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9th grade writing-expository games
Plagiarism Lecture, Game-Based Approach to Introduce/Reinforce Plagiarism Rules
You know you need to show your students the right way to handle sourced material to prevent plagiarism, but the subject matter can be so dry, causing teens to tune out during your lecture. To fix this, use a lecture disguised as a game to help cover the basics of proper MLA source citation and plagiarism rules.This product includes a projectable “game” of PDF slides (shh...it’s really a lecture – don’t tell our students) with concrete, real-world examples of how source citations should be handle
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8th - 11th, Higher Education
Fun Essay Hooks Writing Game and Practice Activity for Middle School ELA
"But I don't know how to start!" Sound familiar? Even when our students have great ideas, they don't always know how to hook their readers with engaging introductions for their essays. This fun game and activity changes that!First, students are split into five teams. Each team is given 8 game cards with examples of catchy essay hooks. Five types of hooks are included: quote, unexpected fact, anecdote, controversial statement, and kidding around (Q.U.A.C.K.). The teams then race to trade cards wi
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind- A Complete Study
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Young Reader Edition is a compelling story about William who innovates an idea to help bring electricity to his small community in Malawi. His story is inspiring, and TRUE. This story is sure to touch the lives of your students! We have created EVERYTHING you need for a complete study of this book. This product includes:-An engaging virtual field trip-Chapter comprehension questions for each chapter-Three quizzes with answer keys-A comprehensive end of book exam wi
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6th - 9th
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Emily Dickinson Bundle: Poetry Stations, Pennants, Analysis, Style
Looking for unique, engaging resources to teach Emily Dickinson's poetry? This bundle has you totally covered with a fun biography mini escape about her life, poem stations, pennant creation, and poetry/style analysis.WHAT'S INCLUDED . . .All resources in this bundle contain: ⭐Step-by-Step Instructions ⭐Bell Ringer(s)⭐Answer Keys⭐Common Core ELA Aligned✅ Resource 1: EMILY DICKINSON BIO MINI ESCAPE► 3 Puzzles about Emily Dickinson► Optional biographical poem task (example given)► Printable clue
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7th - 12th
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Fun Persuasive Activities BUNDLE - Rhetoric & Argumentative Writing Activity
Practice persuasion techniques with a set of 5 fun persuasion activities! Students will use rhetorical appeals, rhetorical devices, and/or claim and counterclaim as they convince their target audience! This bundle includes 5 games: 1. "Save this Law" - Students develop an argument for saving a silly law and present to the class. 2. "Complaint Letter" - Students write a fictional complaint letter to share the story behind a faulty object bought with unexpected results.3. "Salesperson" - Students
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7th - 10th
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Strong, Vivid Verbs Discount 3-Pack Bundle
This 3-Pack Verb Unit includes three of my products combined into one economical unit. The triple packet includes the Verb Chart from Part 1; Lesson Plans, Worksheets, and Answer Keys from Part 2; and the Strong Verb Memory Game. Together, these three will strengthen your students' vocabulary as well as encourage and instruct strong verb use in students' s writing. Plenty of practice and fun in this product!Click on the links below to see the 3 separate productsUse Strong, Vivid Verbs Part 1Us
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6th - 10th
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Argument Writing Introduction & Argumentative Essay Escape Room Reading Activity
Argument Writing Introduction & Argumentative Essay Escape Room Reading Activity: This argument writing reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of argument writing. The detailed presentation introduces the 5 main parts of an argument like claims, reasons, evidence, counterclaims and rebuttals with clear examples. The highlight of the resource is the engaging escape room-style challenge, where students read an original n
