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8th grade writing-expository games
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
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind- A Complete Study
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Young Reader Edition is a compelling story about William who innovates an idea to help bring electricity to his small community in Malawi. His story is inspiring, and TRUE. This story is sure to touch the lives of your students! We have created EVERYTHING you need for a complete study of this book. This product includes:-An engaging virtual field trip-Chapter comprehension questions for each chapter-Three quizzes with answer keys-A comprehensive end of book exam wi
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6th - 9th
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Emily Dickinson Bundle: Poetry Stations, Pennants, Analysis, Style
Looking for unique, engaging resources to teach Emily Dickinson's poetry? This bundle has you totally covered with a fun biography mini escape about her life, poem stations, pennant creation, and poetry/style analysis.WHAT'S INCLUDED . . .All resources in this bundle contain: ⭐Step-by-Step Instructions ⭐Bell Ringer(s)⭐Answer Keys⭐Common Core ELA Aligned✅ Resource 1: EMILY DICKINSON BIO MINI ESCAPE► 3 Puzzles about Emily Dickinson► Optional biographical poem task (example given)► Printable clue
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7th - 12th
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Fun Persuasive Activities BUNDLE - Rhetoric & Argumentative Writing Activity
Practice persuasion techniques with a set of 5 fun persuasion activities! Students will use rhetorical appeals, rhetorical devices, and/or claim and counterclaim as they convince their target audience! This bundle includes 5 games: 1. "Save this Law" - Students develop an argument for saving a silly law and present to the class. 2. "Complaint Letter" - Students write a fictional complaint letter to share the story behind a faulty object bought with unexpected results.3. "Salesperson" - Students
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7th - 10th
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Essay Hooks Bundle for Writing Introductions | Lesson | Practice | Activities
Your students are full of good ideas. They have strong opinions. They know what to say. They just . . . don't know how to start. Sound familiar?Use the Q.U.A.C.K. acronym to help your students learn 5 effective hooks to start their essays and grab their reader's attention:QuoteUnexpected FactAnecdoteControversial StatementKidding AroundThis bundle includes:A PowerPoint lesson that teaches your students how to write an effective essay hook and introduction5 Eye-catching Q.U.A.C.K. posters with ex
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6th - 8th
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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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Argument Writing Introduction & Argumentative Essay Escape Room Reading Activity
Argument Writing Introduction & Argumentative Essay Escape Room Reading Activity: This argument writing reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of argument writing. The detailed presentation introduces the 5 main parts of an argument like claims, reasons, evidence, counterclaims and rebuttals with clear examples. The highlight of the resource is the engaging escape room-style challenge, where students read an original n
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: READING CHALLENGE FULL YEAR PROGRAM ESCAPE CHALLENGES | PRINT VERSION
Essay Bundle for Middle School | Prompts | Rubrics | Worksheets | Activities
Middle school essays don't have to be boring, intimidating, or the end of your personal life. In fact, these essays can become some of your students' favorite memories from middle school while you are free to make memories of your own!Twelve guided essays walk your students through the essay-writing process, step by step, while engaging games and activities bring your classroom to life with fun, laughter, and a whole lot of learning.These resources will help your students . . .⭐️ Develop a solid
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6th - 8th
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RACE Writing Review Google Slides Game and Worksheets
R.A.C.E. Writing Review Game and WorksheetsRestate Answer Cite Explain! Teaching R.A.C.E. with a little fun! This is a great, no prep, review game to use while teaching the R.A.C.E. writing strategy. You will also get a Racecar passage and R.A.C.E. practice worksheet.The Google Slides game covers all parts of the R.A.C.E. writing strategy.The Google Slides game also includes bonus questions reviewing how to restate a question while writing. A fun, easy to use, Google Slides game to help teach a
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3rd - 12th
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Supporting Claims with Evidence | Lesson | Examples | Activity
Convincing our students to support their claims with evidence can feel like losing battle sometimes. Often our students come to us with a very vague understanding of what support really means. They need concrete examples and plenty of practice in order to feel confident supporting claims in their essays. This lesson, poster set, and active game use a food-themed acronym (B.A.G.E.L.S.) to help students remember the types of evidence and reasoning they can use to support claims in their writing.B
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6th - 8th
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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
★ Printable ★ Resources & Citations Customizable Escape Room / Breakout Game
Looking for a fun way to get your students talking, moving, and collaborating? Look no further!This game was designed to help students learn about creating citations and finding resources.This breakout does require some work on the purchasing teacher’s end before it can be used. The breakout was created for resources that are accessible through my library, so on the guide, I’ve listed exactly what you need to find in your library/databases to customize the clue. Four of the five clues require mi
