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Close reading games
Reading Mystery: Reading Comprehension & Passages Activity, Humpty's Fall
Reading Mystery: Once Upon A Crime, Humpty's Fall! A fun reading and comprehension activity to engage young readers. Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Docs option provided within your download.If you prefer this resource in a Digital Graphic Game Escape Room format to play online <please click here>.⭐A video hook is provided to set the stage to engage! Check out the video hook in the preview section.⭐A bonus ENDING VIDEO clip is included to celebrate fi
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2nd - 4th
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Digital Escape Room: End of Year Reading Review & STAAR/Test Prep Among Us Theme
This Digital Escape Room is an End of the Year or Test Prep Game. There is not a thing you need to do except provide the link! You DO NOT need to request edit access. You can just click the links provided and they will automatically have you make a copy of each slide and the form. If you have tried all instructions and cannot get into the file folder it may be your District blocking you, download the file folder with a personal Gmail if you need to. If you have any problems please message me an
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3rd - 5th
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End of Year Reading Comprehension Digital Resource Mystery Escape Game
This End of Year Digital Reading Mystery Game is fun to incorporate reading, comprehension, parts of speech (nouns - common/proper, verbs, adjectives, adverbs), synonyms, and antonyms. Mystery meets escape room with this game style, as your students will need to discover passwords at the end of each clue to unlock the next game link.⭐A video hook is provided to set the stage to engage! Check out the video hook in the preview section.⭐A bonus ENDING VIDEO clip is included to celebrate finishing t
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2nd - 4th
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Introduction to Shakespeare Escape Room (paper + digital) - Pairs with ANY Text
This Introduction to Shakespeare Escape Room is the perfect start to your Shakespeare unit! Present this as a paper game or digitally to introduce the Globe Theatre, William Shakespeare’s Life, and Elizabethan London. Your students will love these activities and develop the background they need to study any play. Key Elements:Game (~45-60 minutes)Elizabethan Fact SheetResearch ideasQuizTeacher’s GuideThis game is a perfect introduction to Shakespeare for any drama unit! What Teachers are Saying
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7th - 10th
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Romeo and Juliet Escape Room Unit Review Activity - Shakespeare Activities
This unit review activity for Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare helps you gauge reading comprehension while students solve puzzles! In this escape room, students complete activities about the plot, characters, conflict, and figurative language in Romeo and Juliet.Highlights of this Romeo and Juliet review game:✅ Students will be HOOKED (but also studying - rad!)✅ You can check reading comprehension✅ It's both FUN and rigorousOverview:Students play at desks or throughout the roomFull Teache
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7th - 10th
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"The Tell Tale Heart" Escape Room for Grades 7-10 ELA
Engage grades 7-10 ELA students with "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe Escape Room--now in print OR digital format! Can students piece together the plot and find the Old Man's heart to avenge his killer? Find out with this escape room! To implement this escape room, arrange students into groups of approximately four students each. Give each group a detective file and hide the five clues in designated spots around the classroom OR share the Google Form in Google Classroom and see your stud
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: 7th Grade ELA Yearlong Curriculum, Lesson Plans, and Pacing Guide
Reading Mystery Activity: Finding Text Evidence - Twinkle's Lost Shine
Reading Comprehension and Finding Evidence in the Text Easy Prep Activity!Reading Mystery Activity - Once Upon A Crime, Twinkle's Lost Shine!Your students will have fun solving this mystery while learning skills in reading, comprehension, synonyms, antonyms, definitions, critical thinking, and deductive reasoning!Easy prep! Just Print & Solve! Or go paperless with the new Google Slides option provided within your download.⭐A video hook is provided to set the stage to engage! Check out the vi
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2nd - 4th
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Introduction to The Odyssey Escape Room (paper + dig) - with opt. ELL support
This Introduction to The Odyssey is an Escape Room or Digital Breakout activity your students will love! This resource also includes additional support for your ELL students and younger readers. This digital escape room has been designed to take 60-90 minutes and covers Greek mythology, the characters in The Odyssey, and life and customs on Ithaca, serving as the perfect introduction to your The Odyssey unit. This Introduction to The Odyssey activity can be used in multiple ways: Digital activit
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7th - 10th
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Reading Comprehension Skills Escape Room Bundle - 2nd & 3rd Grade Passages
