Idioms Activity - Presentation Slides and Escape Room Reading Activity Challenge

This idioms 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 idioms 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 fix a time machine and go back to the past. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a idioms-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the password to escape!

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Included in This Idioms Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Idioms Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the idioms lesson and activity with instructional slides on the usage, purpose, and origins of idioms, as well as examples of commonly used idioms with definitions. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Fix the Time Machine 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 in the future after successfully testing their time machine prototype, only to discover a deserted, futuristic city inhabited by dormant robotic droids; faced with a fried power coupler on their time machine, they must navigate their new surroundings to get the information they need to fix the time machine to get back to the past.

➡️ Idioms Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style idioms challenge, students must read an original short story and place the idioms in their correct locations to reveal what buttons they must press on the time machine to fix it.

How This Idioms Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

• Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the idioms lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about idioms. 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 idioms activity challenge.
• Once you have taught students about idioms 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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