Poetry Reading Comprehension Slides & Escape Room Poem Reading Activity

Poetry Reading Comprehension Slides & Escape Room Poem Reading Activity: This poetry comprehension reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of poetry! The detailed presentation introduces tips for improving poetry comprehension, 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 a magical book. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a poetry comprehension-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the passphrase to escape the book!

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Included in This Poetry Comprehension Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Poetry Comprehension Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the poetry comprehension lesson and activity with instructional slides with tips for understanding poetry. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Escape The Magical Book 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 stumble upon a mysterious book in a used bookstore, and before they know it, they are transported to a surreal world filled with strange humanoid creatures. Feeling disoriented, they find a book containing cryptic instructions, a poem, and questions. Intrigued and seeking distraction from the bizarre surroundings, they settle down to unravel the puzzle within to escape the book and get back to the real world.

➡️ Poetry Comprehension Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style poetry comprehension challenge, students must read a poem (The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost) and answer multiple-choice questions to show understanding to reveal a hidden passphrase to escape the book.

How This Poetry Comprehension Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

• Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the poetry comprehension lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach tips for improving poetry comprehension. 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 poetry comprehension activity challenge.
• Once you have taught students the tips for poetry comprehension 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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