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3rd grade english language arts unit plans for SMART Notebook
Friendly Letter Writing Unit for SMARTBoard
Your students will love learning about writing friendly letters on the SMARTBoard.
With your purchase you will get:
Instructions for saving and printing
Lesson page with description of the parts of a letter.
4 Practice pages putting the parts of the letter in order.
3 Different writing stationary
2 Parts of a Letter posters (one boy and one girl)
1 Page of Internet links for student practice and the parts of the letter song.
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1st - 3rd
Character Traits Week Long Unit-SMARTBoard Lesson
This is a five day SMARTBoard lesson unit. Each day has an introduction, interactive activities, and a reading goal. There are links to interactive websites as well as printable versions of graphic organizers linked in the lesson.
Topics Covered Include:
Who, What, When, Where, Why of a Story... Why=Character
Character Traits
Changes in Character
Inferencing About a Character
Comparing and Contrasting Characters
NOTE: This IS a SMART notebook file. If you wish to use this lesson, you can
Grades:
1st - 4th
ELA Grade 3 Module 1 Units 1, 2, AND 3 BUNDLE! UPDATED 2014!
SAVE BY BUYING THE BUNDLE RATHER THAN INDIVIDUALLY PURCHASING ALL OF ITS CONTENTS! Grade 3 ELA Module 1 Units 1, 2, AND 3! Aligned with the New York State Common Core Learning Standards. These 266 SmartBoard slides will engage students of all learning styles. These lessons will save you hours of designing, scanning, copying, pasting, and typing. These SmartBoard Notebook files were created by veteran 3rd grade teachers with Master's Degrees in the area of Literacy. Enjoy and let us know how well
Grades:
3rd
6 + 1 Traits of Writing SmartBoard Slides
What a fun way to start the year with writing. This interactive unit follows the 6 + 1 Primary Traits of Writing book by Ruth Culhan. There are approximately two 30 minute lessons for each trait (Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, Presentation). The lessons get the students involved and get them excited about writing. Ready, Set, WRITE!
See my free day by day planning document to go along with this unit.
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1st - 3rd
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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Grades:
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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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Poetry Unit for SMART Notebook
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
Recognzing Different Types of Writing
This is a SmartBoard lesson that helps students recognize three different types of writing. It gives them quick exerts of each and then test their newly learned skills with a couple of fun games.
Grades:
2nd - 9th
Figurative Language and Poetry Smartboard "IPAD" Unit
I have used this "IPAD" on my smart board for many years, and it covers everything students need to know about figurative language and poetry. Watch for a students booklet that goes along with this smartboard file to be uploaded!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan - Literacy Unit
This is a SMART Notebook File aimed at years 3 and 4 but can be changed to suit students from year 3 -6.In this unit students will develop their understanding of how stories can be communicated using images– both still images and moving images. Through an in-depth study of a picture book and an animated short film they will explore how visual narratives are constructed. They will engage in interpretation of the settings, events, characters and themes expressed in these texts. They will also lear
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3rd - 6th
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Historical Fiction Reading Unit Smartboard
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
Persuasive Writing Unit: Writer's Workshop Version Smart Notebook CC Applicable
Teach your students persuasive writing through this colorful, engaging writer's workshop version of persuasive paragraph writing. This is a 3 week unit of lessons and activities, each modeled through engaging smart notebook visuals, mentor texts, and tech integration options. Students are walked through the process of planning, crafting, and editing a persuasive paragraph. Written specifically for 3rd graders but very applicable for both 2nd or 4th. This resource is 25 slides long.
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2nd - 4th
Bats: Informational Text and Fact Or Opinion Sort-Smartboard 11.4-Windows OS
IMAGINE the look of wonder on your students’ faces as they read and apply fact/opinion skills while exploring the AMAZING world of bats! This complete unit includes:
-Fact/Opinion Introduction and Lessons
-KWL Fact Chart
-Opinion Graph
-Fact/Opinion Sign (signaling)
-Factual Informational Text Booklet
-Craftivity Bat (to hold booklet)
-Real-Life Micro- and Mega- Bat Pictures
-Fact/Opinion Sort-Apply Skills
-Craftivity Bat Cave for Fact/Opinion Sort
-Bat Anatomy-Label Body Parts
-Recommended Rea
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Memoir Writing Unit - Smartboard
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
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Visualizing Verbalizing - Spirit Rover Unit - Comprehension, Smartboard
This Smartboard Unit was created by me for classroom instruction. It is presented Sentence x Sentence, with vocabulary and comprehension, higher order thinking questions. This unit is READY TO GO! This lesson is uploaded for .Notebook for Smartboard. The PDF version can be found on my store.
