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Middle school english language arts games
Context Clues Packet Using Tier Vocabulary
Grab your detective hats and start the Clue-Searching fun! Research tells us that teaching vocabulary word by word doesn’t cut it anymore. In addition, state tests are becoming increasingly difficult for our students. We need to give our students strategies to determine unknown meanings. Using context clues is an evidence-supported strategy. The words included in this packet were specifically chosen. They focus on Tier 2 vocabulary words, (words occurring most frequently in our language and text
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1st - 8th
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Like Boggle™? You'll LOVE this ELA Word Work Game for centers or fast finishers!
These 52 Word-O-Rama (same game as Boggle™) word work task cards and Google slides are not only fun, but will also help students improve letter pattern and phonics recognition skills, spelling, and vocabulary.These cards/slides can be used in so many ways:At a literacy centerFor fast finishersWith partners or small groups (use the same card, score only unique words)As morning work (display for the whole class)Or any time you have a few spare minutesThese word work games can help students improve
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Word O Rama | Similar to Boggle | Complete Bundle
Interactive Game Boards | Boost Engagement With Any Lesson
Boost engagement and excitement with these interactive game boards using sticky notes. These game boards can be used with any subject or lesson. They are perfect for review or test prep. Students can work as teams, partners, or as a whole class. Use your already printed worksheet or workbook and add these game boards to excite and motivate your students! This is the perfect way to spice up a review lesson or use for test prep. ***PowerPoint and PDF versions included. *These game boards were desi
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2nd - 8th
Also included in: Interactive Game Bundle | Student Engagement
Figurative Language Game Show Test Prep Reading Review & Digital Game
Take ELA review days from dull to dazzling with this Jeopardy-style classroom game! This highly engaging Figurative Language Game Show PowerPoint makes practicing figurative language something that students are EXCITED to do! My class CHEERS when they see this game in the plans. Students will be listening to your every word as they work hard to earn points for their team. It’s a win-win for you and your students: you have a no-prep activity that practices important standards and kids will have
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3rd - 7th
End of the Year Break Activities Digital Resources Mystery Game - Team Building
Are you ready to watch reading comprehension skills skyrocket before the end of the year break?! Students will work together to solve the mystery AND practice a variety of academic skills including; inferencing, critical thinking, problem solving, reading comprehension, and much more! The material is so fun and engaging, students won't even know they are actually learning! This activity can be used anytime of year and is a fantastic way to get students excited about learning.⏳ Gameplay: 90 min
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5th - 9th
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End of the Year Escape Room Zombie Teacher Breakout Game Activity
Escape Room Team Builder - Zombie Teacher Classroom Breakout Game Activity: Use this creative and fun end of the year escape room team builder activity to help foster classroom community and improve critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The teacher has transformed into a zombie, and students must decode puzzles, riddles, and challenges to get the ingredients to turn them back into a human! This can be used in English class as it incorporates some ELA skills (spelling, homophones), but ca
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7th - 10th
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Nonfiction Text Structure Game Show | Test Prep Reading Review Game
Take ELA review days from dull to dazzling with this Jeopardy-style classroom game! This highly engaging Text Structure Game Show PowerPoint activity makes practicing text structure something that students are EXCITED to do! My class CHEERS when they see this game in the plans. Students will be listening to your every word as they work hard to earn points for their team. It’s a win-win for you and your students: you have a no-prep activity that practices important standards and kids will have
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Game Show ALL ACCESS Bundle | Math & Reading Review Games for Test Prep
BRAIN TEASERS VOL. 1 – Logic, Word Sense, Puzzles, Lateral Thinking – Fun Stuff
Entertain and challenge your teens with this compelling collection of brain-twisting presentation slides in PDF & Google Slides format. There are many different ways you might want to use these 76 slides (38 questions + 38 answer key slides) in your classroom, including:1. Use as a routine bell-ringer activity to begin class one day each week. I use these as Brain Teaser Tuesdays (I enjoy alliteration), but they’ll work great any day of the week.2. Use them as a sponge activity to soak up th
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8th - 11th, Adult Education, Staff
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Would You Rather Sampler - Fun Questions for Discussion, Writing Prompts, & More
Dive into writing prompts, classroom discussion, and more with our exclusive sampler from Would You Rather Questions!!These 18 digital or print Would You Rather questions are great for discussion, class polls, writing prompts, language building, facilitating higher-level thinking, brain breaks, building community, and more! This sampler gives you a taste of our comprehensive Would You Rather resource that promises to make learning engaging and effective.Try before you buy!Purchase this sampler f
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2nd - 9th
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Figurative Language Escape Room Activity - Literary Devices Breakout Review
Figurative Language Escape Room Activity - Literary Devices Breakout Review: Help your students understand figurative language with this highly engaging interactive escape room breakout activity! Students will circulate the classroom, visiting stations and completing puzzles and challenges related to the following figurative language and literary devices: metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, oxymoron, pun, idiom, and allusion.How The Figurative Language Escap
