Nonfiction Text Structures Slides & Informational Escape Room Reading Activity

Nonfiction Text Structures Slides & Informational Escape Room Reading Activity: This nonfiction text structures reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and solution, sequence, and descriptive text structures. The detailed presentation introduces the 5 nonfiction text structures 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 find shelter on a deserted island. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a nonfiction text structures-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the password to find shelter on the island!

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Included in This Nonfiction Text Structures Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Nonfiction Text Structures Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the nonfiction text structures lesson and activity with instructional slides on compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and solution, sequence, and descriptive text structures. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Find Shelter on the Deserted Island 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. Stranded on a small desert island after a storm sinks their sailing vessel, students stumble upon a peculiar stone building with no windows and a single heavy metal door; desperate for shelter and sustenance, they discover clues hidden inside a painted coconut decoration hanging outside the building, hinting at a passphrase that may unlock the mysterious structure.

➡️ Nonfiction Text Structures Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style nonfiction text structures challenge, students must sort passages into their proper text structure to reveal a hidden passphrase to gain access to the shelter.

Nonfiction Text Structures Included in this Activity:

• Compare and contrast
• Cause and effect
• Problem and solution
• Sequence
• Descriptive

How This Nonfiction Text Structures Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

• Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the nonfiction text structures lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and solution, sequence, and descriptive text structures. 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 nonfiction text structures challenge.
• Once you have taught students about the different text structures 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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