This unit is adapted from concepts learned from the Visualizing/Verbalizing Program by Lindamood-Bell for classroom Instruction, that helps students improve reading comprehension, language comprehension, an
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Grades:
1st - 12th
Hairy Nose Itchy Butt Guided Reading Lessons - Four Blocks Literacy
This is a SMART notebook file that forms 4 days (or 1 weeks) worth of guided reading lessons for the book Hairy Nose Itchy Butt.
This file follows the Anchor, Read, Apply model and has a purpose for reading the book each day.
This file was made originally for a high school special education class using the Four Block Method of Instruction but can easily be used in most school classrooms, for home school, relief teaching, etc.
This file also features the 6 Hats Thinking Model.
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Grades:
1st - 10th
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
First Day Jitters SMARTBoard ~ 4 day lesson ~ Printables, Centers & Assessment
This is a 22 page multi-day .NOTEBOOK unit to accompany the text "First Day Jitters". THE TEXT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT. YOU MUST HAVE THE TEXT FOR MANY OF THE ACTIVITIES INCLUDED IN THIS UNIT.
The unit contains prior knowledge building, graphic organizers, and focuses on story elements. This product addresses and identifies common core standards and includes LFS Essential Questions. Links to printable graphic organizers and a two day reading packet with graphic organizer and comprehensi
Grades:
3rd - 5th
Laura Numeroff Author's Study
This is a smart notebook lesson which is an author's study on the author Laura Numeroff. In the lesson students learn what cause and effect are and have a chance to read and discover some of her books like "If you give a Mouse A Cookie, etc.) Then they brainstorm their own cause and effect story titles and finally write their own story in the style of Laura Numeroff.
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K - 3rd
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Visualizing Verbalizing - First Man In Space Unit - Comprehension, Smartboard
This Smartboard Unit was created by me for classroom instruction. It is presented Sentence x Sentence, with vocabulary and comprehension, higher order thinking questions. This unit is READY TO GO! This lesson is uploaded for .Notebook for Smartboard. The PDF version can be found on my store.
This unit is adapted from concepts learned from the Visualizing/Verbalizing Program by Lindamood-Bell for classroom Instruction, that helps students improve reading comprehension, language comprehension, an
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Grades:
1st - 12th
Stickman Guided Reading Unit - Four Blocks Literacy
This is a SMART notebook file that forms 1 weeks worth of guided reading lessons for the book Stickman.
This file has 4 purposes and an activity to be completed after each day's reading.
This file was made originally for a high school special education class using the Four Block Method of instruction but can easily be used in most school classrooms.
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Grades:
1st - 10th
Black History Month Circle Maps with linked videos
This Black History Month item is a smartboard notebook file that includes pictures and linked classroom-appropriate youtube.com videos! I've highlighted 16 important figures during Black History Month that include Obama, Goode, Robinson, and many other important figures that we can celebrate during this month! Each page is designed as a bubble map to brainstorm facts that you know or learn about each individual and the lines at the bottom are great for guided, shared, or modeled writing!
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Reading Informational Texts: Energy Makes Things Happen for Common Core
You will need SMART Notebook software to use this file. This 15 slide SMART presentation has four days worth of lesson using the informational text, "Energy Makes Things Happen," by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. The essential question is, "How can I show that I understand an informational text?" Students can complete a reading response sheet to show their understanding. The presentation includes: turn and talk discussion questions, essential questions, and reading response sheets. You can comp
Grades:
1st - 3rd
Monster Short Story Unit
Everyone do 'The Monster Mash!' What elementary student doesn't like monsters? Motivating students to write is often difficult, so making the writing process fun is absolutely necessary. This writing unit goes through the entire process of writing a short story about a student created monster.
This unit includes the following elements:
-A review of several of the 6 + 1 Traits of Writing
-An organization rubric so students will know what the daily expectations are
-Self- assessing questions
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Grades:
1st - 4th
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