ELA Games for Middle School Language Arts Review

These fun and engaging middle-school ELA games are the perfect way to review concepts with your students during class.

Days between vacations, picture days, half days, ends of the quarter -- they don't have to be a waste of time! I love to use these days to review concepts we've learned throughout the year in a fun and engaging way. This bundle includes 27 resources (40+ games) that I use to either review or introduce ELA concepts with my students. My students love the change of pace, and I love how much they learn!

Use these games to introduce new concepts, review standards you have recently covered, or brush up on topics you haven't touched in a while.

Save your sanity with over 40 low-prep activities for your middle-school class.

Just print, cut, and go!

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This resource includes the following:

✅ A procedures game to teach your students how your classroom runs (in a FUN way!)

✅ 4 public speaking games to help your students feel comfortable speaking in front of the class

✅ A figurative language sorting game that uses examples from football, a favorite middle-school topic

✅ A simile vs. metaphor sorting game to help your students understand the difference between the two

✅ An author's tone improv game that lets students act out scenarios in various tones and better understand author's tone in the process

✅ A fun symbolism game that teaches students to find deeper meanings in seemingly random objects

✅ A fake-news matching game to raise students' awareness of less-than-legitimate sources

✅ An engaging character archetype game that gives students a chance to act out different archetypes

✅ An irony sorting game to familiarize students with situational, verbal, and dramatic irony

✅ An allusion game that prompts students to work allusions into silly conversations

✅ An alliteration game that stretches students' ability to create examples of alliteration from random photographs

✅ A discussion stems game to help students learn respectful ways to agree, disagree, and clarify

✅ 10 vocabulary games that help students memorize any word list

✅ A setting game to raise students' awareness of the setting in any book or short story

✅ A literature circles game to help students learn how to interact with their reading groups

✅ A slow-down-the-action writing game that teaches students how to expand their narrative writing

✅ A symbolism matching game to familiarize students with traditional symbols in literature and their meanings

✅ A sentence fragments game that clarifies the difference between a complete sentence and a fragment (and helps students learn how to turn a fragment into a sentence

✅ A descriptive writing game that teaches students the importance of using detailed language

✅ An essay hooks game that familiarizes students with the five types of essay hooks and how to connect them to their thesis statements

✅ A transition words writing game that helps students analyze the purpose of different transition words and phrases

✅ A Christmas figurative language game with quotes from students' favorite Christmas movies

✅ A hyperbole game that encourages students to come up with the best and worst hyperbole examples EVER

✅ A personification vs. anthropomorphism game that helps students understand the difference between personification and anthropomorphism

✅ A Socratic seminar practice game that helps students participate appropriately in class discussions

✅ A literary theme game that gives students practice finding themes in various poems

✅ A book Bingo challenge that encourages students to read a variety of books during their independent reading

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What are teachers saying about these games?

⇨ This is a great collection of games to use as practice or review. They are very easy to understand and offer a variety of skills. The kids love them. Thank you!

–Jamie J. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

⇨ So far I've only tried one of the games with my students, and they loved it! They said, "Can we do this every day?"

–Ava H. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

⇨ Every one of these games is so well thought-out! Thank you!

–Lindsay B. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Scroll down to read over 50 glowing reviews from teachers who have used these games to lighten their loads and bring extra fun to their classroom learning.

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Created by Olivia Gold