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High school creative writing games for Microsoft Word
A Homemade Version of the Game Balderdash
This is a "home cooked" version of Balderdash (the game where students take an obscure word--one person has the real definition while the others in the group have to "fake" their definitions). Complete directions come with this download as well as scoring/definition sheets and a "starter kit" of about 60 words (after that you can go to the OED or even a regular dictionary for more words). You can use this as a "just for fun" activity or it can be something more meaningful as you discuss how wo
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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BINGO Plant Bingo Garden Club Resource
Bingo!Plant Bingo! 3 pages! Introduction activity to plant life cycle, gardening, etc. I created this plant bingo for the Green Thumb Garden Club that I am part of at my elementary school. I hope you enjoy my product!
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PreK - 12th
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SHOW Not Tell! Bring Boring Sentences to Life!
This is set of about 60 BORING sentences that students need to bring to LIFE using sensory details and figurative language! For example, students may take the sentence "The dog is cute" and turn it into "My heart melted like chocolate on a hot day when I took in the sight of the adorable, cuddly puppy softly cooing in my lap." I love to print these out, crinkle them up, and throw them in the air. Students grab a boring sentence, create a "showing sentence," and repeat the process. This is an exc
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6th - 9th
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Writing Game: Creative Writing PIRATE Roll-the-Dice STORY
This story may be done online or in a classroom or at home. You just need to grab a dice or use an online dice generator. Students will pick a partner to traverse this world of pirates and capture. Each prompt brings the team further into a survival pirate story. The writing must be interconnected to form a whole story.
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4th - 10th
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Task Prompts for Characterization, Improvisation, and Scene Writing
This list of 96 prompts is an "action" list that can be used as improvisation prompts, ways to develop a character, a method to jump-start scene writing, or simply as inspiration for a wide array of improvisation games. The list of prompts comes with 20 suggestions for their use! It's a quick list that can be used in practically any unit you teach from Shakespeare plays to pantomime, from characterization work for a musical to scripting short scenes! It's also a great solution for those day
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Incredible Improvisation Bundle
Bring Your Writing to Life! Create Dialogue!
This is a set of about 18 paragraphs that students need to turn into dialogue. For example, a paragraph may say something like, Max said that he had a lot of fun at the dance. The students will take that and change it to, "I had a lot of fun at the dnace!" Max exclaimed. This activity gives students the opportunity to practice bringing their writing to life with dialogue. It also challenges them to correctly punctuate and write dialogue within their writing. Some of the paragraphs and goofy--fe
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6th - 9th
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Greek Mythology D&D
While studying Greek mythology what better way to have your students create their own myth and game? The story will guide the players through the world your students create. Using a set of modified Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) rules that explain how to play the game. (Who attacks when, what dice to use, what the chests can contain, etc.)This activity will have your students use their knowledge of Greek mythology to create their own unique story. They will have to use their imagination to fully
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6th - 12th
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Think Fast! Fun with Sound Devices (Editable)
This activity is a fun way to have students practice with sound devices. Students will make several lists according to prompts, and the activity culminates in a writing activity that could be used for a journal entry or a Quick Write. Specific terms include alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, and concrete language.
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6th - 12th
FRENCH Creative Writing - Story Builder Game - MASH Editable | Distance Learning
Vous êtes coincé sur des idées sur quoi écrire? Vous voulez créer un personnage aléatoire dans une histoire? Utilisez ces feuilles comme un moyen amusant de stimuler l'écriture créative. Ceci est du jeu MASH original que nous avions l'habitude de jouer quand nous étions enfants. Toutes les instructions incluses. Le document Word est modifiable, vous pouvez donc modifier les catégories en fonction de n'importe quel sujet, sujet ou thème. *Il y a aussi un jeu bonus pour vos élèves à jouer pour pr
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3rd - 9th
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One Liner cards for drama activities
A collection of ready to use "one liners" for improv drama games or to be randomly inserted into narratives as a challenge. Suitable for upper primary.
Examples include:
- How do you make a hot dog stand?
- A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
- You’ve always been crazy. This is just the first chance you’ve had to express yourself.
