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Middle school english language arts lessons for SMART Notebook
Reading Activity - My Life- Why reading is so important simulation
TEACHER DIRECTIONS
Purpose: A simulation activity that allows students to see the realize the consequences of not trying to become better at reading and writing. This activity puts students into random socioeconomic groups based on a random number on a die. This number will determine how much money they get to spend on six different areas of their life (house, location where they live, food, entertainment, transportation, and college). Students will have to make some difficult choices based
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5th - 10th
Inferences Minilesson - Garbage Bag Inferences (Smartboard)
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
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2nd - 7th
Elements of Poetry Unit Smart Notebook Lessons
Elements of Poetry Unit Smart Notebook Lessons
This is a smart notebook teaching file. It includes lessons to introduce poetry and lessons to teach the elements of poetry. In this unit you will find activities that teach what is poetry, the elements of poetry--rhythm, sound, figurative language, and form. Sound covers rhyme, repetition, alliteration, and onomatopeia. Figurative Language covers similies, metaphors, personification, and hyperboles. Form covers lines and stanzas, as well as the di
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3rd - 6th
Dependent and Independent Clauses SMARTBOARD Pirate Theme
Students will love this interactive whiteboard/SMARTboard activity with a pirate theme. The first part of this SMARTboard lesson is an introduction to dependent and independent clauses. The second half of the lesson is an activity that allows students to practice the skill of recognizing the difference between dependent and independent clauses. Examples of how to make a dependent clause complete (independent) are given on many slides. All slides are self checking so lesson can be used as a mi
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3rd - 7th
Paraphrasing Tips and Practice SMARTBOARD
This SMARTboard lesson and activity introduces what paraphrasing is and gives the students a chance to put it into practice. Complete with tips and ways to learn to paraphrase for any report. Linked to You Tube video to help explain paraphrasing and plagiarism. Great for whole group/teacher directed lesson or center activity. Grades 4-8. MUST have SMART Notebook to download and use.
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4th - 8th
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,
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3rd - 8th
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Calvin and Hobbes comics SmartBoard Cloze Activity Inferencing
This minilesson is very engaging for students because it uses Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, and the SmartBoard. It can be used for teaching using context clues or inferencing. The file contains comics that have words missing. The students must use the context of the comic to figure out the misssing word. The slide after that will have the original comic to check their work.
*If you do not have a SmartBoard you can still use this with a projector and print out the comics for students to w
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1st - 9th
Introduction to Mystery Genre SMARTBOARD
This interactive lesson provides an introduction to the mystery genre with a link to a video. Vocabulary is included with additional explanations of the elements of mysteries. This is both a lesson and a review of mystery genre terms. Vocabulary includes alibi, detective, witness, sleuth, evidence, mystery, clue, crime, victim, suspect, and red herring. Slides with questions are self checking. Links are also provided for two videos. Great for grades 4-8.
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4th - 8th
Historical Fiction Mini-Lessons
These useful Smartboard mini-lessons will help your students how to better understand and read historical fiction. This Smart Notebook collection of lessons include a few introductory lessons and 4 mini-lessons you can immediately use in your class. This collection can easily fill an entire week of mini-lessons for your historical lesson unit. As a bonus, I included some journal prompts at the end. Enjoy!*Please Confirm You Have Access to Smart Notebook in Order to Open This File*
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4th - 6th
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
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2nd - 6th
Writing Strong Endings for Narratives using Mentor Texts
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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3rd - 6th
Social Issues Reading Unit Smartboard
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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4th - 8th
Foreshadowing and Flashback-Interactive Lesson
Students will be able to define and identify instances of foreshadowing and flashback in a text.
Each page invites your learner to interactive with the subject to engage the information. Lessons use audio, animation, virtual manipulatives and other engaging experiences. Our Lessons are compete with a lesson plan and a companion quiz so you can quickly prepare and evaluate your learners’ progress.
To use these lessons you will need a free viewer from SMART Technologies™ called SMART Noteboo
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6th - 8th
Summarize and Paraphrase-Interactive Lesson
Students will be able to distinguish between quoting, summarizing, and paraphrasing. They will understand the attributes of a properly constructed paraphrase and summary and how to avoid plagiarism. Prior to beginning this lesson, print off pages 2-3 below and make a copy for each student.
Each page invites your learner to interactive with the subject to engage the information. Lessons use audio, animation, virtual manipulatives and other engaging experiences. Our Lessons are compete with a l
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4th - 6th
Library lesson - Alphabetical Order
This SMART Notebook file will help you teach how fiction books are arranged in the library. Students will practice arranging books in alphabetical order. There are four work pages, in which the ordering of books gets more difficult as it goes. This file is editable so you will be easily able to make more pages to fit your lesson needs. Please see my free file "Library lesson - Dewey Decimal System" for an example of how students place books in order. Michele Green
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1st - 6th
Building a Reading Life Unit Smartboard
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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4th - 7th
Leprechaun Legend and Lore SMARTBOARD
This SMARTBoard lesson is full of fun and skills (but not trickery). It encompasses various language arts skills and rules while using the fun legends and lore of leprechauns and St. Patrick's Day. There is a game board that students begin with by clicking on a square with a funny leprechaun. This takes you to a slide using language arts skills such as: inferring, fact and opinion, summarization, riddles, information that is off topic, and more. All slides are linked to a score board so that stu
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3rd - 6th
Multi Meaning Word Mini Lesson PLUS Printable Word Card Game
This activity is 2 lessons in one. Begin with the SMARTboard mini lesson on multi-meaning words. Slides discuss how many of our words have more than one meaning so the reader must use the context to determine the meaning. At the end of the lesson, click on the link to the printable multi-meaning word card game. There are a total of 24 word cards and 24 sentence cards to match up to the word cards. I would suggest printing it on card stock. It was produced in color but can easily be printed
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2nd - 6th
Making Inferences & Drawing Conclusions Smart Notebook Lesson
Teach your students how to make inferences with this thirty page, interactive, Smart Notebook Lesson. Your students will get to read stories, draw conclusions, use background knowledge, and information from the text to complete the interactive activities within this file. Containers, magic revealers, voting, and outside resources fill this lesson and make learning how to infer super fun. A "what's in the bag" mini-game is also included! Enjoy!THIS IS A SMART NOTEBOOK FILE. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU
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3rd - 6th
Special Education Morning Meeting Template
This Morning Meeting Template allows for students to discuss their schedule, the day, date, month, year, season, weather, temperature, and what the lunch menu will be while placing it in the new My Plate food categories. This is to be used with Smart Notebook Software so that students can interactively complete the sentences by writing on the board. Includes a link for students to look up the weather on www.weather.com. Students are able to fill in a graph compiling the weather forecasts for eac
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PreK - 12th
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
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3rd - 6th
Murder Mystery!! Inferences (Notebook Guide)
This notebook files guides the class along as they solve the Murder Mystery clues using inferences.
NOTEBOOK FILE ACCOMPANIES Murder Mystery!!! Inferences resource that is available for purchase in my store.
Great and fun way to have students make and understand inferences!
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3rd - 9th
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Character Analysis Unit for Reader's Workshop - Smartboard
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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3rd - 7th
Realistic Fiction Writing Unit Smartboard
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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3rd - 7th
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