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7th - 9th
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Would You Rather Questions + Digital Resources - Morning Meeting, Brain Breaks
These 204 digital or print Would You Rather questions (AKA This or That) are fun activities that can be used for morning meetings, brain breaks, fast finishers, transition times, and more! They're a great tool for discussion, class polls, writing prompts, language building, facilitating higher-level thinking, building community, and more!These last the whole year!!WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:204 Question Cards (prints 6 to a page)Black-lineColorList of QuestionsDIGITAL:3 Google Slides Versions - vo
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Writing Prompts Task Card Bundle 764 Cards including Would You Rather
Theme Game Show | Find the Theme | Teaching Theme | ELA Test Prep Reading Review
Take ELA review days from dull to dazzling with this Jeopardy-style classroom game! This highly engaging Theme Game Show PowerPoint activity makes the skill of finding the theme something that students are EXCITED to do! My class CHEERS when they see this game in the plans. Students will be listening to your every word as they work hard to earn points for their team. It’s a win-win for you and your students: you have a no-prep activity that practices important standards and kids will have FUN
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Game Show ALL ACCESS Bundle | Math & Reading Review Games for Test Prep
Word and Logic Puzzles Escape Room Activity With Digital Lock Option
In this engaging escape room activity, teams work together to solve the word puzzles and logic puzzles using critical thinking skills to discover codes to open the lock. Students love the fun of an escape room game, and you will love that this low-prep activity gets them thinking as they solve the puzzles and clues! ⭐️ How does the escape room work? (Click the PREVIEW link above and watch the VIDEO for a closer look at this activity!)In this escape room activity, students will solve 4 different
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
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Musical Chairs Learning Activity For Any Subject
Engage all your learners with this twist of Musical Chairs! This activity will guarantee participation and engagement from all your students! Get your students up and moving and reviewing/practicing skills in a fun way!Select a template and each student will move around the room to the music and when the music stops, they will fill in the boxes. This will continue until all boxes are filled. Nobody gets out, everyone wins while they're learning! This is a great review activity and to hold all st
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3rd - 6th
BRAIN TEASERS 4-Pack Bundle, Logic, Word Sense, Puzzles, Lateral Thinking – Fun!
Whether you need bell-ringer presentation slides or just want to occasionally mess with your students’ minds when you have a few unused minutes at the end of a class period, this four volume set of Brain Teasers has everything you need to keep your students working hard and thinking deeply. There are LOTS of ways you could use this collection of 152 questions in both PDF & Google Slides format (304 slides – the question is on the first slide and the answer with an eye-catching image is on th
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8th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Main Idea Game Show | Find the Main Idea | ELA Test Prep Reading Review Game
Take ELA review days from dull to dazzling with this Jeopardy-style classroom game! This highly engaging Main Idea Game Show PowerPoint activity makes the skill of finding the main idea of a paragraph something that students are EXCITED to do! My class CHEERS when they see this game in the plans. Students will be listening to your every word as they work hard to earn points for their team. It’s a win-win for you and your students: you have a no-prep activity that practices important standards
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Game Show ALL ACCESS Bundle | Math & Reading Review Games for Test Prep
Parts of Speech Game Worksheets Noun Verb Adjective Adverb Pronoun Preposition
Get your students excited to practice different parts of speech with these no-prep grammar games worksheets! This parts of speech games bundle contains over 90 games to help students review nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions! Your students will LOVE when you pull out these grammar games to use for practice in your ELA/reading centers! Included in this bundle of parts of speech games:⭐️All Types of Nouns Games - 13 games for reviewing different types of n
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3rd - 6th
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5th Grade ELA Review Game Show 5th Grade Reading Test Prep End of Year ELA
This fun, interactive 5th grade Jeopardy style ELA review game will have your students begging for more activities just like it! Get ready for 5th grade reading test prep and even STAAR review with the exciting, easy to use Razzle Dazzle Reading Game Show.Please click on the PREVIEW button above to see how the game works!Click HERE for the 3rd Grade ELA Review Game.Click HERE for the 4th Grade ELA Review Game.See ALL the Jeopardy-Style Review Games HERE.This ELA review activity is super fun and
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4th - 6th
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Jeopardy Template Google Slides & PowerPoint Test Prep Game (Keep Scores)
This template is different from the others because you can keep team scores! All you have to do is add questions to whatever topic you cover in class. It is also different from most others because the value amount will disappear after it has been clicked, preventing a question from being asked again. This is compatible with any version of PowerPoint and can be used for any topic in class.Update: This now includes a Jeopardy Template for Google Slides. A score feature is not available for th
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PreK - 12th
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BOGGLE Boards with Answer Keys
50 ready to use BOGGLE boards; just print and go!
