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Strengthen your students' reading comprehension skills with games that make analysis and interpretation fun. This collection includes story mapping, inference challenges, and question-and-answer games. By integrating these reading comprehension games into your teaching, you can improve critical thinking and understanding.
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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.
A cross-curricular mini-unit teaching students about the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, combining reading, math/graphing, social studies, research, and presentation skills.
2nd Grade End of Year ELA Review Worksheets & Games Make end-of-year review simple, engaging, and effective with this Grade 2 ELA Review Packet ! This printable literacy resource includes 52 skill-building activities and 5 interactive games designed to help second graders review important reading, writing, phonics, grammar, and…
Fifty-two numbered ELA activities and five printable review games cover word study, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar, and writing for a third-grade end-of-year review. The activities move from prefix and suffix matching and syllable-splitting through context-clue vocabulary work, two reading passages — 'The Inventor's Workshop' and an informational piece on honeybees — sentence-type labeling, and paragraph writing with transition words. A separate answer key gives sample solutions for all 52 activities plus game notes, and a teacher's guide lays out whole-class, small-group, center, homework, and early-finisher uses with suggested pacing. The games packet adds five print-and-play formats built around review vocabulary: Bingo, Memory, a roll-and-race board, a spinner, and 4-in-a-Row.
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.
A 28-part informational reader's-theater play teaching the history, legend, and biology of Groundhog Day and groundhogs, paired with an 'I Have, Who Has?' review card game.
Build reading fluency and comprehension with ACK-family words through a sentence-and-picture matching activity.
With this AT words CVC word sentence and picture matching literacy center , students can practice reading comprehension and reading fluency.
This Animal Riddles Activity is perfect for helping students learn about different animals. By reading riddles and trying to figure out which animal is being described, they will be able to learn about a variety of animals.
Sentence-to-picture matching activity for practicing reading '-ap' word-family words in context.
Practice reading, spelling, and inferencing skills, with a focus on homonyms/homophones/homographs, through a hangman-style 'Dad Jokes Guessing Game' for pairs of students.
Build bilingual (English/French) back-to-school vocabulary and literacy skills through a multi-activity booklet.
Combine art-making and informational reading: students play a dice-based drawing game to create a bee illustration, then read a nonfiction blurb about honeybee roles and complete writing/reflection activities.
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.
An activity pack teaching the 5 reasons authors write (persuade, inform, entertain, explain, describe) and having students analyze specific passages for author's purpose and the function of underlined text.
A printable/digital escape-room activity where students solve puzzles and decipher codes tied to Revolutionary War content (framed around a Paul Revere 'midnight ride' scenario), built to a 5th-grade TEKS standard per the file name.
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 collaborative, holiday-themed escape room combining reading, math, and puzzle-solving skills for upper-elementary students.
A Halloween-themed board game that builds reading-for-meaning/inference skill by having students match a picture to the sentence that precisely describes it, among two closely similar options.
This resource is a Main Idea and Details Concentration Game. All you have to do is print, laminate and cut to prepare this game! Students will match a main idea and detail card to win. Answer key included.
This Declaration of Independence Escape Room was designed with your 5th grade students in mind. Students will read, apply math skills, complete puzzles and so much more.
A multicultural-education resource guiding grade 3-6 students through eight world cultures (African American, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Jewish, Korean, Mexican, Native American) using literature, celebrations, games, and art activities.
A group escape-room game reviewing plot, characters, and close reading of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.