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: READING CHALLENGE FULL YEAR PROGRAM ESCAPE CHALLENGES | PRINT VERSION
RACE Writing Review Google Slides Game and Worksheets
R.A.C.E. Writing Review Game and WorksheetsRestate Answer Cite Explain! Teaching R.A.C.E. with a little fun! This is a great, no prep, review game to use while teaching the R.A.C.E. writing strategy. You will also get a Racecar passage and R.A.C.E. practice worksheet.The Google Slides game covers all parts of the R.A.C.E. writing strategy.The Google Slides game also includes bonus questions reviewing how to restate a question while writing. A fun, easy to use, Google Slides game to help teach a
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3rd - 12th
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★ Printable ★ Resources & Citations Customizable Escape Room / Breakout Game
Looking for a fun way to get your students talking, moving, and collaborating? Look no further!This game was designed to help students learn about creating citations and finding resources.This breakout does require some work on the purchasing teacher’s end before it can be used. The breakout was created for resources that are accessible through my library, so on the guide, I’ve listed exactly what you need to find in your library/databases to customize the clue. Four of the five clues require mi
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Customizable Bundle of 11 ELA (Physical) Escape Room / Breakout Games
Writing STAAR Review Game 2.0- Secondary ELAR
Based on my bestselling Writing STAAR Review Game, this is another Jeopardy-type review game that you can use with your students in the days before the writing test as an overview of skills. It can be edited for use in any grade that has a writing test. The topics covered:- Dictionary Skills- Editing & Revision- Essay Scoring- Spelling- Grab Bag (miscellaneous questions).Check out my other games:Figurative Language Review GameLiterary Elements Review GameReading STAAR Review GamePoetry Revie
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Middle School Grammar Game Bundle- over 25% off individual prices
Virginia English Writing SOL Blackjack Game Review: PRINT & GO! EOC/8th
This simple engaging activity uses Blackjack to encourage review of SOL Writing skills and exposure to possible prompts students may receive on the test.
Depending upon the number of the hand dealt, the HOW TO PLAY task card tells each student what s/he should do for a specific prompt!
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Printable task cards (2 per page)
Procedure
YOU WILL NEED A DECK OF CARDS (or more) DEPENDING UPON CLASS SIZE
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6th - 12th
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Essay Football: Revision GAME for Secondary ELA
Want to play a revision GAME to take peer feedback to the next level? Play Essay Football to constructively pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses of each student’s essay!In this game, 2 players use a system of penalties and compliments to gain yards across the field and score touchdowns. You can either keep game play simple, or you can use the optional scoreboard or playbook graphic organizers to help students keep track of what mistakes they made in the essay (so they know what to go home and r
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7th - 10th
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Paragraph Scramble Game and Text Structure
-assemble puzzle strips to organize paragraph-seven (7) paragraphs with text structure described-answer key included-indentation of paragraphs useful for hinting and reinforcement of structure-includes concept that change in quotations indicate paragraph change -narrative/chronological, procedural/chronological, emphatic, spatial, descriptive by imagery, persuasive
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5th - 12th
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Avengers Theme - Revising Coloring Page OR GAME | Commas - Fragments | #Gamified
High-rigor can still mean high-engagement! In reviewing data from our benchmarks, I noticed my kids needed more practice identifying fragments, comma splices, and comma mistakes with sentences that actually use high-level vocabulary--lengthy sentences with statistics and numbers and prepositional and appositive phrases. My kids know dates and lists, but still struggle to eliminate errors on tests. And, of course, they are bored of worksheets and test prep yet obsessed with The Avengers. So... he
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Top 20 TeachRamos {Full Year BUNDLE} - Every skill in 8th Grade Reading!
