Creative writing lessons for SMART Notebook

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing

Writing Strong Endings for Narratives using Mentor Texts

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Bethany Hunter

Do your students struggle to write a strong satisfying ending to their stories? I know my students do! I created this SMARTboard presentation to use with my students. The presentation starts by covering the most common endings we want to move our kids away from, and then walks them through how to write a strong ending using mentor texts.

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

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First Grade Focused Finds

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

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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

Realistic Fiction Writing Unit Smartboard

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The Middle School Classroom

This is an outstanding unit you can use with your students to help them write well developed and interesting realistic fiction stories! The minilessons in this unit include: 1) Goal Setting and Generating Ideas 2) Imagine Stories from Ordinary Moments 3) Imagining Stories We Wish Existed in the World 4) Drafting My Writing 5) Story Mountains 6) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of Our Story 7) Developing Believable Characters 8) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivation 9) Show, Dont Tell 10) Gr

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 1 Smartboard Lessons

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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

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Creative Writing, Poetry, Writing

Poetry Unit for SMART Notebook

Created by

LoveLearnLead

Looking for a great poetry unit for your Writer's Workshop? Look no further! This 30-page SMART Notebook file follows the poetry unit student guide (also available in my store) and includes instructions, pre-writing graphic organizers, whole group modeling practice, poem templates, and examples for 9 different poems! Also included in Day 1 of the poetry unit are activities and examples for exploring meter, rhyme, stanza, and line within poems. Poems you will write with your students in this u

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Grades:

2nd - 5th

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Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Halloween Character Traits SmartBoard Vocabulary Activity No Prep

Created by

HappyEdugator

Halloween Writing Activity for Smartboard. Halloween digital resource - writing motivator and vocabulary activity. Five different Halloween characters - vampire, ghost, scarecrow, skeleton, and witch. On the interactive whiteboard, students can drag the character traits they want for their chosen Halloween character into the box. They then can name their character and, in their journal, show, not tell, how their character demonstrates the traits they chose and elaborate on the character. They c

Subjects:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Halloween

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

CCSS:

W.5.2b

, W.5.2d

, W.5.3d

, CCRA.W.6

, CCRA.L.6

3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 5 Lesson 21 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 4 Lesson 21: Sarah, Plain and Tall. 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 - Prefix non-

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Grades:

3rd

Types:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing

Six-Traits of Writing: Sentence Fluency with Smooth Transitions

Created by

Arrrsome in Fifth

This Sentence Fluency lesson concentrates on effective transitions using the popular mentor text, Meanwhile by Jules Feiffer. The 20 slide SMART file contains 8 days of lessons, activating and summarizing strategies, detailed instructions, graphic organizers, handouts, examples, opportunities for peer and teacher conferencing, scoring rubrics, links to videos, and interactive activities. It's everything you need to teach an engaging lesson on sentence fluency using effective transitions.

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Grades:

4th - 7th

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 5 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 5: Roberto Clemente. 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.

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Grades:

3rd

Types:

Creative Writing, Poetry, Reading

Figurative Language Relating to Poetry- Common Core Aligned

Created by

Teacher Creature

This highly interactive lesson introduces students to figurative language and shows them how by using it an author is able to express their own style in their writing by painting a picture in the reader's mind. It uses poetry examples to assess the students learning, and offers as many examples to practice on as your students will need! Reading poetry and understanding it is so critical in the Common Core Standards! This adds SO much to my reading lesson, especially when poetry is being read!!!

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 2 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 2: The Trial of Cardigan Jonesl. 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 Diction

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Grades:

3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 6 Lesson 26 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 6 Lesson 26: The Foot Race Across America. 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 suffix

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Grades:

3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 3 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 3: Destiny's Gift. 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 Dictionary/Glossary P

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Grades:

3rd

Types:

Creative Writing, Writing

Writing Sentences - Spivey Main Sentence Trunks and Action Expanders

Created by

Becky Brumm

This Smartboard Notebook file introduces or reviews Main Sentence Trunks with students, providing opportunities to practice coding the Main Sentence Trunks. It then moves on to introducing each Action Expander: who descriptor, what, where, when, and why. The students use the MSTs and add each Action Expander that is being focused on in the slide. The presentation concludes reminding children that when we write sentences, we should try to include at least 3 Action Expanders in their sentence, HOW

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Grades:

1st - 4th

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 4 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 1 Lesson 4: Pop's Bridge. 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 Dictionary/Glossary Pho

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Grades:

3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 5 Lesson 25 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 5 Lesson 25: Mountain: Surviving on Mt. Everest. 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

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Grades:

3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 4 Lesson 19 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 4 Lesson 19: Two Bear Cubs. 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 - Prefixes pre-, re-,

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Grades:

3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 3 Lesson 15 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 3 Lesson 15: Ramona Quimby, Age 8. 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 - Using a Thes

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Grades:

3rd

Types:

The Middle School Classroom

Drafting, Revising, and Editing Lessons - Smartboard

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This Smartboard presentation is great to show students during the drafting, revising, or editing stage of writing. It explains and takes students through each process step by step. Each lesson follows the workshop model and includes: 1) A connection to students' lives 2) A teaching point 3) A teaching component 4) Active engagement activity 5) A link Please rate me and "like" my store if you liked this product : )

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing, Writing-Essays

Grades:

2nd - 7th

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 5 Lesson 24 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 4 Lesson 24: Dog-of-the-Sea-Waves. 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 Shades of Mean

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Grades:

3rd

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 5 Lesson 23 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 4 Lesson 22: The Journey od Oliver K. Woodman. 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 -

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Grades:

3rd

Types:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Holidays/Seasonal

Holiday RAFT Writing (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) Smartboard format

Created by

Kim Harron

This lesson introduces RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) writing. There is a slide that explains each letter in the RAFT acronym. Following that, there are six different holiday RAFT writing prompts, with the last one being "free choice". In my class I have students roll a die (real or on the Smart board) to determine which writing prompt they will complete. We type our stories in Microsoft Word. However, this could easily be done in a writing journal or holiday writing paper. Holiday RAFT

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Grades:

1st - 8th

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3rd Grade Journeys Reading Unit 5 Lesson 22 Smartboard Lessons

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This Smart Board lesson focuses on each day’s lesson for Journeys Reading Unit 4 Lesson 22: The Journey: Stories of Migrationl. 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

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Grades:

3rd

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