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5th grade 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
Legends, Myths, Fairy Tales, Fables, & Tall Tales - Smartboard
This 30 slide smartboard lesson intorduces the four main genres of legends, myths, fairy tales, and tall tales, listing their characteristics, and examples of each.
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2nd - 5th
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Sylvester and the Magic Pebble -- KEY VOCABULARY PREVIEW/REVIEW
This SMART notebook file will allow you to preview challenging vocabulary in "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" by William Steig. The 13 page file includes definitions, words in context, and picture files (where appropriate). It culminates with a match-the-word quiz game and a match-the-picture quiz game for further review and assessment. Excellent support for ALL students, especially English-Language learners and students with limited ability to comprehend complex text. Please provide feedbac
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K - 5th
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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
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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3rd - 9th
"The Catch of the Day" Treasures 5th Grade Reading Unit 3, Week 1
This document has 38 slides that aligns with the Treasures reading series for 5th grade and Common Core ELA standards. This is 1-2 week's worth of content for this story "The Catch of the Day". The story is unit 3, week 1 in the language arts basal program. Language arts skills and strategies include: spelling, vocabulary, prereading comprehension/vocabulary, theme, rate in fluency, action verbs, subject and verb agreement, selection test, skills test, student practice book pages, spelling print
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5th
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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
Chris Van Allsburg Author Study Unit Smartboard
This 15 day lesson incooperates several books and is based on America's Choice Author Study. Includes 6 teachers guides, a powerpoint lesson, 22 slides notebook slides and an independent task for the students everyday.
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3rd - 5th
Fun Halloween Smart Notebook lessons
Great and Awesome Powerpoint lessons for Halloween. Filled with short stories, video clips, and a read loud of Jerry Seinfeld's Halloween book which is great for all ages. Presentation also includes fun facts, DOK questions to excerpts, and interesting videos about the history of Halloween. I can guarantee that your students will have a fun and spooky time.
Grades:
2nd - 5th
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
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4th - 12th
Black History Study
This flip chart can be used as a guide to help you and your students study black history. The chart consists of readings, videos and thinking maps based on famous people and events in history. You will read Henry's Freedom Box, watch a video on Jackie Robinson, and listen to music from four famous black musicians.
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K - 5th
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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"The Night of San Juan" Treasures 5th grade Reading Unit 1, Week 4
This document has 38 slides that aligns with the Treasures reading series for 5th grade and Common Core ELA standards. This is 1-2 week's worth of content for this story "The Night of San Juan". The story is unit 1, week 4 in the language arts basal program. Language arts skills and strategies include: spelling, vocabulary, prereading comprehension/vocabulary, summarizing, problem and solution graphic organizers, problem and solution extra practice, sentence combining, word parts, fluency practi
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5th
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"Rattlers" Treasures Reading Unit 2, Week 2 5th Grade
This document has 41 slides that aligns with the Treasures reading series for 5th grade and Common Core ELA standards. This is 1-2 week's worth of content for this story "Rattlers". The story is unit 2, week 2 in the language arts basal program. Language arts skills and strategies include: spelling, vocabulary, prereading comprehension/vocabulary, main idea/details, main idea/details graphic organizers, expression and phrasing in fluency, plural nouns, capitalization and punctuation in letters,
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5th
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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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Vocabulary for What's the Big Idea Ben Franklin
This is Vocabulary and a Review game for the story "What's the Big Idea Ben Franklin" from the Harcourt Reading series in 5th grade for SMARTBOARD.
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5th
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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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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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PreK - 8th
Leonardo's Horse, Reading Street 5th grade, Background Information
This is a smart board file I created to use with the story "Leonardo's Horse" which is in unit 3 of the 5th grade "Reading Street" textbook series. I used this to provide visuals and background information for my students before we read the story on Leonardo Da Vinci and the time period that he lived in. (The Renaissance.)
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5th
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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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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.
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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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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
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