Test Prep BUNDLE: Escape Room and Collaborative Poster - Test Taking Tips

The ultimate Test Prep and Test Taking bundle includes a FUN Escape Room to review test-taking strategies and a Test Prep Collaborative poster to hang as a visual reminder.

Test Prep Collaborative Poster:

The Test Prep – Test Motivation Collaborative Block Poster can be used as a fun team building activity to instill confidence for the BIG test! Students work together to piece their Test Prep – Test Motivation “block” with their classmates. The result is a beautiful, fun, one of a kind pop-art to hang in the hall.

You can use the Test Prep – Test Motivation Block Poster as a bulletin board display, hang on the classroom wall, classroom door, hallway, school entrance, library, gym or any place you see fit. This poster will pop and students and teachers will stop to admire your work!

This is a relaxing but fun and engaging Test Prep – Test Motivation activity! I like to play music in the background while they are working and coloring. The Test Prep – Test Motivation Poster is designed so that each student colors their own block/piece of the poster. When everyone is done, they have to work as a team to put the block poster puzzle back together. Each poster has an abstract background to make your poster “pop”.

Students will need color pencils, markers or crayons, tape and scissors. This activity is great because they can put a personal art twist on their own block. The included teacher and student directions are very simple to follow. The possibilities are endless with this activity! My favorite part is watching the kids work as a team to try to piece it back together.

This is GREAT for community building and teamwork! Teachers should create a classroom that supports persistence, effort and even mistakes. Hanging the Test Prep – Test Motivation Block Poster is the perfect reminder for students.

How you choose to set it up in your classroom is up to you. Each student colors one “block” or section of a large poster.  This product includes 25 “blocks” or pages to color. I do understand that most of you have less than 25 students, as do I. There are ALWAYS early finishers who are willing to color a second block. Some blocks will take more time than others due to picture detail. Often times, I even color a block with my students! Print the file ONE time for each class on 8.5x11 paper!

WHAT’S INCLUDED? 

•Teacher Directions

•Student Directions

•25 different blocks to color (1 per student)

•Example of a final version of poster

•The final poster size is around 36”x 36”

Test Taking Strategies Escape Room:

The Test Taking Strategies Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom! This escape room has students decode basic test taking strategies/test prep to help them succeed on a test and calm their test anxiety.

Make reviewing testing strategies fun! The Test Taking Strategies Escape Room has students walking around the classroom breaking codes. The codes include ciphers, Morse code, cryptograms and a final 4 digit code based on the decoders/clues.

What’s Included?

✏️ 4 Reading Passages

✏️ 4 Puzzle Phrases to Decode

✏️ 4 Decoders

✏️ 4 Differentiated Decoders

✏️ 10 Multiple Choice Questions

✏️ Teacher Instructions

✏️ Answer Key

✏️ Hint Guides - How To Decode

✏️ Completion Signs

Watch the video or click on the preview button to take a closer look at everything included!

Skills Used:

✔️ Reading Comprehension

✔️ Critical Thinking

✔️ Peer Collaboration

✔️ Problem Solving

To prevent students from simply decoding the puzzles, ALL questions need to be answered correctly in order to solve the final code. This ensures understanding!

Benefits of Use:

✏️ No Prep

✏️ Print and Go

✏️ Cross-Curricular

✏️ Highly Engaging

✏️ No Locks Needed

✏️ No silly envelopes to stuff

✏️ No fancy shapes to cut out

Give students a chance to decode puzzles, move around the room, and read passages, all while actively learning! Students will work in pairs (or individually) and race against the clock. A friendly competition always increases engagement. No prior knowledge is needed. Each code will reveal interesting facts about the topic.

Puzzle Types:

✔️ Cryptogram

✔️ Morse Code

✔️ PigPen Cipher

✔️ Polybius Square

Options for Use:

✏️ Anticipatory Sets

✏️ Unit Review

✏️ Early Finishers

✏️ Gallery Walk

✏️ Stations

✏️ Sub Plans

✏️ Rewards

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»»» Thinktivity™ Reading Passages : Click HERE

»»» Comprehension Challenge and CSI Spy Mystery: Click HERE

»»» Printable ESCAPE ROOMS: Click HERE

»»» Text Marking Detective: Click HERE

»»» Scavenger Hunts: Click HERE

»»» Digital Secret Message Activities: Click HERE

»»» Puzzle Breakouts: Click HERE

»»» Interactive Google Slides™: Click HERE

»»» Digital ESCAPE ROOMS: Click HERE

»»» Color by Number - Text Marking: Click HERE

»»» Digital Reading Passages: Click HERE

»»» Task Card Review Games: Click HERE

»»» Interactive Game Boards: Click HERE

»»» Reading Passages and Text Marking: Click HERE

»»» Back to School: Click HERE

»»» Collaborative Posters: Click HERE

»»» Digital Interactive Notebooks: Click HERE

»»» Grades 3 and 4 Escape Rooms: Click HERE

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