Commonly Confused Words Grammar Activity Escape Challenge, Slides, and Quiz

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This grammar escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of commonly confused words and some homophones! The detailed presentation introduces commonly confused words with clear examples, ensuring student understanding from the start, and a pre or post-assessment quiz allows you to assess student understanding effectively. The highlight of the resource is the engaging escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must avoid a ship from hitting an iceberg. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a commonly confused words-related challenge to unlock the solution and unlock the ship's navigation controls.

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Included in This Commonly Confused Words & Homophones Escape Room Challenge Grammar Activity:

➡️ Commonly Confused Words Pre-Assessment Quiz: Start by assigning this quick 10-question multiple-choice quiz to assess student understanding of commonly confused words and homophones. A detailed answer key is included for class review or grading. This can also be used as a post-assessment after the lesson if you prefer.

➡️ Commonly Confused Words Grammar Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the commonly confused words lesson and activity with instructional slides, activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Avoid the Iceberg 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 find themselves on a cruise with the ship's captain incapacitated, and the ship is on a collision course with an iceberg. They discover a navigation manual with clues to the passphrase needed to unlock the navigation controls to stop the imminent collision.

➡️ Commonly Confused Words Iceberg Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style misused words challenge, students must read a passage and find all the misused words or incorrectly used homophones. The first letter of each in order reveals a mystery phrase to unlock the navigation controls to avoid the iceberg.

How This Commonly Confused Words & Homophones Escape Room Challenge Grammar Activity Works:

Start by assigning the quiz to check your students’ understanding of commonly confused words rules before you begin the lesson.
Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach the grammar concept, introduce the story and challenge, and review the answers.
Read the narrative story as a class to hook students and introduce the commonly confused words and homophones activity challenge.
Once you have completed the quiz, taught the grammar concept, and read the story, students are ready to try the grammar challenge!
When students find the answer, you can share the conclusion slides to wrap up the story.
Want to check to see if your students’ understanding of the concept has improved? Assign the pre-assessment quiz again after they have completed the challenge to see if they have improved.

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