7th grade english language arts lessons for SMART Notebook

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

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Elizabeth Leigh Creations

Dependent and Independent Clauses SMARTBOARD Pirate Theme

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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

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

Grades:

3rd - 7th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

Paraphrasing Tips and Practice SMARTBOARD

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Elizabeth Leigh Creations

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.

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Writing

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

Calvin and Hobbes comics SmartBoard Cloze Activity Inferencing

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Special Ed Superhero

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

Subjects:

Reading

Grades:

1st - 9th

Types:

Close Reading, English Language Arts, Reading Strategies

Making Thinking Visible with Patricia Polacco Mini Unit

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Toolkit For Teachers

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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Lesson

Introduction to Mystery Genre SMARTBOARD

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Elizabeth Leigh Creations

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.

Subjects:

Literature, Reading, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4th - 8th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson, Centers

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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Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Grades:

4th - 8th

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Foreshadowing and Flashback-Interactive Lesson

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OnBoard Academics

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

Subjects:

English Language Arts

Grades:

6th - 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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Life Skills, Special Education, Vocabulary

Special Education Morning Meeting Template

Created by

Amanda Ganelli

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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Grades:

PreK - 12th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, By TpT Sellers for TpT Sellers, Lesson

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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Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

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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Unit Plans, Interactive Whiteboard, Lesson

Literary Devices: Foreshadowing,Flashback, Symbolism and Irony NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8

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CCP Interactive

**THIS is a SMART Notebook Version** View this video by copying this link and pasting it into a web browser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu0U3W5Tg7s For understanding Foreshadowing, Flashback, Symbolism & Irony of Literary Devices, this chapter mini provides curriculum-based content in the form of Reading Passages, Before you Read and After you Read questions. Also included are printables, vocabulary flash cards, graphic organizers and interactive activities. ---------------------------

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Tools for Common Core

Grades:

3rd - 8th

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Jessica Cole - Resources to Educate

Murder Mystery!! Inferences (Notebook Guide)

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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!

Subjects:

English Language Arts

Grades:

3rd - 9th

Types:

Activities, Lesson

Writing Hooks - Fishing For A Hook Activity (Smart Notebook Version)

Created by

MyPaths

Students have a hard time understanding hooks, and the importance of a good "hook". This engaging lesson will have students literally "fishing for hooks". They will discover the importance of hooks in their persuasive writing. After students learn what a hook is, they will actually fish for hooks in a plastic swimming pool using a fishing pole and magnet. Once they fish out a "hook" they will read the hook and determine its effectiveness. This activity provides an engaging way to teach stud

Subjects:

Reading, Writing, Writing-Expository

Grades:

4th - 9th

Types:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Halloween

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

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Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

English Language Arts, Poetry, Winter

CCSS:

W.5.2b

, W.5.2d

, W.5.3d

, CCRA.W.6

, CCRA.L.6

The Cremation of Sam McGee SMARTBOARD Activities

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HappyEdugator

SMARTBOARD Activities for The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service. Poetry analysis on the smart board and writing activities for the poem. This poem is set at Christmas time in the Arctic in the late 1800's. Includes links to background information on the Klondike Gold Rush, Vocabulary words and definitions, a Vocabulary Matching printable, a link to the full text of the poem, Figurative language examples and interactive quiz, Comprehension questions and answers, links to a reading of the p

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Grades:

6th - 9th

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CCSS:

Also included in: The Cremation of Sam McGee Poetry BUNDLE

Diagramming Sentences-Interactive Lesson

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OnBoard Academics

Students will be able to correctly diagram various types of sentences and phrases. 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 Notebook interactive

Subjects:

English Language Arts

Grades:

6th - 8th

Types:

Creative Writing, English Language Arts, Writing

Six-Traits of Writing: Sentence Fluency with Smooth Transitions

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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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4th - 7th

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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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Grades:

3rd - 8th

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Digital Interactive ELA Resources

Complex Sentences

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Teach students the basics behind writing complex sentences correctly using this lesson. Students will learn the structure behind complex sentences including when and how to punctuate a complex sentence correctly. Students will review what a subordinating conjunction is, as well as the subordinating conjunction's role in the dependent clause of a complex sentence. This skill is important in writing fluent sentences that go beyond basic simple sentence structure. Students can also apply this skill

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Grammar, Writing

Grades:

4th - 7th

Types:

Informational Text, Reading Strategies, Writing

Synthesizing - Using a Magical Illusion for infering and research/Train Escape

Created by

MyPaths

TEACHER INFORMATION PURPOSE: This activity combines the mystery and intrigue of an amazing illusion and students ability to synthesize new information. Students have a hard time understanding the process of synthesis. This very engaging activity will have students go through the process of synthesis by combining information presented in different media (media and text) to develop a better understanding of the topic, and draw evidence from informational text to support analysis, reflection, an

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Grades:

5th - 12th

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Drafting, Revising, and Editing Lessons - Smartboard

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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

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