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Middle school short stories resources for SMART Notebook
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
Plants: Lesson 8: Pollination & Angiosperm Reproduction
Students explore pollination and angiosperm reproduction by looking at real flowers, playing online games, reading stories, drawing and more. As a brain break, students also have a run-around scavenger hunt to review previous plant information.
This lesson may take 2-3 class periods, depending on how long your class periods are. I did this in 2 90 minute periods. That being said, there are additional relevant do-nows, hooks etc. included at the end so you can rearrange each day as you like.
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6th - 9th
Gift of the Magi Smartboard Activities
This is a set of Smartboard activities that correspond with Gift of the Magi. It includes study questions, a vocabulary exercise, compare and contrast, theme, and pre reading and post reading activities. I also have posted a set of printables that goes along with this presentation.
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5th - 12th
Elements of Plot Drag-and-drop whole-class activity - FUN!
This activity is a true gem for the literature classroom. Take any story you're reading with your students and double-click the events in this document to add your own.
Then, students take turns dragging and dropping the events to the right spot on the diagram.
Kids love this activity!
Grades:
3rd - 12th
"Amigo Brothers" Character Trait Match
Students enjoy the short story "Amigo Brothers" by Piri Tomas. Even more, they enjoy matching the character traits on the Smart Board. I have students search for traits and place them in their Interactive Notebook (journal) then add additional traits they may have missed. There are two slides with 15 traits total. You must have access to a Smartboard and the Smartboard software to use the product.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Writing Narratives Package
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
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Grades:
3rd - 9th
Fables Smart Board Resource
Elements of a fable
Fable checklist
Planning table: character / characteristics / Moral
Familiar fable table
Match the fable to the moral
Write your own fable planner
Character planner
Punctuation and vocab brainstorm
Animal to characteristics match
Animal groups match
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in:Â Fable bundle
Smartboard Richard Connell's Most Dangerous Game
This Smartboard will keep students engaged guaranteed! Nineteen slides There are links within the slides that take you to video clips from the new movie trailer to "Family Guy" using examples of the literary device allusion which is frequently used in Connell's short story and more click on clips to reinforce the literary elements allusion, oxymoron and other literary terms including figurative language and vocabulary from the text. Click an arrow or image and you will be linked to two addi
Grades:
4th - 12th
Representation of the Divine in Story (SmartPresentation and Writing Activities)
I used this Smartboard presentation when exploring "Representations of the Divine" in Ethics and Religious Culture, for secondary 2. Enough material for at least a week worth of lessons.
This lecture explores how the Divine is represented in different stories in different religious traditions. Students will be able to compare and contrast how different traditions explore representations of the divine. Students will also look at THEME vs. MORAL and fill out a chart as a group.
There are You
Grades:
7th - 9th
Personal Narrative 5 Day Lesson
A step-by-step guide to writing personal narratives. Includes brainstorming, adding dialogue and imagery, revising, and writing a final draft.
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3rd - 7th
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Edgar Allan Poe Unit Common Core Aligned
This is a Smart Notebook file. This unit is based on "The Tell Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat." It includes information about themes, symbolism, suspense, 2 essay tasks, a variety of writing responses, vocabulary activities and reference sheets, references to articles and videos that can easily be found on the internet to accompany this unit. You would need to obtain the text for both of these stories as well. Some of the slides give a lot of information and some give less information and allow
Grades:
7th - 10th
Infer - Four stories with mini-lessons on inferring
I made up four stories about some cavemen that are ideal for looking for clues and teaching about inferring. It is set up to be modeled on day one, group work on day two, partner work on day three, and individual practise on day four but it is easy to adapt to other setups.
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5th - 7th
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Character Suitcase
Use this lesson to complete a study of character traits. This lesson includes an introduction to character traits and how to isdentify them. You students will create a "suticase" using a file folder which highlights their selected character's traits. Additional resoucres and a rubric are also included.
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4th - 8th
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Smart Board - Suspense in "The Monkey's Paw"
This is a companion to a word document I sell on "The Monkey's Paw". Walk students through the process of writing about suspense in this short story.
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Daily Writing Prompts (September to November)
First set of daily writing prompts.
There is one writing prompt per day. The date and day number are at the top of each page, below that is the writing prompt. Each day asks the students to do something a little bit different.
The prompts include: Writing lists of things (activities, words, memories, etc), imagine if... questions, what is your favorite..., tell me about a time when...., and so on.
These quick writes are meant to take anywhere from 1-5 minutes. These prompts just get student
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Grades:
PreK - 8th
Jack London "To Build a Fire" Interactive Read Aloud Part 1
This is the first of three smartboard notebooks designed to teach common core reading standards R.L.6, R.L.4, and R.L.2. Full text, teaching ideas and student handouts are included in the 47 pages of google docs. attached to the notebook. The notebook includes images to support the text, vocabulary, figurative language, graphic organizers, ideas for Socratic Seminar. . . If you purchase this notebook, you will also want to purchase Jack London "To Build a Fire" Interactive Read Aloud Parts 2 a
Grades:
6th - 9th
Papa's Parrot and MK sequence of events
Two paired short stories - students arrange the events in the order that they occured. This is a Smartboard file (.notebook). You must have the software and a Smartboard for it to work.
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7th
Dice Reading Review
Throw away your foam dice and use your SMARTboard for an interactive dice review. Students will answer questions selected as the roll the oversized dice. Use this handy tool for group response, literature circles, or a pop quiz. There are eight different pages with additional resources for group responses on the last page.
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3rd - 9th
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Writing about Literary Character Types: A Smart Notebook Presentation
This Notebook presentations review the definition of the four character types (static/dynamic, round/flat) with students. Then, it leads them in focused support development for writing about those types. Use this lesson to support a literature unit with a variety of characters for students to interpret and analyze. Check the preview document for a more detailed discussion of the lesson. Go to my YouTube channel, SVClarkson, to see the lesson in action!
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8th - 11th
Personal Narrative Intro using "Owl Moon" by Jane Yolen (Smartboard Slideshow)
I do not own rights to any clip art, photos used. I also do not own rights to any youtube video links or the story "owl moon" by jane yolen.
included:
intro slide
class notes slide (adapt it to meet your needs)
link to personal narrative song (youtube)
owl moon by jane yolen slide (link to read aloud video youtube)
two graphic organizer slides for "owl moon" by jane yolen, identifying the pieces of a personal narrative (character details, setting details, descriptive words, topic, 1st person p
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4th - 7th
"Freedom Summer" Patterned Reading
This smartboard presentation guides students through the illustrated children's book "Freedom Summer". By using patterned reading as a strategy it gives students the time and space to engage with a text. This particular lesson focuses on how setting impacts characters.
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5th - 8th
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The Monkey's Paw - Smart Board
Students place the events in order that they occurred. It's a quick and easy activity to use after reading the short story.
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7th - 11th
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Da Vinci Fables
This is a smartboard presentation that includes three Da Vinci fables all with text dependent questions. If you need help teaching close reading, moral, or story elements, this is the smartboard lesson for you!
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5th - 7th
Making Inferences
Building comprehension skills for children in year 3-6 through the use of short animated clips such as 'Trouble in Paradise', 'Ormie the Pig' and 'One Man Band'.
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3rd - 6th
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