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Middle school creative writing games for ESL-EFL-ELL
Getting to Know You | Four Corners Game | ESL Activity | Back to School
Four Corners is an activity that gets students up and out of their seats. This 4 Corners game is a fun "Getting to Know You" activity, perfect for the beginning of the year and throughout. It can also double as an engaging class warm-up activity! Created for beginning and intermediate English learners, thirty differentiated slides with visual supports provide ample question choices to suit your class needs. Three levels of questions are included, with ten slides for each level. Project a questio
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5th - 8th
Parts of Speech Game Worksheets Noun Verb Adjective Adverb Pronoun Preposition
Get your students excited to practice different parts of speech with these no-prep grammar games worksheets! This parts of speech games bundle contains over 90 games to help students review nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions! Your students will LOVE when you pull out these grammar games to use for practice in your ELA/reading centers! Included in this bundle of parts of speech games:⭐️All Types of Nouns Games - 13 games for reviewing different types of n
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3rd - 6th
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ESL Writing Curriculum & Activities | ESL Grammar Worksheets & Games
Transform your ESL teaching experience with our ESL Writing Intervention program! Bursting with engaging, interactive activities and games, this all-encompassing writing curriculum provides a systematic approach that empowers ESL students to master writing skills.The ESL Writing Intervention program is meticulously crafted to present a foundational approach to teaching writing. The program is structured into ten units, each targeting different aspects of writing. The units are designed to build
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1st - 6th
Discussion Activity - What Would You Do? Speaking Activity Prompt Cards
Discussion Activity - What Would You Do? Speaking Activity Prompt Cards: These discussion cards are designed to engage even the most reluctant students in active discussion and conversation in the classroom. The product provides all the necessary tools to engage students in friendly debates and discussions on ethical dilemmas. Each of the cards presents a scenario and students must decide what they would do in the situation and justify their choice. This is an excellent tool to use in intermedia
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6th - 12th
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How Well Do You Know Your Teacher? (Fun End of Year Activity)
This is a fun, no-prep end of year activity to see how well (or not well) your students know you! The students get to come up with creative responses to fun and engaging prompts.Depending on the age of your students, you can pick and choose which slides to assign. For the older kids, I've included prompts related to social media.
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3rd - 12th
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Word Ladders VOL 1 - Puzzles for Vocabulary and Spelling - Fun Friday Activities
Word Ladders are fun word guessing puzzle games and are great for building vocabulary and spelling skills. Students give answers to clues and definitions, changing one letter at a time as they go down or up the ladder until all spaces are filled. Includes differentiated printable and digital options (Google Slides).⭐️ What You'll Get (Click PREVIEW or watch the VIDEO for a closer look):12 different puzzles3 differentiated levels for each puzzle with additional options to adjust the level of diff
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3rd - 7th, Adult Education
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Prefixes & Suffixes Worksheet Games Practice Activity Ful, Less, Ly, Re, Un, Dis
Engage your students with these fun, no-prep prefixes and suffixes worksheet games! This Prefixes and Suffixes Activity Games Bundle contains 12 exciting games to help students practice identifying, defining, and using common prefixes and suffixes.These games are so simple to use and require very minimal prep. They are perfect to use in literacy centers or as extension activities when students complete their work! Just print, grab a few playing pieces, and play!Want to learn more about what yo
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3rd - 6th
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ESL Games Bundle Elementary Grammar and Vocabulary Building Activities
This is a collection of 6 different must have best selling games for Elementary English Language Classrooms. These games help improve speaking and communication in ESL EFL and ELL classes when language is limited to Present Simple, Present Continuous and Past Simple. The activities allows students to actively participate while remaining within their English comfort level. What's included:Wh- question Card game: Need a creative and competitive way to practice and improve responding to What ,When
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3rd - 6th
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Common Grammar and Writing Mistakes Escape Room Game - Digital Resource
This digital resource is a grammar review disguised as a fun escape room adventure activity. Mission: individuals or teams work through puzzles to discover the location of stolen jewels. Challenges in this grammar escape room include working with common mistakes in writing, such as frequently confused words and common grammar errors. There are also other challenges to encourage critical thinking, problem solving, and following directions! (See important information below about tech requirements)
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
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Grammar and Word Puzzle Escape Room Bundle - Word Games & Fun Grammar Review
Students love escape rooms, but they are so much more than just fun activities! With this bundle, your students will practice and review grammar points and use investigative skills to solve word puzzles and other fun challenges. Students build critical thinking and problem solving skills with these engaging escape room games.⭐️What you'll get in this escape room bundle (Click the PREVIEW link above for a closer look)1. Word and Logic Puzzle Escape Room (Printable/with digital lock option)In this
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
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ESCAPE ROOM Plot Elements: Fractured Fairy Tales & Creative Writing
This PLOT ELEMENTS ESCAPE ROOM breakout activity uses fractured fairy tales to teach and reinforce the elements of a plot. It is a fun, team building ADVENTURE that requires reading comprehension skills, understanding of plot elements, creative writing, inferencing, and problem-solving.
