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Free middle 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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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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Also included in: Short Films Hair Love Digital & Printable INFERENCE PLOT THEME CONFLICT
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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FREE SAMPLE - Argumentative Essay Block Puzzle Manipulative
This free sample assignment from the Argumentative Essay Bundle challenges students to label the parts of an Argumentative Essay by copy-pasting. It's a fun, interactive way for students to learn Argumentative Essay structure, especially for our kinesthetic learners! An Argumentative Essay model/exemplar is also provided for students to reference as they work.
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6th - 8th
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Play and learn with CHRISTMAS VOCABULARY Word Search
Play and learn with CHRISTMAS VOCABULARY Word Search and Challenge your students to some seasonal fun with this truly Christmas word search puzzle.Words are hidden in all directions, making this document a great way to stimulate students. A happy little winter holiday fun activity to take home and enjoy.We love FEEDBACK! • Log in to your Teachers Pay Teachers account. • Click on the drop down menu “My TpT”. • Select “My Purchases”. • Choose ratings and leave feedback. • Know that
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2nd - 6th
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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Argument Analysis Frenzy
Are your students having trouble trying to figure out what goes into an argument essay? Are you searching for quality argumentative models to provide your students? Maybe your students are toward the end of the argument unit and you want to play a review game where students grade an argument essay, and you want to formatively assess if they can find the components of an argument essay. Well you've come to the write place (get it? Write...). Anyway, this game will require students to search
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6th - 8th
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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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The Amazing Writing Chips
The objective of this game is to teach your students the connection between evidence and elaboration in writing. Additionally it will teach your students the importance of choosing relevant evidence, that is evidence that directly supports a thesis or a claim.It has been written for 6th grade, but could be adapted to any grade level.Game file includes:Student DirectionsTeacher Instructional Guide (with suggested objectives, helpful hints, and pacing)Game Cards (Some thesis statements are tied t
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6th - 8th
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Tell It X 2 Game Card
Tell It X 2 Game Card from the book Teach Writing Without a Pencil
An activity for expository and personal narrative writing, this activity brings fun back to writing.
Download Printable valued at $2.99 - Price:$.00 free for single user copyright license
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1st - 6th, Staff
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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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NEVER ENDING STORY! (To Teach the Elements of Plot)
Use this creative activity to engage your class to aide in teaching the 5 elements of plot. This activity is extremely engaging and can be used in a multitude of settings.
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4th - 8th
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Vivid Vocabulary Game
Do your students use tired words in their writing? This game will encourage students to use vivid vocabulary to liven up their essays. It's also a great activity to use when planning for a substitute because it incorporates cooperative learning, content standards, and fun in an easy to follow plan.
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3rd - 6th
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Writing Cards
These cards were specifically created for elementary aged students in my resource program. Writing is very difficult for my students. Each card in this set comes with a pronunciation hint (fic.tion), definition of the writing genre, and tons of writing prompts. Students can match type with definition or teachers can use writing prompts as a way to check for student understanding. This is a great primer to introduce a new writing style or can be converted into a fun matching game during a writing
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4th - 8th, Staff
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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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Common Core Aligned Writing and Research Daily Practice
This power point reviews those hard to cover ELA standards in a quick, easy format. Each slide contains a question, multiple choice answer, as well as the CCSS labeled and linked. You can use this for a mini-lesson at the beginning of each class or a review game. The standards can easily be adjusted up to 6th grade or down to 4th grade. This power point covers four and a half weeks of daily bell work with labeled standards. Impress your administration by being on your game at the beginning of ev
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4th - 6th
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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