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High school creative writing game pdfs
ESCAPE ROOM ELA BUNDLE Team Building, Reading, Writing, Critical Thinking
From Back to School to End of Year, this breakout bundle includes interactive and immersive adventures. Each challenge addresses ELA standards in a fun and engaging way. Your students won't even realize how much they are learning, which is the BEST way to learn, isn't it?!Individually, the total value of these best-selling resources will be over $82.90, so this resource results in HUGE savings!WHAT IS INCLUDED?The bundle includes an entire year's worth of individual activities. There are 12, so
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5th - 9th
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Dialogue and Descriptive Writing Game
Your students will ask to play this all. the. time. The Tweet a Pic Dialogue and Description game for grades 6-10 asks students to write a 140 character tweet for a variety of high interest pictures using their best dialogue or descriptive writing. In groups, students take turns acting as "judge." Members of their group anonymously turn in their best tweet for a picture and the judge chooses the best one. The student who writes the winning tweet gets a point for that round. The judge role s
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6th - 10th
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OPENING LINES Drama / English Cards (with Drama Games + Activities)
This set of 99 OPENING LINE Drama Cards comes with 3 suggested drama activities (Opening Line Scenes; One Word / Line at a time; Monologues) but can be used in so many more ways. Get your scenes and storytelling off to a great start with this collection of open ended short scene starters. DRAMA TRUNK DRAMA CARDS ARE A DRAMA TEACHER'S BEST FRIEND! Just print, laminate (optional) and cut out a set of versatile drama cards that you can use over and over again. I cannot count how many times and ways
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Drama Cards : BUNDLED 17 SETS (with Drama Activities & Games)
Improvisation Scene Starters (Improvisation Scenarios) with Improv Games
Improvisation scenarios by Drama Trunk. Looking for improvisation resources that are ready to print and go? Use these improv scene starters for any drama game where a simple scenario is needed. These improv scene starters are suitable for scenes where 1 person starts or where there are 2 or more players.Use Drama Trunk ‘Improv Scene Starter’ Cards with the following suggested improv games (instructions included in resource), use them to start scenes or to start any improvisation.• Space Jump• Wh
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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CHARACTER Drama Cards / English Cards (Drama Games + Activities)
This set of 259 Character Drama Cards comes with 3 suggested drama activities (Character Scenes; Monologues; Bus Stop) but can be used in so many more ways. Enhance creativity, storytelling and character development with these versatile cards. DRAMA TRUNK DRAMA CARDS ARE A DRAMA TEACHER'S BEST FRIEND! Just print, laminate (optional) and cut out a set of versatile drama cards that you can use over and over again. I cannot count how many times and ways I have used drama cards – absolutely my most
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Drama Cards : BUNDLED 17 SETS (with Drama Activities & Games)
Allusion Activity with Mythology and Pop Culture
Allusion is a powerful device, but students can easily miss it if they aren't familiar with how it is used. This fun activity gives them practice identifying both mythology-based and pop-culture-oriented allusions as they blend the two in a hilarious, brain-stretching exercise. First, students are split into teams, and each team draws a mythology card, a pop culture card, and a scenario card. Then each team must script a conversation that alludes to facts from both the mythology card and pop
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review
Show Don't Tell Descriptive Writing Game
Elevate Writing with the Show Don’t Tell Descriptive Writing Game!Transform your writing lessons with the Show Don’t Tell Descriptive Writing Game, a multisensory experience that makes learning to write descriptive paragraphs fun, engaging, and interactive. This game teaches players how to "show" rather than "tell" by using vivid adjectives, dynamic action verbs, expressive adverbs, and creative literary devices like similes, metaphors, and personification.Key FeaturesMultisensory Learning: Enga
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4th - 12th
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Group Freeze Frames (Improvisation resource with improv cards)
Freeze Frames Drama Teaching Resource. These cards have been created to help develop drama performance skills (facial expression, gesture, body language, mood) with a focus on freeze frames (tableaux). Use the cards to extend and develop performance techniques, for spontaneous improvisation games where a prompt is needed or otherwise task players to come up with scenes based on the cards. This set of cards includes freeze frame scenarios with additional directives to extend the initial freeze fr
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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180 Language Arts Bell-Ringers -- Writing, Critical Thinking, and More!
