Valentine's Day Escape Room ELA & History Reading Comprehension Activities

Are you looking for an engaging ELA & History reading comprehension activity to help your students understand some history behind Valentine's Day? This resource also includes short biographies of famous historical couples! Escape rooms are popular and engaging activities that help students work collaboratively to reach a goal. In this case, students will read, collaborate to answer questions, earn codes, decipher codes, and pair historical couples back together. As a culminating activity, students will answer questions about the historical couples to complete the escape room challenge.

Included in this resource:

1 Digital Escape Room with Article & Google Forms Questions

1 Printable Escape Room with Article & Questions

12 Historical Couples mini-biographies & puzzle pieces

1 Cipher/ Decoder page

2 Recording pages

Answer Keys for All Activities (Digital are Self-Checking)

ELA Focus Skills Included:

Informational Text/ Reading

Summarizing

Text-Dependent Questions

Vocabulary

Inferring

Character Traits

Text Evidence

& More!

Ways to use this resource:

Sub plans

Whole Group

Small Group

Partner Work for Collaboration

Early Finishers

Station Work

Re-teach & Review

*** Wishing you and your students a FABULOUS NEW YEAR!***

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