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Middle school reading games for Gifted and Talented
Would You Rather Sampler - Fun Questions for Discussion, Writing Prompts, & More
Dive into writing prompts, classroom discussion, and more with our exclusive sampler from Would You Rather Questions!!These 18 digital or print Would You Rather questions are great for discussion, class polls, writing prompts, language building, facilitating higher-level thinking, brain breaks, building community, and more! This sampler gives you a taste of our comprehensive Would You Rather resource that promises to make learning engaging and effective.Try before you buy!Purchase this sampler f
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2nd - 9th
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Figurative Language Escape Room Activity - Literary Devices Breakout Review
Figurative Language Escape Room Activity - Literary Devices Breakout Review: Help your students understand figurative language with this highly engaging interactive escape room breakout activity! Students will circulate the classroom, visiting stations and completing puzzles and challenges related to the following figurative language and literary devices: metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, oxymoron, pun, idiom, and allusion.How The Figurative Language Escap
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7th - 9th
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Save the Summer ELA Escape Room | Test Prep | End of Year Review
This end of the year ELA review escape room challenge is the perfect way to engage your students during the last few months of school, while still teaching the standards! This escape room is part of the Holiday Escape Room Bundle. Save $$ and time planning holiday celebrations by buying the holiday bundle today! Click HERE to check it out. This escape room uses Google Forms and Google Slides. Students drag and drop moveable pieces and type in pre-made text boxes in Google Slides for an interact
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4th - 6th
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Main Ideas and Supporting Details Escape Room | Reading Comprehension
Will your class escape in time? Try this escape room style game with your 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students today! This game is perfect for reviewing main idea and details. Grab a copy for state testing or end of the year review and see why thousands of teachers are talking about this escape room activity. **This game is designed for upper elementary. The clues and puzzles are more intense, and the reading passages are 3 paragraphs, as opposed to one. A COMPLETELY DIGITAL VERSION OF THIS GAME HAS B
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3rd - 6th
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A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Digital Escape Room, Fun for the Holidays!
Escape The Unopened Letter! A Christmas Carol Digital Escape Room is an innovative breakout game that allows teachers and students to engage in escape room fun, enjoy the 360° view, and have the VR option. Your students will feel like they are actually in Ebenezer Scrooge's house and in his dreams on Christmas Eve! You'll never see this Dickens classic like this anywhere else. You should definitely watch the preview video for this breathtaking cutting-edge classroom experience! The timely and re
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5th - 12th
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Easter Escape Room | ELA Escape Room Reading & Grammar Test Prep Print & Digital
This Easter ELA escape room challenge is the perfect way to engage your students during the month of April, while still teaching the standards! It focuses on the secular aspects of Easter that all students will enjoy! It is a mixed ELA review, so perfect for a fun test prep or just review of the standards.*Please note - while Easter is a religious holiday, due to the nature of teaching in public education, this escape challenge does not focus on the religious aspects of the holiday.This escape r
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4th - 6th
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Seasonal ELA Escape Room Bundle | Includes Spring Escape Room | Print & Digital
This is a digital AND "print & go" bundle of seasonal themed classroom escape room challenges. These challenges all feature ELA skills appropriate for Upper Elementary Students. No locks or stuffing envelopes required! Digital versions are perfect for distance learning.Get your students excited about learning with classroom escape room challenges! Throughout these activities, students work collaboratively with partners or in groups to solve ELA related challenges and find clues in order to e
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4th - 6th
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The Giver Ceremony of Twelve Activity - Novel Simulation of the Ceremony of 12
The Giver Ceremony of Twelve Activity is an interactive classroom activity that your students will never forget! In The Giver by Lois Lowry, children are assigned their careers during The Ceremony of 12. Bring this into your classroom and allow your students to empathize with Jonas and the rest of the community by taking on the role of Chief Elder and assigning roles to each of your students! The resource includes absolutely everything you need to successfully facilitate a mock Ceremony of Twelv
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7th - 10th
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ELA Holiday Escape Room Bundle Escape Room w/ Easter Escape | Print & Digital
This is a digital AND "print & go" bundle of holiday themed classroom escape room challenges. These challenges all feature ELA skills appropriate for Upper Elementary Students. No locks or stuffing envelopes required! Digital versions are perfect for distance learning. Get your students excited about learning with classroom escape challenges! Throughout these activities, students work collaboratively with partners or in groups to solve ELA related challenges and find clues in order to escape
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4th - 6th
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Save the Zoo Escape Room | Mixed ELA Skills Test Prep or End of Year Review
