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Middle school reading strategies games for Easel Activities
Informational Text/Non-Fiction: ELA Escape: ELA Test Prep: Middle /High School
⭐ Who says ELA test prep needs to be boring? Teen students are invited to compete using clues that practice using text features to find vocabulary, reading an infographic, using text evidence, text structure, and comprehension. ⭐ This fully immersive 360° Non-Fiction Digital Escape engages students with four news articles about famous art heists and is great for STAAR prep and any test prep. ⭐ All tasks are skills-based so that when the escape is complete your students will come away with a stro
Grades:
7th - 12th
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Also included in: *ELA Middle School/High School 360° ELA Digital Escape Room Bundle
Christmas Escape Room: Print & Digital: Reading Comprehension, Puzzles
In this Christmas escape room activity, teams work together to solve the word puzzles, reading comprehension puzzles, ciphers, and cryptograms . Using critical thinking skills students' uncover codes to open the locks. This low-prep activity gets them thinking as they solve the puzzles and clues. Print and digital versions are included. Rescue the Reindeer. Puzzles are standards-based and student centered.Fred is a gingerbread man like no other. He was made without sugar, so he’s mean and bitter
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4th - 10th
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BRAIN TEASERS MYSTERY STORIES GRADES 5-8 Making inferences
Mystery short stories are not only fun brain teaser activities, but also practice inference making skills. Grades 5-8 students practice close reading and critical thinking as they search the passages for text evidence and context clues to make predictions, draw conclusions, and solve the mysteries. These 15 mini-mysteries are carrots for the end of the day, warm ups, bell ringers or even for fast finishers. Alternatively, you could assign them as high interest home study tasks for students who t
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: END of YEAR MIDDLE SCHOOL ELA ACTIVITIES BUNDLE- 3 WEEKS OF FUN!
Idioms Memory Game in Print and Digital
This is a hands-on game your students can play to practice identifying the figurative meaning of idioms.This game consists of 17 common idioms embedded in a sentence. Some of the idioms include:cold shoulderbutterflies in my stomachwalking on eggshellsopen up a can of wormsa fish out of waterall in the same boatIt includes 36 game pieces and directions! It comes in two formats: print and digital. Choose the format that is best for your students! Teachers who choose the traditional print format
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4th - 6th
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Figurative Language Memory Game in Print and Digital
This is a hands-on game your students can play to practice the various literary elements.similemetaphoronomatopoeiapersonificationalliterationhyperboleThis is a fun, educational game! I created it because I know that many standardized tests require students to identify literary devices, and I wanted my students to be prepared for this type of analysis.It includes 36 game pieces (18 matches) and directions! It comes in two formats: print and digital. Choose the format that is best for your studen
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Author's Purpose Activity | 4th Grade Google Classroom Digital Activity | Sort
The author's purpose sort has the name of 24 types of text (i.e., comic books, poems, etc.). In the digital version, students drag and drop each text type into the appropriate column i.e., persuade, inform, entertain, explain, describe. In the printable version, students cut and paste each text type into the appropriate column. An answer key is included.This activity comes in two versions: digital and printable.This is an easy activity to use: Just give students the link. The directions are insi
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Also included in: Author's Purpose Worksheets and Activities | 360 Digital Escape Room
Bowling Game - Bowling for Similies and Metaphors
Materials Needed: Game BoardGame Cards One Pawn or Counter for Each Player Directions:Up to three players can play the game. Pick a card an and say whether it is a simile or metaphor. If you get it right, then move ahead one bowling ball. If you get it wrong, you must go back to the beginning and start over. Example: As bright as the sun —> SIMILE To Win: Students need to land on the bowling pins and correctly name the simile or metaphor on the card. Extension: Sort the cards by similes a
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Also included in: IREAD Resources PHONICS COMPREHENSION VOCABULARY **MEGA BUNDLE**
ESCAPE ROOM: Escape the Valentine's Day Party: Print & Digital
Valentine's Day Escape Room with reading comprehension at the end! This escape room is designed specifically for grades 5-10. Engage your students with intriguing puzzles and challenges that enhance reading skills and reading comprehension in a creative, interactive format. Print and digital. The interactive EASEL digital activity is intuitive for students and can be assigned through Google Classroom, Seesaw, Schoology, Canvas and more.Transform Your Classroom into a Realm of Imagination and Lea
