Halloween Escape Room, Middle School, High School ELA Reading, Urban Legends

⭐ This Halloween Digital Escape Room for Middle School ELA with self-checking answers conjures up thrills and chills while reading and listening to scary stories. And timing is perfect to gather middle school students together for some tales of terror with this Halloween virtual escape room. ⭐ Young teen students are invited to hunker down in this dark forest and listen to scary tales using clues that practice reading, listening, sequencing, comparisons, logic, and other important skills! ⭐ It is the season for frights, and what is better than a good spooky story? ⭐

⭐A perfect introduction to Urban Legends and Folklore. ⭐ With self-checking answers this Halloween digital escape room will have students listen and read spooky stories passed down through the generations. Engaging and fun this interactive, immersive digital escape has students complete 6 challenges. With no printing, copying, or cutting and a full teacher guide with answers, this fully interactive digital activity is ready to use!

You will need to open both the PDF and the Easel Activity to access the link to the escape/instructions, and the digital notes sheet in Easel.

Here's what's inside:

CLUE #1: URBAN LEGENDS

• Read - About Urban Legends
• Quiz - Take a quiz to get letters for your cipher
• CLUE - Solve the Spiral writing cipher

CLUE #2: HAROLD

• Listen - to story of Harold
• Story Sequence - Click and drag events into correct sequence to open puzzle
• Puzzle - Solve a PigPen cipher

CLUE #3: THE LEGEND OF BLACK AGGIE

• Read - The Legend of Black Aggie
• Quiz - Take a quiz to open puzzle
• Puzzle - Solve a Cryptogram

CLUE #4: THE HOOK

• Listen- to The Hook
• Quiz - Take a quiz to open puzzle
• Puzzle - Solve a Hopscotch Cipher

CLUE #5: BEAR LAKE MONSTER

• Explore - The Legend of the Bear Lake Monster
• See & Read - Photos of the Monster
• Puzzle - Sum Total Clue based on content

CLUE #6: THE LEGEND OF BLOODY MARY (Compare & Contrast)

• Read Story 1 - The Legend of Bloody Mary (Witch)
• Listen to Story 2 - The Legend of Bloody Mary (Young Girl)
• CLUE - Drag & Drop story elements in VENN Diagram

Extra:

• Fact or Folklore Game
• Urban Legends Word Search
• SLENDERMAN is mentioned as an answer and Easter Egg in the Escape
• (1 star review below because of that, so wanted to mention it)

Why teach it?

• It's a perfect way to introduce urban legends and folklore to students
• Great in combination with any unit on Urban Legends or Folklore
• It reinforces logic and reasoning skills
• It promotes cooperative learning and deductive reasoning
• Perfect for the Middle/High School English Language Arts Classroom

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Test Site:

CLICK HERE to test that this escape room and the websites inside will work on your school computers. BE SURE TO CHECK ON A STUDENT'S COMPUTER

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