5th Grade Reading Comprehension Escape Room | Digital | Winter, Christmas

This winter escape room is 100% digital and compatible with all devices. The included PDF contains a link to play — all you need is an internet connection.

Looking for an exciting winter or Christmas escape room? Whether we're talking December, January, or February, Puzzle Punks: The Yeti and the Yams 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, 5th grade reading review activities. Each is soaked in custom artwork and secret lore, encouraging dangerous levels of engagement, team work, and problem solving.

Use Puzzle Punks for:

• a winter escape room for entire holiday season

• a December, January, or February literacy review game

• a no-prep fifth grade literacy center

• reviewing 5th grade reading comprehension before Christmas break

5th grade ELA standards covered:

1. Main ideas

2. Poetry

3. Figurative language

4. Context clues

5. Point of view, character traits, theme, and setting

How Puzzle Punks works

This is a digital-only escape room. After purchasing, you'll 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 and self-checking: 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 the Yeti and the Yams

Bad news, Puzzle Punks — you've been captured by a yeti, and imprisoned inside her ice cave! She's going to eat you for breakfast, unless you can cook up something yummier than yourself. Perhaps some candied yams?

5th grade Common Core ELA standards

Language: CCSS.L.5.4, CCSS.L.5.4a, CCSS.L.5.5, CCSS.L.5.5a

Reading - Literature: CCSS.RL.5.1, CCSS.RL.5.2, CCSS.RL.5.3, CCSS.RL.5.4, CCSS.RL.5.5, CCSS.RL.5.6, CCSS.RL.5.7, CCSS.RL.5.9, CCSS.RL.5.10

Reading - Informational Text: CCSS.RI.5.1, CCSS.RI.5.2, CCSS.RI.5.3, CCSS.RI.5.5, CCSS.RI.5.8, CCSS.RI.5.9, CCSS.RI.5.10

Reading - Foundational Skills: CCSS.RF.5.3, CCSS.RF.5.4, CCSS.RF.5.4a, CCSS.RF.5.4b, CCSS.RF.5.4c

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.9, CCSS.CCRA.R.10

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