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High school writing-essays game pdfs
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
Citing Text Evidence BUNDLE & Citing Evidence Game - Distance Learning
Do your students struggle to seamlessly incorporate text evidence within their writing? This completely digital and printable unit will teach your students MLA 8 citations + critical lessons that teach students how to incorporate/embed these quotations within paragraphs. The Citing Evidence Game will engage students in fun but meaningful practice with crafting parenthetical citations and embedding quotations. This is a digital and printable resource. It can be used for distance or e-learning. Th
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7th - 12th
MLA Formatting & ICE (Introduce, Cite, Explain) Mini Lesson and Review Game
Help your students understand MLA Formatting & embedding quotes using the ICE (introduce, cite, explain) method! This MLA bundle includes instructional slides, student handouts and a review game! Our review game, "Horse Races" gets kids up and moving while also having them read their handouts and highlight for information!The MLA Formatting & ICE presentation and handouts includes information about what MLA format is, why we write in MLA format, how to set up a paper in MLA format, and h
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7th - 12th
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Fun Transition Words and Phrases Game for Writing Essays
Do your students struggle to connect their ideas when writing essays? This fun and engaging game helps students analyze how to logically connect ideas with transition words and phrases.First, the class is divided into 8 teams and given 10 cards each. Each card has a transition word or phrase that could be used to connect ideas when writing an essay. Transition category posters are placed at random on the classroom walls. These categories include cause and effect, time, addition, contrast, suppor
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review
The Writing Games! Dice Review Game for Research & Writing Skills
Can your students demonstrate understanding of the most important writing and research concepts? Test them and find out with this Writing Games! interactive dice board.This student-centered, engaging dice game is perfect for any MLA research unit or as a unit test or final exam review. The writing games dice board requires students to think about various aspects of writing and research, including the stages of the writing process, traits of writing, in-text citations, direct quotes, plagiarizing
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8th - 11th
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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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MLA: Break the Code Game (Engaging game to teach and practice MLA Format!)
ENGAGE your students with a fun game to teach and practice all the different parts of MLA format! Students compete in groups to complete each task and find the right answer which gives them the code to unlock the next task! Tasks cover MLA heading; font, size, and spacing; formatting a Works Cited page; in-text citations; and the importance and reasons why we use MLA. This product includes all task cards and pieces to each task. All you have to do is print, cut, and put in envelopes! Directions
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7th - 12th
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Thesis Statement Scoot Game/Task Cards
This game is the best way to give students intensive practice writing thesis statements. The game format and creative topics lend entertainment to a skill most students don't enjoy learning or practicing. It's easy to set up and easy to play. The cards can also be used as task cards. High school students give it a thumbs up!
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8th - 12th
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Yes/No Thesis Game
The Yes/No Thesis Game is a game my students LOVE to play. It is a concept attainment game that I use to teach my students what good thesis statements and bad thesis statements look like.If you are not familiar with concept attainment here is an example of it being modeled: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iOCRNVu9SEI play the game a little bit differently than the video modeled above. I provide you with the examples of good and bad thesis statements and you print them out and laminate them for u
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7th - 12th
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10 Building Thinking Classrooms ELA CER Paragraph Writing Tasks for Small Groups
Like many teachers, I have been captivated by what I have learned about the teaching style and pedagogy in the book Building Thinking Classrooms by Peter Liljedahl. I have spent much of the summer trying to figure out how to implement these strategies and routines in my ELA classroom. This product provides 10 different tasks that students can complete in the Building Thinking Classroom format. It does NOT include any articles or texts - teacher will need to find articles online.These 10 tasks ar
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6th - 9th
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40 Spanish Debate Cards: Defend, Challenge, Qualify
These Spanish debate cards feature a number of controversial/debatable questions for students to argue either orally or in writing in the form of a persuasive essay with claims, reasoning, and evidence. Also ideal for defend, challenge, qualify essays. Great for any bilingual, language-learning, ELL, or even SIFE classroom!Product also comes with 2 blank card templates for teachers (or students!) to write their own debate claims.This product is also available in the following language(s): • Engl
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5th - 12th
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80 Bilingual Spanish/English Debate Cards: Defend, Challenge, Qualify
These double-sided debate cards feature a number of controversial / debatable questions for students to argue either orally or in writing in the form of a persuasive essay with claims, reasoning, and evidence. Also great for defend, challenge, qualify essays. 40 cards in English, 40 cards in Spanish. Perfect for bilingual learners, ELLs, or recent immigrants such as SIFE.These cards a nice complement to the "Claim, Reason, Evidence" and "Writing a Claim" graphic organizers also available in stor
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6th - 12th
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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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Candy Clash Argument Game
This lesson is such a fun game for getting kids thinking about formulating an argument in an organized way, and it takes VERY LITTLE prep time! Divide your students into groups, give each group a different candy, then let them hash out which candy is best. Slides each have the task instructions and time to complete, along with an individual task at the end to use as a formative assessment. My students LOVE this game, and it really helps them stay focused when writing a full argumentative essay.
