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Middle school close reading resources for SMART Notebook
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,
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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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
Grades:
2nd - 6th
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
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Making Inferences SMARTBOARD PLUS PRINTABLE Inferencing Card Set
This lesson is both a smartboard lesson providing practice in inferencing skills AND PRINTABLE activity cards that can be used as either teacher directed mini lesson or in an independent center or station. Level of difficulty varies to meet the needs of a differentiated classroom. Solving the mystery is fun for the students as they use their schema and clues from the passage. Three famous pictures are included in which answers will vary, and they make a great discussion piece for the class to
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
Gumball Goodies - Infer and Draw Conclusions SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson combines a mini-lesson and some fun practice slides in inferring and drawing conclusions. Begin learning what it means to infer and how this is different from drawing a conclusion. Move on through the lesson with a few different ways to make a conclusion using clues you can infer information from. Bright, fun graphics makes the lesson enjoyable. The lesson ends with 5 fun slides of mystery pictures. As students click on gumballs, more information about the pic
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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
Context Clues An American Historical Lesson SMARTBOOK
This interactive smartboard lesson is both a minilesson and practice that introduces what context clues are and gives students a chance to practice using context clues to determine meaning. The theme is An Hysterical - Historical American Lesson. Funny, engaging pictures help give clues as well using the context surrounding unfamiliar words to determine meaning. 20 different slides are provided to practice using context clues. Answer slides with explanation follow each question. This can easily
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
BEE A WORD DETECTIVE Context Clues SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson provides practice using context clues to determine the meaning of words. Students have 18 slides with unfamiliar words used in sentences. Each slide has 4 answer choices and the correct answers can be found with a quick click of the mouse. This is a great lesson to use as a multiple minilessons so the teacher can discuss with the students exactly what words within the text gave the students a hint or necessary information to determine the meaning of the wor
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Making Connections Through Inferencing SMARTBOARD
This interactive SMARTboard lesson will challenge your students to think and use clues to determine a deeper meaning that may not be stated in a paragraph. This lesson provides 14 passages with a question at the end of each asking students to determine what most likely happened next using clues to infer meaning. All slides are linked for easy use and answers are provided so they are all self checking. This lesson can easily be adapted to be used as a whole class lesson; a small group lesson;
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Miss Spitfire Thematic Unit
I have spent a full summer working on this thematic unit and I’m excited to share it with you! Students typically would use a spiral notebook as their “journal” to use every day of the unit. It’s organized, engaging, and most of all, encourages students to think, discuss among their peers, and be creative while being critical thinkers!
Included in the thematic unit:
- Author review with videos (click on bottom left globe)
- Literature Circle directions
- Daily Journal Writing
- Daily Literature
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Grades:
4th - 7th
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
Common Core Reading and Writing Unit based on the novel Tiger Rising
This Smartboard unit uses the novel The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo to integrate and teach a variety of ELA common core standards within the reading, writing, speaking and listening strands, as noted below. For users of the Daily Cafe management system, Cafe strategies are referenced throughout the unit. Lessons to introduce students to reciprocal teaching strategies, for use in literature circles, are included as well. By the end of the unit, students will be able to:
• make inferences a
Grades:
4th - 6th
Wonder Thematic Unit
I have spent a full summer working on this thematic unit and I’m excited to share it with you! Students typically would use a spiral notebook as their “journal” to use every day of the unit. It’s organized, engaging, and most of all, encourages students to think, discuss among their peers, and be creative while being critical thinkers!
Included in the thematic unit:
- Author review with videos (click on bottom left globe)
- Literature Circle directions
- Daily Journal Writing
- Daily Literature
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Character Study using "Each Little Bird that Sings" - Smart Notebook Slides
A Character Study using the mentor text "Each Little Bird that Sings" by Deborah Wiles - 5-6 week Interactive Notebook unit!
