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Middle School Games (6th – 8th Grade)

“Game On: Increasing Learning Through Online Games”

This site offers writing and vocabulary-related lessons and games for students to enjoy. “Wacky Web Tales” is a “Mad Libs” styled game that asks students to provide words from different parts of speech, and then those words are inserted into a story that becomes humorous – based on the words the player has selected. To improve understanding and proper use of prefixes, click on the second link (below) from the “Game On” site to give your child practice in the “Prefixes Say Plenty” fill-in-the-blank activity.

“Softschools.com”

This grammar game gives students the opportunity to practice identifying pronouns, a skill that is one of the required content standards for sixth graders. When students click on the balloons with pronouns, the balloon pops, but if a non-pronoun is selected, the balloon merely deflates.

“Quia.com”

This site contains a Jeopardy-style game that quizzes the player on verbals and other verbs (gerunds, infinitives, participles, linking verbs, helping verbs, and main verbs). As a core content standard for eighth grade, this is an excellent reinforcement activity.

Core Content Standards Correlations:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.7.4b Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., belligerent, bellicose, rebel).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.8.1a Explain the function of verbals (gerunds, participles, infinitives) in general and their function in particular sentences. Important note for teachers and tutors: After identifying games and videos that you would like to use with your students, you can assemble these online resources into a streamlined format via the “Lumos Quill”. This collaborative authoring platform allows the user to repurpose meaningful content that you have developed and integrate it with the Lumos Teacher website to monitor your students’ progress.