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High school creative writing games
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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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
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
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4th - 9th
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)
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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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 i
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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
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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Show Don't Tell Descriptive Writing Game
Show Don’t Tell Descriptive Writing Game is a multisensory game that helps players learn how to write descriptive paragraphs in a fun, engaging and interactive way. Players learn how to "show" instead of "tell" the reader with the use adjectives, action verbs, adverbs, similes, metaphors and personification to create thick, rich descriptions. It is available as a downloadable, printable PDF.
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4th - 12th
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Five Earth's Spheres Lesson Plan and Card Sort Activity
This is such an interactive way to engage your students and motivate them to learn about the Earth's Spheres! Inspired by this micro teaching lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTObLjp6X8QI have used this activity with my high school biology and environmental science classes. It helps refresh the earth's spheres within the earth's systems lesson of the ecology unit! They LOVE it!I had the necessity to create these because our book teaches about the Cryosphere as the fifth sphere on Earth.Th
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1st - 11th
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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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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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
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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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
180 Language Arts Bell-Ringers -- Writing, Critical Thinking, and More!
This product contains 180 bell-ringers for Language Arts, with thirty different types of activities. Those activities range from SAT-vocabulary-based crosswords and madlibs, analyzing and creating the end of poems, responding to pictures, YouTube videos, and startling statistics, and writing, writing, writing!
This is a great way to settle your students in for an engaging class. Because the activities are different every day, they don't get old or boring, and students never know what to expect.
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6th - 12th
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Improv drama lesson plans : SOCIAL SITUATIONS improvisation cards and activities
Improv drama lesson plan - social situations improvisation cards and activities. These cards have been created for use with various improvisation games and exercises include situation based improv prompts based on 'social situations''. Use the cards for spontaneous improv games where a prompt is needed or otherwise task players to come up with scenes or monologues based on the cards. Use these fun 'Social Situation' cards (which act as an improvisation setting) with the following suggested impro
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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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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Creative Writing Jenga: Grades 6-12
If you teach narrative writing and are looking for a new and exciting way to engage your students, look no further! Your students will LOVE practicing their creative writing skills while playing this interactive Jenga game. Whether you're playing as a whole class or in small groups, this resource will leave a lasting impression on students.This (editable) Creative Writing Jenga game is the perfect way to strengthen students’ skills in a fun and engaging way.What's included?Teacher directions for
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6th - 12th
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