Reading Comprehension Strategies Presentation & Escape Room Reading Activity
Reading Comprehension Skills Presentation & Escape Room Reading Activity: This reading comprehension escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of close reading! The detailed presentation introduces reading comprehension strategies 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 solve the mystery of the secret chest. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a reading comprehension-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the passphrase to uncover the secrets inside the chest!
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Included in This Reading Comprehension Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:
➡️ Reading Comprehension Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the reading comprehension lesson and activity with instructional slides with tips and strategies for improving comprehension. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ The Mystery of the Secret Chest 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 find themselves tasked with cleaning out their late grandfather's old house before it's sold. In the attic, one of them discovers an ornate wooden chest containing a locked metal box. Alongside the box is a leather-bound notebook filled with clues to unlock it. Eager to uncover the secrets hidden inside, the students start decoding the clues.
➡️ Reading Comprehension Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style reading comprehension challenge, students must read an original short story and select the correct answer for each multiple-choice question. Then, combine each of the letters associated with the correct answers to reveal the passphrase
Reading Comprehension Skills Addressed in This Activity
- Previewing
- Making Predictions
- Note-Taking
- Asking Questions
- Visualizing
- Making Inferences
- Main Ideas
- Retelling the Story
How This Reading Comprehension 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 the strategies for improving reading comprehension, 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 reading comprehension skills 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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