Interactive Notebook (journal) then add additional traits they may have missed. There are two slides with 15 traits total. You must have access to a Smartboard and the Smartboard software to use the product.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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