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5th - 10th
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Thanksgiving Escape Room Print & Digital: Reading Comprehension, Logic & More
In this Thanksgiving escape room activity, teams work together to solve the word puzzles, reading comprehension puzzles, text structure puzzles and logic puzzles. Using critical thinking skills students' uncover codes to open the locks. This low-prep activity gets them thinking as they solve the puzzles and clues. Print and digital versions are included. Digital: Digital version is delivered through TPT Easel. This is a wonderful platform that allow the game to be completely digital. In this ver
Grades:
4th - 10th
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Brain Teaser Mysteries Fun FREEBIE
Mini-mystery stories are not only fun brain teaser activities, but also practice listening and inference skills. Boost reading comprehension and critical thinking skills with these 4 engaging mystery passages. They are perfect as high interest bell ringers, exit tickets, time-fillers, and best of all, carrots for the end of the day. Alternatively, early finishing students can read the mysteries on their own. The most obvious methods of using these tales are to read them out loud or to show them
Grades:
5th - 11th
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Also included in: ELA GAMES - 170 Middle School Fun Games and Activities Bundle
PHONO! Soft and Hard "c" and "g" (Uno) Card Game PHONICS
This is a phonics game similar to the game UNO. This game covers Hard and Soft “c” and “g”.Phono! Directions: • Pass out 5 cards to each player. • Lay the remaining cards face down in a pile. • Show the top card next to the draw pile. • The first player needs to lay down a word card that matches the same color shown - a player can also put down a DRAW TWO, SKIP, or REVERSE card with the same color shown, or a WILD card. If a WILD card is laid down, the player can choose a new color. • All the wo
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Also included in: PHONO! (Uno) Phonics Card Game **BUNDLE**
WINTER ELA BRAINTEASER MYSTERY STORIES, PUZZLES & RIDDLES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL
These ELA winter brain teaser activities, mystery comprehension stories and games will ensure December, January and February fun lessons, while keeping students' critical thinking and creative skills warm! This activities packet is perfect as brain breaks, for morning work, do-nows, or for early finishers. None of the activities refer to Christmas or any other seasonal holiday. They are inclusive, and can be used throughout the winter season. The easiest way to use many of the activities
Grades:
5th - 8th
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Also included in: WINTER ELA BRAIN TEASER ACTIVITIES - grade 5 6 7 8 fun winter lessons
Easter ESCAPE ROOM: Find the Easter Bunny's Eggs Print & Digital
Escape the Big Bad Wolf and help the Easter Bunny find his eggs! . This escape room activity with reading comprehension, word puzzles, logic, story problems and more is designed specifically for grades 4-10. Engage your students with intriguing puzzles and challenges that enhance reading skills and reading comprehension in a creative, interactive format. Print and digital. Five puzzles - differentiated with multiple versions for two puzzles.Interactive EASEL digital activity is also included. E
Grades:
4th - 10th
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Virtual and In person Scavenger Hunt Activities
Your students will have a blast with this fun scavenger hunt! Get them moving and learning with 20 different questions that challenge them to do a bit of research and accept some quirky challenges!This is what you'll get:print and digital versions20 editable scavenger hunt challengesAnswer keys with fill-in-the-blank spaces for questions that are unique to your class or classroom You can edit the questions to meet your classroom needs or add inside jokes.By the end of this scavenger hunt, your
Grades:
4th - 7th
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Also included in: Scavenger Hunt Activities for the Whole Year in person and virtual
PHONO! Vowel Team Digraphs (Uno) Card Game PHONICS
This is a phonics game similar to the game UNO. This game covers vowel team digraphs, including: ai at ey ee ea ey ie ou ow ("how") ow ("low") oa au aw all air oo ("book") oo ("moon") ue ui oi oy ie uiPhono! Directions: • Pass out 5 cards to each player. • Lay the remaining cards face down in a pile. • Show the top card next to the draw pile. • The first player needs to lay down a word card that matches the same color shown - a player can also put down a DRAW TWO, SKIP, or REVERSE card with the
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Also included in: PHONO! (Uno) Phonics Card Game **BUNDLE**
ESCAPE ROOM - Escape the Forest - Save Spring Print & Digital: End of Year
Escape the Forest by getting through a series of challenges posed by mother nature. This escape room activity with reading comprehension, word puzzles, logic and more is designed specifically for grades 5-10. Engage your students with intriguing puzzles and challenges that enhance reading skills and reading comprehension in a creative, interactive format. Print and digital. Google slides and the interactive EASEL digital activity are also included. EASEL is intuitive for students and can be assi
