Plot Diagram and Structures Presentation & Escape Room Reading Activity
Plot Diagram and Structures Presentation & Escape Room Reading Activity: This plot structure reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of the plot diagram and types of plot structure! The detailed presentation introduces plot 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 escape the magical land of the fortune teller. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a plot-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the password to get back home!
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Included in This Plot Diagram Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:
➡️ Plot Diagram and Plot Structure Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the plot lesson and activity with instructional slides, activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ Escaping the Fortune Teller's Magical Land 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. At the annual traveler's carnival, a new tent beckons—a fortune teller's haven. For five dollars, you step inside, only to find yourself in a serene forest glade. Yet, an ominous feeling gnaws at you. Facing a locked door labeled "The Way Back," a nearby book hints at a password. Eager to return home, you dive into the puzzle, seeking the key to reunite with loved ones.
➡️ Plot Diagram and Plot Structure Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style plot challenge, students must read an original short story and correctly match up cards with each part of the plot diagram to reveal a hidden passphrase to escape the magical land.
Plot Topics Covered in This Resource:
- Exposition
- Rising Action
- Climax
- Falling Action
- Resolution
- Linear Plots
- Flashback
- Flashforward
- In Media Res
How This Plot Diagram Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:
- Start by using the presentation slides to guide you through each element of the lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach plot diagram and plot structure, introduce the story and challenge, and review the answers.
- Read the narrative story as a class to hook students and introduce the challenge.
- Once you taught the plot diagram and read the story, students are ready to try the escape-room style reading challenge!
- When students successfully solve the challenge, you can share the conclusion slides which will wrap up the narrative story.
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