Writing Literary Analysis Classroom Game!

This informative and fun classroom group game will help your students understand literary analysis essay writing while also getting up and moving around the room with their classmates. This resource works best as a companion activity with Writing Literary Analysis Step-by-Step Directions & Outline Activity, which covers important topics like literary analysis thesis statements, claims and warrants, introductions, body paragraph formatting, quote embedding, analysis recommendations, and conclusion. Teaching literary analysis writing is so difficult; let this resource simplify it for you!

This game is an excellent way for students to demonstrate their understanding of literary analysis writing while also getting up and being active. Simply place the definitions of the different parts of an essay around the room, then hand out the definitions to your students (you can use groups, partners, or individual handouts depending on class size) and see if they can match their terms to the correct definition. It's a perfect entry activity for a class period that involves the crafting of a formal literary analysis essay. Be amazed as your students actually enjoy learning about literary analysis writing!

Included in your download is:

• - A page of directions that explain how to teach and introduce the activity

• - 12 important terms related to the writing of literary analysis (Thesis Statements, Introductions, Eye-catchers, Introductory statements, Narrative Summary, Direct Support, Analysis Part 1, Analysis Part 2, Concluding Statements, Revisit Claims, Revisit Warrant, and Revisit Eye-Catcher)

• - Corresponding definitions for each term

Although this resource game can be fitted for any secondary Language Arts classroom, it has been carefully designed to work best in grades 9, 10, 11, and 12. These step-by-step guidelines are specifically tied to Common Core ELA Standards for Writing (1, 2, 4, and 9) and Reading Information (4). This resource is provided as a print-ready, bookmarked, and adjustable PDF file.

This resource contains 13 pages.