The adventure begins when YOU, the most awesome teacher in the history of the world, take the kids on a little trip to a publishing house. Things go a bit awry, and the kids have to save the day by rising to th
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5th - 9th
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Vocabulary Building Card Game for ESL & ELL : People, Places, Things, Verbs
Vocabulary building card games are wonderful for encouraging speaking, listening, reading and thinking skills in English classrooms! This game plays like UNO and to use a card students must think of 2 different words for relating to their card. There are 80 cards in the following categories: People, Places, Things, Verbs & Words. Example: "Name 2 Places" Where you can buy food. Your students must think of two different places. (Perhaps a grocery store and a restaurant.)*If the question is
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: ESL Games Bundle Elementary Grammar and Vocabulary Building Activities
Mystery Box! Editable Game Show Template | End of Year Review | Digital Online
This is a great game to play with any subject and any grade. It's especially perfect for review classes at the end of the school year!A game you can use forever - this is an editable template, so you can write your own questions and change them whenever you like! Save time! Minimal prep required - simply add the questions and you're ready to go. You can add up to 18 questions in this template.My students ❤️love❤️ this game and ask to play it all the time! It's easy to play:The first team chooses
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4th - 12th
Idiom Pictionary or Charades Set with 70 Different Cards
Are you out of ideas for warm ups or those five minute time-fillers at the end of a shorter-than-anticipated lesson?
Do you need a new, interesting way to teach idioms to your English, Reading, or ESL class?
Try this engaging pictionary/charades activity that will have your students begging to get out of their seats and participate!
Card set includes 70 colorful (and black/white) cards listing popular idioms.
The difficulty varies throughout the set, allowing you to pick and choose the
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4th - 12th
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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
Vocalic R Game | Match It Quick
Speech Therapy for Vocalic R This game is very popular among students! Each card has eight pictures containing a vocalic /r/. There is ALWAYS one matching picture on any two cards and ONLY one. Have the students race to spot and name the matching picture. Whoever names the match first, gets both cards. The student with the most cards at the end of the game is the winner. This game has 55 cards to print.Teletherapy Tip:Use Match It Quick cards in your virtual therapy sessions by placing two pri
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1st - 8th
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Also included in: Articulation Games Bundle | Later Developing Sounds
Name That Idiom Powerpoint Game
Turn learning idioms into a fun game with this colorful powerpoint!
"Name that Idiom" is 44 slides long and contains 21 different idioms and their meaning, each with an adorable photo that can be printed to create hilarious posters for your classroom.
Slideshows are editable so that you can adjust the vocabulary, if needed.
Can be played:
1) individually as a daily warm-up for over 4 weeks
2) in pairs or groups as a game
3) as a new version of HANGMAN
4) printed as a file folder activity
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6th - 10th
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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Articulation Games Bundle | Later Developing Sounds
Elicit spontaneous speech productions with this VERY popular card game in speech therapy! Match It Quick is a must have articulation game for students working on carryover. I use this game with mixed groups working on articulation and language. Included in this game bundle: 1.) vocalic /r/ 2.) prevocalic /r/ and /r/ blends 3.) /l/ and /l/ blends 4.) /ch/5.) /sh/6.) /s/ blends7.) voiced and voiceless /th/ 8.) "J" as in jumpEach of the Match It Quick games in this bundle are available for indiv
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1st - 7th
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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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Fun Christmas Puzzles Pack - Winter Holiday Party Activities or Fast Finishers
Students love Christmas puzzles during the December countdown to winter break, but I love the ones that get them thinking! Your students will have fun with this pack of Christmas word puzzles, which will definitely have them thinking as they work to solve them. With holiday puzzles that go beyond the usual Christmas word search, this pack of fun activities is sure to get you through those restless final days of the year! Prefer to have winter puzzles without reference to any specific holiday? I'
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4th - 7th, Adult Education
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3D paper town project with 20 places in town
Build a mini town in your classroom using these printables 3D buildings.Students can use the town to practice everyday vocabulary, to give directions or to describe their town using prepositions of place. These are also great for community units and creating a model town. Just print, cut and glue and your town will be ready to explore! Included in this pdf:-20 color places in town-20 black and white places in town (students can color their town, their way!)-1 blank template for students to draw
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PreK - 6th
Speech Therapy Articulation Game Bundle | Rock Paper Scissors Articulation Game
What’s a better way to practice articulation skills than with a fun and engaging game? Your K-8th grade speech therapy students are going to LOVE playing this classic card game to practice their articulation skills! This articulation game is based on the classic hand game called Rock Paper Scissors. It’s a game kids know and love. Just print out the deck of cards, shuffle and divide them between two players and let the fun begin. Players simultaneously place the top card from their deck face up
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K - 7th
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Survival Island: Community-building PPT game
In Survival Island, students must work together and use their creativity and resourcefulness to get themselves out of potentially treacherous scenarios on a deserted island. This resource includes:- A 58-slide PowerPoint game about being stranded on a deserted island- 3 writing/conversation prompts on the subject of deserted islands- A 2-page PDF printable handout to accompany the game- 18 printable item cards that are optional to include with the gameThis activity is an excellent way to build c
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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