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Middle school creative writing games under $5
How Well Do You Know Your Teacher? (Fun End of Year Activity)
This is a fun, no-prep end of year activity to see how well (or not well) your students know you! The students get to come up with creative responses to fun and engaging prompts.Depending on the age of your students, you can pick and choose which slides to assign. For the older kids, I've included prompts related to social media.
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3rd - 12th
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Personification Spot It & Steal It Game
Personification will be a breeze to teach with this engaging, hands-on game filled with fun illustrations! The visuals make it easy for students to understand personification... this will make them more likely to use personification in their own writing!Play the game as a class... or keep it as a center! Use the visuals to introduce the topic; for review; or put them up on a bulletin board for a visual reminder... the options are endless!Take a look at the preview to see all the cards included i
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Valentine's Day Bundle
Scattergories Kids Version
Our favorite classroom game is SCATTERGORIES! This classic game has kid friendly topics such as "items in your backpack", "games played in P.E.", "lunch choices", and "famous book characters". Scattergories is the perfect team building activity to help students work on social-emotional group work skills such as listening to others ideas, cooperating, compromising, communicating with others, and showing good sportsmanship during class games. This game is also great for small groups in a social
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K - 8th, Staff
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Narrative/Memoir Writing Brainstorming/Generating Ideas: Memory BINGO Activity
Help your writers generate ideas for writing a narrative, memoir, or scene with this interactive "Memory Bingo" game that will get students sharing and collecting memories!During this activity, students will use a list of 50 prompts to add various memories to a BINGO board. During BINGO, students will share memories and add more to their treasure trove of ideas after hearing their classmates' memories. After the activity, students will reflect on their top 5 memories and begin writing about one.
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5th - 12th
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)
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)
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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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
Alliteration Game for Middle School
This fun alliteration photo hunt helps middle school students become more aware of alliteration and how to use it in their own descriptive writing.Literary devices make students’ writing crisp, clear, and captivating – and alliteration is one of the simplest but most often overlooked devices of them all. This fun game gives students the opportunity to find examples of alliteration in a variety of random photo collages. Students are pushed to find as many examples as possible, and when time run
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Fun Descriptive Writing Activities for Middle School
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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Valentine's Day Games and Activities, Valentine Warm-Ups and Puzzles
Ready to get your students’ brains “bursting” with new skills? Brain Bursts are fun and creative activities designed to improve thinking and processing. This resource includes 5 different types of Brain Bursts with 40 different creative tasks. Each one has a Valentine’s Day theme. They are designed to help improve memory encoding, information processing, and listening comprehension. Since each activity is designed to take a short amount of time, they work great as warm-ups, lesson extenders, or
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4th - 7th
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Strong, Vivid Verbs Discount 3-Pack Bundle
This 3-Pack Verb Unit includes three of my products combined into one economical unit. The triple packet includes the Verb Chart from Part 1; Lesson Plans, Worksheets, and Answer Keys from Part 2; and the Strong Verb Memory Game. Together, these three will strengthen your students' vocabulary as well as encourage and instruct strong verb use in students' s writing. Plenty of practice and fun in this product!Click on the links below to see the 3 separate productsUse Strong, Vivid Verbs Part 1Us
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6th - 10th
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Anecdotes Explained: Infer purpose, create your own, & STAAR-style questions
Anecdotes can be tricky for students to understand! Use this fun resource to help students infer the purpose of anecdotes and write a few of their own in a solo game using a die. Then assess students' understanding with a short reading selection with STAAR-style questions that follow (including a constructed response.)
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3rd - 6th
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Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Similes, and Metaphors Figurative Language Activity
Are you looking to make reviewing figurative language fun? Do you want to engage and motivate your students in their writing? Then download this no prep Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Similes, and Metaphors Activity! With this individual or team-building dice game, your students will be having so much fun they will forget they are learning! To play, students roll a die and find the corresponding instructions. Then, they create their own sentences using figurative language! The first student to comp
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4th - 7th
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Roll a Mystery Creative Writing Activity
Get your students excited about writing with this engaging creative writing activity! Roll a Mystery Creative Writing Activity helps your students write their own mystery using the help of a little luck. Students will roll for their main story elements, brainstorm, and then get writing! This activity even works digitally with the help of a handy dice script. (Click here for a quick preview!) This resource includes a print-and-go PDF version as well if you would rather use traditional dice.Your s
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: Creative Writing Activities Bundle - Roll a Story
Bean Boozled: Descriptive Writing Game
Here's to hoping that your students don't get Bean Boozled in ELA. During this activity, students will practice three different writing strategies to spice up their vocabulary, sentence structure, and use of imagery in descriptive writing. This unit puts the popular Bean Boozled game to use where the students will be drawing cards (and praying for a card without a star) to select jelly beans. If they get a Bean Boozled card, the students must spin for their jelly bean. In this game it could be o
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3rd - 8th
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Christmas Digital Breakout for Figurative Language
Have fun just before Christmas break in your ELA classroom with this no-prep digital Christmas activity. Your students will solve 3 engaging ELA Christmas activities about figurative language & write their own examples of figurative language too! ⭐Want more holiday digital breakouts? Check out the Holiday Digital Breakouts Bundle to save money and get more breakouts!⭐This Christmas activity can be used for online, virtual, or distance learning.This Christmas Figurative Language Digital Break
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Holiday ELA Activities Bundle
Public Speaking -- Impromptu Speeches: Fake Words
Each slide contains a prompt with a fake word. Students have to give an impromptu speech responding to the prompt as if the fake word is a real thing. I use this as an ice-breaker in my public speaking class, but it could also be used as a creative writing assignment. I do this assignment in public speaking within the first week of the class so students can gain confidence in speaking and start working on dropping filler words. There are 36 different prompts in this PowerPoint plus two slides f
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7th - 12th
What Exactly Is It?!?! Advisory Game Homeroom Activity Riddles Language Arts
What Exactly Is It?!?! is a game or activity that has students guessing common items based on elaborate descriptions! This is a FUN activity to play with your Homeroom/Advisory students or if you find you have a few minutes at the end of a class - my students really love this activity and ask to play it whenever we have a few minutes! TWENTY Rounds of riddles included! This slide deck includes TWO different versions of this activity: Slides 3 - 47: A more advanced version of this activity bec
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5th - 10th
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Creative writing - My strange animal
Here you have 2 examples to develop our students' creativity and writing skill.The first one was for my 2nd graders, and they used the structure It's got / it hasn't got and the vocabulary of head, body, legs, tail and wings. The second one was for my 3rd graders and they used the structures It's got / It hasn't got, It can / It can't and the vocabulary of head, body, legs, wings, tail, scales, paws, whiskers...I hope you like it!
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1st - 6th
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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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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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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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