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Middle school creative writing games for Microsoft Word
Writing Complex Sentences
This game gives students practice at writing and punctuating complex sentences. Amusing dependent and independent clauses are joined after the throw of dice. Students progress to creating their own clauses. along the way students learn about the need for the subordinating conjunctions and different way complex sentences are puntuated.
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3rd - 8th
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A Homemade Version of the Game Balderdash
This is a "home cooked" version of Balderdash (the game where students take an obscure word--one person has the real definition while the others in the group have to "fake" their definitions). Complete directions come with this download as well as scoring/definition sheets and a "starter kit" of about 60 words (after that you can go to the OED or even a regular dictionary for more words). You can use this as a "just for fun" activity or it can be something more meaningful as you discuss how wo
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Roll and Build Silly Sentences
A fun task to practice various tenses.All you need is this editable template (which you can complete yourself, typing the necessary verbs, coming up with famous characters, places and time) and 2 dice. Divide the students into pairs or mini groups of 3-4 people. Each pair/group will need 2 dice and a table filled with the necessary information (see the photo).Children take turns rolling both dice at the same time, choose the appropriate parts of the sentence and make up funny sentences orally or
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2nd - 7th, Adult Education
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Figurative Language "Guess Who" Game
Hard working authors use figurative language to make their writing more interesting Authors work hard to create strong details using figurative language because those details allow the reader to use visualize (use their sensory images) what the author is describing in their minds. This activity allows you to use figurative language to describe a “Garbage Pail” character that you will receive from your teacher and play the game "Guess Who" with your classmates. Once you receive your “Garbage
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5th - 8th
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Celebrating Dairy of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
A packet to celebrate the release of the newest Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book: The Long Haul. I have included fun activities; a word search; trivia questions; true/false statements; games; writing prompt; creating words and much more.This packet can be adapted to many age and learning levels.
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1st - 8th
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BINGO Plant Bingo Garden Club Resource
Bingo!Plant Bingo! 3 pages! Introduction activity to plant life cycle, gardening, etc. I created this plant bingo for the Green Thumb Garden Club that I am part of at my elementary school. I hope you enjoy my product!
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PreK - 12th
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Writing Game: Creative Writing PIRATE Roll-the-Dice STORY
This story may be done online or in a classroom or at home. You just need to grab a dice or use an online dice generator. Students will pick a partner to traverse this world of pirates and capture. Each prompt brings the team further into a survival pirate story. The writing must be interconnected to form a whole story.
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4th - 10th
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SHOW Not Tell! Bring Boring Sentences to Life!
This is set of about 60 BORING sentences that students need to bring to LIFE using sensory details and figurative language! For example, students may take the sentence "The dog is cute" and turn it into "My heart melted like chocolate on a hot day when I took in the sight of the adorable, cuddly puppy softly cooing in my lap." I love to print these out, crinkle them up, and throw them in the air. Students grab a boring sentence, create a "showing sentence," and repeat the process. This is an exc
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6th - 9th
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Sensory Detail Scavenger Hunt: Grades 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
This action-packed game allows students to really demonstrate their creativity and practice using sensory details!
Students will create their own scavenger hunt clue lists using common, inexpensive, or old household items or school supplies. Then they will challenge other groups of students to use their descriptive, sensory-detailed-packed clues to race to find all their items!
This handout for students explains, in detail, the instructions for the scavenger hunt, the rules, and roles that eac
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4th - 8th
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Task Prompts for Characterization, Improvisation, and Scene Writing
This list of 96 prompts is an "action" list that can be used as improvisation prompts, ways to develop a character, a method to jump-start scene writing, or simply as inspiration for a wide array of improvisation games. The list of prompts comes with 20 suggestions for their use! It's a quick list that can be used in practically any unit you teach from Shakespeare plays to pantomime, from characterization work for a musical to scripting short scenes! It's also a great solution for those day
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
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October Reading, Writing, Math, and other Activities and Games
October Reading, Writing, Math, and other Activities and games for Intermediate Grades. This is a 19-page activity packet for activities a teacher could use in October for grades 3-5. Included in the document is a reading log with a haunted house theme with certificates, a Halloween game board and BINGO game, a baseball geometry game that can be adapted for any subject, a writing activity that has students designing their own haunted house, and a few other enjoyable activities.
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4th - 8th
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Greek Mythology D&D
While studying Greek mythology what better way to have your students create their own myth and game? The story will guide the players through the world your students create. Using a set of modified Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) rules that explain how to play the game. (Who attacks when, what dice to use, what the chests can contain, etc.)This activity will have your students use their knowledge of Greek mythology to create their own unique story. They will have to use their imagination to fully
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6th - 12th
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Bring Your Writing to Life! Create Dialogue!
