Kelly's Kreations for the Classroom

This includes: - Smart Notebook files for each lesson. - Student Resource book - Vocabulary What is the hero’s journey? How does knowledge of the hero’s journey help to more deeply understand character? This unit is designed to build students’ background understanding of the archetype of the hero’s journey and its continuing significance in modern literature. Students will practice reading closely as they analyze the highly popular novel The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (7

I created a workbook for students and teachers and then I created a Smart Notebook file for each lesson. In Unit 1, students will read and listen closely to interpret main ideas and thematic connections between visual imagery (symbols and graphics), oral tradition (Haudenosaunee video) and diverse texts (“Birth of the Haudenosaunee”, Two Row Wampum, and Frost’s “A Time to Talk”). Students will create symbols that relate to the texts and write explanatory paragraphs about how their student-creat

This module focuses on a deep study of the classic tale Peter Pan. Students will consider the guiding question: How do writers capture a reader’s imagination? In this unit, students begin reading a classic piece of literature to build their understanding of how writers craft stories that capture a reader’s imagination. Students will begin their study of Peter Pan by exploring how readers hold on to a narrative over time when reading chapter books. I have created Smart Notebook Lessons for each

This bundle includes: Smart Notebook Lessons for each lesson Student workbook and resources Elements and Theme of Mythology in The Lightning Thief This short unit is the culmination of the study of the hero’s journey in Unit 1 and the elements and themes of mythology in Unit 2. Students write their own “hero’s journey” narrative that follows the stages of the archetypal hero’s journey and contains elements and a theme of classic mythology. Students revisit the informational te

Students learn about what life was like in Colonial America. They go on to study the many roles people played in a colonial settlement and how necessary their interdependence was for survival. Students select one role to explore more deeply through various forms of nonfiction texts. With an emphasis on making inferences, summarizing informational text, basic research (note-taking and pulling together information from a variety of texts), this module will foster students’ abilities to synthesize

Included is Smart Notebook Lessons for all 20 lessons, Student and teacher resource packet, and vocabulary list. In this second unit of module 1, students will delve deeply into mythology: its purpose, elements, and themes that align with themes in The Lightning Thief. While they continue to read The Lightning Thief independently, students will closely read multiple myths. In the first half of the unit, they will use the informational text “Key Elements of Mythology” to better understand the el

These 12 lesson launch the Writer's Workshop for 4th grade. I have included Smart Notebook Lessons and Resources. Some of the mentor text pieces will have to be purchased or located to complete the lessons. The lessons are completely editable. There are the following units also available to follow: Personal Narrative, Informative and Opinion.

Included are - all of the lessons on Smart Notebook - 143 slides in all - a list of all of the targets for all of the lessons - 23 pages - a resource packet for students and teachers - 33 pages and 29 pages - vocabulary list for all three modules- 7 pages In this second unit, students will explore their own “powers of reading” that help them access text. In the first half of the unit, students will explore fictional accounts of people who worked hard to build their reading powers. Students w

This unit includes editable - Smart Notebook Lessons - Student and Teacher Resources In this unit, students read both informational texts and a Magic Tree House book as they learn about the concept of culture generally, and the culture of ancient and modern Japan specifically. They will read Magic Tree House: Dragon of the Red Dawn, collecting textual evidence as they begin to explore the question “What is culture?” They explore the concept of culture as the story of a group

In this final unit, students continue to explore the question: “How do authors learn and share their knowledge on a topic?” as they share their growing knowledge of the culture of a country with the author of the Magic Tree House books, Mary Pope Osborne. Students also expand their expertise as writers by crafting a research-based letter. The specific literacy focus of this unit is on writing a research-based letter to Ms. Osborne using text-based facts, as well as learning to revise. Each stud

This bundle includes: Smart Notebook Lessons Resource File for students and teachers In the first half of this second unit, students continue to explore the topic of “rules to live by” as they closely read the poem “If ” by Rudyard Kipling. Students determine themes of the poem, consider what “rules to live by” Rudyard Kipling is communicating, and analyze how individual stanzas contribute to the poem’s overall meaning. They compare the experience of reading the poem and listening to it

This Bundle includes: - Student and Teacher Resource Packet - Smart Notebook file for each Lesson. Unit 1 begins with a launch of the novel Bud, Not Buddy, with a focus on character development and the author’s use of language. Students will get to know Bud by looking at the challenges he faces and his response to those challenges. They will read excerpts of the novel closely to interpret figurative language and explain how Bud’s use of figurative language and his word choice a

In this second unit, students further develop their ability to comprehend informational text by hearing and reading a variety of nonfiction sources about roles people played in a colonial settlement and how necessary their interdependence was for survival. To build students' background knowledge, the class will work together to study the wheelwright, a colonial tradesperson. They will then work in research expert groups as they become experts in one specific colonial trade. Student will selec

These lesson go along with the plans provided on engageny.org. Each lesson has a Smart Notebook file and a printable. In this 43-day module, students use place value understanding and visual representations to solve multiplication and division problems with multi-digit numbers. As a key area of focus for Grade 4, this module moves slowly but comprehensively to develop students’ ability to reason about the methods and models chosen to solve problems with multi-digit factors and dividends.

In this unit, students will explore colonial perspectives on the Revolutionary War. Students will read and analyze short informational texts and primary source documents to build background knowledge about the American Revolution and the reasons colonists became either Patriots who fought for independence, or Loyalists who fought to remain a part of Great Britain. I have taken the lessons and made Smart Notebook lessons and redid the worksheet to be more student friendly.

In this unit, students read the play Divided Loyalties, by Gare Thompson, to dig deeper into the perspectives of Patriots and Loyalists. I made all lessons into a Smart Notebook and redid the printable to be more student friendly.

I created a workbook for the teacher and the students. I also created a Smart Notebook file for each lesson. In the second unit, students read an informational text to deepen their knowledge of the Haudenosaunee with a focus on determining main ideas and supporting details, notetaking, using context clues to determine word meanings, fluency, and paragraph writing. The midunit ondemand assessment gauges students’ ability to analyze a new section of text about the Iroquois on their own. At the e

Unit 3 expands on the conversation around symbolism and culture begun in Unit 1 to incorporate global perspectives. Students listen to, view, and close read informational texts regarding the traditions other cultures use to tell stories and pass down information. Students will review oral tradition and revisit it from a different angle as they explore the Griot tradition in Africa. Students will look at how symbols can be captured in art through blanket making in Hawaii and quilt making through

In Unit 2, students will look at Peter Pan through the lens of a writer. They will examine the author’s craft, specifically the use of dialogue and how the author uses vivid language to describe action. Students will then write their own imagined scene about Peter Pan, using their choice of two prompts. In the mid-unit assessment, students will write an on-demand imagined scene from a new prompt, applying their writing skills to a new scene. This assessment mirrors the writing instruction in thi

In Unit 1, students are asked to infer the topic of their research for this module by sorting various pictures of simple machines and their everyday use. Students start by sorting these “Mystery Pictures” into inferred categories, then read an informational text from the book Simple Machines to learn basic information about simple machines. Once students discover the topic, they build background knowledge by rereading the text from Simple Machines and determine the main idea and supporting detai