⭐ Are your students sick of boring resources? This printable & digital reading escape room bundle is a fun way to help your students practice standard based reading comprehension skills all year long. The no-prep reading escape rooms in this bundle cover every 2nd & 3rd grade reading skill. Your students will have so much fun navigating their way through various adventures, they won't even notice they are practicing reading. Embark on amazing journeys like a mission to space, find wild a
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2nd - 3rd
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Disney Day Transformation Reading and Math Activities
Attention Disney-loving teachers! Make your classroom the happiest place on Earth! A Disney Day room transformation would be great for "Rock Your School Day," a review day, center work, or even as a classroom reward.Included Activities:•Make Your Own Mickey Ears Craft: Use sentence strips or strips of construction paper to create a headband for each student’s complete Mickey ears.•“Meet Walt Disney” Close Read (Author’s Point and Reasons)•“Find the Hidden Mickeys” Measurement & Graphing Acti
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2nd - 4th
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Who Killed Mrs. Bass? ELA Murder Mystery for Middle School
It is Homecoming! All week the seniors at Waynesville High School have been hard at work on their float, and their English teacher, Mrs. Bass, has been helping them. They finish the float on Thursday evening around 7:30 and head out to the Homecoming bonfire in preparation for Friday’s parade and football game. On Friday morning when a group of students go out to the sheds where the floats are being held, they are met with a gruesome surprise. Perched on top of the float with a silver knife in h
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6th - 8th
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Valentine's Day Close Reading Mystery Inference Activity - Stolen Love Letter
This Valentine's Day close reading inference mystery activity is a fun way to engage your students and challenge them to look for text evidence, infer information, and read more closely. The resource includes everything you need to facilitate the activity in your classroom. This works well as a Valentine's Day activity, but there are no specific holiday references so it can be used within any classroom at any time of the year.Amanda absolutely loves Jack, but she is far too shy to tell him how s
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: READING MYSTERIES FULL-YEAR ELA PROGRAM | PRINT
Thanksgiving Close Reading Inference Mystery - Who Stole the Pumpkin Pie?
Thanksgiving Close Reading Inference Mystery - Who Stole the Pumpkin Pie?: Engage your students with a captivating close reading inference activity that challenges them to explore and find text evidence, make inferences, and read more closely. This resource provides all the necessary materials to facilitate this fun and creative reading activity in your classroom. Students will have the opportunity to work collaboratively, enhancing their problem-solving and critical-thinking skills as they unr
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: READING MYSTERIES FULL-YEAR ELA PROGRAM | PRINT
Literary Jenga Reading Comprehension Activities Game for ANY Novel
Your students will LOVE practicing their comprehension skills while playing Jenga. The interactive component will help students retain the knowledge, too! Whether you're playing as a whole class or in small groups, this resource will leave a lasting impression on students.Looking for a unique and creative activity for your students’ reading comprehension practice? Look no further! This (editable) Literary Jenga game is the perfect way to strengthen students’ skills in a fun and engaging way.All
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6th - 12th
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Digital Escape Room End of Year Reading Review & STAAR/Test Prep Minecraft Theme
This Digital Escape Room is an End of the Year or Test Prep Game. There is not a thing you need to do except provide the link! The printable version is also included if you prefer to have physical copies. Passages Include:Fiction: Disaster Dave Takes On Survival ModePoem: Minecraft PandasNonfiction: Minecraft for the CreatorsNonfiction: Roblox VS MinecraftThese are full challenges and all four contain a passage, they are fiction, informational,poetry, and compare and contrast nonfiction. Each ch
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4th - 6th
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Lord of the Flies Escape Room Review Activity
Are you ready for an engaging review for your Lord of the Flies unit? Students review the novel by William Golding by completing a series of puzzles to demonstrate understanding of plot, character, figurative language, conflict, and theme. There’s even a TWIST ending!✅ Paper game (no locks required)✅ Full teacher’s guide and set-up instructions✅ ~45 minutes for on-level 9th gradersIf you'd like you can find the digital version of this escape room here.Your Lord of the Flies Review Game includes:
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8th - 11th
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ESCAPE ROOM Plot Elements: Fractured Fairy Tales & Creative Writing
This PLOT ELEMENTS ESCAPE ROOM breakout activity uses fractured fairy tales to teach and reinforce the elements of a plot. It is a fun, team building ADVENTURE that requires reading comprehension skills, understanding of plot elements, creative writing, inferencing, and problem-solving.