Getting students to understand characters in fiction texts can be challenging. This unit helps students navigate the core components of character analysis using "Each Little Bird that Sings" by Deborah Wiles.
Grades:
4th - 8th
6th Grade Literature Unit 6: Acceptance
In this 6th grade thematic literature Smartboard unit, the Big Idea is "Acceptance". All text selections (both fiction and nonfiction) will connect back to the theme and the Essential Questions. The unit will end with a culminating writing performance demonstration. The writing type is informative/explanatory. The student will compare and contrast the Lin and the Gleason families from the Close Read selection "The All-American Slurp". The paper should include evidence of acceptance of the other'
Grades:
6th
Smartboard Slides to Accompany Read Aloud of: Pictures of Hollis Woods
Need to give your Read Alouds more structure and a bigger impact on students? Check out these Smartboard slides to accompany a Read Aloud of Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff.
Slides include 16 lessons to accompany the book. Each lesson focuses on one of the seven reading strategies:
*Predicting
*Connecting
*Synthesizing
*Inferring
*Creating a visual / Noticing author’s craft
*Questioning/Critiquing
*Determining Importance
Daily prompts for student discussion or written response
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Dancing In The Wings Read Aloud Guide
This product is a Smart Notebook file to use when reading Dancing In The Wings by Debbie Allen. This file contains a summary, vocabulary words, and a teaching point to guide your reading.
Grades:
K - 6th
Reciprocal Teaching
Reciprocal Teaching is an instructional strategy where students share in the role of the teacher using four strategies that guide instruction.
5 interactive smartboard mini lessons including
Questioning (Thin and Thick)
Summarizing
Predicting
Clarifying
Each lesson involves a graphic organizer for a work time
Grades:
5th - 8th
Biography Timeline and ABC Chart
The first slide is of an editable timeline for your famous person. The following slides are of the alphabet with blanks available to fill in words that apply to the famous person. This can be used to guide a biography unit or organize ideas for biography writing.
Grades:
4th - 6th
Close Reading SMARTBOARD Lesson and Activity
This lesson is full of information, ideas, and fun activities to help students learn what close reading means and how they can use it to help their comprehension. This is a great lesson to teach students what close reading looks like from inferring, jotting notes, thinking deeply about characters and their actions, symbols, dialogue, and more. It is quite a comprehensive lesson so it can easily be broken into several lessons allowing time for discussion and examples. The last part of the less
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Literary Devices Introduction SmartBoard
A way to make literary devices fun! This SmartBoard presentation helps students understand key literary/ dramatic devices. Students are first given the term and examples, then guess to figure out what the device might be. Following, the teacher pulls in the definition (hidden with arrows) and additional (more literary) examples. Links are provided to show examples for several of the devices. (A "link" image appears next to the object linked.)
Grades:
7th - 12th
Reading Skills Practice SMARTBOARD - The Netherlands
Take a tour through The Netherlands learning a bit about the country and practice skills such as: main idea, drawing conclusions, inferring, obtaining information from graphs to make conclusions, and more. Inspired by a recent trip to The Netherlands, I wanted to bring a fun yet skill based practice lesson back to you. Engaging pictures with lots of fun trivia for your students to learn a little more about their world. Grade 3 students will need more support, but it's a great way to start int
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Smarty Pants Ants CONTEXT CLUES SMARTboard PLUS Printable Card Set
This interactive SMARTboard lesson is a lesson that teaches different ways to use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. Teach and discuss with students how to use context clues in the words surrounding unfamiliar words as they read. Learn to look for meaning in surrounding text; find antonym or synonyms; look for signal words such as ..."that is" or "in other words", and more. Also included is a PRINTABLE card set of 20 context clues cards. Great to use in small group;
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Cell Theory Close Read and Timeline SmartBoard Presentation
This is a presentation to be used to close read about the cell theory. It gives two different options for the close read. My store has a bundle that includes the article, student graphic organizer, questions, etc.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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