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Middle school creative writing games for GATE
Abandoned Places - Creative Writing Activity from Nonfiction (print + digital)
In this creative writing activity, students draw inspiration from a nonfiction article about ten real-world abandoned places! Students choose one as a setting for a piece of Flash Fiction. This is a great reading comprehension and creative writing activity for even the most reluctant readers! ✅ Nonfiction reading comprehension✅ Vocabulary in context✅ Differentiated creative writing activitiesYour Creative Writing from Nonfiction resource includes:Nonfiction reading about ten abandoned places (in
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7th - 10th
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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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ESCAPE ROOM Plot Elements: Fractured Fairy Tales & Creative Writing
This PLOT ELEMENTS ESCAPE ROOM breakout activity uses fractured fairy tales to teach and reinforce the elements of a plot. It is a fun, team building ADVENTURE that requires reading comprehension skills, understanding of plot elements, creative writing, inferencing, and problem-solving.
The adventure begins when YOU, the most awesome teacher in the history of the world, take the kids on a little trip to a publishing house. Things go a bit awry, and the kids have to save the day by rising to th
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5th - 9th
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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
Teambuilding Trivia Icebreaker Game 100 cards
This team building trivia icebreaker game asks students to work in pairs or small groups while they have one minute to list as many answer choices as possible after a prompt is read. Use for:✏️ Fun Fridays✏️ Brain Breaks✏️ Sub Plans/ Rewards after testing✏️ Classroom teambuilding✏️ Back to school icebreaker✏️ Extra time before the bellHow to Play: 1. The teacher reads a "List..." prompt to the class. For example, "List... Movies with a number in its title....GO!" 2. Students have 1 minute to
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6th - 8th
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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.
Grades:
5th - 12th
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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Creative Writing BINGO Interactive Bulletin Board EDITABLE Classroom Decor
Engage students with a unique, interactive bulletin board specifically designed for creative writing! This BINGO themed bulletin board encourages students to think critically and creatively as they work towards a goal of getting 5-in-a-row! I designed this resource for Extreme Makeover Classroom Edition and it was a HUGE success! With 25 innovative, unique creative writing prompts, students will fall in love with the art of writing. Also, it's a huge statement piece in a classroom-- with bright
Grades:
4th - 9th
5 Paragraph Essay Writing- EASIEST way to teach kids to organize their writing
A Best-Seller! Here are a few TpT Buyer reviews:"It's a small resource, but mighty. And extremely intuitive. In fact, I'd say that so far, this may be the best 5 paragraph essay resource I've used yet. Thanks! I would buy this again in a heartbeat. It is awesome. (16+ year teacher here!)""One of the best writing products I've ever purchased!""I used this with my 7th & 8th graders as yet another way to organize their writing. It helped the students that still did not know how to organize thei
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3rd - 9th
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Also included in: The Ultimate Writing Bundle (Grades 3-6)
ESCAPE ROOM ELA BUNDLE Team Building, Reading, Writing, Critical Thinking
From Back to School to End of Year, this breakout bundle includes interactive and immersive adventures. Each challenge addresses ELA standards in a fun and engaging way. Your students won't even realize how much they are learning, which is the BEST way to learn, isn't it?!Individually, the total value of these best-selling resources will be over $82.90, so this resource results in HUGE savings!WHAT IS INCLUDED?The bundle includes an entire year's worth of individual activities. There are 12, so
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5th - 9th
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IMPROV GAMES with IMPROV PROMPT CARDS BUNDLE (16 sets! Heaps of Improv Games!)
I have compiled DRAMA TRUNK improv cards and games for endless improv prompts. These versatile cards can be used in so many ways and are a MUST HAVE improvisation resource. THIS IMPROV BUNDLE INCLUDES:IMPROV SCENE STARTERS (here)ANIMALISTICS Characterisation Activities + Animal Family Cards (here)SOCIAL SITUATIONS Improv Cards and Improv Activities (here)SCENE THEMES Improvisation Cards and Improvisation Games (here)GROUP FREEZES Improv Cards and Teaching Activities (here)DRAMA SHOES Improvisati
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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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)
Animate A Story (Scratch Coding Project)
In this project, students will animate a story. This story could be anything. It could be an original creative piece they've written. It could be a story you're reading in class. It could even be a movie or moment in history that connects with their interests or topics/themes you're currently learning. Students will get to experience the connections between technology and writing, as they dive into computer programming and animation of their stories. Specific skills students will develop are: -
Grades:
5th - 12th
Also included in: Creative Coding Adventures: 4 Interactive Scratch Projects Bundle
A Recipe for Writing a Sonnet (like Shakespeare)
This is a graphic organizer that allows your students to write sonnets that are amazing. I have used this in both a Gifted 4th and 5th grade, and a regular 5th grade and the results were amazing in both. This clearly lays everything out...topic and structure. It can be used all the way up to high school!
Grades:
4th - 12th
Descriptive Writing Unit - Low-Prep Lesson Plans, Prompts, Sensory Word Lists
This descriptive writing mini unit is super quick to teach and will improve your students' descriptive writing instantly with descriptive writing prompts, sensory word lists, and more! It's got an engaging descriptive writing lesson plan that will launch your students into fabulous descriptive writing so they show, not tell, in addition to other resources you'll return to again and again. In this descriptive writing mini unit, you'll find graphic organizers that will support all learners, with t
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4th - 7th
Ice breaker Games - Back to School Icebreaker Bundle for Middle and High School
This back to school icebreaker bundle includes engaging ice breaker games for middle school and high school students! Based on popular classics, this bundle includes: “Speed-Meeting” icebreaker questions, “Matchmaker” partner pairing cards, and collaborative “Snowball Writing” prompts.⚡️ Save over 25% with the bundled discount! ⚡️Ice Breaker Games included with this Bundle:✏️ “Speed-Meeting” Icebreaker Questions for Teens - Color & Greyscale30 unique, engaging, and age-appropriate icebreake
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6th - 12th
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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
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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DRAMA GAMES + Lesson Activities for Elementary (Grades 4, 5 + 6)
A MUST HAVE resource for elementary school teachers who want to bring some drama into their class! This is a bundle of 16 Drama Trunk teaching resources for Grades 4, 5 and 6. It includes tons of drama games, drama activities + prompt drama cards (no thinking + no planning necessary). DRAMA TRUNK DRAMA CARDS really 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
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4th - 6th
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Show Don't Tell Descriptive Writing Game
Elevate Writing with the Show Don’t Tell Descriptive Writing Game!Transform your writing lessons with the Show Don’t Tell Descriptive Writing Game, a multisensory experience that makes learning to write descriptive paragraphs fun, engaging, and interactive. This game teaches players how to "show" rather than "tell" by using vivid adjectives, dynamic action verbs, expressive adverbs, and creative literary devices like similes, metaphors, and personification.Key FeaturesMultisensory Learning: Enga
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4th - 12th
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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)
ESCAPE ROOM Middle School ELA Test Prep Activity Rock the Test
Looking for a fun and interactive test prep activity? ROCK THE TEST ESCAPE ROOM is for you! Kids will use teamwork and a helpful (editable) test tip booklet, in addition to reading, writing, and problem solving skills. All you will have to do is watch and enjoy the activity. :) The adventure begins when YOU, the most awesome teacher in the history of the world, get your class free tickets to a rock concert. The only obstacle is that The Puzzle-Makers like their fans to figure out key details of
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5th - 9th
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