This ELA escape room challenge is the perfect way to engage your students during your ELA block, while still teaching the standards! This is a mixed ELA review, which makes it perfect for test prep review or and end of the year ELA review. Both a printable PDF version AND digital version are included. This makes it perfect for in-person, hybrid, or virtual learning.This digital escape room uses Google Forms and Google Slides. Students drag and drop moveable pieces and type in pre-made text boxe
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4th - 6th
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Emoji Book Title Challenge
The Emoji Book Title Challenge includes 90 cards with different combinations of emojis which provide a clue to the title of a popular children's chapter or picture book (72) or popular middle/high school book (18). The cards can be used as an individual or group challenge. There is also a set of the same challenges presented as posters: The Emoji Story Title of the Week. These could be placed in your classroom or school library and students can submit their guesses. There is a wide variety of c
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1st - 6th
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Also included in: Level-Up Your Library Bundle: The Book Wrangler's Greatest Hits
Music Escape Room #1 (Teams use music theory clues to solve codes)
This Music Escape Room is a twist on the "Escape Room Mania" that has hit the teen (and adult) world in the last few years. Students work as teams to solve mystery codes based using their knowledge of music theory.Students use:Note values (whole, half, quarter, eighth notes & rests)Musical symbols (such as time signature, natural, measure, accent, staff - see preview for details.)Note names (lines, spaces & ledger lines - shows in both treble clef & bass clef)Within the clues, studen
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4th - 7th
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Also included in: Music Escape Rooms SUPER BUNDLE (Music History, Music Theory)
Socratic Seminar Lesson Plan: Fun Worksheets, Question Examples, Discussion Tips
Get students talking with this Socratic Seminar Talking Toolkit! When done right, Socratic Seminars can be the best low prep, high impact activity you will ever do. They can cut down on your grading without sacrificing rigor. They can build classroom community without being cheesy. They can lead to exceptional classroom experiences without students (or admin) knowing you put it together a few minutes before class. Nevertheless, without a few tips and tricks, Socratic Seminars can also easily go
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7th - 12th
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ELA Escape Room - Escape the School Reading Comprehension Activities
Are you looking for an activity that is so much fun students won't even notice they're learning? Here you go! Use this escape room as an end-of-year team-building activity or ANY time you want to strengthen students' reading comprehension skills, provide figurative language practice, and hone their critical thinking and problem solving skills.This engaging breakout is immersive and fun! Your students are trapped in school by a giant who thinks they are way too clever. They will be there forever.
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Escape Room: School, Forest, and Planet
STAAR Reading Review Jeopardy PowerPoint Game ELA Test Prep - 6th 7th 8th Grade
Are you looking to make end-of-year test prep fun for your middle school students? Engage students with these fun Reading Comprehension Jeopardy PowerPoint games!There are three games included in this bundle. Each game has 20 TEKS-based STAAR-like questions based on a passage or paired passages. Includes: Fiction, Paired Informational Text, and Paired Poetry.As testing gets closer students get burned out and need a little change of pace. Help your 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students prepare and hav
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6th - 8th
Early Finisher Activities Math Enrichment Logic Puzzles Fast Finishers BUNDLE
The fast finishers collection that math teachers dream of! These early finishers' challenges include engaging seasonal-themed math puzzles requiring NO PREP. Just print and go! Logic puzzles, mazes, sudoku, and MORE! These math enrichment kits include challenges and puzzlers perfect for morning work, early finishers, or centers.You save 50% by purchasing this year-long bundle!These resources were designed to provide early finishers with enriching, challenging, and purposeful tasks to work on on
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4th - 6th
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"Is There a Traitor Among Us?" Digital Escape Room, Among Us, Game
Can your class solve this engaging digital escape room? This "Is there a traitor among us?" Escape Room is designed around the theme of the highly acclaimed, popular video game all the kids are playing right now! Can your class solve this engaging digital escape room? Kids are really engaged in relevant information, and this cannot get any more relevant! Your students will be reviewing figurative language, main idea, words in context, grammar, and other important ELA skills.This escape room cove
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6th - 8th
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"Examination Day" Short Story Escape Room Activity: Practice Plot & Theme
Practice comprehension, plot structure, textual evidence, theme, and more with this engaging escape room for the short story "Examination Day" by Henry Slesar. If you've never read or heard of this dystopian/sci-fi story, check it out - it's the PERFECT accessible, high-interest, twist-ending story for middle schoolers. This activity can be facilitated traditionally, digitally (aka NO prep), or with a blended hybrid approach. During this escape room, students will answer questions, identify elem
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6th - 9th
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The Giver Escape Room Novel Activity - Breakout Review for Lois Lowry's Novel
The Giver Escape Room Novel Activity is a fun and engaging way to have your students review the most important elements of The Giver by Lois Lowry. Students will visit stations and complete puzzles and challenges related to the plot diagram, characterization, story elements, and vocabulary in the novel. This highly-engaging, interactive escape room for The Giver will not only be the perfect ending activity for the novel, but it will also review and check their understanding of the text. How The
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7th - 10th
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Plot Elements & Structure Task Cards Practice Activity Teach Story Plot Passages
