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Immerse your students in the world of literature with games that make reading interactive and fun. This collection includes activities like character role-play, plot mapping, and literary quizzes. By integrating these literature games into your teaching, you can deepen students' understanding and appreciation of literary works.
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A Jeopardy-style review game (PowerPoint and Google Slides versions) plus printable task cards covering setting, characters, plot, and theme of the novel The Giver, playable in whole group, small group, or distance-learning settings.
Provide a comprehensive Common-Core-aligned end-of-year ELA review for Grade 5, covering word study/morphology, vocabulary/figurative language, reading comprehension, grammar/language, and writing/conventions, plus review games.
A digital-and-printable escape room activity for use after reading A Christmas Carol, having students analyze how Dickens used and altered Victorian history to influence his characters and message, comparing fictional portrayal to historical account.
Provide quizzes and a review game for practicing literary-terms vocabulary at a high-school level.
Dig deeper into Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street with this engaging partner or small group figurative language activity. Students will answer 15 higher-level analysis questions related to Cisneros' use of poetic devices and…
Matching activity teaching students to recognize common English idioms/allusions that derive from Greek mythology figures (e.g. 'Herculean', 'Achilles' heel', 'Midas touch') and to connect each figure to the phrase's meaning, tied to a reading standard on interpreting textual allusions.
The escape room joins several kinds of Hamlet review into one sequence. Teams select and order plot events, connect quotations with speakers, and closely read a Hamlet–Polonius passage. Information from these tasks contributes to the final cipher. The teacher solving guide and answer keys support setup, while the reflection questions bring attention back to strategy and collaboration.
Provide multiple game-based review formats (task cards, Jeopardy-style PowerPoint, Google Slides version) to build reading comprehension and higher-order-thinking vocabulary around the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.
A group escape-room game reviewing plot, characters, and close reading of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
The Literary Devices: Memory Match Game - FLASH-MAC Developed exclusively for MAC systems, this unique interactive teaching resource is designed to boost the comprehension of literary devices among students in grades 5 through 8.
Literary Devices: Theme Tree - FLASH-MAC Literary Devices: Theme Tree - FLASH-MAC is a premium digital educational tool developed for teachers, offering an interactive method for students to delve into literature.
The slides present five Romeo and Juliet puzzles, including a letter code, character matching, scrambled lines, a missing prologue word, and family sorting. Use them in sequence as a review activity and discuss the reasoning before revealing each answer slide. The file supplies the puzzle prompts and solutions; advance the slides yourself and keep each answer hidden until students have responded.
Gothic/Halloween-themed 'Celtic Puzzle' cryptogram code-breaking activity referencing Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, for pattern recognition, memory, and focus practice.
Provide a multi-activity package (character relationships, genealogy/narrative structure, multiple-intelligences projects, a Jeopardy-style review game, and a character/plot schematic) for teaching Wuthering Heights.
Who Said It: Shakespeare or...? Classroom Card Game This innovative teaching resource is specially designed for educators who wish to immerse students in the fascinating world of language arts.
A Jeopardy-style PowerPoint review game covering Shakespeare's biography and Romeo and Juliet Acts 1-5, used to review key plot points, characters, and literary devices before an assessment.
Review the short story 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe after students have read and studied it, using a digital escape room format.
A speed-dating style discussion activity with 12 prompt cards for analyzing "The F Word" chapter from Firoozeh Dumas' memoir Funny in Farsi, focused on identity, culture, tone, and assimilation.
Companion guide to the book The Poky Little Puppy building vocabulary and comprehension skills for early learners.