This product contains 180 bell-ringers for Language Arts, with thirty different types of activities. Those activities range from SAT-vocabulary-based crosswords and madlibs, analyzing and creating the end of poems, responding to pictures, YouTube videos, and startling statistics, and writing, writing, writing!
This is a great way to settle your students in for an engaging class. Because the activities are different every day, they don't get old or boring, and students never know what to expect.
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6th - 12th
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The Amazing Mouse Trap - Logic Puzzle and Writing Assignment
This is a great activity which can combine logical problem solving skills and either writing or oral presentation skills. It is the Amazing Mouse Trap. There are 24 cards which you have your students cut out and put together in order to make the machine work. (The idea came from the game Mouse Trap). Once the kids have correctly assembled the machine I have them do an extension activity. They must write a detailed description of how the machine works which takes a lot of creative writing and
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5th - 12th
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War of the Words: A Fast and Fun Game to Practice Diction and Sensory Language
This one is so fast and easy! It takes only two class days or less, and with hardly any work for the teacher, students will be highly engaged in discussions about word choice and grammar.
I came up with this idea and started using it decades ago when I was teaching middle school ELA. Now that I teach high school and AP classes, I've still used it every year, and it has never failed with any group or any level.
This resource includes everything you need--a 24-slide engaging presentation to tea
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6th - 12th
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Role Play Drama Activities + Pantomime Cards (DRAMA SHOES)
Beginner improv exercises by Drama Trunk. Looking for improv exercises for kids? These fun DRAMA SHOES activities comes with a set of 66 Drama Cards to cut out and use. Multiple activities are included to practice mime, movement, character development, role play and story writing but the improv cards can be used in so many more ways and with different improvisation games and activities (why not add shoes to any improvisation scene)! Suitable for all ages but some of the drama activities (scene c
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2nd - 10th
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Improv Games with ARGUMENT STARTERS improvisation cards
Improv Games and Improv Cards by Drama Trunk. Looking for improv teaching resources? This set of Argument Starter prompt cards comes with the following suggested impro games: • Evil Twin Argument Version (fun improv game)• The argument game• Open scene - enhance classic open improvisations with the improv cards• Emotion quadrants drama game• Shakespearean Scene (challenge improv skills)• Scene replayBut the improv cards can be used in so many more ways and with different improvisation games and
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Improv drama lesson plans : SOCIAL SITUATIONS improvisation cards and activities
Improv drama lesson plan - social situations improvisation cards and activities. These cards have been created for use with various improvisation games and exercises include situation based improv prompts based on 'social situations''. Use the cards for spontaneous improv games where a prompt is needed or otherwise task players to come up with scenes or monologues based on the cards. Use these fun 'Social Situation' cards (which act as an improvisation setting) with the following suggested impro
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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52 Back to School Drama Activities
Whether you are new to teaching drama, or simply want to add some fun to your class, these activities will help set the tone for a building a strong classroom community. If you have been teaching for years, these activities can help you feel inspired by trying something new!On a typical first day of drama, you’ll want to: Introduce yourself and create a sense of excitement/magic Learn names Start to establish trust within the group Introduce an easy performance activityFor each of th
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2nd - 12th
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Create Your Own Mad Libs®! Project with rubric
Are you searching for a creative way for students to demonstrate their understanding of the parts of speech? If so, this grammar review project is perfect for you!
