Balanced literacy lessons for SMART Notebook

The 5 Senses Smart Board Lesson

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Balanced Literacy, Graphing, Science

My 5 Senses SmartBoard lesson will engage your students and get them excited about the 5 senses! The lesson includes the following:teacher's notes pageinteractive pageslink to school tube video (5 senses song)link to 5 senses website activity5 senses poem to read, sing and act outprintables of the poem5 sense Quiz (true/false click and reveal quiz)a matching activity5 interactive graphs (one for each sense)printable 5 Senses book (writing and check for understanding activity). Have fun learnin

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Grades:

K - 2nd

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Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Reading

Sorting by Beginning Letter Sound: SMART board activity

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Its a Jungle Out There

This is a "notebook" file for a SMART board. This activity students will look at a picture and determine the beginning letter. Students will move the picture to the correct jar. Each slide has two letters to sort between. This activity can be used as a mini lesson, word work, or a literacy center. Here are the sorting letters. Slide 1: Title Page Slide 2: Sorting A and B Slide 3: Sorting C and T Slide 4: Sorting Z and J Slide 5: Sorting Y and H Slide 6: Sorting K and G Slide 7: Sorting Q and

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Grades:

PreK - K

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

Rhyming Words SmartBoard Lessons for Primary Grades

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Rhyming activities are a great way to develop a variety of language arts skills. My SmartBoard lesson provides many opportunities for your k-2 students to learn more about rhyming words. The file includes a lesson plan, interactive pages, links to videos, website links and a printable to check for understanding. Use the pages individually or combine pages to create mini lessons. Your students will have FUN learning about rhyming words! Open the preview to see all the pages in this .notebook

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Grades:

K - 2nd

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The Middle School Classroom

Inferences Minilesson - Garbage Bag Inferences (Smartboard)

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This is a unique and engaging way to introduce how to make an inference with your students. For this lesson you will tell students that you want them to help you solve a mystery. Tell them that you have some new neighbors that you have never met before and the family keeps to themselves. Explain that you wanted to find out more about them and you got lucky: it was garbage bag day and they left a small bag of garbage on the curb. Hold up the premade bag of "garbage" you made to share with student

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

2nd - 7th

Types:

Balanced Literacy, Poetry, Reading Strategies

Making Inferences with Taylor Swift

Created by

Brandi Clark

This can be used to help your students get more practice with making inferences. They are introduced to question stems that are typical of inferencing questions. Then the lyrics to Taylor Swifts song "We are never getting back together" are used, and students analyze the lyrics, making inferences along the way. After discussing hidden meanings behind the lines, they can watch the music video and gather more evidence to support their inferences. I love pulling in 'pop-culture' with skills in

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Grades:

5th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Activboard Activities, Lesson

FREE Adding -er and -est SmartBoard Lesson for Primary Grades

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Balanced Literacy, Reading, Writing

Teach your students about adding -er and -est to adjectives with my 17 page SmartBoard Lesson. The file includes a lesson plan, interactive pages (click and reveal, sound horns), links to videos that illustrate words with -er and -est and 2 printable posters to post in the classroom. Your first or second graders will have fun learning to use all kinds of adjectives with this lesson! Printable materials (pdf) included in the attachment tab for a write the room activity. Lisa RombachOther prod

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Grades:

1st - 2nd

Types:

Balanced Literacy, Math, Reading Strategies

The Grouchy Ladybug: A Smart Board Interactive Story Retell

Created by

jane oconnell

This is an interactive Smart Board lesson that can be used as either a Common Core Aligned math or literacy activity. This lesson retells Eric Carle's story: "The Grouchy Ladybug" in sequential order. It has an interactive clock that students can manipulate to tell the correct time in the story. There is also an analog clock that may be tapped on every page to reveal the correct time in the story. The characters in the story are animated and there is also a sound component for many of the cha

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Grades:

PreK - 3rd, Adult Education, Staff

Types:

