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LA Games

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These games will help middle school students explore writing and word meanings as well as encourage critical thinking in reading.  The games are from such sites as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a large international learning company, Beacon Learning Center, Merriam-Webster, and the Adult Literacy Media Alliance.  If you have similar games to share, add them in the "comments" section on the bottom of this page.

Which Writing
is Right?

Expository writing is a style used to present facts and ideas.  Click the clipboard to reveal some writing samples and decide whether or not they fit the category of expository writing.

Wacky Web Tales

Create a funny story by filling in the blanks with random words that correspond to the appropriate part of speech or prompt.

Trailblazing Introductions

It's normal to sometimes feel lost while writing an introduction to your essay or story.  Practice 'marking the trail' of these introductory paragraphs and learn what clues to put in your introduction that will how to hold your readers' interest.

Trailblazing Conclusions

This exercise helps writers 'lasso' the skills needed for writer a strong conclusion.

Prefix Mix

Learn the difference between the prefixes 'pre' and 'post' by completing the sentences with the correct word.  Feedback for all answers is given.

Prefixes Make New Words

Practice using various prefixes. Drag-and-drop them to complete the sentences.

Robo-Bee

Will your language skills blossom or wilt? Control the flight of the Robo-Bee through a garden of synonyms, antonyms, spelling and word usage puzzles!

Build Your Own Dictionary

You're the author of this unique dictionary, so you can decide which words belong in it.  Fill in the boxes to submit the word.

Writer's Block

Here kids join together to help build a story block by block!  Help finish a story by adding ideas.  One week each month, a new story will begin.  Post ideas for the middle and ending of the story.

Character Scrapbook

This reader's response activity can be used to analyze the character of any book.

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Language Arts: Middle School Games - Game On: Increasing Learning Through Online Games

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This game provides resources for teachers, parents, and students who are interested in educational games on the Internet. It looks at the value of using games for learning, and provides game suggestions for several subject areas and grade levels.

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LA Links

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7-12 Student Interactives - Language Arts - UEN

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7-12 Interactives - Fun, educational, online games geared towards seventh through 12th grade students.

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Williamsburg Middle School

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Middle School Language Arts

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Be sure to see our Language & Literature Subject Center
for more great lesson ideas and articles.

Expand students' cultural horizons by shaping a fun dialogue-writing exercise around Guy Fawkes Night, a November 5 historical observance that's popular in England.

Harry Potter Inspires: Design a Wizard Sports Team
In this lesson for grades K-2, students use creativity, reasoning and language skills to develop a new sports team.

Harry Potter Inspires: Character Sketch for a New Wizard
In this writing and literature lesson for grades 5-8, students create a new character that would fit into the wizard world.

Creating a Poetry Collection
In this lesson, which encourages students to think about the sounds of poems, students use lip-syncing software to produce an animated talking head.

Fun Activities Get the School Year Off to a Good Start!
Every teacher has a different approach to the first few days of school. Whatever your approach, Education World has an activity for you!

Take the Polar Express to Learning
Polar Express, the movie, arrives in movie theaters nationwide on November 10. Don't miss the movie and the opportunity to take advantage of this "teachable moment." Included: Education World connects you to lessons, resources.

Celebrate Books: A (Book) Week of Fun!
The calendar might identify November 17-23 as Children's Book Week, but for most teachers -- always on the lookout for new ideas to promote literacy -- every week is Book Week. Education World offers five new lessons for a week of reading fun.

Spotlight on Spelling
Each May, the National Spelling Bee is held in Washington, D.C. Since most of your students won't be there, this week we offer lesson plans to help put them there next year! Included: Five new lesson plans plus links to many more. Voice of Experience: Revisiting Walden Pond in 2003
If your students were to head for a modern-day Walden Pond, what would they take with them? Kathleen Modenbach shares an activity that helped her students grasp Thoreau's sacrifices and appreciate his work. Included: Cross-curricular activities extend the lesson.

Special Reading Fun for Read Across America Day
Each March, on Dr. Seusss birthday, schools celebrate Read Across America Day. This week, Education World recognizes this special day with five new reading lesson plans plus links to dozens of great reading projects culled from our archive.

Better Book Reports: 25 More Ideas!
Tired of the same old book report formats? This week, Education World presents a sequel to its popular "Better Book Reports -- 25 Ideas! article. Are you ready for 25 more practical book report ideas?

Make the 'Write' Impression!
According to the NAEP Writing Report Card published in 1999, 23 percent of fourth graders, 27 percent of eighth graders, and 22 percent of high school seniors, write at the "proficient" level. The push is on in schools across the U.S. to improve students' writing skills. This week, Education World provides five lesson plans to support that effort.

Better Book Reports -- 25 Ideas!
Tired of the same old book report formats? Do your students grumble every time you mention the words book reports? Spice up those old book reports with some new ideas. Education World presents 25 ideas for you to use or adapt.

Tired of the same old book report formats? Or worse, do your students grumble every time you mention "book reports"? Spice up those old book reports with some new ideas. Education World presents 25 ideas for you to use or adapt. In addition: Ideas for cyber book reports!

Reading Activities for Read-In! Day!
Teachers who've joined The Read In! share their favorite reading activity ideas. Included: Theme ideas for reading fun!

25 Ideas to Motivate Young Readers!
To celebrate Children's Book Week, the folks at the BOOK-IT! Program have given permission for Education World to reprint 25 great ideas from teachers -- ideas that are sure to get kids across the grades excited about reading!

Seventh Graders Writing Italian Sonnets? You Bet!
Glori Chaika's students at Slidell (Louisiana) Junior High School are among the most-often published poets in the country. Let's take a look at a program that has kids writing all kinds of poems---from quatrains to limericks to (yes!) Italian sonnets.

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Language Arts: Writing, Literature, and Creativity | Education World

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Middle School Level English Language Arts Lesson Plans

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These lesson plans are designed specifically for Middle School English Language Arts skills. This section includes the first 50 lessons.

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Portaportal

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Portaportal

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Amy Whitten: for teachers

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AWESOME resource for informational texts that can be used for close reading in a whole host of cross-curricular classes.

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ELA Portal

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Works like a teleprompter- Great for class plays

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Tech help for the classroom.

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Interactive slides

Make any slides-based lessons interactive and gather data on student understanding by adding formative assessments, simulations, and dynamic media.

Or choose from thousands of ready-to-teach, customizable, standards-aligned lessons from teacher favorite brands.

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Nearpod: You'll wonder how you taught without it

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Real-time insights into student understanding through interactive lessons, interactive videos, gamified learning, formative assessment, and activities -- all in a single platform.

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Discover pages with the best links about a subject

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Discover pages with the best links about a subject