This is a set of about 18 paragraphs that students need to turn into dialogue. For example, a paragraph may say something like, Max said that he had a lot of fun at the dance. The students will take that and change it to, "I had a lot of fun at the dnace!" Max exclaimed. This activity gives students the opportunity to practice bringing their writing to life with dialogue. It also challenges them to correctly punctuate and write dialogue within their writing. Some of the paragraphs and goofy--fe
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6th - 9th
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Think Fast! Fun with Sound Devices (Editable)
This activity is a fun way to have students practice with sound devices. Students will make several lists according to prompts, and the activity culminates in a writing activity that could be used for a journal entry or a Quick Write. Specific terms include alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhyme, and concrete language.
Grades:
6th - 12th
FRENCH Creative Writing - Story Builder Game - MASH Editable | Distance Learning
Vous êtes coincé sur des idées sur quoi écrire? Vous voulez créer un personnage aléatoire dans une histoire? Utilisez ces feuilles comme un moyen amusant de stimuler l'écriture créative. Ceci est du jeu MASH original que nous avions l'habitude de jouer quand nous étions enfants. Toutes les instructions incluses. Le document Word est modifiable, vous pouvez donc modifier les catégories en fonction de n'importe quel sujet, sujet ou thème. *Il y a aussi un jeu bonus pour vos élèves à jouer pour pr
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3rd - 9th
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One Liner cards for drama activities
A collection of ready to use "one liners" for improv drama games or to be randomly inserted into narratives as a challenge. Suitable for upper primary.
Examples include:
- How do you make a hot dog stand?
- A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
- You’ve always been crazy. This is just the first chance you’ve had to express yourself.
- I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
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Grades:
4th - 10th
Classroom Trivia Challenge
If you have a "Homeroom," an "Advisory," or a youth group, and need some additional activities, this works REALLY WELL! The kids go CRAZY for the opportunity to create their own trivia rounds and present them to the class. It blew me away how much fun they had with this.I have uploaded an easy-to-follow instruction page and also three student-created trivia challenge example rounds for you to use with your classes. You can either use these as actual example rounds, or just show them what a ro
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Random Fantasy Story Generator
All you need is some dice! Do you have reluctant creative writers? Do they find writing intimidating? Using this chart takes the pressure off when trying to dust the cobwebs off their creativity. Students roll two dice to randomly select a protagonist, an antagonist, and a setting from the chart. Roll the dice and let the hilarity begin.
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4th - 8th
Literacy Game: Magic Squares
In this game, students must see how many words they can make from the letters in the squares. Each word must contain the letter shaded in the centre square. A nine-letter word can be made using all the letters. This resource contains 38 a puzzles. There are two puzzles per A4 page, these pages can be cut in half to make A5 sheets.Students are encouraged to explore letter combinations and to use a dictionary to check their words. As a class, you can then share your words and learn their meanings
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5th - 12th
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Intermediate Winter Olympics Packet
This is a must have during the Winter Olympics for your intermediate students. They get an opportunity to follow the events of the Olympics as they unfold by keeping track of the U.S. medals and graphing them. There are also 2 extensive writing activities as well as Roman Numerals, a wordsearch, a timeline, a track the torch map. Students get to draw sport logos as well as design their own medal. All subject areas are covered in this packet. Fun will be had by all.
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4th - 6th
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10 Debate Topics that Middle School Students with Etiquette and Rules Pack A
10 Debate Topics that Middle School Students Will Love (Pack A) There are multiple packs available for teachers looking for even more vetted debate topics for middle school students. As a free bonus, I included 3 extra topics, my 5 keys to winning debate (saving you $1 separate purchase), and the suggested format for Parliamentary Debate. This is all you need to teach the fundamentals of debate, have some interesting topics to engage students, and the timings of the speeches to begin preparing y
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6th - 9th
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Greek and Latin Roots Review Game Lesson Plan
This detailed lesson plan describes how students can play a review game regarding Greek and Latin root words to prepare for quizzes, tests, etc. This lesson plan provides specific Greek and Latin roots, as well as specific word parts, that are designed to go together for the review game (though the Greek and Latin roots and/or word parts can easily be substituted in order to reuse this lesson as a weekly/monthly/etc. part of classroom instruction). This lesson plan also includes a rubric for gra
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6th - 8th
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Activities to Get Your Students Talking
A great packet to get students involved in their learning using Discussion Cards; Writing Prompts; What is Opinion or Fact?; and A Fun Game. The packet can be adapted to many ages and learning levels.Interpersonal / Communication / DiscussionCreative Writing / Thinking
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4th - 9th
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