Balanced Literacy, Phonics, Reading

Fountas and Pinnell Phonics SMARTboard First Grade

Created by

Slacker

I have compiled all of my Smartboard Lessons I use with Fountas and Pinnell Phonics. When I started teaching this phonics program, I thought the lessons would be more interactive, engaging and easier to use on the Smartboard ( and they are!!). This file contains 70 Smartboard slides to help teach Fountas and Pinnell Phonics for first grade. I have created over 30 phonics lessons, included words games, an alphabet handwriting practice and cheer, and a few blank games slides so you can customize y

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Grades:

PreK - 2nd

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Bundle: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a.... SMART board activities

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Its a Jungle Out There

This is a bundle of 8 SMART board activity for the books: There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bell There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Clover There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Chick There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Shell There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books Save money when you bundle. These can be purchased individually in my store too.

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Grades:

PreK - 1st

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The Alphabet SmartBoard Lesson for Primary Grades

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My Alphabet SmartBoard lesson is ideal for grades preschool, Kindergarten and first grade.This file includes pages of video links and links to interactive website activities to learn about the alphabet letters.There is a pdf in the attachment tab for students to write the upper and lower case letters (differentiated, 2 forms). Whether you are introducing the letters, reviewing the letters or just need a fun way to interact with the alphabet, you are sure to engage your students with the activiti

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Grades:

PreK - 1st

Types:

Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies, Spring

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Interactive Story Retell

Created by

jane oconnell

This is an interactive story retell for the Smart Board. After reading “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” students will retell the story on the Smart Board. The images of what the caterpillar ate will fade into the screen when the weekday is tapped. This allows students to retell the story in the correct chronological order of events and check their responses on the Smart Board. Students and teachers will love this engaging, interactive lesson.

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PreK - 2nd, Staff

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Phonics 2 Sounds of Double O SmartBoard Lesson Primary Grades

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Balanced Literacy, Reading, Spelling

This SmartBoard lesson will introduce your students to the 2 sounds of double O. The notebook file includes teacher's notes, interactive pages, links to websites and printable materials (pdf) in the attachment tab (write the room cards and differentiated recording sheets, practice worksheet, spelling test master). Each activity will help your students become familiar with and learn to read words with the 2 sounds of double O. Open the preview to see all the pages in this notebook file.Lisa Romb

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Grades:

1st - 2nd

Types:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Grammar

3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 1 Smartboard Lessons

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Journey's Made Simple

This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 1: A Fine, Fine School. The focus wall is displayed daily and the lessons touch on all of the skills on the focus wall. This is an interactive way for the students to get more involved and has also helped keep students on track. I hope you will find this lesson helpful and useful in your classroom. Lesson includes: Daily Opening Routines Target Vocabulary Words Target Vocabulary Strategies context clues Ph

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Grades:

3rd

Types:

Balanced Literacy, General Science, Winter

Arctic Animal Wonderland w Penguins, Seals, Walrus', Polar Bears SMARTboard

Created by

Tiny Toes

Welcome to our Arctic Animal Wonderland for SMARTboard (.notebook) This Smartboard file includes 13 delightfully created activities: Label the Polar Bear Fun Facts about the Polar Bear with word bank Label the Walrus Fun Facts about the Walrus with word bank Label the Seal Fun Facts about the Seal with word bank Label the Penguin Fun Facts about the Penguin with word bank 1, 2, and 3 syllable word sort Circle the Initial Sound Sort the Arctic Animals from smallest to largest Arrange the words i

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Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Games, Lesson

4th Grade ELA Module 2A Unit 1 Lessons

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Kelly's Kreations for the Classroom

Students learn about what life was like in Colonial America. They go on to study the many roles people played in a colonial settlement and how necessary their interdependence was for survival. Students select one role to explore more deeply through various forms of nonfiction texts. With an emphasis on making inferences, summarizing informational text, basic research (note-taking and pulling together information from a variety of texts), this module will foster students’ abilities to synthesize

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Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Informational Text

Grades:

4th

Types:

Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Writer's Workshop - Small Moments - Unit 1 Lucy Calkins - Grade 1

