FREE 4th Grade Reading Comprehension Escape Room | Digital, Year-Round Test Prep

This free escape room is 100% digital. The included PDF contains a link to play.

Whether we're talking back-to school, end-of-the-year, or anytime in between, Puzzle Punks: Escape the Midnight Mall doesn't feel like learning; it feels like a video game! In this no prep escape room, your class will work through five standards-based, 4th grade reading review challenges. Each is soaked in custom artwork and secret lore — encouraging dangerous levels of engagement, team work, and problem solving.

Use Puzzle Punks for:

• a reading escape room for all-year practice and review

• a no-prep fourth grade literacy center or small group activity

• a digital reading comprehension test prep game

4th grade ELA standards covered:

1. Main idea

2. Poetry

3. Similes and metaphors

4. Context clues

5. Setting, character traits, and point of view

How Puzzle Punks works

This is a digital-only escape room. After purchasing, you'll be able to download a PDF with a link to play the game.

You'll then divide your classroom into teams of up to 6, and assign each team a device — a Chromebook, iPad, laptop, PC, Mac, etc — Puzzle Punks works on (quite literally) everything. Then, in typical escape room fashion, each team will complete a number of reading challenges. For each challenge, they will:

1. Read: a passage, a short story, a poem, etc.

2. Answer questions about the reading: multiple choice, crossword, etc.

3. Decode the secret word: using critical thinking to decipher clues hidden within the answers

Upon completing all five challenges, the game is complete! The entire experience takes about 45-60 minutes.

Why Puzzle Punks rocks

• No prep required: start playing in less than a minute

• No supplies needed: just a single digital device for each team

• Big-time differentiation: tailor the game to each individual group

• Unnecessarily cool artwork: you've never seen an escape room like this

• Standards-based but actually fun: your kids won't even know they're learning

The lore of Escape the Midnight Mall

The shopkeepers of the Midnight Mall are in terrible trouble. Each has a task to complete before the clock strikes 12:00. You must use your codebreaking skills to help — but beware! At exactly midnight, from somewhere deep within the Undermurk... the Mallcrawlers will emerge. Will you make it out in time?

4th grade Common Core ELA standards

Language: CCSS.L.4.3, CCSS.L.4.4, CCSS.L.4.4a, CCSS.L.4.5, CCSS.L.4.5a

Reading - Literature: CCSS.RL.4.1, CCSS.RL.4.2, CCSS.RL.4.3, CCSS.RL.4.4, CCSS.RL.4.5, CCSS.RL.4.6, CCSS.RL.4.10

Reading - Informational Text: CCSS.RI.4.1, CCSS.RI.4.2, CCSS.RI.4.3, CCSS.RI.4.7

Reading - Foundational Skills: CCSS.RF.4.3, CCSS.RF.4.3a, CCSS.RF.4.4, CCSS.RF.4.4a, CCSS.RF.4.4b, CCSS.RF.4.4c

Anchor Standards for Language: CCSS.CCRA.L.3, CCSS.CCRA.L.4, CCSS.CCRA.L.5, CCSS.CCRA.L.6

Anchor Standards for Reading: CCSS.CCRA.R.1, CCSS.CCRA.R.2, CCSS.CCRA.R.3, CCSS.CCRA.R.4, CCSS.CCRA.R.5, CCSS.CCRA.R.6, CCSS.CCRA.R.7, CCSS.CCRA.R.8, CCSS.CCRA.R.10

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