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8th grade english language arts centers for SMART Notebook
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
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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Grades:
4th - 8th
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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Grades:
4th - 8th
Recognzing Different Types of Writing
This is a SmartBoard lesson that helps students recognize three different types of writing. It gives them quick exerts of each and then test their newly learned skills with a couple of fun games.
Grades:
2nd - 9th
Sopa de letras y números - Para el reconocimiento de letras y números y su orden
¡Aquí tienen una manera excelente para que sus estudiantes independientemente practiquen el reconocimiento de las letra y números 0-31, el orden alfabético, y el orden numérico!
Los estudiantes pueden autoevaluar si mismos haciendo click en cualquier letra, número, o rectángulo verde. ¡Es una actividad buenísima para el tiempo de centros/estaciones!
Para empezar, el estudiante hace click en la estrella amarilla para escuchar las instrucciones, y luego juega hasta que nada queda en el bol de s
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Grades:
PreK - 12th
Story Characters - Using Body Biographies to Help With Character Analysis
This Smart Board Activity uses an INTERACTIVE character to go through the instructions!! Your students are sure to love participating with the character!!!
Purpose: Character analysis is an area that students seem to have great difficulty. Readers seem to really have problem grasping and connecting with characters in the text. A body biography is a visual and written representation of a character’s life. In creating a body biography, students practice character analysis, understanding liter
Grades:
3rd - 12th
Story Characters - Using "Fakebook" to create a character analysis (Smartboard)
Purpose: Character analysis is an area that students seem to have great difficulty. Readers seem to really have problem grasping and connecting with characters in the text. This engaging activity allows students to combine the authentic experience of reading social media text with the fun of creating a new “Fakebook” page that is a visual and written representation of a character’s life. In creating a “Fakebook” page, students practice character analysis, understanding literary devices, and d
Grades:
5th - 12th
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
Smart Notebook: Revisions for Creating Clear and Concise Academic Writing
Smart Notebook: Revisions for Creating Clear and Concise Academic Writing created by Darla Brink
Five specific strategies with student examples. Activities provided for guided practice and reflection. Strategies include getting rid of unnecessary words, avoiding ineffective repetition, rewriting without using second person and getting to the point.
Smart Notebook: Revisions for Creating Clear and Concise Academic Writing by Darla Brink is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonComm
Grades:
5th - 8th
Editable Literacy Station Rotation Board
This literacy station rotation board is fully editable to customize for your kiddos! Stations included:
Poetry Station
ABC Station
Sight Word Notebook Station
Writing Station
Colorful Writing Station (my kiddos can use colorful pens at this one)
Blocks Station
Sand Table Station
Ipad Station
Computer Station
Listen and Learn Station
Arts & Crafts Station
Retelling Station
Puppet Station
Puzzle Station
Listening Station
Read the Room Station
Write the Room Station
Game Station
Stamp Station
L
Grades:
PreK - 9th
What A Random Story! Smartboard Game
This smartboard file is a way to mix up, literally, how students tackle stories. The activity is incredibly diverse with the potential to be comedic, functional (works well with Words Their Way), or for enrichment. It all depends on how you want to use the game.
With two clicks you will unleash your students into a combination of randomness that will challenge them to think outside of the box to build a story that fits the model of the traditional story.
In this highly modifiable activity, s
Grades:
4th - 9th
Using Context Clues for Vocabulary- find the meaning of nonsense words
In this SmartBoard activity, students use the context of each passage to determine the meaning of unknown vocabulary words (the words are made up). Students touch the circle to reveal the correct answer. This lesson can be used on the SmartBoard for large or small group mini lesson, or the slides can be printed and used in a literacy center.
Total of 4 passages.
*Passages used from Scholastic Comprehension Mini Lessons
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Grades:
1st - 10th
Using Context Clues to figure out the meaning of unknown words
In this SmartBoard activity, students use the context of the passage to determine the meaning of 3 unknown vocabulary words. Students touch the star to reveal the correct answer. This lesson can be used on the SmartBoard for large or small group mini lesson, or the slides can be printed and used in a literacy center.
