ELA Test Prep Vocabulary Escape Room Activity

Help your students learn and remember critical academic vocabulary words frequently used on high-stakes tests with this ELA Test Prep Vocabulary Escape Room Activity.

This download includes teacher directions, student directions, and all of the printable resources necessary to hold an escape activity in your classroom.

BEFORE THE ESCAPE

Introduce the 40 words includes in this Escape Room to your students with a word sort. This will allow them to think about their knowledge of the words.

DURING THE ESCAPE

Students will complete four different test prep, vocabulary-focused ELA tasks that rely on matching words to definitions, sorting words, unscrambling words, and demonstrating the meaning of a word. Throughout these four tasks, students will apply words in different ways to actively learn the words.

AFTER THE ESCAPE

Conclude the escape activity with a quick write reflection and word association activity. These post activities will help reinforce the content of the ELA Vocab Test Prep break-out activity.

This Escape Room Activity comes with these 40 words:

Argument

Assume

Claim

Compare

Concrete

Contradict

Credible

Determine

Edit

Emphasize

Evaluate

Evidence

Exaggerate

Excerpt

Explanation

Illustrate

Imply

Inference

Interpretation

Modify

Narrative

Observation

Opinion

Paraphrase

Plagiarize

Predict

Publish

Purpose

Quote

Reflect

Refute

Relevant

Research

Sensory

Source

Specific

Stanza

Summarize

Tone

Verify

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