Grades 6–8 · Argument & Informational Text
Argument Arena
Spot claims, judge evidence, answer counterclaims and win the debate.
8th Grade Reading & ELA Games & Labs
23 multiplayer classroom games and 29 virtual labs for 8th grade reading & ela. The games play on one shared screen and the labs run on each student's device. No student logins, works offline, and every one has a free demo you can try right now.
Grades 6–12 · Argument & Informational Text
Argument, Claims, and Evidence Lab
Students sort the parts of an argument, map an editorial, test evidence, answer counterclaims and build arguments.
Grades 4–12 · Author's Craft
Author's Purpose, Tone, and Point of View Lab
Students sort texts by purpose, highlight tone words, shift connotation, identify point of view and track perspective.
Grades 6–12 · Research
Citation and Plagiarism Prevention Lab
Students decide what needs a citation, catch plagiarism in a draft, build and fix citations and judge originality.
Grades 3–8 · Comparing Texts
Compare & Connect
Compare two texts on the same topic, firsthand and secondhand accounts, text features and visuals.
Grades 4–12 · Comparing Texts
Compare-and-Contrast Text Analysis Lab
Students compare paired stories, poems and articles by finding evidence, sorting details and building comparisons.
Grades 3–8 · Vocabulary
Context Clue Quest
Use context clues, prefixes, suffixes, roots and figurative language to unlock the meaning of tricky words.
Grades 6–12 · Argument & Informational Text
Debate Arena — Defend Claims with Evidence
Teams argue Pro or Con by playing the strongest evidence, reasoning and rebuttal cards, then speak a rebuttal.
Grades 5–12 · Writing
Editor-in-Chief — Fix the Flawed Article
Players hunt for errors in newspaper articles and choose the best fix to earn points and the Front Page bonus.
Grades 5–12 · Writing
Essay Structure and Development Lab
Students label introductions, build thesis statements, develop body paragraphs, order essays and revise conclusions.
Grades 4–12 · Argument & Informational Text
Fact, Opinion, and Bias Lab
Students sort fact from opinion, flag loaded words, rewrite slanted sentences, test evidence and name bias techniques.
Grades 4–12 · Argument & Informational Text
Fact-Check Challenge
Teams claim tiles by sorting fact from opinion, judging evidence, checking sources and catching bias.
Grades 4–12 · Literature
Figurative Language Challenge
Teams claim tiles by naming figurative language and explaining what it means in context.
Grades 3–12 · Literature
Figurative Language and Literary Devices Lab
Students sort figurative lines, tag devices, decode idioms and phrases in context and analyze what each device does.
Grades 3–8 · Grammar
Grammar Detective — Find and Fix the Errors
Teams tap the one wrong word in each sentence and fix it to claim cases on the board.
Grades 6–8 · Grammar
Grammar Gauntlet
Pronouns, clauses, modifiers, verbals and commas. Survive the gauntlet and get four in a row.
Grades 3–12 · Grammar
Grammar and Sentence Repair Lab
Students tag sentence parts, fix errors in a passage, diagnose broken sentences, combine ideas and revise for clarity.
Grades 4–12 · Inference & Text Evidence
Inference and Textual Evidence Lab
Students collect clues, pick the strongest evidence, separate stated from inferred ideas and build evidence answers.
Grades 6–12 · Literary Analysis
Literary Analysis and Symbolism Lab
Students analyze characterization, decode symbols, label techniques, map plot structure and write about a story.
Grades 4–12 · Reading Comprehension
Literary Escape Room
Teams read short passages and open three locks per room using vocabulary, inference and text evidence.
Grades 7–12 · Argument & Informational Text
Logical Fallacies and Critical Reasoning Lab
Students map arguments, sort fallacies, judge a debate, repair faulty reasoning and rank evidence by strength.
Grades 3–8 · Main Idea & Summary
Main Idea Mission
Teams race rockets by finding main ideas, themes, key details and the best summary of short passages.
Grades 3–8 · Main Idea & Summary
Main Idea and Supporting Details Lab
Students find main ideas, sort key and minor details, build unstated main ideas and write objective summaries.
Grades 3–12 · Media Literacy
Media Literacy and Advertising Lab
Students name ad techniques, sort ad claims, test how images and headlines frame a message and make or analyze an ad.
Grades 3–12 · Writing
Narrative Writing and Story Elements Lab
Students find story elements, order a plot, identify point of view, test pacing and dialogue and draft a scene.
Grades 3–8 · Writing
Paragraph Organization Lab
Students sort sentences by topic, cut off-topic lines, order sentences, label paragraph parts and add transitions.
