Summarizing a Text Presentation & Escape Room Digital Reading Challenge Activity

Summarizing a Text Presentation & Escape Room Digital Reading Challenge Activity: This digital summarizing reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of how to summarize information! The detailed Google Slides presentation introduces summarizing with clear examples, ensuring student understanding from the start. The highlight of the resource is the engaging digital escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must repair a space station. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a summarizing-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the passphrase to reboot the system!

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 Summarizing Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Summarizing Google Slides: Use these Google Slides to guide the summarizing lesson and activity with instructional slides, activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review

➡️ Repairing the Space Station 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. You and your classmates find yourselves on the International Space Station, exhilarated by the realization of a lifelong dream. However, excitement turns to trepidation as alarms blare, signaling critical power failures. With limited oxygen and no access to crucial manuals or communication with Earth, you and your fellow students must work together to decipher literary riddles and reboot the system before it's too late.

➡️ Summarizing Digital Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive digital escape-room style summarizing challenge, students must read an original short story and five astronaut logs. They will formulate a summary of each log by combining 5 of the summary cards using the someone, wanted, but, so, then strategy to reveal a hidden passphrase to fix the space station.

• Start by using the Google Slides to guide you through each element of the lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach summarizing, 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 summarizing skills and read the story, students are ready to try the digital 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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