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5th - 12th
Writing Summaries Activity (Super Short Story Summaries)
This resource is a Writing Summaries Activity.With this sheet, students will develop and articulate a story summary incorporating only the main points of a story (beginning, middle, end).This activity can be done individually or in pairs (teams of 2).This activity has 3 rounds, each round, learners must summarize a movie listed in different time spans. The summary must be organized into BEGINNING, MIDDLE, AND END. This activity includes a Grading Rubric. This sheet can be done as classwork, home
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4th - 11th
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AP Spanish Langauge WRITE FAST! Game for Essay
This game will get your AP Spanish Language and Culture students moving, collaborating, and writing quickly to prepare them for the Argumentative Essay. Play this the few weeks before the test to reinforce the paragraph structure needed for the body paragraphs.
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9th - 12th
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Revolutionary War Game, Political Cartoons, Persuasive Argument, Readings
This Revolutionary War simulation game linked with primary sources and close reads is the perfect choice for the constructivist classroom. Roll the dice to determine your fate as a young person living in Boston in 1775. Will you become a Patriot spy like your neighbor? Or fight beside the Redcoats, showing true loyalty to the British Crown? Just don’t get captured and killed along the way. This game can be completed in one class period or, for a deeper experience, combined with our included act
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4th - 12th
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Persuasive techniques matching cards (techniques/definitions/examples/effects)
Understanding the definitions, examples and effects of different persuasive techniques can be difficult and confusing. Students often struggle to grasp these concepts and apply that knowledge in their own writing and analysis. This set of matching cards that can be used for revision and practice is an excellent way to your students build a strong foundation in understanding how different persuasive devices work. The set focuses on the following persuasive techniques (contained in the acronym A R
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Persuasive techniques presentation + matching cards
Valentine's day love letter writing and coloring activities.
Children can use it for coloring and giving it to friends, teachers, family, and siblings on Valentine's Day. Designed with cute heart-shaped cartoons to help children's creativity. Teachers can use it as a game for children to practice their skills.Total 21 pages.
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K - 12th
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The Great Gatsby | Chapter 3 Games, Analysis Questions, & Lesson Plans
The Great Gatsby | Chapter 3 Games, Graphic Organizers, Analysis Activities, & Lesson PlansGatsby's having a party, old sport. And you're invited!Help students practice close reading skills in Chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby with fun games, activities, and free response questions.This Great Gatsby resource includes:Materials and Lesson Plans for Gatsby Party Bingo GameClose Reading Graphic Organizer for Theme DevelopmentFree Response QuestionsLesson Plan Procedures for UseBonus Analysis Quest
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Great Gatsby | Full Novel Lesson Plan & Activities Bundle
Frankenstein Argument Essay Differentiated Scaffolds, Vocab, Activity, Game CCSS
Students must decide: Who's the real monster--Frankenstein or his creature? Packed with 150+ pages of student and teacher-friendly resources!Here's what one 12th grade teacher said about the essay scaffold:"This resource was awesome. It was very cohesive, in-depth and easy to adapt for different skill levels. It worked very well and was exactly what I needed. I especially loved the word banks and sentence stems. Thank you!"This comprehensive resource guides students through the entire essay proc
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8th - 12th
STRATEGIES FOR WRITING IN SPANISH | LESSON PLAN FOR EXAMS AP, IB AND ADULT
Dear Teacher!Express your own ideas, opinions, and purpose are the central points of essays and presentations. This resource includes the main strategies for writing in Spanish for your classes!The lesson plan includes: +30 colorful slices to explain three strategies for writing in Spanish:# Storytelling and description# Compare and contrast# Conclude and summarize# And tasks for transition words practice!The presentation shows the meaning of each strategy and the differences between strategies
Essay Self/Peer Evaluation Card Game Printables
Print these essay self/peer-evaluation cards to have students cycle through and edit their own/a partner's essay before final submissions are due. I usually laminate them and hand one to each student at the beginning of an editing period, and then I will cycle through until each student has completed each card. There are also examples included on the back.
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6th - 10th
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