Middle school balanced literacy lessons for SMART Notebook

Grades:

2nd - 7th

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Social Issues Reading Unit Smartboard

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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

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Grades:

4th - 8th

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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

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Grades:

4th - 7th

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Character Analysis Unit for Reader's Workshop - Smartboard

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This product is a series of eighteen reading lessons which focus on analyzing characters. 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: Lesson 1 - Thinking Over Stories with Partners Lesson 2 - Retelling Stories By Starting at the Beginning Lesson 3 - Learning to Listen Int

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Grades:

3rd - 7th

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Realistic Fiction Writing Unit Smartboard

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Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing

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

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Grades:

3rd - 7th

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Book Club Introduction Smartboard

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Starting book clubs up with your students? Do you need a Smartboard presentation to explain what should happen in book club, explain book club expectations, and explain book club accountability? Then this is for you! This Smartboard presentation explains: 1) What book club is about 2) What happens at book club each day of the week 3) Discusses the types of things to discuss at book club 4) Gives an explanation each type of book club job (Connector, Questioner, Synthesizer, Visualizer/Illustrato

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

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Reading Strategies Smartboard Bundle

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This product includes all of my reading strategy lessons. It includes lessons on: 1) Metacognition 2) Schema 3) Making Connections 4) Questioning/Making Predictions 5) Visualization 6) Inferring (Garbage Bag Inferences) 7) Synthesizing 8) Determining Importance 9) 7 Keys to Comprehension posters (Inferring, Evaluating, Making Connections, Visualizing, Fixing Up, Questioning, Synthesizing) The lessons include fun activities that help you better explain what the strategy means and explains how y

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Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Grades:

3rd - 8th

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Determining Importance Minilesson - Smartboard

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This minilesson helps students understand why it is important to determine importance while reading. Students go through a variety of activities that help them ask themselves, "What is going on and what is the most important thing I should take away from this?" Students go through a variety of activities that require them to determine importance when looking at a CNN website, when going through a purse, when listening to a song, when looking at a piece of artwork, and much more! It is a creat

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Grades:

3rd - 7th

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Historical Fiction Reading Unit Smartboard

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This product is a series of ten reading minilessons which focus on historical fiction. 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) Constructing the Sense of Another Time 2) Synthesizing Story Elements 3) Holding On When Time Jumps Back and Forth 4) Unfolding Characters

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

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Memoir Writing Unit - Smartboard

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Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Writing

This product is a series of fourteen writing lessons which focus on writing a memoir. 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 is a Memoir 2) Diving Deep 3) Writing Small About Big Topics 4) Internal and External Timeline of Stories 5) Reflection and Incorpora

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Grades:

3rd - 7th

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Personal Essay Writing Unit Smartboard

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Balanced Literacy, Writing, Writing-Essays

This Smartboard writing unit takes students through a step by step process to help them successfully write a personal essay. Here are the steps students are taken through: 1) Students begin by brainstorming themes and issues in their life 2) Students fill out a people/issues/moments chart 3) Students learn how to write a thesis 4) Students write an idea/claim/argument 5) Students learn how to "grow" ideas and "push their thinking" 6) Students organize their essay 7) Students look at examples

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Grades:

4th - 7th

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Mother's Day Memoir Writing Activity - Smartboard

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Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing

Mother's love nothing more than a story written by their child about a special memory or time they shared together. Use this Smartboard to help guide your students as they write a memoir about a special moment or memory they shared with their mom. There are fourteen slides that help students brainstorm ideas for their writing piece, two slides explaining what to focus on when writing the memoir, and an example of a mother's day memoir is provided at the end. Mom's love getting these from their

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

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Activities, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Writer's Workshop Overview for Kids and Teachers! - Smartboard

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Balanced Literacy, English Language Arts, Writing

This Smartboard presentation is great to for introducing the structures and expectations and Writer's Workshop. It includes: 1) What happens during minilessons/behavior expectations 2) What happens during "break out" time (sustained silent writing, partner share, conferencing) 3) What happens during "wrap up" time 4) An explanation of what it means to be a deliberate writer 5) Writing partner expectations 6) An explanation of minigroups 7) What happens during conferencing 8) How to elaborate 9)

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Grades:

4th - 6th

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Mystery Reading Unit - Smartboard

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This Smartboard presentation is based on the Reader's Workshop model. Each minilesson includes a cover page, connection, teaching point, teaching component, active engagement, and link. The following minilessons are included: 1) Beginning a Mystery Story 2) Paying Close Attention to the Details 3) Using Predictions to Think About Text in New Ways 4) Reflect and Sythesize on Mystery Text 5) Asking Questions and Tracking Our Musings 6) Collecting Thick Questions to Lead to Deeper Understanding 7)

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Grades:

3rd - 7th

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Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Literature

Story Characters - Using Body Biographies to Help With Character Analysis

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MyPaths

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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Grades:

3rd - 12th

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Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

Story Characters - Using "Fakebook" to create a character analysis (Smartboard)

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MyPaths

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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Balanced Literacy, Literature, Reading Strategies

Grades:

5th - 12th

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Lesson, Centers

Schema Lesson Smartboard

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This Smartboard thoroughly explains what schema means and how to use it as a reading strategy. This smartboard compares your schema (background knowledge) to a spider web because like spider webs, our brains "trap" information that help us become better readers. The more experiences we have, the more we know! The following activities are included in this Smartboard presentation: *Lint roller activity *One minute schema determiner *Concentric circle chart *The "I Connect Song" *Listening to son

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Grades:

4th - 6th

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Memoir Introduction - Smartboard

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Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Writing

This Smartboard presentation gives students an introduction to what a memoir is. It lays out the expectations for a typical memoir writing unit. It includes the following: 1) Brainstorming page about what a memoir is and why people write memoirs 2) A reading activity where you read a excerpt from Lois Lowry's memoir "Looking Back" 3) A brainstorming page to help students come up with "seed story" ideas for their collection of memoirs 4) The expectations for the memoir writing unit 5) A memoir

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Grades:

5th - 7th

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Balanced Literacy, Informational Text

EDITABLE SmartBoard lesson for John Muir and Camping with the President

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MariposaJayla

I created this SmartBoard file for my own personal use with a read aloud of Camping With the President by Ginger Wadsworth in conjunction with the NYC Grade 4 John Muir Common Core Task Bundle. Common Core Standards RI.4.1 and RI. 4.10. Slide 1: Discuss who John Muir was and his conservation efforts. Read aloud Camping With the President by Ginger Wadsworth. Slide 2: Review vocabulary and what it means to be a conservationist. Slide 3: Describe the setting of the story Slide 4: Ide

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Grades:

4th - 7th

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Interactive Whiteboard, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

CCSS:

RI.4.1

, RI.4.10

Plural Nouns Lesson

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The Wright Shop

A SMART Board lesson on plural nouns including: -singular and plural nouns -adding -s and -es to make plurals -words that end in y -words that end in f or fe -words that end in o -irregular nouns Use this lesson to teach plural nouns and practice with dry erase boards. You must have SMART Board software to open this presentation. You may edit the slides as you wish. Message me if you would like it created in a PDF file.

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Grammar, Spelling

Grades:

2nd - 6th

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