The project focuses on:
singular & plural common nouns
singular & plural proper nouns
adjectives
past, present & future verbs
adverbs
prepositional phrases
interjections
With the Parts of Speech Grammar Review: Create Your Own Mad Libs®, students are led through a step-by-step writing & grammar project. They begi
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3rd - 9th
ORWELL'S 1984 CREATIVE ACTIVITIES | Newspeak poetry activity + 1984 games
1984 creative activities and games lessons might sound like an oxymoron, but given that much of Orwell’s scarily prescient dystopic novel can be looked at as games played by the Inner Party on an unsuspecting populace, I think that my fun activities are justified! 5 activities await. The most challenging and creative of the games is Newspeak found poetry. Students construct poems using only a pair of scissors and the two pages of the carefully selected 1984 words included in this resource. It gi
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10th - 12th
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Theater Improv Warm-Ups and Games FOR EVERYONE
Young people LOVE theater improvisation, and so will you. Improv can help you create a cohesive class culture, spark creative writing, and make your students 100% engaged!Using this 4-page handout, you can explore many Improv WARM-UPS, EXERCISES and GAMES with your students - no previous improv experience required. The first page can turn into an easy anchor chart of what skills are necessary for improv (and serves as great justification for using improv in your classroom - these are important
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Figurative Language Cooperative Matching Game
Figurative Language can be fun! This cooperative game helps you review 10 types of figurative language. This packet has 50 sentence strips for students to match with a figurative language category. Working together as a group, this is a fun, engaging game, where everyone is a winner. This is an extremely effective way to learn figurative language. Also included is a 3-page handout with definitions and examples of metaphor, simile, personification, allusion, hyperbole, oxymoron, onomatopoeia, eup
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Figurative Language Resources Bundle
CHRISTMAS CREATIVE WRITING High School prompts and activities
A dozen NO PREP Christmas and winter fun creative writing activities and games for your secondary ELA or Creative Writing class will keep your students engaged for two packed lessons.The found poetry and dice roll story will occupy the most minutes and a simple rubric is included should you wish to use these activities for marks. Most of the other 10 activities in this package are rapid-fire quickies. Students don't have premium concentration as the end of term beckons! Most of these seasonal ac
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8th - 12th
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Creative Writing Prompts Story Starters Activity - Daily Writing Journal Prompts
These FREE creative writing prompts are perfect for daily journal writing prompts or to inspire students in their narrative writing! Overcome writer’s block and cultivate students’ ideas with these story starters. Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®!Included with this Story Starters Activity:✏️ 30+ Creative Writing Prompts - Digital & PrintActivity inspired by celebrated author Ray Bradbury✏️ Teacher Instructions for using this resource How to use th
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6th - 10th
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Teaching improv games : THINGS THAT GO WRONG improv cards and exercises
Improv lesson plans - funny improvisation cards with 'things that go wrong' scenarios plus improv games suggestions to use the cards with. These cards have been created for use with various impro games and exercises but can be used with so many more. Use the provided improv cards for spontaneous improvisation games where a prompt is needed or otherwise task players to come up with scenes or monologues based on the cards. Use these engaging 'things that go wrong' cards (which act as an improvisat
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Creative Writing Activities Bundle - Roll a Story
Are you looking for fun and engaging creative writing activities to have on hand all year long? Download my Creative Writing Activities Bundle - Roll a Story and you'll have 16 unique narrative writing tasks to use however you may be teaching! This resource will help you and your students write original and stunning stories that can be shared with your entire classroom! The bundle includes 16 different seasonally-themed activities that are designed to cover various story elements and encourage y
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5th - 10th
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MOODS / EMOTIONS Drama / English Cards (with Drama Games + Activities)
This set of 179 Mood (emotions) Drama Cards comes with 4 suggested activities (Character Scenes; Change of Mood; Discovering Character; Mood Corners) but can be used in so many more ways. Enhance scenes and characters with these moody cards. DRAMA TRUNK DRAMA CARDS ARE A DRAMA TEACHER'S BEST FRIEND! Just print, laminate (optional) and cut out a set of versatile drama cards that you can use over and over again. I cannot count how many times and ways I have used drama cards – absolutely my most ha
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: Drama Cards : BUNDLED 17 SETS (with Drama Activities & Games)
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