The adventure begins when YOU, the most awesome teacher in the history of the world, take the kids on a little trip to a publishing house. Things go a bit awry, and the kids have to save the day by rising to th
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5th - 9th
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Crab Theme | Reading With Expression Game | Reading Comprehension
This fun and simple crab theme reading comprehension game is the perfect way to bring reading to life for your students. With 8 expression cards and 40 sentences, it offers hours of entertainment. Not only is this game a great way to teach your students how to read with expression and understand the importance of punctuation, but it's also an excellent opportunity to see how the meaning of the sentences can change with different tones. This is sure to be a favorite literacy center in your classr
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2nd - 4th
Also included in: BUNDLE | Reading With Expression Game | Reading Comprehension
Junior Reading Comprehension Mystery Game + Worksheets - Poisoned Porridge
This Junior Reading Mystery, Poisoned Porridge, is a fun way to incorporate reading comprehension, spelling, and the start of learning the art of deductive reasoning. Calling all student detectives to help Goldilocks solve who turned her into a mouse with poisoned porridge! The Case of the Poisoned Porridge is one of the mysteries in my 'Junior Reading Mystery - Once Upon a Crime' series. It is structured and packaged differently from my more challenging Once Upon a Crime Reading Mysteries. The
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1st - 2nd
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Christmas Close Reading Mystery Inference Activity - Who Destroyed the Snowman?
Christmas Close Reading Inference Mystery - Who Destroyed the Snowman?: This Christmas close reading activity is a fun way to engage your students and challenge them to look for text evidence, infer information, and read more closely. The resource includes everything you need to facilitate the activity in your classroom. The resource doesn't specifically mention Christmas, so you can consider it winter-themed and appropriate for any time between November and April!Students will read the back st
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: READING MYSTERIES FULL-YEAR ELA PROGRAM | PRINT
Rhetorical Appeals Sorting Game - Ethos, Logos, and Pathos - Rhetorical Devices
Do you need a fun way to practice ethos, logos, and pathos? Students will love racing against their classmates with this rhetorical appeals sorting game. Each group will sort 30 different rhetorical appeal cards. The first group to complete the task correctly wins. This game can also be used as a station activity or an early finisher task. For a higher level thinking task, this product also includes an optional analysis extension activity.This rhetorical appeals sorting game includescategory lab
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6th - 9th
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Halloween Junior Reading Comprehension Mystery Game - Spooky Singer
This Halloween Junior Reading Mystery, Spooky Singer, is a fun way to incorporate reading comprehension, spelling, and the start of learning the art of deductive reasoning. Calling all student detectives to help Tale Town solve who is the Spooky Singer keeping them all awake at night. The Case of the Spooky Singer is one of the mysteries in my 'Junior Reading Mystery - Once Upon a Crime' series. It is structured and packaged differently from my more challenging Once Upon a Crime Reading Mysterie
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1st - 3rd
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Elements of Poetry Escape Room Activity - Poetry Review - National Poetry Month
Are you looking for the perfect way to end your Poetry Unit and gauge student understanding of the elements of poetry? This EDITABLE escape room is an engaging poetry review. Students identify figurative language, complete a poetic devices puzzle, do a poetry close reading, and decode a secret poem. This is your new favorite poetry review activity (especially great for National Poetry Month)! Why should you end your Poetry Unit with an Escape Room?It’s likely that you’ve given students tons of o
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7th - 10th
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Same & Different: A FUN PowerPoint Game To Teach Compare and Contrast
This is a FUN, Interactive PowerPoint game to teach and practice Comparing and Contrasting. The PowerPoint is set up like a game show. You can form up to six groups to play this game. Each group will be introduced to two objects and they will work together to find ways to compare and contrast the two objects. Rules are in place to keep groups working cooperatively and quietly until it is time to reveal their answers.
This PowerPoint incorporates animations and sounds to make the game fun.
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K - 2nd
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