- I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
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4th - 10th
Classroom Trivia Challenge
If you have a "Homeroom," an "Advisory," or a youth group, and need some additional activities, this works REALLY WELL! The kids go CRAZY for the opportunity to create their own trivia rounds and present them to the class. It blew me away how much fun they had with this.I have uploaded an easy-to-follow instruction page and also three student-created trivia challenge example rounds for you to use with your classes. You can either use these as actual example rounds, or just show them what a ro
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Literacy Game: Magic Squares
In this game, students must see how many words they can make from the letters in the squares. Each word must contain the letter shaded in the centre square. A nine-letter word can be made using all the letters. This resource contains 38 a puzzles. There are two puzzles per A4 page, these pages can be cut in half to make A5 sheets.Students are encouraged to explore letter combinations and to use a dictionary to check their words. As a class, you can then share your words and learn their meanings
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5th - 12th
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10 Debate Topics that Middle School Students with Etiquette and Rules Pack A
10 Debate Topics that Middle School Students Will Love (Pack A) There are multiple packs available for teachers looking for even more vetted debate topics for middle school students. As a free bonus, I included 3 extra topics, my 5 keys to winning debate (saving you $1 separate purchase), and the suggested format for Parliamentary Debate. This is all you need to teach the fundamentals of debate, have some interesting topics to engage students, and the timings of the speeches to begin preparing y
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6th - 9th
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Activities to Get Your Students Talking
A great packet to get students involved in their learning using Discussion Cards; Writing Prompts; What is Opinion or Fact?; and A Fun Game. The packet can be adapted to many ages and learning levels.Interpersonal / Communication / DiscussionCreative Writing / Thinking
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4th - 9th
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GAME: Creative Sentence Variety Stems
Students use these varied sentence beginners to compose imaginative sentences that teach them to begin sentences with gerund phrases, infinitive phrases, participial phrases, adverbs, adjectives, and dependent clauses. I usually introduce these varieties to students. Then I take them outside to stand in a big circle, which consists of arcs of their teams of four. I run several five-minute rounds for each of the categories, in which individual students from the various teams can run to the cen
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Mythology Group Activities
This document includes six different activities for individual and group work. I designed these for my students after reading Edith Hamilton's "Mythology" so the activities cover by Greek/Roman and Norse mythology. The last activity can be used as a test or group discussion. The other activities include games and creative writing.
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9th - 12th
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Pick Up Poet Tree Educational Playing Card Game
•(2-6 Players) or UNLIMITED IF YOU PLAY TEAMS AND ALLOW ONE PLAYER FROM BOTH TEAMS TO EACH GO HEAD TO HEAD FOR ONE TURN.
•There are 45 cards in the deck
•9 different elements/types of cards
•Shuffle & Every player gets 5 cards
•Place the rest of the deck down in the middle
•You (The Dealer) go first & ask another player for one of the elements in your hand in attempt to get all 5 of that type of card. (The player to the left goes next)
•When you ask and the player you ask has that eleme
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Alphabet Game - Drama Class Warm-up!
Awesome warm-up for a Drama class of students grade 7+. Helps students creatively engaged, get focused and comfortable on stage or as a precursor to an improv unit! Could also be used in an English class for creative writing brainstorming.
Product includes game description, extensions and modifiers, Ontario Grade 9 curriculum connections etc.
Created by Dramatic-Roots. Keywords: Warm-up, Improv, Drama, Game, Activity, Teamwork, Stage Presence, Class Starter, Focus, Concentration, Character E
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7th - 10th
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Creative Writing: Monopoly Writing Game- for in class and online
Students will write to describe what it's like to be trapped in Monopoly. Each person rolls a dice and follows the prompt. Students will enjoy this creative writing game to end the year with interactions on chat and autonomy with the dice.Revised to include group work and writing prompts read by the teacher for further interaction and additional writing. This format works exceptionally online.
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6th - 12th
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Critical Thinking Through Creative Writing
A way to get your students thinking while writing to form their own opinions on issues around them. Packet includes: Writing Prompt ideas; Writing Prompt worksheets; Writing Game Board; Step-by-Step How-to Writing; Research & Informative Writing; Imaginative Narrative Writing; and much more.
Can be adapted to many ages and learning levels.
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4th - 9th
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Board Game WITH Rubric
Creating a board game is a creative, fun, and rigorous way to assess student understanding of literature. I use this mainly with larger pieces of literature that allow the students to take advantage of all aspects of the plot and structure. The rubric goes with each required aspect of the game and makes creation and assessment a breeze!
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7th - 12th
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Dead Words Zombies Game
This game is to practice replacing dead words with more meaningful synonyms. I used a card template and made cards with dead words and their synonyms, as well as a dead word cheat sheet to using during game play. Students have to be the first to replace the word and then be the first to run out of cards. Once printed, the game can be used over and over again!
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6th - 9th
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Monologue First Lines
Great activity packet includes 100 "first lines" that could be used in monologues, improvised scenes, theatre games, bell-ringers, or scripted scenes, as well as a few suggestions for use and two different rubrics for scenes or monologues. This packet will provide several class days worth of possible activities from just 100 "first lines"!
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6th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Amazing Monologue Bundle
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