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High school writing-essays games under $5
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
Writing Strong vs Weak Topic Sentences Interactive Lesson Google Slides Activity
A self-paced, self-checking mini lesson with intervention that includes 64 interactive Google Slides™ that help students identify and learn the difference between a strong or weak topic sentence. The lesson first explains what a strong topic sentence is and what it isn't. Then, through a series of ten examples, student practice recognizing a strong versus a weak topic sentence along with justifying why it is one or the other.⬆️ Try out the lesson's clickable interactivity at the end of the previ
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5th - 10th
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Also included in: Topic Sentences BUNDLE | Digital Lesson, Practice, & Assessment
Citing and Embedding Text Evidence GAME!
Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to get your students practicing with MLA citations? This game will have your students practicing both citing and embedding quotations while having fun! Answer keys with "teacher tips" will support students as they practice these critical skills. What's included: 1. A "When Punctuation Takes a Vacation" game board. 2. Game directions with mini-lessons for students. 3. Student answer sheet4. Four types of game cards: - "Cite it!" game cards help studen
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7th - 12th
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MLA Formatting & ICE (Introduce, Cite, Explain) Mini Lesson and Review Game
Help your students understand MLA Formatting & embedding quotes using the ICE (introduce, cite, explain) method! This MLA bundle includes instructional slides, student handouts and a review game! Our review game, "Horse Races" gets kids up and moving while also having them read their handouts and highlight for information!The MLA Formatting & ICE presentation and handouts includes information about what MLA format is, why we write in MLA format, how to set up a paper in MLA format, and h
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7th - 12th
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Fun Transition Words and Phrases Game for Writing Essays
Do your students struggle to connect their ideas when writing essays? This fun and engaging game helps students analyze how to logically connect ideas with transition words and phrases.First, the class is divided into 8 teams and given 10 cards each. Each card has a transition word or phrase that could be used to connect ideas when writing an essay. Transition category posters are placed at random on the classroom walls. These categories include cause and effect, time, addition, contrast, suppor
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review
Thesis Statements Mini Lesson Interactive Game Activity with Google Slides
Are you teaching your students about argumentative claims, thesis statements, or essay writing? Use as a mini lesson! Self-paced and self-checking practice with intervention! This product includes 335 interactive Google Slides™ that help students identify and learn the difference between an informational versus literary thesis statement as well as an open versus closed thesis statement. The lesson first explains what a strong thesis statement is and what it isn't. Then, through a series of ten e
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9th - 12th
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Chopped Up Essays: AP Lang 2006 Rhetorical Analysis FRQ (The Flamingo Prompt)
Are you looking for a more engaging way to improve your students' skills on the AP English Language and Composition free-response questions?"Chopped Up Essays" is an interactive, collaborative, and FUN group assignment in which students race to reconstruct a sample essay. This edition covers the 2006 AP English Language and Composition Rhetorical Analysis prompt (Question 1, excerpt from Jennifer Price's "The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History"). Included in this full-day lesson:Detailed T
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10th - 12th
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The Writing Games! Dice Review Game for Research & Writing Skills
Can your students demonstrate understanding of the most important writing and research concepts? Test them and find out with this Writing Games! interactive dice board.This student-centered, engaging dice game is perfect for any MLA research unit or as a unit test or final exam review. The writing games dice board requires students to think about various aspects of writing and research, including the stages of the writing process, traits of writing, in-text citations, direct quotes, plagiarizing
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8th - 11th
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Chopped Up Essays: AP Lang 2014 Rhetorical Analysis FRQ (Abigail Adams Letter)
Are you looking for a more engaging way to improve your students' skills on the AP English Language and Composition free-response questions?"Chopped Up Essays" is an interactive, collaborative, and FUN group assignment in which students race to reconstruct a sample essay. This edition covers the 2014 AP English Language and Composition Rhetorical Analysis prompt (Question 2, Abigail Adams' letter to her son). Included in this full-day lesson:Detailed Teacher Instructions (2-page PDF)A high-quali
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10th - 12th
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Capitalization Jeporady Game
What better way to check for understanding than to play a game with your students? This interactive Capitalization Game will get your students eager about learning the capitalization rules and how to use them correctly when writing.
Grades:
2nd - 12th
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)
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YOU WILL NEED A DECK OF CARDS (or more) DEPENDING UPON CLASS SIZE
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6th - 12th
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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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Decode/Unpack LEAP Essay Prompts... and Know WHAT to Write!
