Games+and+literacy+learning

There are free resources online. Many organizations have created interesting digital games that are free to use online, and which lend themselves very nicely to cross-curriculum use in middle school classrooms.

Here are a few of them:
 * [|Bow Street Runner] - lends itself to a history and social studies focus (plus has lots of [|walkthroughs] available online for if you get stuck!)
 * [|Homeland Guantanomos: The Untold Story of Immigration detention in the U.S.] - lends itself to a history, civics, and social studies focus.