Total of 3 slides/vocab words.
*Passage used from Scholastic Comprehension Mini Lessons
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Grades:
3rd - 10th
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
Daily Five Rotation Chart on Smart Notebook (Edit as needed)
This is a daily five rotation chart I use daily to set up my rotations. This way, I can group kids in leveled groups for both work work and the teacher group. I use the "dots" if a child is going out of the room during a rotation. I use the following letters for each group:
WW: Word Work
WR: Work on Writing
T: Teacher
LR: Listen to Reading
R: Read to Self
RS: Read to Someone
Grades:
K - 8th
Turkey Tales Story Trivia Game
Story Trivia for many ages!! Older kids will have fun thinking back to some of their favorite titles from elementary school and elementary school kids will love playing this game about current titles they may be reading. This is a jeopardy-type game. Divide your class into 2, 3, or 4 teams OR let 2, 3, 4 people play in a center or station. This is set up so that each player or team answers each question and has a chance to earn all points. Fun questions range from remembering lines in a favor
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Grades:
2nd - 9th
Daily 5 SMARTBoard
If you are looking for a way to keep track of which station each of your students choose each day for daily 5, here is your answer!!
This SMARTBoard slide has 7 stations for the kids to choose from including: trade in books, read to self, writing, work with words, read to someone, ipad, and listen to reading.
Use a specialty marker to mark which station each child choose each round of daily 5. Restricts kids to only a couple times at some of the stations.
Add your students names!
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Grades:
PreK - 8th
20 Back to School Writing Prompts
This is a set of 20 writing prompts that geared toward getting to know your students. The prompts focus on summer experiences, back to school excitement, past school experience, and goals/ideas for the year ahead.
These are simple prompts that could be used for daily journaling, morning/bell work, or as a daily 5 option.
The set is editable, and will get you through the entire first month in the classroom!
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Fictional Journal Prompts
Here are 15 questions that can go with any fictional story. I use them as journal responses with my fourth grade class. I simply put one up each day and have students respond in a composition notebook. Use how you see fit. This is a Smart Notebook document, not a PowerPoint. If you like this product, be looking for my Non-fiction journal prompts as well! Enjoy!
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Smartboard Lesson - kinds of nouns
This is a Smartboard Lesson with interactive components for students.
Teaches the different kinds of nouns.
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Author's Voice SmartBoard Gary Soto Reading Street the Gymnast
*This goes with my lesson plan, graphic organizers, and three texts, for author's voice titled "Reading Street - Author's Voice - The Gymnast"
I suggest you purchase both. But if you have to do a lesson on Author's Voice, you need the lesson plan, this is complimentary, but well worth it. It displays a learning target, look fors, a graphic organizer, and the texts, as well as an exit ticket.
Reading Street - Author's Voice - The Gymnast
Enhance reading comprehension by teaching author's voi
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Narrative Writing "Tell Them Your Story Cubes"
Teacher Notes:
1. "Tell Them Your Story Cubes" have many uses for the classroom. They can be used as classroom ice-breakers, problem solving, build creativity, speaking and listening skills, and promote literacy development.
2. Students simply tap on the nine different cubes on page 3. Each cube has six different pictures which leads to an almost unlimited amount of variations that students can use and create amazing stories. These stories can be shared with the class, shared as partners, o
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Grades:
2nd - 12th
Daily 5 Centers
Expectations and activities for all 5 listening centers
read to self
read to someone
listen to reading
working with words
work on writing
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Review Dice
This interactive lesson can be used to review any short story. Select the type of questions you'd like to use to review and spin the dice. Students can respond in small groups and discuss their answers. Additional questions to for further review are attached on the last page.
Grades:
4th - 8th
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