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Close reading lessons 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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Thankful for Predictions, Inferences, Drawing Conclusions SMARTBOARD
This interactive Smartboard lesson is played like a jeopardy game. The board has 20 slides complete with short passages and answer choices. This activity is a Thanksgiving theme and all passages and questions are about the Pilgrims, the Wampanoag Indian tribe, or Thanksgiving trivia. Skills addressed in this activity are Predicting, Inferring, Drawing Conclusions, and then some fun riddles and trivia. All slides are linked to a scoreboard and all slides are self checking. This can easily be
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Expository Practice Passage NonFiction Text PUFFINS SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson provides a nonfiction passage for your expository unit on puffins and 14 slides with questions about the nonfiction text. It also includes a printable version of the passage so your students can have a hard copy in front of them while working their way through the questions. 16 questions about the selection include: main idea, author's purpose, author's point of view, fact and opinion, context clues, and more. All questions are self checking so this lesson ma
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Gumball Goodies - Infer and Draw Conclusions SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson combines a mini-lesson and some fun practice slides in inferring and drawing conclusions. Begin learning what it means to infer and how this is different from drawing a conclusion. Move on through the lesson with a few different ways to make a conclusion using clues you can infer information from. Bright, fun graphics makes the lesson enjoyable. The lesson ends with 5 fun slides of mystery pictures. As students click on gumballs, more information about the pic
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Context Clues An American Historical Lesson SMARTBOOK
This interactive smartboard lesson is both a minilesson and practice that introduces what context clues are and gives students a chance to practice using context clues to determine meaning. The theme is An Hysterical - Historical American Lesson. Funny, engaging pictures help give clues as well using the context surrounding unfamiliar words to determine meaning. 20 different slides are provided to practice using context clues. Answer slides with explanation follow each question. This can easily
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
ELA Module 3a Peter Pan Unit 1 Lessons 4-6
Everything you need to teach lessons 4-6 of Unit 1 for Peter Pan is here. I have attached my version of some of the worksheets to the Smart Board file as well as the lesson plans themselves. These interactive, colorful slides are a great way to engage your students with the book. *If you have an RCSD Brain Honey account you will need to log in to access the audio book for the read aloud. However, you can always read the story aloud to your class for this part of the lessons yourself. It is so mu
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Grades:
3rd
BEE A WORD DETECTIVE Context Clues SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson provides practice using context clues to determine the meaning of words. Students have 18 slides with unfamiliar words used in sentences. Each slide has 4 answer choices and the correct answers can be found with a quick click of the mouse. This is a great lesson to use as a multiple minilessons so the teacher can discuss with the students exactly what words within the text gave the students a hint or necessary information to determine the meaning of the wor
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Expeditionary Learning Engage NY Module 2a Unit 3 Lesson 4 grade 3
Students will begin their Freaky Frog Trading Cards.
Learning Target:
I can write the most important facts about my freaky frog on the Facts and Image side of my Freaky Frog Trading Card.
Grades:
3rd
Making Connections Through Inferencing SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson will challenge your students to think and use clues to determine a deeper meaning that may not be stated in a paragraph. This lesson provides 14 passages with a question at the end of each asking students to determine what most likely happened next using clues to infer meaning. All slides are linked for easy use and answers are provided so they are all self checking. This lesson can easily be adapted to be used as a whole class lesson; a small group lesson;
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Let's Infer SMARTBOARD
"Hey, what did you really mean by that?" is the theme of this lesson. Students infer without realizing it, but it's important to teach them to think purposefully and to look deep into the text for hidden meaning. This interactive smartboard lesson will help students look for clues that they can use to infer meaning from the text. Students practice their inferencing skills by reading a short passage or paragraph and answering a question that requires them to infer. All slides are self checking s
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Grades:
2nd - 5th
4th Grade Author's Purpose Workshop Minilesson
Used for a formal observation in a 4th grade predominantly ENL setting, this minilesson uses Teacher's College-like teaching points and follows a workshop model.
