Connotation Introduction Presentation & Escape Room Vocabulary Reading Activity

Connotation Introduction Presentation & Escape Room Vocabulary Reading Activity: This connotation 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 difference between positive, negative, and neutral connotations 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 step into the shoes of an explorer and venture to a mysterious desert to uncover the legendary genie's lamp. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a connotation-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the directions to find the lamp!

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Included in This Connotation Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Connotation Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the connotation vocabulary lesson and activity with instructional slides on the difference between a positive, neutral, or negative connotation. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Find the Genie's Lamp 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 step into the shoes of an explorer and venture to a mysterious desert oasis to decode enigmatic clues and uncover the legendary genie's lamp.

➡️ Connotation Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style connotation challenge, students must read an original short story and determine the directions to find the lamp by labeling words in examples as either using positive, neutral, or negative connotations.

How This Connotation Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

• Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the connotation lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about positive, neutral, and negative connotations of vocabulary words. 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 connotation activity challenge.
• Once you have taught students about the different connotations of vocabulary words 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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