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Free high school writing-essays games
Essay Writing ESCAPE ROOM Activity (Parts of an Essay) FREE!
This FREE essay activity is a sample activity from my Essay Writing Escape Room! This activity reviews the parts of an essay in a fun, engaging way!
This activity would be appropriate for:
• Elementary students who need essay writing experience
• Middle school students who need essay writing guidance
• High school students who need essay writing practice
Note: Aside from the materials that you would already have in your classroom, no additional supplies are needed! This escape room-style gam
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5th - 10th
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Argumentative/Persuasive Writing Terms Riddles
Riddle me this: How can you teach and review argumentative and/or persuasive writing in a fun, unique way? Answer: By using this resource! This is a lighthearted way to review important argumentative/persuasive terms like thesis statement, supporting evidence, counterargument, and rebuttal. There are five riddles students must solve using these argumentative terms as the answers! This works so well as a FUN formative assessment that will give you data to see if your students understand these im
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7th - 12th
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Diagnostic Writing Assignments
To know where to begin in writing instruction, teachers must assess "where" their students are -- what are their strengths and weaknesses as writers. Students write best when they are writing about something they know. These writing assignments ask students to think about the events that have shaped them into who they are.
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9th - 12th
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Choose a character PPT GAME
In this exciting game, the student chooses a character from those on the slide, then the student must answer the question before time runs out. The game is suitable for all ages.
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PreK - 12th
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Essay Revision Activity
This ready-made partner tic-tac-toe activity is sure to increase student engagement and provide two sets of eyes on every essay in the room.
This can be used for any essay and is best used near the end of revising when students are focused on the final editing aspect of the writing process.
The handout gives instructions on how to play the traditional tic-tac-toe partner game while editing one student's essay at a time.
This can be used for any essay topic and students of any ability leve
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6th - 9th
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Among Us Warm Up Activity for Properly Formatted Works Cited Pages
This is an 8 slide warm up activity for formatting Works Cited pages. Students are familiar with the popular game Among Us where they are looking for the impostors and crewmates who seem "sus." Students review Works Cited Formatting before they are given 4 crewmate examples of a Works Cited page and need to decide which crewmate is "sus" to survive. Students discuss and defend their choices with what they know about Works Cited Pages. This is a great formative assessment and review activity to g
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6th - 12th
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Move Along Transitions
This engaging game and small group application will get your students to appropriately use a variety of transitional words/phrases in their own writing! We all have students who either omit transitions, or use the same ones over and over again. Give students the practice they need with this activity!
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4th - 12th
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Research Scavenger Hunt
Are you looking for a high-interest way to teach or review the basics of research? Look no further! This activity will walk your students through a series of questions about the research process, asking them to use their answers to solve a mystery code. This can be done on paper or digitally for remote learning.
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6th - 12th
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Thesis Throwdown Free Google Doc
This document can be used for your students to compete to write the best thesis statement on two different STAAR ECR prompts or edit it to fit your needs.
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3rd - 12th
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Thesis Statement or Supporting Detail
Sometimes my students struggle when trying to craft their own thesis statements. In hopes of remedying this, I have created this PowerPoint presentation. There are three slides meant to reinforce the purpose and depth of thesis statements and supporting details--a thesis is broad and sort of open-ended; a supporting detail is specific and clear, and clearly related to the thesis.
Following that, there is a short "game". There are four statements, and students must decide (either by voting, or
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8th - 10th
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Game of Concrete Nouns
The students play with the differences between abstractions and concrete nouns. Writing concretely is an important step toward writing vividly. See my Atlantic article on the subject. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/the-secret-to-good-writing-its-about-objects-not-ideas/263113/
This game helps train students to be vivid and specific and keeps them from floating away on a tide of abstract ideas.It requires a white board and an actively listening instructor.
You do it after
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Writing Activity FREE
Bowling in the classroom, say what? Your students will enjoy bowling in the classrom for body paragraphs. First, place your students into teams. Then go over the introduction paragraph titled, "Designing a Neigborhood" with your class. Explain to the students that they will be bowling to determine who will write which body paragraph. The team that wins will have an opportunity to pick first then the second team and the last team (s) get whatever body paragraph is leftover. Afterwards, the e
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6th - 9th
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Baseline Orientation Practice
Print-Laminate the three worksheets for small, tall, and tail letters, then cut out the letters.1. Have students sort the letters into the correct box.2.Practice writing the letters correctly on the line.-To see this in use visit otbriactivities on Tiktok or Instagram!
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K - 9th
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FLIP IT! Bottle Flip and Prompt Flip Challenge Game and Activities
FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME IF YOU DOWNLOAD, TRY IT, AND LEAVE FEEDBACK. YOU CAN USE THE BOTTLE FLIP LABELS TO CREATE YOUR OWN GAME, BUT THIS IS A STANDALONE GAMING KIT USING BOTTLE FLIPPINGDo your students have a hard time drafting effective theses from your writing prompts? If you draft your writing prompts with an introductory statement so that your verbs are near the end, students can utilize this technique when drafting their thesis statements. I have created a game to go along with it that is
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3rd - 10th
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Peer Editing Blackout
This is a game to make peer editing enjoyable. The main focuses of this activity are word choice, sentence structure, sentence lengths, style, voice, and punctuation. It is intended for students to do every task with the product/paper they are peer-reviewing. It gives both positive and constructive feedback to the writer.
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7th - 12th
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Adaptive Literacy Technologies
Teachers and parents! Looking for a literacy instruction tool for your students? Arizona State University's Science of Learning and Educational Technologies (SoLET) Lab is offering free access to customizable reading and writing education through our two research-based educational systems: iSTART and Writing Pal. These tutoring systems provide students with extra practice at home or in class and produce personalized feedback on reading comprehension and writing skills.
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Integrate Vocabulary in Writing #2A: Theme - ANCIENT (FREE PRODUCT)
This teaching resource seeks to introduce new vocabulary words using a thematic approach and integrate this with writing activities.IDEAL for MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOLIncluded in this packet:vocabulary games (printable)editable/interactive vocabulary games [link for GOOGLE SLIDES included]word list & sentencesanswer keyswriting promptThis resource seeks to provide teachers with meaningful activities in vocabulary and help students to:learn words associated with the theme –
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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Creative discussion
It is a perfect game for students who want to practice giving opinions and becoming fluent in using some introductory phrases ( different from I think..., and In my opinion... While discussing controversial topics players need to justify not only their own point of view but also what other people think.
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12th
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