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8th grade reading resources for SMART Notebook
Nonfiction Text Feature and Text Structure Jeopardy Game
This item is a SMARTBOARD Jeopardy Game. The game reviews the nonfiction text features and text structures. :)
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3rd - 10th
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Family Culture Project: Activities, Resources, Google Slides and Lessons
The Family Culture Project offers an engaging exploration of students' ancestral roots, inviting them to delve into the rich tapestry of their family histories and original countries. Through interactive activities and research, elementary and middle school participants embark on a journey of discovery, celebrating cultural diversity and fostering a deeper understanding of their heritage. With hands-on projects and presentations, students not only learn about their own backgrounds but also gain
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1st - 8th
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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
Boggle for the Smartboard
This is a Boggle game for the smartboard. Its FREE, all I ask is you leave feed back and/or a rating please!
This has extra letter pieces and a colorful template. To create a new game board just rearrange the letters or add in some new ones which are provided. It also has a timer feature to add a little intensity and a word bank to allow students to share words they found with the class.
Ways to use this:
1. Smartboard center during daily 5 or guided reading.
2. Early finishers activity.
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K - 12th
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
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
Diptongos - Interactive Whiteboard Presentation
Teach your students to read/write the diphthongs in Spanish. This Interactive Whiteboard Presentation has been created on Smartech (SmartBoard) Notebook Software. This document contains each of the diphthongs (ue, ia, ei, iu, oi, io, ua, uo, ai, eu, ey, oy). It has the diphthong highlighted in a different color. You can have students add words to the pages as they find them in their reading. Many of the words also have pictures to help students build their vocabulary in Spanish.
This docu
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1st - 12th
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
Main Idea and Details Smartboard Lesson
This is a Smartboard lesson that focuses on the skill of recognizing Main Ideas and Details. The lesson contains readings and graphic organizers to introduce & practice the concept. There are also multiple choice questions relating to the reading and the main idea and details, There is also links to You Tube video about the Main idea which is a very fun video/song about the difference between the main idea and details in a paragraph. I also include links to additional online practice for m
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2nd - 8th, Adult Education
NO PREP Persuasive Writing Unit, PDF & Smartboard
This is a NO PREP Persuasive Writing Unit. Just print and TEACH!
In this download you will get everything you need...smartboard unit, pdf handouts, assessments, all texts, EVERYTHING is here!
In this unit your students will learn the features of persuasive writing. Students will be exposed to a variety of formats of persuasive texts (ads, letters, opinion pieces etc) and learn about persuasive techniques. Students will also write their own persuasive letter, opinion piece, create an ad and r
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4th - 8th
Literary Devices: Foreshadowing,Flashback, Symbolism and Irony NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**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.
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3rd - 8th
Types of Conflict Smart Board Presentation
This lesson was designed to teach the different categories of conflict (internal and external) as well as the different types (human vs. human, human vs. nature, human vs. society and human vs. self).
This presentation covers internal and external conflict, and the different types - human vs. human, human vs. self, human vs. nature and human vs. society. There is a sorting activity, Smart Response Clicker technology is used in the guided practice section of the lesson and modeling is used th
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5th - 8th
Writing Hooks - Fishing For A Hook Activity (Smart Notebook Version)
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
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4th - 9th
Behind Rebel Lines Smart Board Notebook Visual for whole book
Smartboard notebook presentation that can be edited or added to!
Includes pictures, lesson on activism and the civil war, vocabulary, maps, characters, summaries of important events in each chapter.
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Grades:
3rd - 10th
Guess the Main Idea
This is an interactive activity where words (details) are revealed one at a time. Students try to figure out the main idea as the words are revealed. The last reveal is the idea. Some of these are pretty straightforward, others take a little bit of creativity to solve. This activity works really well for developing thinking skills (analysis), and for reiterating the concept of main idea as an overarching topic.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAl
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2nd - 8th
Genre Review Task Cards - SMARTboard Version
Included in this packet are 32 genre task cards and an answer key.
Each card has selection title and short synopsis of a reading selection. Students are to label the genre and subgenre of the selection. This is a great way to review genre types with students, especially before any kind of state testing.
These are the same as my Genre Review Task Cards.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
The Very Itchy Bear Guided Reading 4 Days - Four Blocks Literacy
This is a SMART notebook file that forms 4 days (or 1 weeks) worth of guided reading lessons for the book The Very Itchy Bear by Nick Bland.
This file follows the Anchor, Read, Apply model and has a purpose for reading the book each day.
Included with each day's purpose is a link to the Six Hats Thinking Model.
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, rel
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PreK - 10th
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Reading Strategies Smartboard Bundle
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
Catherine Called Birdy Novel Introduction-SmartBoard Interactive Lesson
I use this SmartBoard presentation as an introduction to the novel study of Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman. The presentation delivers background information about the time period of the book as well as vocabulary introduction. The information is presented in an entertaining and creative manner that grabs students' attention. The whole presentation requires student interaction. SmartBoard Smart Response Responders can be used with this SmartBoard presentation. You DO NOT need the respon
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4th - 9th
Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas Guided Reading Weekly Plan - Four Blocks Literacy
This is a SMART notebook file that forms 4 days (or 1 weeks) worth of guided reading lessons for the book Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas.
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.
Each purpose is also identified being a particular hat from th
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Grades:
K - 10th
Reading Comprehension: Drawing Conclusions - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**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=dPU8PNIhjc0
For understanding Drawing Conclusions of Reading Comprehension, 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.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
Third Person Point of View Notebook Presentation
This Notebook presentation for the smart board introduces students to the three types of third person narration: Limited, Objective & Omniscient.
This Notebook presentation can be used as a part of a Point of View unit, and is designed for use with the Danielson & Common Core Aligned Point of View Lesson Plan (available FREE through my TpT account). This presentation matches up exactly with the differentiated guided notes (available for purchase). Do now, independent practice and exit
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3rd - 8th
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Reading Comprehension: Making Inferences - NOTEBOOK Gr. 3-8
**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=xjp-fbl-Tmg
For understanding Making Inferences of Reading Comprehension, 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.
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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