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8th grade Back to School english language arts 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. :)
Grades:
3rd - 10th
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ELA and Reading Vocabulary Review Bingo (6th grade CCSS/Georgia Milestones)
This review game combines the fun and ease of Bingo with challenging questions over language arts and reading vocabulary terms. Each question comes with an answer that you can reveal to your students with just one click. I've also given you a slide of teacher notes to guide you. Plus, the format of the Smart Notebook allows you to edit as you see fit. Use for state test review (such as the Georgia Milestones), unit test review, or as an alternate assessment!
Vocabulary Included:
*theme
*to
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Scattegories for the Smartboard
Play Scattegories with your class! This Smartboard game is a lot of fun. 5 lists are included, with 6 different letters for each list. That's a variety of 30 games! Use it as a "break-the-ice" game for new students, class-bonding, or as a stress reliever during testing. The last page is a printable answer sheet. Have fun!
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Flyswatter SMART Board Review Game - Template for Any Subject & Any Grade
This is a template SMART Board lesson for the "Flyswatter Game". This is an extremely fun game that can be used for ANY Subject at ANY Grade level. Your students will love practicing skills or reviewing their knowledge of a particular unit with this exciting class game! Student race against each other to find the answer to your question. When they "swat" their answer, the word spins with SMART animation! The lesson includes the gameboard page, lesson ideas, instructions for setting up your
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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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ZONK Monsters Review Game (SmartBoard)
Zonk is a FUN review game that can be used for all grades and all subjects! One of the best things about ZONK is that it is a game based not only knowledge, but luck as well! This keeps the students interested and those who may not know the answers are still engaged and have an opportunity to score points!
You can break the students up into groups or have them play as individuals. If playing with groups, establish your rules from the start. I typically tell the students that the person who
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Grades:
K - 12th
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A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley Jeopardy Review Game
This is a Jeopardy review game for the drama version of A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley. This drama is featured in the new Prentice Hall Literature books (Common Core Edition) for 7th Graders. It is formatted using Smart Notebook and is made to be used with the Smartboard. All of the categories are pre-linked to each question slide, and each question slide is linked back to the questions, making it easy and quick to navigate in class. There is also a red bar that can be taken again and a
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6th - 10th
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Animated Traditional Cursive SmartBoard Upper and Lowercase
Your students will love this interactive SmartBoard Cursive lesson. It contains 52 pages of animated upper and lowercase letters. While your students are practicing their cursive at their seats, keep the animation going on the SmartBoard so they can check their own progress.
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Grades:
2nd - 12th, Adult Education
"Whooo's Here Today?" Owl & Back to School Theme SMART Board Attendance w/ SOUND
Whooo's here today?? Students click their owl to hear a real owl hooting and then watch it disappear. Any owls left on the page indicate students who are absent for the day.
This attendance activity comes with both a numbered page (if you assign students numbers) and a page where you can change student names. Directions for changing names are included!
*If you are concerned about students being able to reach the higher items on a SMART Board, consider having students use a pointer. This has
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Grades:
PreK - 8th
SMARTBOARD Figurative Language in Christmas Songs Activity
Smartboard Christmas activity - identify figurative language in Christmas songs. Students have to read through the lyrics of different winter tunes and Christmas songs and identify types of figurative language, such as metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, or idiom. This is a digital resource. YOU MUST HAVE SMART NOTEBOOK SOFTWARE for this version.* Lyrics have examples highlighted in different colors, so they can try to figure out the color code. Each song has a snowflake link to a mus
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
Learning Styles SB Lesson with Student Survey
This is a SB Lesson that introduces students to the different ways students learn. It also includes a student survey (Microsoft Word document is linked in SB for your printing needs). Great for beginning of the year interest/learning inventory.
Last page of SB Lesson is the printable student survey that you can edit to meet your needs!
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1st - 8th
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SmartNotebook Hangman Game
Fun and easy classroom activity for any age student to use the SmartBoard and participate in the game.
Easy as 1) download, 2) open and 3) play.
This SmartNotebook file includes 2 pages "hangman boards" - 1 with female student and 1 with a male student.