It requires the use of the passage, "The Story of Chocolate" which is released online at engageny.com and is practice material for the NYS ELA exam.
See store for colorful take-away charts using the strategy for students who need a reminder of the steps (used for SWDs and ENL students).
I suggest students read the article prior t
Grades:
4th
Common Core Reading and Writing Unit based on the novel Tiger Rising
This Smartboard unit uses the novel The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo to integrate and teach a variety of ELA common core standards within the reading, writing, speaking and listening strands, as noted below. For users of the Daily Cafe management system, Cafe strategies are referenced throughout the unit. Lessons to introduce students to reciprocal teaching strategies, for use in literature circles, are included as well. By the end of the unit, students will be able to:
• make inferences a
Grades:
4th - 6th
Finding The Main Idea SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson has 10 passages that will help students prepare for testing and gain a clearer idea of the main idea of text. Passages include expository AND narrative pieces. One slide is a poem so students have a variety of exercises. Students must determine the main idea of the passage. Funny cartoon characters and high interest passages keep students engaged. All slides are self checking and linked for easy use. Great to use in small group to spark discussion about fi
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Character Traits for the Smartboard
Character Traits is a collection of interactive mini-lessons specifically designed for the Smartboard. You must have Smart Notebook for this file to run properly.
In these mini-lessons, you will lead students in the important areas of character traits. The lessons will address:
➢ Define what a character trait is
➢ Explain how they differ from feelings
➢ Lists common positive and negative traits (includes interactive practice)
➢ Discusses how to “read” our characters (includes interactive prac
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
Inferencing Lesson and Practice - Get A Clue SMARTBOARD
This is both a lesson and practice in using your skills to infer what the character might do, say, or act. Studying the characters' words and actions will give the reader many hints and clues about what might happen next or why something happened in the story. Students needs to get their clues by reading between the lines. Fun graphics keep the students engaged. Ten different passages are included with questions to help the students look deeper into the text. Answers and explanations are in
Grades:
2nd - 5th
"Name that Text Structure" Shared Reading Smartboard GAME
Just open and teach!! Students review text structures by participating in shared reading. They need to prove the text structure with a partner!
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Teaching Main Idea - Smart Board Lesson!
Use this product to help students understanding the concept of "main idea" and "supporting details."Several passages are included for discussion. Help students underline, highlight the main idea and support details within the passages. There is also a video link and a 5 question Quiz.
Grades:
1st - 4th
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
6th Grade Literature Unit 6: Acceptance
In this 6th grade thematic literature Smartboard unit, the Big Idea is "Acceptance". All text selections (both fiction and nonfiction) will connect back to the theme and the Essential Questions. The unit will end with a culminating writing performance demonstration. The writing type is informative/explanatory. The student will compare and contrast the Lin and the Gleason families from the Close Read selection "The All-American Slurp". The paper should include evidence of acceptance of the other'
Grades:
6th
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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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
Close Reading SMARTBOARD Lesson and Activity
This lesson is full of information, ideas, and fun activities to help students learn what close reading means and how they can use it to help their comprehension. This is a great lesson to teach students what close reading looks like from inferring, jotting notes, thinking deeply about characters and their actions, symbols, dialogue, and more. It is quite a comprehensive lesson so it can easily be broken into several lessons allowing time for discussion and examples. The last part of the less
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Smarty Pants Ants CONTEXT CLUES SMARTboard PLUS Printable Card Set
This interactive SMARTboard lesson is a lesson that teaches different ways to use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. Teach and discuss with students how to use context clues in the words surrounding unfamiliar words as they read. Learn to look for meaning in surrounding text; find antonym or synonyms; look for signal words such as ..."that is" or "in other words", and more. Also included is a PRINTABLE card set of 20 context clues cards. Great to use in small group;
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Sight Word Slides (Part 1)
Over 118 smart notebook pages that teach students sight words interactively. Students will learn to read, sing, write, and recognize a sight word. Teach one word a week, and use a few slides each week to focus on a word. This is the first part to three slides. All three slides contain 50 sight words.
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
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