Irony Slides & Verbal, Dramatic, Situational Digital Reading Escape Activity
Irony Slides & Verbal, Dramatic, Situational Digital Reading Escape Activity: This digital irony reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of irony! The detailed Google Slides presentation shares information on verbal irony, dramatic irony, and situational irony with examples for each one. The highlight of the resource is the engaging digital escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must escape an alligator attack. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack an irony-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the code to restart the hovercraft and escape the alligators.
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.
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Included in This Digital Irony Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:
➡️ Irony Google Slides: Use these Google Slides presentation slides to guide the irony lesson and activity with instructional slides on verbal, dramatic, and situational irony. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ Escape The Alligators 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 on a hovercraft tour of the Florida Everglades face a sudden emergency when the vehicle malfunctions, leaving them stranded amidst encroaching alligators. To restart the hovercraft and escape, they must solve a puzzle hidden within the operator's manual to obtain the necessary PIN code.
➡️ Irony Digital Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive digital escape-room style irony challenge, students must read an original short story and count the number of instances of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony in a story to reveal a hidden PIN to escape the alligators!
How This Digital Irony Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:
- Use the Google Slides presentation to guide you through each element of the irony lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about verbal, dramatic, and situational irony. 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 irony activity challenge.
- Once you have taught students about the different types of irony 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.
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