Created by

First Grade Focused Finds

Complete set of mini-lessons in order to follow the Lucy Calkins' Writer's Workshop program. Developmentally appropriate for all first graders. Mini-Lesson slides are sequential and in the Smart Notebook format to allow for easy teaching on the spot. Your class will thrive! -Smart Notebook Format - Easy to Use! 46 Slides included! -Follows Unit 1 in Writer's Workshop -Classroom Tested and Approved -Empower your young writers! -Makes mini-lessons easy to teach HINT: I always put on a Minnie H

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson

Social Issues Reading Unit Smartboard

Created by

The Middle School Classroom

This product is a series of eight reading minilessons which focus on social issues in books. The Smartboard presentation follows the Reader's Workshop model and each lesson includes a connection, a teaching point, a teaching component, active engagement, and link (as well as other supplemental activities and slides). The lessons included in this product are: 1) What are Social Issues 2) Readers Evaluate How Characters are Treated 3) Issues Hide Within the Pages of Books That You Know Well 4) R

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Smart Board Interactive Letter Match

Created by

jane oconnell

Directions for the Smart Board Activity: Students tap the die on the Smart Board. They are to name the letter on the die. After naming the letter revealed on the die, students are to write the matching capital or lower-case in the box provided. Students are to tap the moon on the Smart Board and the correct answer will appearThere are 26 slides for every letter in the alphabet in random order. This interactive activity provides alphabet recognition skills. It is a common core aligned activit

Subjects:

Back to School, Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies

Grades:

PreK - 1st, Staff

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

Stranger Danger Safety

Created by

Littlest Wizards

This is a great interactive unit for any time of year! Includes… Interactive graphic organizers All lesson outlines (tied to read alouds) Writing Activities Fill-in the blanks Oral language discussion cards Drama activities (popsicle-stick puppets & emergency phone call dramatization) Media Literacy (influence of t.v. commerials) Circle the stranger (diagnostic assessment) True or False (summative assessment) All printables

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, For All Subject Areas, Writing

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Printables, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson

Opposite SmartBoard Lesson & Class Book to Make

Created by

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Vocabulary

Need a fun lesson to teach or review opposites? My SmartBoard lesson is just what you need! The file includes a teacher's lesson plan, interactive pages, video links, link to an interactive website and 22 printable pages for a class book about opposites. A printable book cover is also included. Links are included on the pages. Have fun learning about opposites! This file ALSO includes a differentiated version of the opposite book. This PDF is located in the attachment tab (or click the li

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Grades:

K - 1st

Types:

The Middle School Classroom

Building a Reading Life Unit Smartboard

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This is a unit you can use with your students to help them build their reading life at the beginning of the year. The minilessons in this unit include: 1) How to Pick a "Just Right" Book 2) What Good Readers Do 3) Rituals and Routines 4) Goal Setting 5) Logging Your Reading 6) Marking Your Spot 7) Parts Go Together 8) Reading Faster, Stronger, and Longer 9) Establishing Partnerships 10) Reading in the Company of Partners 11) Reflecting on Your Reading Life 12) Book Recommendations 13) Stepping

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4th - 7th

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Phonics Short U SmartBoard Lesson Primary Grades

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Learn about the sound of short U! This SmartBoard lesson includes a variety of interactive pages, links to interactive websites, link to school tube video, a printable student worksheet and a lesson plan. You can rearrange the pages to create 2-3 different mini lessons. Your students will have fun learning about short u in this notebook lesson!Open the preview to see all the pages in this .notebook file.Lisa RombachThis is a .notebook file and requires Notebook software to open.Click below to

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Grades:

K - 2nd

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Phonics Short O SmartBoard Lesson Primary Grades

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Learn about the sound of short O! This SmartBoard lesson includes a variety of interactive pages, links to interactive websites, link to school tube video, a printable student worksheet and a lesson plans. You can rearrange the pages to create 2-3 different mini lessons. Your students will have fun learning about short O in this notebook lesson! Open the preview to see all the pages in this .notebook file.Lisa RombachThis is a .notebook file and requires Notebook software to open.Click the t

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Grades:

K - 2nd

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