Story Elements and Literary Devices Presentation & Escape Room Reading Activity

Story Elements and Literary Devices Presentation & Escape Room Reading Activity: This story elements reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of setting, character, point of view, plot, conflict, theme, mood, and tone! The detailed presentation introduces the 8 story elements with clear examples, ensuring student understanding from the start. The highlight of the resource is the engaging escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must escape a mysterious office they are transported to under hypnosis. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a story elements-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the password to escape!

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Included in This Story Elements Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Story Elements Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the story elements lesson and activity with instructional slides on setting, character, point of view, plot, conflict, theme, mood, and tone. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Escape From the Hypnotic Trance 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. After being put under hypnosis by their English teacher, who also happens to be a therapeutic hypnotist, a student finds themselves trapped in a mysterious office and must solve a story elements puzzle to escape.

➡️ Story Elements Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style story elements challenge, students must read an original short story and answer 10 multiple-choice questions about setting, character, point of view, plot, conflict, theme, mood, and tone to reveal a hidden password to escape their hypnosis!

Story Elements Included in this Activity:

• Setting
• Character
• Point of view
• Plot
• Conflict
• Theme
• Mood
• Tone

How This Story Elements Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

• Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the story elements lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about the following story elements: setting, character, point of view, plot, conflict, theme, mood, and tone. 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 story elements activity challenge.
• Once you have taught students about the different story elements and read the story, students are ready to try the reading challenge!
• When students find the answer, you can share the conclusion slides to wrap up the story.

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