Middle school creative writing lessons for SMART Notebook

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Realistic Fiction Writing Unit Smartboard

Created by

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

Types:

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

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CCSS:

W.5.2b

, W.5.2d

, W.5.3d

, CCRA.W.6

, CCRA.L.6

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

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

Drafting, Revising, and Editing Lessons - Smartboard

Created by

Creative Writing, Writing, Writing-Essays

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 : )

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Grades:

2nd - 7th

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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Mother's Day Memoir Writing Activity - Smartboard

Created by

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

Types:

Character Education, Creative Writing, Critical Thinking

6 Word Life Memoir SMARTboard Lesson (Editable!)

Created by

Life Long Teacher

This activity encourages critical thinking and higher order questioning by having students write their own 6-word memoir. The lesson is a SMARTboard file, so you can edit it to fit your needs! Started by Ernest Hemingway and popularized in the book "Not Quite What I Was Planning," students will write a story about their lives. The only catch - they can only use 6 words! In my classroom, I had my students draw an illustration to accompany their six word memoir. We bound the memoirs in a boo

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Grades:

2nd - 12th

Types:

Projects, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Writing a Memoir

Created by

Arrrsome in Fifth

Even if you have students who profess they "hate to write," they'll love writing their own personal memoir. In this set of eight SMART lessons, students will work in small groups, pairs, and individually as they learn what a memoir is, what makes a great memoir, how to plan a memoir, and how to write their own memoir. You'll start off with writing a Six-Word Memoir and end the series of lessons with writing a memoir of a life event. Each lesson has an organizer, a video, and/or some type of a

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

5th - 7th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Printables, Lesson

Writing Strong Narrative Beginnings using Mentor Texts

Created by

Bethany Hunter

Do your students struggle to write a strong beginning 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, "not so good" beginnings and then walks them through, using mentor texts strong beginnings.

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Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Literature

Story Characters - Using Body Biographies to Help With Character Analysis

Created by

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

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

Connotation Denotation Lesson

Created by

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing-Expository

Encourage your students to use better word choice in their writing as they discover how to correctly apply connotation to enhance the tone of their writing. Students will create connotation lines and apply selected words to their own piece of writing.

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Grades:

6th - 9th

Types:

Creative Writing, Reading, Writing

Spin a Story SmartBoard Narrative Writing Activity

Created by

HappyEdugator

SmartBoard Spin a Story - Narrative Writing. Create a basic storyline with this Smartboard activity. This idea generator works when students click on the spinners to generate short story elements. Who What Where and When...Character, Plot, and Setting. Will create thousands of variations to help students with story writing. Can be used to generate a whole class narrative writing assignment or use individually for student writing journals. Students with devices can type their story electronicall

Subjects:

Grades:

3rd - 6th

Types:

CCSS:

W.3.3

, W.3.6

, W.4.3

, W.4.6

, W.5.3

...

Memoir Introduction - Smartboard

Created by

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

Types:

Creating Learning Teaching

Writing Narratives Package

Created by

This package breaks writing narratives into the critical elements in order to scaffold students to writing strong stories. It is broken down into: setting, problems, characters, plot, good beginnings and word choice. When I use this package I typically focus on one element each day in order to create an in depth understanding. I encourage students to write about what they know. I have them begin with a setting they know better than anyone and base their character off of someone they know reall

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Short Stories, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 9th

Types:

Improving Word Choice

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This writing lesson was developed to be used with the story "When I was Young in the Mountains" by Cynthia Rylant. Beginning with examples of good word choice and evaluating how authors use precise nouns, vivid verbs, and lively adjectives to improve their writing. Students will revise poor sentences with improved word choice and then compare their sentences to those in the story by Cynthis Rylant. A student handout is included within the SMARTboard presentation.

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Grades:

4th - 7th

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Adjectives for Showing Sentences

Created by

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Grammar

This SMARTboard presentation allows students to use creative writing to explore how adjectives help create showing sentences. This lesson includes four creative prompts for writing practice focused to enhance the use of adjectives in student writing.

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Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing-Expository

Cause and Effect

Created by

The General Store

This is a short lesson on Cause and Effect. The first two pages are a short story and answer page. The following pages involve 5 cause and effect sentences, which the students will either fill in the cause or effect for each. For example, a picture is provided of two babies (one crying, one laughing). The sentences reads, "Mom wanted to take their picture..." This would be the cause, the students will have to write the effect. There is also a small explanatory writing prompt on the last

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Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Creative Writing, Writing, Writing-Expository

Subordinating Conjunctions : Interactive Lesson!

Created by

BigAppleClassroom

Teach your students subordinating conjunctions in an interactive and engaging way! Includes:Defining Subordinating ConjunctionsVisualsExamplesHochman Writing ProgramWrite your own!Complete the sentenceMultiple Choice QuestionsCreative Writing Prompt Movement ActivityAnd More!

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Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Activities, Interactive Notebooks, Lesson

Poetry Unit Smartboard

Created by

Creative Writing, Poetry, Writing

This product includes the following: 1) Linked to this Smartboard is a five page word document that includes a handout for students to use. The handout gives students the guidelines for their poetry writing project. 2) Figurative language pages - discusses similes and metaphors 3) Idioms page - has examples of idioms and a practice page for students 4) Alliteration page - includes examples of poems and a "fun with alliteration" page 5) Personification page - includes definition and sample poems

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Grades:

4th - 8th

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Narrative Revision

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This unit lesson will guide your students through the revision process. Move through the revision lessons as slowly or quickly as needed for your students. Provide writing breaks for your students to look back at their own writing and apply the following revision strategies: Show don't tell, alliteration, onomatopoeia, tone, overused words, figurative language, and dialogue. My students love how this lesson works and you can use the mini lessons with separate writing pieces.

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Grades:

7th - 9th

Types:

Creative Writing, Writing

Ravine Flyer II Smart Notebook Slides and Lesson Plan

Created by

Mr Blaine

In a study of narrative writing, shared experiences are powerful. This Smart notebook file/lesson plan is designed to be used with the Slice of Life "Ravine Flyer" mentor text on Teachers Pay Teachers. The slides include a focus for instruction, an active link to a YouTube clip that puts viewers in the front seat of this amazing roller coaster. Project this video on your Smartboard and your kids will feel like they're in Erie, PA plunging down a wooden track at sixty miles per hour. The file al

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Grades:

3rd - 8th

Types:

Adjectives Writing Lessons

Created by

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Grammar

This SMARTboard presentation provides multiple lessons to use while studying the use of adjectives in writing. There are guided lessons and four writing prompts focused for the use of adjectives in student writing.

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Grades:

6th - 8th

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