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Middle school creative writing game pdfs
Personification Spot It & Steal It Game
Personification will be a breeze to teach with this engaging, hands-on game filled with fun illustrations! The visuals make it easy for students to understand personification... this will make them more likely to use personification in their own writing!Play the game as a class... or keep it as a center! Use the visuals to introduce the topic; for review; or put them up on a bulletin board for a visual reminder... the options are endless!Take a look at the preview to see all the cards included i
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3rd - 6th
Also included in: Valentine's Day Bundle
Teambuilding Trivia Icebreaker Game 100 cards
This team building trivia icebreaker game asks students to work in pairs or small groups while they have one minute to list as many answer choices as possible after a prompt is read. Use for:✏️ Fun Fridays✏️ Brain Breaks✏️ Sub Plans/ Rewards after testing✏️ Classroom teambuilding✏️ Back to school icebreaker✏️ Extra time before the bellHow to Play: 1. The teacher reads a "List..." prompt to the class. For example, "List... Movies with a number in its title....GO!" 2. Students have 1 minute to
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6th - 8th
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Scattergories Kids Version
Our favorite classroom game is SCATTERGORIES! This classic game has kid friendly topics such as "items in your backpack", "games played in P.E.", "lunch choices", and "famous book characters". Scattergories is the perfect team building activity to help students work on social-emotional group work skills such as listening to others ideas, cooperating, compromising, communicating with others, and showing good sportsmanship during class games. This game is also great for small groups in a social
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K - 8th, Staff
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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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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)
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
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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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)
Show Don't Tell Descriptive Writing Game
Elevate Writing with the Show Don’t Tell Descriptive Writing Game!Transform your writing lessons with the Show Don’t Tell Descriptive Writing Game, a multisensory experience that makes learning to write descriptive paragraphs fun, engaging, and interactive. This game teaches players how to "show" rather than "tell" by using vivid adjectives, dynamic action verbs, expressive adverbs, and creative literary devices like similes, metaphors, and personification.Key FeaturesMultisensory Learning: Enga
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4th - 12th
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Alliteration Game for Middle School
This fun alliteration photo hunt helps middle school students become more aware of alliteration and how to use it in their own descriptive writing.Literary devices make students’ writing crisp, clear, and captivating – and alliteration is one of the simplest but most often overlooked devices of them all. This fun game gives students the opportunity to find examples of alliteration in a variety of random photo collages. Students are pushed to find as many examples as possible, and when time run
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Fun Descriptive Writing Activities for Middle School
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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Valentine's Day Games and Activities, Valentine Warm-Ups and Puzzles
Ready to get your students’ brains “bursting” with new skills? Brain Bursts are fun and creative activities designed to improve thinking and processing. This resource includes 5 different types of Brain Bursts with 40 different creative tasks. Each one has a Valentine’s Day theme. They are designed to help improve memory encoding, information processing, and listening comprehension. Since each activity is designed to take a short amount of time, they work great as warm-ups, lesson extenders, or
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4th - 7th
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Escritura Creativa para un año entero: 40 situaciones
Este pack está compuesto por un total de 40 situaciones, muy diferentes entre sí, que permite a nuestro alumnado trabajar la escritura de manera creativa, divertida y personal. Cada una de las tarjetas está acompañada de iconos lo cual facilitan la comprensión. Así mismo, en cada tarjeta, he utilizado una fuente diferente para estimular la creatividad y acompañar, en la medida de lo posible, el tipo de escrito que se pide.¿Cómo lo trabajo yo en clase?Cada semana dedico un periodo única y exclusi
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4th - 6th
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Anecdotes Explained: Infer purpose, create your own, & STAAR-style questions
Anecdotes can be tricky for students to understand! Use this fun resource to help students infer the purpose of anecdotes and write a few of their own in a solo game using a die. Then assess students' understanding with a short reading selection with STAAR-style questions that follow (including a constructed response.)
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3rd - 6th
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Bean Boozled: Descriptive Writing Game
Here's to hoping that your students don't get Bean Boozled in ELA. During this activity, students will practice three different writing strategies to spice up their vocabulary, sentence structure, and use of imagery in descriptive writing. This unit puts the popular Bean Boozled game to use where the students will be drawing cards (and praying for a card without a star) to select jelly beans. If they get a Bean Boozled card, the students must spin for their jelly bean. In this game it could be o
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3rd - 8th
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Christmas Digital Breakout for Figurative Language
Have fun just before Christmas break in your ELA classroom with this no-prep digital Christmas activity. Your students will solve 3 engaging ELA Christmas activities about figurative language & write their own examples of figurative language too! ⭐Want more holiday digital breakouts? Check out the Holiday Digital Breakouts Bundle to save money and get more breakouts!⭐This Christmas activity can be used for online, virtual, or distance learning.This Christmas Figurative Language Digital Break
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Holiday ELA Activities Bundle
Creative writing - My strange animal
Here you have 2 examples to develop our students' creativity and writing skill.The first one was for my 2nd graders, and they used the structure It's got / it hasn't got and the vocabulary of head, body, legs, tail and wings. The second one was for my 3rd graders and they used the structures It's got / It hasn't got, It can / It can't and the vocabulary of head, body, legs, wings, tail, scales, paws, whiskers...I hope you like it!
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1st - 6th
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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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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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Role Play Drama Activities + Pantomime Cards (DRAMA SHOES)
Beginner improv exercises by Drama Trunk. Looking for improv exercises for kids? These fun DRAMA SHOES activities comes with a set of 66 Drama Cards to cut out and use. Multiple activities are included to practice mime, movement, character development, role play and story writing but the improv cards can be used in so many more ways and with different improvisation games and activities (why not add shoes to any improvisation scene)! Suitable for all ages but some of the drama activities (scene c
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2nd - 10th
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Improv Games with ARGUMENT STARTERS improvisation cards
Improv Games and Improv Cards by Drama Trunk. Looking for improv teaching resources? This set of Argument Starter prompt cards comes with the following suggested impro games: • Evil Twin Argument Version (fun improv game)• The argument game• Open scene - enhance classic open improvisations with the improv cards• Emotion quadrants drama game• Shakespearean Scene (challenge improv skills)• Scene replayBut the improv cards can be used in so many more ways and with different improvisation games and
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Reading and Kindness Menu Choice Board | Distance Learning Printable
This product was created to help with recent at home learning for grades K-3. Although this product can also be used over winter break, spring break, or summer break as well.These two boards were designed for students that may not have access to a device at home. These activities can all be done without internet access.The amount of time that students can spend on this is up to the teacher. These could be used as a challenge to see who can finish first or a daily challenge activity over the next
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PreK - 7th, Not Grade Specific
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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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