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: BUNDLE - Spring Escape Room Reading Comprehension - Earth Day
ESCAPE ROOM: Save Spring! Print & Digital DIFFERENTIATED
Save Spring! Escape Room Activity with reading comprehension, word puzzles, logic and more. Completely differentiated with CCSS aligned activities. This escape room is designed specifically for grades 5-10. Engage your students with intriguing puzzles and challenges that enhance reading skills and reading comprehension in a creative, interactive format. Print and digital. The interactive EASEL digital activity is intuitive for students and can be assigned through Google Classroom, Seesaw, School
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: BUNDLE - Spring Escape Room Reading Comprehension - Earth Day
Fractured Fairy Tale Escape Room Adventure - Print & Digital
Dive into a captivating world of Punzie’s "Escape Room: A Duck and a Mermaid Walked into the Forest or Princess Punzie’s Hair-Brained Wish", designed specifically for grades 5-9 . Engage your students with intriguing puzzles and challenges that enhance reading skills and reading comprehension in a creative, interactive format.Transform Your Classroom into a Realm of Imagination and Learning!This unique escape room experience is a classroom activity that combines fun, interactive puzzles with ess
Grades:
4th - 10th
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Also included in: BUNDLE: Fractured Fairy Tale Escape Room - Modified & At Level
Chinese New Year - Print & Digital: Seven Puzzles, Logic, Reading Comprehension+
For this escape room teams work together (or students work alone) to solve the word puzzles, engaging passages, ciphers, cryptograms, reading comprehension and logic puzzles centered saving Chinese New Year. This low-prep activity gets students thinking as they solve the puzzles and move through clues. Print and digital versions are included.This escape room is designed specifically for grades 5-10. Engage your students with intriguing puzzles and challenges that enhance reading skills and read
Grades:
4th - 10th
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Suffix Games/Activities - Roll Six Suffixes - Science of Reading/OG + Easel
Are you looking for a FUN and effective way for your students to learn and review suffixes? This game is it! In this fun game, students learn the meaning of suffixes and how to read and understand them. Many older students still struggle with decoding multisyllabic words. This game will help them bridge the gap. Updated with movable markers for students to play on individual devices or on a whiteboard for whole-class learning. Why learn prefixes and suffixes?✅ Helps students read complex multi
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
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PHONO! Vowel Team Digraphs (Uno) Card Game PHONICS FREEBIE
This is a sample of my phonics game similar to the game UNO. This game covers vowel team digraphs, including: ai at ey ee ea ey ie ou ow ("how") ow ("low") oa au aw all air oo ("book") oo ("moon") ue ui oi oy ie uiPhono! Directions: • Pass out 5 cards to each player. • Lay the remaining cards face down in a pile. • Show the top card next to the draw pile. • The first player needs to lay down a word card that matches the same color shown - a player can also put down a DRAW TWO, SKIP, or REVERSE c
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Phingo! Hard and Soft "c" and "g" (BINGO) Game PHONICS
This is a phonics game similar to the game BINGO.This game covers words with Hard and Soft "c" and "g".Phingo! Directions: • Pass out game cards to each player. • Put the word cards in the middle. • Players take turns picking a word card from the middle. (The word cards have the whole word that matches the missing sound in the same word on the game cards.) • If the word belongs on your game board, lay it over the spot on your game card. If the word belongs to another player, give them the card a
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Grades:
1st - 6th
ESCAPE ROOM: Women in History - Print & Digital DIFFERENTIATED
WOMEN IN HISTORY Escape Room Activity with reading comprehension, word puzzles, logic and more. Help these five fabulous women get to the summit to save the world. Differentiated. This escape room is designed specifically for grades 5-10. Engage your students with intriguing puzzles and challenges that enhance reading skills and reading comprehension in a creative, interactive format. Print and digital. The interactive EASEL digital activity is intuitive for students and can be assigned through
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5th - 10th
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Scavenger Hunt Activities for April Print and Virtual
Keep your students moving and learning with this fun April scavenger hunt! Twenty different questions that challenge them to do a bit of research and accept some quirky challenges! Perfect for this month! This is a fun way to incorporate research, trivia, and team building.This is what you'll get:print and digital versions + TpT Easel-ready activity20 editable scavenger hunt challenges -- that address research, poetry, grammar, trivia, drawing, math...a whole raft of fun activities!Answer keys
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Scavenger Hunt Activities for the Whole Year in person and virtual
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