Need a hands-on activity for teaching and practicing story plot elements and structure? This pack of Plot Passages 'Clip and Flip' Task Cards includes 8 short story passages and 40 task cards for identifying the five main plot elements in text: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Each plot task card has a question about the plot of one of the passages and four answer choices. Students clip the correct answer and flip over the card to check their work. These plot st
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4th - 6th
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Greek Mythology Escape Room ... Escape from the Underworld
Escape the mundane by having your class work together to solve this Low-Prep, Greek Mythology Escape Room!! This activity includes 4 puzzles about Ancient Greece and Greek Mythology that students must complete in order to ESCAPE FROM THE UNDERWORLD. Your students will solve the puzzles to receive the codes. They will then use those codes to unlock "locked" questions on a Google Form. Everything is included to help you run a successful escape room! My students have loved these resources and hav
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5th - 8th
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Literary Jenga Reading Comprehension Activities Game for ANY Novel
Your students will LOVE practicing their comprehension skills while playing Jenga. The interactive component will help students retain the knowledge, too! Whether you're playing as a whole class or in small groups, this resource will leave a lasting impression on students.Looking for a unique and creative activity for your students’ reading comprehension practice? Look no further! This (editable) Literary Jenga game is the perfect way to strengthen students’ skills in a fun and engaging way.All
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6th - 12th
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Who Killed Mrs. Bass? ELA Murder Mystery for Middle School
It is Homecoming! All week the seniors at Waynesville High School have been hard at work on their float, and their English teacher, Mrs. Bass, has been helping them. They finish the float on Thursday evening around 7:30 and head out to the Homecoming bonfire in preparation for Friday’s parade and football game. On Friday morning when a group of students go out to the sheds where the floats are being held, they are met with a gruesome surprise. Perched on top of the float with a silver knife in h
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6th - 8th
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Twistle- Critical Thinking Word Game
Twistle is a twist on a classic word game. Students will be challenged to complete word puzzles with a twist. Each page asks students to complete a word puzzle in a different way.
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15-Game Different Game Boards
1- Blank Game Board
Create Your Own Boards For Students
1- Board With Lines Only
To Copy on the Backs Of Each Game As a Place For Students To Find More Words and Complete the Traditional Game
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3rd - 6th, Staff
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Learn more about reading resources
Not only is reading a core concept in the study of English language arts, but it’s also a cornerstone skill for proficiency in many other subjects (for instance, without strong reading skills, students won’t be able to solve math word problems or read through primary sources for social studies class).
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable and digital reading resources to help your student learn a reading concept, look no further! TPT has an extensive collection of resources, created by other teachers, that are designed to help with any need across grade levels.
Elementary students just learning to read can practice the basics with some simple, fun phonics practice activities or small-group reading centers focused around sight words. Students in middle and high school can read novels and complete hands-on, interactive assignments that build their comprehension and critical thinking skills. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, you can sharpen your student's reading skills in no time.
Fun and engaging reading activities to try
Engaging reading activities can energize your students and foster a love of reading. Here are a few ideas for reading activities from our teacher-created resources that you can find on TPT and try in your classroom:
Interactive Phonics Activities
Use hands-on activities such as sorting, matching, or building words with manipulatives to help students recognize phonics patterns and learn word families.
Word Hunts
Encourage students to find specific words either in a text or around the classroom to help reinforce sight word recognition.
Reader's Theater
Bring short stories, books, poems, or plays you’re reading in class to life by assigning roles to students and having them act out scenes. This can help enhance fluency and comprehension.
Interactive Read-Alouds
Engage the class by pausing during read-alouds to discuss the story’s theme, reflect on a character’s motivations or actions, or to ask students questions.
Comparative Analysis
Explore different adaptations of the same story (book versus movie, classic version versus a modern retelling) to encourage analysis of interpretation and presentation. You can also pair texts that are similar in theme, like poems and songs.
By incorporating these (and other!) reading activities into your lesson plans, you can nurture a love for reading while enhancing comprehension, critical thinking, and communication skills.
Frequently asked questions about teaching reading
What types of reading resources are available on TPT?
There are many different types of reading resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular reading lessons include: phonics, vocabulary, spelling, and balanced literacy.
How do I find reading lessons on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing reading lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for reading resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of reading lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
How can I make my reading lessons fun and engaging?
Students learn best when they're engaged! Sprinkle a little fun into your reading lessons by using manipulatives, pairing unusual texts like poems and short films together, or doing an escape room activity.
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