Check out our other SmartNotebook Games & Templates:
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Connect 4 Gameboard
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Free Sudoku Math Template
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Grades:
1st - 12th
Figurative Language SmartBoard Activities, Games & Overview
8 Slides - ready for fun!
Slide 1 - Vortex Game - Onomatopoeia Game
Slide 2 - Overview of Simile, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Imagery
Slide 3 - Pop the Metaphor Activity
Slide 4 - Alliteration Activity - Roll the Dice
Slide 5 - Colorful Overview of Simile, Imagery, Metaphor, Hyperbole
Slide 6 - Spinner Imagery Activity
Slide 7 - Simile example
Slide 8 - Interactive Sorting Activity of 3 Figurative Language Devices
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2nd - 10th
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Reading Battleship Test Prep Review Game (6th grade CCSS/Georgia Milestones)
Tired of the same old Jeopardy? Spice up your (Review) game with this fun and engaging Battleship review! You can use this for your state test review, unit test review, or as an alternative assessment. Students pair up in teams, then answer questions to compete for the most captured ships. The Smart Notebook format makes it easy to edit as you see fit. Teacher Directions for use are included in this product.
Topics covered:
*connotation
*mood
*alliteration
*rhyme scheme
*foreshadowing
*su
Grades:
6th - 8th
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SMARTBoard Farkle Interactive Game
Your students will love playing Farkle on the SMARTBoard. I have given you two options for scoring and game play.
*Either use the interactive website for rolling the dice or use the interactive dice embedded within the Notebook. If using the embedded dice, have your students pick a pen from the tray and circle the dice being held. To erase the circles for the next player simply draw an imaginary circle around the dice and tap in the middle of the imaginary circle. The ink will disappear and
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3rd - 12th
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Daily Oral Language Daily Fix It Interactive SMARTBoard
This SmartNotebook interactive lesson allows you to use your own daily oral language or daily fix it sentences. Simply drag the infinitely cloned proofreading marks up to the sentences and rewrite the sentences correctly. I have provided both a younger and older student version. You can also make worksheets using your own sentences.
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Grades:
1st - 9th
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Friendship Salad SMARTBoard Lesson
SMARTBoard lesson walking you through the process of making a friendship salad, which is a fabulous idea by Mrs. Durning at http://teacherweb.com/NY/MTA/durning
The salad is a metaphorical representation of the things we need to run a classroom-kindness, manners, nice words, etc. There is also reference to what we don't need-a rotten banana. The children will then decorate printable rotten bananas. (attached in this file)
Grades:
K - 8th
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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Grades:
5th - 10th
Reading Battleship Test Prep Review Game (8th grade CCSS/Georgia Milestones)
Battleship specifically designed for 8th grade standards. The questions are written at a higher DOK level to strengthen analysis skills. You can use this for your state test review, unit test review, accelerate 7th graders, or as an alternative assessment. Students pair up in teams, then answer questions to compete for the most captured ships. The Smart Notebook format makes it easy to edit as you see fit. Teacher Directions for use are included in this product.
Topics covered:
*connotation
Grades:
7th - 8th
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Themes in Disney Smart Board Activity
Teach theme to your students using these Disney movies. Each Disney movie has a link to the movie trailer. Watch some of the trailers with the students and have them come up with a theme. Short exercises follow.
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Grades:
4th - 12th
Jeopardy Game Template for SMART Notebook
Do you want to create your own Jeopardy games, but don't have the time? Now with this neatly designed, bright and colorful template you can create Jeopardy style games for your classroom in a snap! Just add your own categories, questions, answers, and save it! Create as many different jeopardy games as you like.
The scoreboard arrows keep score by the hundreds for up to 4 teams. This Smart Notebook file contains 54 pages: 25 question pages, 25 answer pages, a game board, a scoreboard, and ins
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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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.
3
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Grades:
K - 12th
Context Clues Passages
Once you've taught context clues, students can use these passages to practice identifying the meanings of unfamiliar words in context. Using a SMART Board, students can come up and highlight clues in the passage that lead them to the correct definitions of the words. Multiple choice answers are provided. This can also spark great discussion as students debate over which answers are the best match for the words, using the text as support. This could also be used as a quiz to assess mastery or a p
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Back to School Smartboard Dice Activity
Use this Notebook file on your Smartboard on the first day of school to get to know your new students. The large die on the bottom is an interactive one. Students will come up to the Smartboard, roll the die (by tapping it), and then share something depending on what they rolled. They may be asked to share: their favorite book, television show, food, hobby, song, or something they did this summer. Have them roll more than once to learn more!
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
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