Cart 0
Allusion Introduction Presentation and Digital Escape Room Reading Activity
Allusion Introduction Presentation and Digital Escape Room Reading Activity
Allusion Introduction Presentation and Digital Escape Room Reading Activity
Allusion Introduction Presentation and Digital Escape Room Reading Activity

Allusion Introduction Presentation and Digital Escape Room Reading Activity

Digital Download

This digital allusion reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of literary allusion! The detailed Google Slides presentation introduces different types of allusion like historical, mythological, literary, religious, and pop-culture 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 uncover a neighbor's involvement in alien research. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack an allusion-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the passphrase to gain access to an underground bunker hiding alien secrets!

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.

 

This is included in our best-selling full-year program:
>>> Reading Challenge Digital Program

 

Included in This Digital Allusion Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Allusion Google Slides: Use these Google Slides presentation slides to guide the allusion lesson and activity with instructional slides on the different types of allusion: historical, mythological, literary, religious, and pop-culture. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Escape The Alien Base at Area 51 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. Upon discovering a keycard dropped by their mysterious neighbor, a curious individual decides to infiltrate Area 51, uncovering their neighbor's involvement in extraterrestrial research and embarking on a quest to solve a cryptic challenge hidden within a blank book.

➡️ Allusion Digital Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style allusion challenge, students must read passages and find examples of allusion to reveal a hidden password to escape Area 51!

 

How This Digital Allusion Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

  • Use the Google Slides presentation to guide you through each element of the allusion lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about the following types of allusion: historical, mythological, literary, religious, and pop-culture. 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 allusion activity challenge.
  • Once you have taught students about the different types of allusion 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.

 

If you like this, you’ll love this resource: 
>>> Paragraph of the Week Writing Program

 

© Presto Plans © Limitless Lessons

 

➡️ Want 10 free ELA resources sent to your inbox? Click here!