Poetry Meter and Rhythm Presentation & Digital Escape Room Reading Activity
Poetry Meter and Rhythm Presentation & Digital Escape Room Reading Activity: This digital poetry meter reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of the different types of poetic meter (iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, and spondaic meter). The detailed Google Slides presentation shares information on stressed and unstressed syllables, the basic units of meter, and the most common types of poetic meter with examples from each. 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 volcanic eruption. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a poetry meter-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the information needed to escape the lava.
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 Poetry Meter Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:
➡️ Poetry Meter Google Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the poetry meter lesson and activity with instructional slides on iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, and spondaic meter. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ Escape The Volcano 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 stop a supervillain's plan to trigger a catastrophic volcanic eruption but now face a dire situation: their sidekick Gilbert is held captive, suspended above lava. The crane controls have been tampered with, leaving Gilbert's fate uncertain. With little time, they find an old guidebook with instructions encoded in a challenge by the villain. They must solve it quickly to regain control of the crane and rescue Gilbert from peril.
➡️ Poetry Meter Digital Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style poetry meter challenge, students must read an original short story and read examples from poems and label the type of meter used to reconnect the wires that will save Gilbert from falling into the volcano.
Types of Poetry Meter Included in this Activity:
- Iambic
- Trochaic
- Anapestic
- Dactylic
- Spondaic
How This Digital Poetry Meter Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:
- Use the Google Slides presentation to guide you through each element of the poetry meter lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about iambic, trochaic, anapestic, dactylic, and spondaic meter. 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 meter activity challenge.
- Once you have taught students about the different types of poetic meter 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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