Colons Punctuation Grammar Activity Escape Room Challenge, Presentation, & Quiz
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This colons punctuation grammar escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of colon rules! The detailed presentation introduces colon punctuation rules 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 find a missing tiger. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a challenge related to using colons to unlock a solution and find the missing tiger.|
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Included in This Colons Punctuation Escape Room Challenge Grammar Activity:
➡️ Colons Pre-Assessment Quiz: Start by assigning this quick 10-question multiple-choice quiz to assess student understanding of colon rules. 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.
➡️ Colons Grammar Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the using colons punctuation lesson and activity with instructional slides, activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ Find the Missing Tiger 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 are the head of security at a university and a rare tiger has gone missing. They are suspicious of Professor Demerchant's involvement, so when they find a hidden locked compartment behind a painting in the professor’s office, they know they need to get access to solve the case.
➡️ Colons Find the Missing Tiger Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style colons challenge, students must determine if examples are properly using colons to determine the slide lock solution to find the clues needed to find the missing tiger.
How This Colons Punctuation Escape Room Challenge Grammar Activity Works:
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Start by assigning the quiz to check your students’ understanding of colon rules before you begin the lesson.
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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.
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Read the narrative story as a class to hook students and introduce the colons activity challenge.
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Once you have completed the quiz, taught the grammar concept, and read the story, students are ready to try the grammar challenge!
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When students find the answer, you can share the conclusion slides to wrap up the story.
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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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