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.
Writing Games & Labs for the Classroom
26 multiplayer classroom games and 29 virtual labs that practice writing skills, for Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade and more. 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 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 3–5 · Literature
Bookworm Bonanza
A literature game show for grades 3–5: characters, theme, point of view, figurative language, and poems, plays and stories.
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 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 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 9–12 · Writing
Draft Day
Build your team by drafting strong writing: sharp thesis statements, relevant evidence and commentary, logical organization, vivid narrative craft and revisions that fit the audience.
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 9–12 · Founding documents & informational text
Freedom Trail
Race along the Freedom Trail by reading founding documents: find each author’s purpose, paraphrase key lines, analyze structure and rhetoric, and compare documents across history.
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 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 K–2 · Writing
Pencil Party
A K–2 writing game show: tell stories, facts and opinions apart, pick strong reasons, choose facts that fit a topic, put stories in order and make writing better.
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 6–12 · Research
Research and Source Credibility Lab
Students pick relevant evidence, inspect sources, sort credibility clues, repair research notes and rank sources.
Grades 1–3 · Grammar & Writing
Sentence Builders
Fix capitals, punctuation, nouns and verbs to build a wall of perfect sentences.
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 K–2 · Sight words
Sight Word Pond
Collect pond pals by hearing, matching, spelling and reading sight words in sentences and short stories.
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 9–12 · Grammar & Style
Style Studio
Parallel structure, phrases and clauses, semicolons, colons, dashes, modifiers and concise writing for high school.
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 3–5 · Decoding & fluency
Syllable Surf
Claim squares by splitting words into syllables, spotting syllable types, building contractions and abbreviations, using spelling rules and reading with expression. Get 4 in a row to win.
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 K–2 · Vocabulary
Word Wagon
Ride the Word Wagon by sorting words into groups, finding opposites and words that mean the same, using context clues and figuring out word parts.
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
Writing (10)Grammar (7)Argument & Informational Text (5)Literature (5)Vocabulary (5)Research (4)Main Idea & Summary (3)Reading Comprehension (3)Inference & Text Evidence (2)Spelling (2)Author's Craft (1)Comparing Texts (1)Decoding & fluency (1)Founding documents & informational text (1)Grammar & Style (1)Grammar & Writing (1)Literary Analysis (1)Media Literacy (1)Sight words (1)
Standards practiced
Common Core L.11-12.1Common Core L.11-12.2Common Core L.11-12.3Common Core L.11-12.4Common Core L.11-12.5Common Core L.11-12.6Common Core L.3.1Common Core L.3.2Common Core L.3.3Common Core L.3.4Common Core L.3.5Common Core L.3.6Common Core L.4.1Common Core L.4.2Common Core L.4.3Common Core L.4.4Common Core L.4.5Common Core L.4.6Common Core L.5.1Common Core L.5.2Common Core L.5.3Common Core L.5.4Common Core L.5.5Common Core L.5.6Common Core L.6.1Common Core L.6.2Common Core L.6.3Common Core L.6.4Common Core L.6.5Common Core L.6.6Common Core L.7.1Common Core L.7.2Common Core L.7.3Common Core L.7.4Common Core L.7.5Common Core L.7.6
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