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Middle school writing-essays games under $5
Topic Sentences in Paragraph Writing Activity - How to Write a Topic Sentence
Do your students struggle to create effective topic sentences? Since directly teaching my students five basic types of topic sentences and having them practice these types in a variety of ways, I've been amazed at their progress! This Topic Sentence resource includes two formats: print and digital, to give you greater teacher flexibility. Besides guided activities and review sheets for each of the five types of topic sentences presented, there's a topic sentence sorting game, posters, and more t
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3rd - 6th
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
Persuasive Writing Game - Introduction to Opinion Writing - Powers of Persuasion
This persuasive writing introduction activity will have students laughing while exploring the concepts of perspective, point of view, and how to convince someone of something. Before a persuasive writing assignment, play this game to make sure your students understand the best way to persuade their audience.How would you convince a firefighter he should buy your tree? One creative student convinced him he could use it to practice setting and putting out fires! How could you convince a chef he n
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3rd - 6th
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#catch24 Writing Strong vs Weak Topic Sentences Interactive Google Slides Lesson
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
Essay Writing Practice - Informative and Argumentative Essay Game Show
This fun, interactive Jeopardy Style PowerPoint and Google Slides Game Show will help your middle school students review argumentative and informative essay writing skills with ease!Objective: Students will answer questions about text-based informative and argumentative essay writing skills to review for an assessment.What's included:✅ Directions for the teacher✅ PowerPoint Game with 25 questions and answers about both informative and argumentative essays✅ Google Slides versionThis game can be u
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6th - 8th
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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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AVID Persuasive Vs. Argumentative Writing - Digital Lesson and Activity
Are you an AVID or English teacher? Need to explain the difference between argument and persuasion to middle or high school students? In this product you will find 6 explanations that show the difference between argumentative and persuasive writing. After teaching students the differences, they will have the chance to practice what they learned with the This or That game where students will read different text examples and have to decide which ones are persuasive or argumentative.What do you get
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5th - 8th
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Evidence Debate Game for Middle School ELA
This creative and engaging game gives students valuable practice supporting their arguments with evidence.Our students are full of opinions, but without support to back up their arguments, they cannot build a logical case - one of the most essential skills in writing an essay.Thankfully, this game makes supporting evidence both engaging and fun.So how does it work?First, you pose a debate topic to the class and split your students into two teams: "for" and "against."Then you give both teams time
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6th - 8th
Also included in: ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review
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
Grammar, Mechanics, Revisions, and Editing NO PREP Digital Escape Room
Want to help students practice what to look for when revising and editing writing? This NO PREP completely digital escape room will help students practice looking for capitalization errors, spelling errors, errors with homonyms, errors with punctuation, and run-on sentences.Students are planning a heist, but their inside man was afraid of the clues being intercepted. Therefore, all the clues are coded! Can they solve the clues to get to the gold?This escape room is best aimed at students in grad
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: NO PREP Grammar Digital Escape Room Bundle
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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Logical Fallacies Game for Middle School ELA
Don't let your students be fooled by faulty logic! Help them learn to identify and avoid common logical fallacies with this fun and engaging game.In this game, students draw game cards with logical fallacies, definitions, and examples. The first player to get a matching set of 3 is the winner!Each example card features a sports-related example that will appeal to middle-school students. Some are ridiculous . . . and some might seem just a little too familiar. After all, logical fallacies are all
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review
Essay Types Identification Worksheet or Sort Expository Argumentative Narrative
This activity helps students identify different types of essay types based off prompts. The three types covered are: Expository, Argumentative, Narrative. I have included an anchor chart and 15 examples for students to identify. There are two formats: worksheet (2 pages) are sorting activity. There are both color and black and white versions of everything. INCLUDES:*Chart explaining each type- Expository, Argumentative, Narrative*15 Examples*Worksheet Format or Sorting Game*For sorting game,
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5th - 7th
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Minute-to-Win-it: Writing Review
This resource is designed to help students practice and fine tune writing skills. Students will be asked to complete 8 challenges. Students will have various time limits on each challenge (in ppt). Students do one or two rounds of each challenge. The first 4 challenges are practicing steps of the writing process and the last 4 are grammar skills.
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3rd - 6th
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Informative Essay Writing Practice - Body Paragraph - Writing Informative Essays
Even though you've carefully taught your middle schoolers how to write a body paragraph for an informative essay, some of your students just don't seem to get it. Use these interactive and engaging activities that will save you tons of time!Objective: Students will participate in four activities that will facilitate understanding of the concept of informative essay body paragraphs.What's included:✅Prompt✅Text Set of 2 nonfiction texts✅Essay Skeleton✅4 activities: 1. Highlighting/underlining
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6th - 8th
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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.
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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
Expository Essays: Match the Support to the Thesis/Controlling Idea
This TIERED/LEVELED activity includes four sets of manipulatives. I recommend printing on cardstock and laminating for reuse.
The students will match expository essay thesis statements to the most effective and appropriate supporting paragraph.
Set one, three, and four have six pieces and set two (advanced) has eight.
Before the pieces are cut out, they correspond (are in order) so the teacher can create a key, if necessary.
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4th - 8th
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Argumentative Essay Vocabulary Leveled Guided Notes for Middle School
Get ready to teach your Middle School students how to write text-based Argumentative Essays by starting with the critical vocabulary: claim, opposing claim, counter-argument (counterclaim), evidence, reasoning, relevant evidence, irrelevant evidence, audience, purpose, logos, ethos and pathos. All of these terms are included in these printable interactive guided notes I call Pixanotes®!Pixanotes® are a blend of the structure of traditional two-column notes and visual/interactive notes. There are
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6th - 8th
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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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