Includes:* List of types of prompts and what they want you to do* 15 sample prompts (ideal for bell ringers), including a breakdown of what to write about* Practice / Assessment* Materials for a gameSick of confusing prompts? Are your students good writers but struggle to know WHAT they’re supposed to write about because of wordy, confusing prompts?This is exactly what your students NEED to practice identifying the skill in the prompt that is being tested and knowing what information to include
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6th - 11th
Thesis Statements ELA Mystery Reveal Picture Pixel Art Practice Puzzle
Mystery reveal pixel art utilizing Google Sheets™ is the latest education craze! This activity is a quick check and should take students about 5-10 minutes to complete. Use as a warm-up or an exit ticket. It is self-checking and highly motivating. Students are eager to discover the hidden picture and the reveal allows them to check their progress along the way.Students can change their answers as many times as they want until they select the right one; therefore, it's really important that you s
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7th - 12th
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Thesis Statement Scoot Game/Task Cards
This game is the best way to give students intensive practice writing thesis statements. The game format and creative topics lend entertainment to a skill most students don't enjoy learning or practicing. It's easy to set up and easy to play. The cards can also be used as task cards. High school students give it a thumbs up!
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8th - 12th
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Yes/No Thesis Game
The Yes/No Thesis Game is a game my students LOVE to play. It is a concept attainment game that I use to teach my students what good thesis statements and bad thesis statements look like.If you are not familiar with concept attainment here is an example of it being modeled: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iOCRNVu9SEI play the game a little bit differently than the video modeled above. I provide you with the examples of good and bad thesis statements and you print them out and laminate them for u
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7th - 12th
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MLA Format: Essay Scavenger Hunt
Use this Scavenger Hunt to make sure your students know how to properly format an essay in MLA format.Students will be given an example argumentative essay with 15 elements pulled out. The elements will be posted around the room. Students will move around the room to decide where the elements belong in the essay. Once all the elements have been placed correctly, a message will appear.
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8th - 12th
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Blown-Up Essay: Holiday Edition
A fun, standards-based, holiday-themed activity in which students manipulate parts of an essay to learn how they fit together.
This is a great way to spend the day before Christmas break because it gets students engaged in Common-Core curriculum at a time when all they can think about is going home for the holidays.
I came up with the idea of "blown-up essays" when I was trying to think of a way to get students to learn by discovery how the parts of an essay work together, how a thesis stateme
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6th - 10th
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Word Processing Skills Activities - Computer Games
Three fun and easy to use activities that teach and practice basic word processing skills!My adult learners and ESL students often haven't had much experience using computers to type essays or do class projects. So I devised these three worksheets to get my students from knowing nothing about word processors, to being able to type a perfectly formatted essay! And each one is hands-on, nitty gritty, students sitting at the computer, learning by doing. Build their confidence by letting them do it
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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10 Building Thinking Classrooms ELA CER Paragraph Writing Tasks for Small Groups
Like many teachers, I have been captivated by what I have learned about the teaching style and pedagogy in the book Building Thinking Classrooms by Peter Liljedahl. I have spent much of the summer trying to figure out how to implement these strategies and routines in my ELA classroom. This product provides 10 different tasks that students can complete in the Building Thinking Classroom format. It does NOT include any articles or texts - teacher will need to find articles online.These 10 tasks ar
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6th - 9th
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Classroom Millionaire (Essay Writing Version) Trivia Game
Engage your students with this easy-to-use PowerPoint game. It plays just like the popular TV game show, "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" The instructions and rules are set out in a clear manner and would be easy to follow even if you are not familiar with the show.
This particular PowerPoint is set up for an English Language Arts classroom and covers a variety of essay elements including basic parts to an essay, important essay writing terms, and some random essay facts. This game would be a f
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7th - 12th
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40 Spanish Debate Cards: Defend, Challenge, Qualify
These Spanish debate cards feature a number of controversial/debatable questions for students to argue either orally or in writing in the form of a persuasive essay with claims, reasoning, and evidence. Also ideal for defend, challenge, qualify essays. Great for any bilingual, language-learning, ELL, or even SIFE classroom!Product also comes with 2 blank card templates for teachers (or students!) to write their own debate claims.This product is also available in the following language(s): • Engl
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5th - 12th
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80 Bilingual Spanish/English Debate Cards: Defend, Challenge, Qualify
These double-sided debate cards feature a number of controversial / debatable questions for students to argue either orally or in writing in the form of a persuasive essay with claims, reasoning, and evidence. Also great for defend, challenge, qualify essays. 40 cards in English, 40 cards in Spanish. Perfect for bilingual learners, ELLs, or recent immigrants such as SIFE.These cards a nice complement to the "Claim, Reason, Evidence" and "Writing a Claim" graphic organizers also available in stor
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6th - 12th
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30 Text Evidence Sentence Starter Cards
If you're teaching students to cite text evidence when writing constructed responses, you need this set of 30 sentence starter cards. There are thirty, so each student in your class will have a different sentence starter to use for practice. The cards come with directions for games and activities like Line-up Limbo and Read a Round. Do more than just post a list! Use these cards to put get students to interact with the sentence starters in ways that will help these sentence starters become part
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3rd - 12th
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