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7th grade writing-essays game pdfs
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
6th Grade Florida BEST PM3 BUNDLE Reading and Writing Tests Games Florida FAST
6th Grade Florida BEST Standards ELA - Test Prep Practice for Florida FAST - Are you ready for PM3 using Florida's new BEST reading and writing standards? This bundle has everything you need to prepare including reading and writing practice tests, task cards, worksheets, and games. Includes printable copies and Google Forms.Includes:Pacing GuidePrintable CopiesDigital Self-Grading Google Form Links6 Reading Tests (6 Passages and 103 Questions and Answers) Covering All Florida's B.E.S.T. Reading
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5th - 7th
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Research Writing Game and Activity for Evaluating Claims and Evidence
Do your students struggle to support their claims with logical evidence and credible sources? Do their papers feel more like a research soup than a logically organized argument? This engaging game and activity help students think critically about claims, evidence, sources, and organization.First, the class is split into two teams. One team is for chewing gum at school, while the other team is against it. The two teams compete in a relay race to collect cards with claims and evidence that support
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review
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
Evidence Debate Game for Middle School ELA
This creative and engaging game gives students valuable practice supporting their arguments with evidence.Our students are full of opinions, but without support to back up their arguments, they cannot build a logical case - one of the most essential skills in writing an essay.Thankfully, this game makes supporting evidence both engaging and fun.So how does it work?First, you pose a debate topic to the class and split your students into two teams: "for" and "against."Then you give both teams time
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6th - 8th
Also included in: ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review
Logical Fallacies Game for Middle School ELA
Don't let your students be fooled by faulty logic! Help them learn to identify and avoid common logical fallacies with this fun and engaging game.In this game, students draw game cards with logical fallacies, definitions, and examples. The first player to get a matching set of 3 is the winner!Each example card features a sports-related example that will appeal to middle-school students. Some are ridiculous . . . and some might seem just a little too familiar. After all, logical fallacies are all
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review
Essay Types Identification Worksheet or Sort Expository Argumentative Narrative
This activity helps students identify different types of essay types based off prompts. The three types covered are: Expository, Argumentative, Narrative. I have included an anchor chart and 15 examples for students to identify. There are two formats: worksheet (2 pages) are sorting activity. There are both color and black and white versions of everything. INCLUDES:*Chart explaining each type- Expository, Argumentative, Narrative*15 Examples*Worksheet Format or Sorting Game*For sorting game,
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5th - 7th
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Informative Essay Writing Practice - Body Paragraph - Writing Informative Essays
Even though you've carefully taught your middle schoolers how to write a body paragraph for an informative essay, some of your students just don't seem to get it. Use these interactive and engaging activities that will save you tons of time!Objective: Students will participate in four activities that will facilitate understanding of the concept of informative essay body paragraphs.What's included:✅Prompt✅Text Set of 2 nonfiction texts✅Essay Skeleton✅4 activities: 1. Highlighting/underlining
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6th - 8th
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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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Expository Essays: Match the Support to the Thesis/Controlling Idea
This TIERED/LEVELED activity includes four sets of manipulatives. I recommend printing on cardstock and laminating for reuse.
The students will match expository essay thesis statements to the most effective and appropriate supporting paragraph.
Set one, three, and four have six pieces and set two (advanced) has eight.
Before the pieces are cut out, they correspond (are in order) so the teacher can create a key, if necessary.
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4th - 8th
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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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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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Argument Writing Four Corners Game- 6th, 7th, 8th Grade Argument Writing
Need an interactive way to start your Argument Writing Unit? Check out Argument Writing Four Corners Game – an ideal tool for middle school teachers to kickstart lively discussions centered around argument writing. How it Works:The game revolves around the four corners posters classroom: Agree, Disagree, Strongly Agree, and Strongly Disagree. Accompanied by an easy to use slideshow, teachers present statements to the class. Students are prompted to move to the corner that aligns with their stanc
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6th - 8th
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FREE 360 Digital Escape Room Middle School ELA Activities
Want to try a 360 digital escape room with your ELA students, but would like see how they work before purchasing? Or, maybe you would just like to check out the quality of DiGiGoods Resources? Grab this free one I created for you to explore! You can wander virtually and click links to make sure this digital experience is compatible with your tech specs and suitable for your students’ needs. 360 Escape Rooms are a blast! Students become fully immersed in the audio and visual spectacles, clever
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5th - 8th
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Strong Verb Memory Game
This Verb Game reinforces the use of strong, vivid verbs in writing and is perfect for centers or small groups. Students will gain knowledge of higher level vocabulary as they link everyday common verbs with their more vivid, stronger counterparts. Two separate versions are offered or, as a challenge, both games can be laid out together and played as one. Game comes with cut-out cards, optional card back pattern, directions, and answer key. Appropriate for middle or high school students. This
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4th - 8th
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Also included in: Strong, Vivid Verbs Discount 3-Pack Bundle
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
Text Dependent Analysis Bingo! RACES Review
This is a fun way to review TDAs! Students will play BINGO using everything they have learned about TDA terminologyTDA structureTDA processThis resource includes 5 different BINGO cards BINGO call out listI hope you and your students enjoy this review game as much as mine did!
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3rd - 8th
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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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