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High school writing-essays games for Microsoft Word
Word Processing Skills Activities - Computer Games
Three fun and easy to use activities that teach and practice basic word processing skills!My adult learners and ESL students often haven't had much experience using computers to type essays or do class projects. So I devised these three worksheets to get my students from knowing nothing about word processors, to being able to type a perfectly formatted essay! And each one is hands-on, nitty gritty, students sitting at the computer, learning by doing. Build their confidence by letting them do it
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Thesis Creation Mad Libs
Use a simple formula to teach students how to create a thesis for a literary argument. This fun activity asks students to create lists of major works, literary elements, themes/ideas/concepts, & groups of people or bodies in order to generate often very funny literary theses:In [MAJOR WORK], the author uses [LITERARY ELEMENT(S)] to make a powerful statement about [CONCEPT/IDEA/-ISM] in [PEOPLE OR CIVIC GROUP].Students will discuss whether they think they can defend the resulting Mad Lib Thes
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9th - 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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Conjunctive Adverbs Board Game (B2/C1 Levels)
Designed for: B2/C1 (Upper-Intermediate - Advanced EAP)Domain: EAP/College/UniversityActivity Focus: Cohesive Devices (Conjunctive Adverbs)Class time: 30-45 minutesFile Format: Word Document (editable)This board game offers a fun and interactive way to reinforce the use of cohesive devices, with a special focus on conjunctive adverbs. This activity is perfect for enhancing students' transition skills in both speaking and writing!Product DescriptionStudents read a sentence. After, they roll the
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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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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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5 Second Rule Game Exam or Test Revision for Unwind by Neal Shusterman
25 Five Second Rule cards for exam or test revision for the novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman so that students can ask each other questions to revise their understanding. The instructions for the game 5 Second Rule can be found online. These cards can be printed onto colour paper and laminated to make them look more fun and to be durable. It is on a Word document so that you can add more if you would like to before printing them.
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9th - 11th, Higher Education
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Argumentative MEAT Cut Up Essay
This is for students to begin recognizing what MEAT (Main Point, Evidence, Analysis, Transition Sentence) paragraphs look like. It's fully editable.
There is one on Racial profiling and another on transgender students, the one on transgender students is slightly harder because there are some pieces of information that don't fit and includes a counterclaim.
The way that this activity works is that pieces all have labels on them and you cut them up for the students and tell them to piece it bac
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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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Essay Scaffold for Struggling Students
For students who struggle with essay writing, this breaks each paragraph down into smaller, manageable chunks. They follow the steps in the instructions column (you can easily edit what you want them to write specifically about) then they delete the instructions column and merge the rows to create one final essay.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Codenames Game Exam or Test Revision for Unwind by Neal Shusterman
25 Codenames cards for exam or test revision for the novel Unwind by Neal Shusterman so that students can make associations between keywords relating to the film and revise their understanding. The instructions for the game Codenames can be found online. These cards can be printed onto colour paper and laminated to make them look more fun and to be durable. It is on a Word document so that you can add more if you would like to before printing them.
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9th - 11th, Higher Education
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5 Second Rule Game Exam or Test Revision for The Help by Kathryn Stockett
25 Five Second Rule cards for exam or test revision for the novel The Help by Kathryn Stockett so that students can ask each other questions to revise their understanding. The instructions for the game 5 Second Rule can be found online. These cards can be printed onto colour paper and laminated to make them look more fun and to be durable. It is on a Word document so that you can add more if you would like to before printing them.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Codenames Game Exam or Test Revision for The Help by Kathryn Stockett
25 Codenames cards for exam or test revision for the novel The Help by Kathryn Stockett so that students can make associations between keywords relating to the film and revise their understanding. The instructions for the game Codenames can be found online. These cards can be printed onto colour paper and laminated to make them look more fun and to be durable. It is on a Word document so that you can add more if you would like to before printing them.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Bingo Game Exam or Test Revision for The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Bingo game exam or test revision for the novel The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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RESEARCH SUPPORT GAME
teaches properly cited researchteaches how to organize researchteaches general topic vs supporting detailsprovides differentiated support for kinesthetic learners, visual learners, auditory learners
Grades:
9th - 12th
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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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