Intro to MLA Works Cited - Lesson Pack
What makes teaching MLA Works Cited format more interesting and hands-on? Cool museums! Sports metaphors! Puzzle manipulatives! This teaching bundle will make it happen for your students!This pack contains two awesome MLA teaching resources. I usually do both of these activities within the same 90-minute class period when I first introduce MLA citation format. The engaging slideshow lesson (with guided notes) gets students thinking and relating MLA format to concepts that they already understand
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8th - 12th
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Class Research Games
Need a fun way to get your students practicing their research skills? This set of 10 games will take your class from thesis statements all the way to references all while having fun.This set of games covers research skills like:Building 3-prong thesis statementsUsing specific search termsAssessing the credibility of sourcesExpanding on relevant evidenceChecking the efficacy of research paragraphsCreating accurate APA citationsChecking APA formattingYou'll get fun class games like:Thesis SwapSour
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6th - 12th
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Persuasion in Advertising - Silent Card shuffle - Cooperatively Learning Game
Persuasive devices in advertising.This resource has many uses. I have created it to use with my class as a cooperative Learning or thinking game called "Silent Card Shuffle". This strategy will help students to: Classify, understand and analyse information. The game rules have been provided.3 x pages of cards in correct order ( also use as the answer sheet) Laminate and cut these up for groups of 4 - 5 students. 3 x pages are in jumbled order (colour and black and white) for a consolidation act
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6th - 10th
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30 Text Evidence Sentence Starter Cards
If you're teaching students to cite text evidence when writing constructed responses, you need this set of 30 sentence starter cards. There are thirty, so each student in your class will have a different sentence starter to use for practice. The cards come with directions for games and activities like Line-up Limbo and Read a Round. Do more than just post a list! Use these cards to put get students to interact with the sentence starters in ways that will help these sentence starters become part
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3rd - 12th
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Holiday Fun! FREE White Elephant Party and Real-Life Writing Instruction Lesson
Who says high school kids can’t have holiday parties? As long as you tie your class party to a Common Core writing standard, you can justify having a little fun before leaving for your winter break.In this lesson, students will be introduced to the idea of a White Elephant gift exchange, receive a small bit of the idiom’s background, and bring an item from home to donate to the class gift exchange. Then, after the fun of the swap is over, have students learn to write a properly formatted thank y
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7th - 10th
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Impromptu Speech Topics in a Jar as a Public Speech Practice Game
Hey teachers everywhere! Mr. Hauger here with a great idea for classroom interactions with your students. Today I want to show you how to make 1-minute improvisational speeches your favorite new classroom game. I call them snap speeches, and ask my students to snap if they agree or appreciate the effort made by the speaker. Students will gain a lot from this impromptu speech practice and will enjoy doing it.
Speeches can be fun, fictional, or nonfiction. Print and cut a list of your favorite j
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4th - 12th
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Rhetorical Analysis Terms, Quiz, and Game
This activity consists of an essential list of Rhetorical Analysis terms for AP Language or for General/Honors/ Advanced English, a handout to write answers for a quiz, and a printable maze game with included game cards and game instructions.Teachers can use the list as a handout to give to students and as a guide to give quick review quizzes. The handout for quizzes is set up for three quizzes total. After the quiz(zes), students and the teacher work together to correct the quiz and play the
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9th - 12th
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Cite A Song (Paraphrase, Summarize, Cite)
This fun, interactive (and editable!) presentation teaches students everything they need to know about correctly paraphrasing, summarizing, and citing their sources. Plagiarism will never again be a problem in your classroom!This product uses paraphrased and summarized song lyrics to keep students engaged and teach them how to properly cite their sources. There are five paraphrased songs for students to decode and "guess" and two examples of summarized songs for students to consider before parap
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Roll & Analyze Literature EOC Prep NC RL.10.1-RL.10.4 Writing Fun Collaborative
This Roll and Analyze activity for literature is a fun and engaging way for students to engage in text-based critical thinking and writing.Includes "I can" statements. I can: Analyze themecite textual evidenceanalyze a characterdefine vocabulary in contextwrite an objective summary, identify interpret and analyze the purpose of figurative languageexplain the significance of self-selected quoteswork in cooperative groups.Can be completed in pairs, in larger groups, or individually. I have had s
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6th - 12th
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My year review 2023-2024
1-hour activity to review the past year (2023) and think about the next to come (2024). Two 2023 pages :one edited for boys and one edited for girls. One 2024 page.
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9th - 11th
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