Grades 3–8 · Writing
Paragraph Puzzle
Teams rebuild scrambled paragraphs in a logical order to move their tokens around a race track.
Grades 6–12 · Research
Paraphrasing and Source Integration Lab
Students judge and write paraphrases, test signal verbs, build quote sandwiches and fix poorly integrated evidence.
Grades 3–8 · Grammar
Parts of Speech Identification Lab
Students tag words in sentences, sort word cards by part of speech and fix words that are used the wrong way.
Grades 6–8 · Literature
Plot Twist
Theme, plot structure, character, point of view and figurative language in short middle school stories and poems.
Grades 3–12 · Literature
Poetry and Drama Structure Lab
Students map rhyme schemes, mark stressed syllables, sort poem forms, color-code a play script and test structure.
Grades 3–8 · Vocabulary
Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words Lab
Students split words into parts, sort affixes and roots, build words from tiles and use word parts to read a text.
Grades 3–8 · Grammar
Punctuation Rescue — Save the Sentences
Crews fix capitalization and punctuation in broken sentences to race their boats to the lighthouse.
Grades 3–12 · Grammar
Punctuation and Capitalization Lab
Students fix capitals, place punctuation marks between words, sort tricky cases and correct spelling in short texts.
Grades 3–12 · Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension Mixed Review Lab
Students read a story and an article, then cite evidence, infer, work out word meanings, analyze structure and theme.
Grades 3–8 · Inference & Text Evidence
Reading Detective — Textual Evidence Mysteries
Teams solve short mysteries by finding the clue sentence that proves a conclusion and claiming cases.
Grades 3–8 · Research
Research Rangers
Research questions, credible sources, note-taking, paraphrasing vs. plagiarism and citing sources.
Grades 6–12 · Research
Research and Source Credibility Lab
Students pick relevant evidence, inspect sources, sort credibility clues, repair research notes and rank sources.
Grades 3–8 · Grammar
Sentence Scramble — Build Correct Sentences
Players build correct sentences from scrambled word tiles, leaving out decoys, to capture squares.
Grades 4–12 · Grammar
Sentence Structure and Syntax Lab
Students sort sentences, diagnose fragments and run-ons, combine sentences from tiles and repair sentence errors.
Grades 6–12 · Research
Source Sleuth — Trustworthy Sources
Teams judge websites, ads, posts and studies for trustworthiness to claim tiles on a case board.
Grades 3–8 · Spelling
Spelling Showdown
Players wager, then spot misspellings, choose confused words and pick correct spellings to race ahead.
Grades 3–8 · Spelling
Spelling and Commonly Confused Words Lab
Students pick the right homophones, sort words by spelling rule, build words with suffixes and proofread passages.
Grades 3–8 · Main Idea & Summary
Summary Sprint
Players pick the best summary, cut extra sentences or build a summary from cards to race to the finish.
Grades 3–12 · Reading Comprehension
Text Structure Lab
Students sort passages by structure, hunt signal words, color-code an article and fill in graphic organizers.
Grades 4–12 · Literature
Theme and Central Idea Lab
Students sort themes from topics, tap story evidence, trace how ideas develop and build theme statements from tiles.
Grades 4–12 · Writing
Transitions and Writing Cohesion Lab
Students sort transitions by job, fill gaps in a passage, reorder scrambled paragraphs and replace vague words.
Grades 3–12 · Vocabulary
Vocabulary Quest — Context Clues
Explorers use context clues to figure out word meanings and race along a trail to the treasure.
Grades 3–12 · Vocabulary
Vocabulary and Context Clues Lab
Students use context clues, build words from parts, rank words by strength, sort word pairs and use a dictionary.
Grades 3–8 · Vocabulary
Word Builder — Roots and Affixes
Teams build words from prefix, root and suffix tiles and decode word parts to claim squares on a Word Wall.
Grades 3–12 · Writing
Writing Revision and Proofreading Lab
Students sort revising from editing, reorder a paragraph, cut off-topic sentences, fix sentences and proofread.
Grades 3–8 · Writing
Writing Workshop
Hooks, transitions, details, organization and revising and editing real student drafts.
Skills these games cover
Grammar (8)Writing (8)Argument & Informational Text (6)Literature (5)Research (5)Vocabulary (5)Main Idea & Summary (3)Reading Comprehension (3)Comparing Texts (2)Inference & Text Evidence (2)Spelling (2)Author's Craft (1)Literary Analysis (1)Media Literacy (1)
Standards practiced
The 8th Grade Classroom Bundle has 10 games, 3 brain breaks and 2 labs picked for this grade. The Grades 6–8 Classroom Kit has every product for Grades 6–8: 110 games, 20 brain breaks and 43 labs.
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