Author's Purpose Introduction Slides and Digital Escape Room Reading Activity

This digital author's purpose reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of author's purpose! The detailed Google Slides presentation introduces the main purposes that an author could have for writing a text like to persuade, inform, entertain, explain, or describe, with clear examples. The highlight of the resource is the engaging digital escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must brave treacherous conditions to climb Mount Nimbus to access a magical kingdom beyond the clouds. Then, students must collaborate in groups to crack an author's purpose-related challenge to bypass a powerful deity guarding the majestic gates and find the passphrase to enter the cloud kingdom!

This is a digital resource and students complete all the work on the computer. This works well with distance learning, 1:1 classrooms, remote teaching, Google Classroom, or online education.

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Included in This Digital Author's Purpose Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Author's Purpose Google Slides: Use these Google Slides presentation slides to guide the author's purpose lesson and activity with instructional slides on the main purposes that an author could have for writing a text like to persuade, inform, entertain, explain, or describe. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Enter the Cloud Kingdom Narrative Back Story: Next, students are ready to put what they have learned into action! They will begin the challenge by reading a short backstory that sets up the escape room challenge. Students must brave treacherous conditions to climb Mount Nimbus, guided by the legend of a cloud kingdom, and face a final test of intellect at the gates guarded by a powerful deity to gain entry into the mystical realm.

➡️ Author's Purpose Digital Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive digital escape-room style author's purpose challenge, students must read passages with examples of the different purposes an author could have for writing their text like to persuade, inform, entertain, explain, or describe and decode an encrypted passphrase to enter the cloud kingdom!

How This Digital Author's Purpose Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

• Use the Google Slides presentation to guide you through each element of the author's purpose lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about the main purposes that an author could have for writing a text: persuade, inform, entertain, explain, or describe. It will also introduce the story and challenge, and review the answers.
• Read the narrative story as a class to hook students and introduce the author's purpose activity challenge.
• Once you have taught students about the main types of author's purpose and read the story, students are ready to try the digital reading challenge!
• When students find the answer, you can share the conclusion slides to wrap up the story.

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What Teachers Are Saying About This Author's Purpose Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

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