Sixth Grade, Seventh Grade and Eighth Grade Smart Board Interactive Reading ELA Writing Games, Activities and Lessons
Teachers and students can use these Smart Board games, activities and lessons to learn about Reading ELA in Sixth Grade, Seventh Grade and Eight Grade. Some of the topics covered are: Comprehension, Author’s Purpose, Fact and Opinion, Main Idea, Story Elements, Vocabulary, Grammar
Book Cover Creator – The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.
Book Cover Guide – Students can use the tool to review the parts of a book cover before analyzing how book covers work or creating their own book covers.
Writing an Acrostic Poem – Students can learn about and write acrostic poems. An acrostic poem uses the letters in a word to begin each line of the poem.
Get started writing with Myths Brainstorming Machine – The Brainstorming Machine will help students get started when they need writing ideas for a myth. They can select the setting, the characters, and other effects.
Poetry Idea Engine – The interactive Poetry Idea Engine helps students identify and write different types of poetry.
Increase Your Reading Comprehension – Students read a passage and select the word(s) needed to complete the sentence correctly. They must use context clues and comprehension in order to be able to answer correctly.
Create Your Own Diamante Poem – Students interactively create a diamante poem. The computer interactively guides them through the writing process.
Clean Up Your Grammar – Students “clean up their grammar” as they toss trash from the beach into the correct bin. Immediate reinforcement and level selection keep students learning and practicing.
Clifford Interactive Storybook – Here, Clifford – In this interactive reading activity students have the capability of reading as group and choosing the word they want to use to complete the story. This develops vocabulary and letter recognition.
Clifford Phonics Concentration Game – This Clifford Phonics Game asks students to select words that have the same middle sound while playing a concentration game. Great for phonics!
Clifford Interactive Storybook – Emily Elizabeth Goes to School – In this interactive reading activity students have the capability of reading as group and choosing the word they want to use to complete the story. This develops vocabulary and letter recognition.
Character Scrapbook – Students will use this interactive activity to determine character traits of a character in a book. Students will think critically about characters in the books they are reading.
Word Choice – Smart board lesson and game for word choice. (Vocabulary game, book connection)
Assist Charlotte from Charlotte’s Web by selecting the perfect word for her to weave.
Grammar Lessons – Fun grammar lessons and activities! Sort nouns and verbs into the right recycle bins. Smart board lesson and games!
Poetry Lessons – Get your poetry juices flowing with the Poetry Idea Engine. This activity will allow you to write haikus, free verse, limericks, and more!
Story Starters – Interactive story starters… Writing prompts.
Google Lit Trips – This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place…
Scholastic – Language Arts – Reading Response – Character scrapbook, flashlight readers (Because of Winn dixie, Charlotte’s Web, Chasing Vermeer, A Dog’s Life, Esperanza Rising, Holes, Hoot, Hugo Cabret, Inkheart, The Underland Chronicles), activity set, myths, folktales, fairy tales, book files, scholastic news, grammar and punctuatin, grammar, word endings, homophones, prefixes, suffixes, spelling, vocabulary, write and publish, workshops
Phonics and Word Study (Sadlier Oxford) – Analogies, Synonyms, Prefixes, roots, suffixes, plurals, classify words, context clues, antonyms, word study skills