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Customizable Bundle of 11 ELA (Physical) Escape Room / Breakout Games
Sentence Writing
Tired of reading short, simple sentences? This dice game helps students with elaboration writing! Students race against the timer to elaborate by adding interesting words & phrases to sentence starters. This fun resource teaches students to use elaboration to improve their sentence writing. This packet includes the following:FUN, PRINTABLE GameSeparate Teacher and Student DirectionsProjector Slides for Teacher to Use During the GameTHREE Different Rounds of PlayA Blank Set of Sentence Star
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5th - 8th
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Writing STAAR Review Game 2.0- Secondary ELAR
Based on my bestselling Writing STAAR Review Game, this is another Jeopardy-type review game that you can use with your students in the days before the writing test as an overview of skills. It can be edited for use in any grade that has a writing test. The topics covered:- Dictionary Skills- Editing & Revision- Essay Scoring- Spelling- Grab Bag (miscellaneous questions).Check out my other games:Figurative Language Review GameLiterary Elements Review GameReading STAAR Review GamePoetry Revie
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Middle School Grammar Game Bundle- over 25% off individual prices
Essay Football: Revision GAME for Secondary ELA
Want to play a revision GAME to take peer feedback to the next level? Play Essay Football to constructively pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses of each student’s essay!In this game, 2 players use a system of penalties and compliments to gain yards across the field and score touchdowns. You can either keep game play simple, or you can use the optional scoreboard or playbook graphic organizers to help students keep track of what mistakes they made in the essay (so they know what to go home and r
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7th - 10th
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Virginia English Writing SOL Blackjack Game Review: PRINT & GO! EOC/8th
This simple engaging activity uses Blackjack to encourage review of SOL Writing skills and exposure to possible prompts students may receive on the test.
Depending upon the number of the hand dealt, the HOW TO PLAY task card tells each student what s/he should do for a specific prompt!
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Printable task cards (2 per page)
Procedure
YOU WILL NEED A DECK OF CARDS (or more) DEPENDING UPON CLASS SIZE
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6th - 12th
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Paragraph Scramble Game and Text Structure
-assemble puzzle strips to organize paragraph-seven (7) paragraphs with text structure described-answer key included-indentation of paragraphs useful for hinting and reinforcement of structure-includes concept that change in quotations indicate paragraph change -narrative/chronological, procedural/chronological, emphatic, spatial, descriptive by imagery, persuasive
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5th - 12th
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Avengers Theme - Revising Coloring Page OR GAME | Commas - Fragments | #Gamified
High-rigor can still mean high-engagement! In reviewing data from our benchmarks, I noticed my kids needed more practice identifying fragments, comma splices, and comma mistakes with sentences that actually use high-level vocabulary--lengthy sentences with statistics and numbers and prepositional and appositive phrases. My kids know dates and lists, but still struggle to eliminate errors on tests. And, of course, they are bored of worksheets and test prep yet obsessed with The Avengers. So... he
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Top 20 TeachRamos {Full Year BUNDLE} - Every skill in 8th Grade Reading!
Intro to MLA Works Cited - Lesson Pack
What makes teaching MLA Works Cited format more interesting and hands-on? Cool museums! Sports metaphors! Puzzle manipulatives! This teaching bundle will make it happen for your students!This pack contains two awesome MLA teaching resources. I usually do both of these activities within the same 90-minute class period when I first introduce MLA citation format. The engaging slideshow lesson (with guided notes) gets students thinking and relating MLA format to concepts that they already understand
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8th - 12th
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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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AVID Argumentative Writing - Thesis Statement Teaching Slides and Activity
Are you an AVID teacher or English Language arts teacher? Need to explain how to write a thesis statement in an argumentative essay to middle or high school students? In this product you will find everything you need to help your students craft their thesis statements!What You Get:✏️5 teach slides✏️"make it better" activity direction slide✏️7 bad thesis statements✏️7 better thesis statement examples✏️argumentative writing prompt✏️21 argumentative writing topic ideas✏️4 steps guiding students in
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5th - 8th
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Class Research Games
Need a fun way to get your students practicing their research skills? This set of 10 games will take your class from thesis statements all the way to references all while having fun.This set of games covers research skills like:Building 3-prong thesis statementsUsing specific search termsAssessing the credibility of sourcesExpanding on relevant evidenceChecking the efficacy of research paragraphsCreating accurate APA citationsChecking APA formattingYou'll get fun class games like:Thesis SwapSour
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6th - 12th
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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
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