Answer keys are included for each board, so students can independently check their work. Every board has more than 70+ words (most have 100+).
Ways to use BOGGLE:
- Daily 5 Word Work time
- Literacy Center
- Early finishers
- Spelling/Word Work Homework
- Rainy Day Indoor Recess Challenge
- Morning Warm-up
- Buddy Classroom Activity
Consider a BOGGLE Bulletin Board to display the letters for the whole class to see at once. Even better, Bun
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: BOGGLE Board Bundle
Getting to Know You | Four Corners Game | ESL Activity | Back to School
Four Corners is an activity that gets students up and out of their seats. This 4 Corners game is a fun "Getting to Know You" activity, perfect for the beginning of the year and throughout. It can also double as an engaging class warm-up activity! Created for beginning and intermediate English learners, thirty differentiated slides with visual supports provide ample question choices to suit your class needs. Three levels of questions are included, with ten slides for each level. Project a questio
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5th - 8th
Main Ideas and Supporting Details Escape Room | Reading Comprehension
Will your class escape in time? Try this escape room style game with your 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students today! This game is perfect for reviewing main idea and details. Grab a copy for state testing or end of the year review and see why thousands of teachers are talking about this escape room activity. **This game is designed for upper elementary. The clues and puzzles are more intense, and the reading passages are 3 paragraphs, as opposed to one. A COMPLETELY DIGITAL VERSION OF THIS GAME HAS B
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3rd - 6th
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ESL Writing Curriculum & Activities | ESL Grammar Worksheets & Games
Transform your ESL teaching experience with our ESL Writing Intervention program! Bursting with engaging, interactive activities and games, this all-encompassing writing curriculum provides a systematic approach that empowers ESL students to master writing skills.The ESL Writing Intervention program is meticulously crafted to present a foundational approach to teaching writing. The program is structured into ten units, each targeting different aspects of writing. The units are designed to build
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1st - 6th
CHRISTMAS Escape Room (Activities, Trivia & Puzzle Games for Students)
There are five Christmas escape room-type (trivia) challenges included in this file. Each activity can be completed individually or in conjunction with one another, depending on the time available in your planning. The challenges could be used as individual, pair or small group activities. The puzzles and games are designed to promote communication, cooperation and problem-solving skills. A detailed and thorough teacher instruction page has been included, which provides differentiated instructio
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5th - 12th
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Importance of learning English language arts
English language arts (ELA) concepts — reading, writing, listening, and speaking — empower students to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners. They are the foundation for all other types of learning as students must rely on ELA skills to master content from other subject areas and communicate what they’ve learned.
Strong reading skills can help students make sense of written content, and gather information for further analysis. Writing skills can help students articulate their ideas, construct arguments, and synthesize information. And speaking and listening skills empower students to clearly present their ideas, participate in group discussions, and collaborate with their classmates. This is why teaching English language arts is critically important for student’s success in school and beyond.
Benefits of learning English language arts
Learning English language arts offers many benefits to students both in school and beyond. It helps students:
- Develop effective communication skills
- Build critical thinking and analytical skills
- Nurture their creativity and imagination
By ensuring that students have a solid foundation in English language arts, teachers can help set them up for future success.
Discover printable and digital English language arts resources
On TPT, English language arts resources come in various forms: from interactive notebooks and task cards to small-group activities and individual worksheets. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of ELA concepts, or to reteach a tricky concept. By incorporating ELA resources from TPT into your teaching toolbox, you can create an engaging learning experience that strengthens students’ understanding of ELA concepts.
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital English language arts worksheets, TPT has an extensive collection of resources across topics and grade levels. No matter what ELA topic your students are working on — whether you’re teaching the parts of speech to 1st graders or argumentative essay writing to 10th graders — TPT has instructional materials that are designed to help with any ELA learning need. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning ELA will be so much easier.
Frequently asked questions about teaching English language arts
What types of English language arts lessons are available on TPT?
There are many different types of English language arts resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular ELA lessons include reading, writing, phonics, vocabulary, spelling, and creative writing.
How do I find English language arts lessons on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing English language arts lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for ELA resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of ELA lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
How can I make my English language arts lessons fun and engaging?
Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your English Language Arts lessons by using manipulatives, pairing unusual texts like poems and short films together, or doing an escape room activity.
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