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7th grade Winter close reading games
"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
Introduction to Shakespeare Escape Room (paper + digital) - Shakespeare Activity
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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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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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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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
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
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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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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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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Halloween Escape Room - Reading Comprehension - October Activity - No Prep
The Halloween Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom, reading comprehension passages, and answering questions! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about Halloween, fun facts, pumpkin carving, origins, and traditions around the world.The Halloween Escape Room is a great reading comprehension activity with a twist of fun that has students deciphering codes. The codes include ciphers, morse code, cryptograms, Polybius squares, and a final 4 digit
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4th - 8th
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Christmas Winter Escape Room (Digital)
THIS ESCAPE ROOM DOES NOT HAVE REFERENCES TO CHRISTMAS BUT WORKS WELL DURING THE HOLIDAY AS IT HAS A WINTER THEME!In my class, I have many students who do not celebrate Christmas which is why I chose a winter theme for this product. It is great for any winter months but especially around the holidays if you have a diverse population of students. Whether you are face to face or virtual, your students will love this escape room!This escape room is digital and requires that you share a Google Form
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5th - 8th
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Christmas Family Feud PowerPoint Game
This is a fun holiday game my students really enjoy. It is a great way to end the week before the Christmas break.There are 17 rounds, and they cover the following topics:1) Names of Santa's reindeer2) Favorite Christmas food3) Names of popular Christmas carols4) Things that come to mind when one thinks of Santa Claus5) Common Christmas gifts6) Famous Christmas books7) Popular Christmas movies8) Objects people hang around Christmas9) How one can tell it is the holiday season10) Things to do to e
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1st - 12th
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Winter Holiday BINGO with Riddles & Call Cards! - Print and Virtual
Holiday Bingo with Riddles!HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Celebrate this holiday season with a fun-packed riddle game. This is perfect for any class, Pre-K to 5th grade. Check out my other BINGO sets!BINGO Mega BundleSEASONS Bundle (coming soon)Valentine’s Day BINGO with RiddlesSt. Patrick’s Day BINGO with RiddlesEaster BINGO with Riddles4th of July BINGO with Riddles (coming soon)Back to School BINGO with RiddlesHalloween BINGO with RiddlesThanksgiving BINGO with RiddlesWinter Holiday BINGO with RiddlesChrist
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PreK - 8th
Also included in: BINGO with Riddles - 10 Holiday MEGA BUNDLE with Valentine's Day!
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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A Midsummer Night's Dream Escape Room - Unit Review Activity
Are you ready for an awesome review activity for your A Midsummer Night’s Dream unit? This escape room is a series of puzzles covering plot, character, figurative language, conflict, and quote identification. Review AMND by William Shakespeare like you’ve never reviewed it before! ✅ Collaboration ✅ Critical Thinking ✅ DifferentiationIf you’ve never done an escape room before, never fear! The complete Teacher’s Guide is written with total beginners in mind!How does this help students review A Mid
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7th - 10th
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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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Christmas ESCAPE ROOM - Holiday Activity - Reading Comprehension
The Christmas Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom, reading comprehension passages, and answering questions! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about fun facts about Christmas, number of candy canes made per year, where the gingerbread house and stockings originated, oldest Christmas card, etc. The Christmas Escape Room is a great reading comprehension activity with a twist of fun that has students deciphering codes. The codes include cipher
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4th - 8th
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The Veldt Escape Room Activity for Ray Bradbury's Dystopian Short Story
Make your students’ final experience with Ray Bradbury’s chilling dystopian short story “The Veldt” unforgettable. This engaging The Veldt escape room activity will give your students that “just right” challenge as they work to break out of the different tasks. Use this spooky escape room in October or any time of year to review short story elements.⬆️ Check out the PREVIEW for more information! ⬆️It’s highly recommended that you read, discuss, and interact with The Veldt before putting students
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Ray Bradbury Short Story Activities & Escape Rooms
READING MYSTERIES FULL-YEAR ELA PROGRAM | PRINT
The Reading Mysteries Program is a full-year, 40-week close reading program for middle and high school English language arts teachers that challenges students to look for text evidence, infer information, and read more closely. It includes everything you need to facilitate 40 fun and engaging reading mysteries in your ELA classroom. Included in your purchase: 40 teacher presentations in PowerPoint format that guide the mysteries with the backstory, evidence, the answer, and detailed explanations
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6th - 9th
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Christmas Holiday Jeopardy
This fun-Interactive Christmas-themed Jeopardy game is the PERFECT addition to your holiday classroom activities.
This is a PowerPoint Presentation with animated snow in the background of the main game-board. Action settings on each category to lead you to the appropriate question/answer.
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*Christmas Characters
*Christmas Carols
*Christmas Traditions
*Christmas Movies
*Santa's Sleigh
*12 Days of Christmas
Each category has five question ranging from 1
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K - 9th
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Christmas Math: Decimal Operations Coloring Activity
Christmas Math Color By Number pictures are a fun and easy way to practice operations with decimals. Keep students learning and having fun with this no-prep Christmas math option to review adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals! 6 Christmas Math Color By Number Activities Included: -Color by Number: Add/Subtract Decimals 1-Color by Number: Add/Subtract Decimals 2-Color by Number: Multiply Decimals 1-Color by Number: Multiply Decimals 2-Color by Number: Divide Decimals 1-Color by
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5th - 7th
All Summer in a Day Escape Room
Escape Room Activity All Summer in a Day: Help your students understand this popular short story by Ray Bradbury with this highly-engaging interactive escape room / break out activity! No keys or lock boxes needed!Less Prep for teachers as students will cut out the cards for each task!This escape room has four tasks:1. Plot Elements – Students will correctly order the plot cards. There are 5 extra distractor cards that will not be used. Once they determine the plot points, they will write the se
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6th - 9th
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Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM - Reading Comprehension - February Activity
The Valentine's Day Escape Room will take students on a secret mission around the classroom, reading comprehension passages, and answering questions! This escape room has students decode interesting facts about Valentine's Day, fun facts, February, candy and cards statistics, Ancient Rome, Romeo and Juliet, traditionsThe Valentine's Day Escape Room is a great reading comprehension activity with a twist of fun that has students deciphering codes. The codes include ciphers, morse code, cryptograms
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4th - 8th
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