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Reading Escape Room - Middle School ELA Print and Digital Nonfiction Escape Room

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This was so much fun and engaging. It was challenging enough that my students did not get bored, but not too challenging.
Engaging ELA escape room experience! Challenges foster critical thinking and teamwork. Themes and puzzles align well with language arts concepts.
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**UPDATED WITH A FULL DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM VERSION!** Engage your readers with this Informational Text Escape Room! A perfect Earth Day Escape Room! Students will analyze poetry in a highly motivating setting! Great for test prep and STAAR prep! ELA escape rooms are an absolute hit with students, making the application of critical reading skills ENJOYABLE!

This resource includes everything you need to implement a reading escape room for your students. It has been designed and organized with busy teachers in mind! So while there is some prep involved, it is made straightforward for busy teachers.

The theme of each challenge is an environmental issue facing us today.

In this Environment in Crisis escape room resource you will find:

- detailed escape room overview and teacher instructions

- 4 informational text challenges for students with detailed task cards

- answer key for each station

- master code key for teachers

- code breaking tracking sheet

- envelope labels

- OPTIONAL Google form with "locks" for students to crack. (Technology is not required,

but it does increase students engagement. Only ONE computer or tablet is needed

for the entire class!)

Students will practice and apply reading skills and strategize in this escape room. Escape rooms are the latest craze to take classrooms and it is easy to see why. Students are engaged like never before! They are participating in challenging games that they WANT to engage in, all the while using critical thinking skills!

This escape room has 4 stations designed to get your students engaged in reading. During this escape room they will have to put their brains to work in a number of ways. Students will;

- analyze paragraphs to determine the author's purpose

- read and analyze a full page passage to find the main idea and supporting details

- read a nonfiction article and respond to multiple choice test style questions

- read an author's claim and determine which pieces of information are pieces of valid
supporting evidence.

- there are also ciphers, and code breaking elements embedded throughout the escape room!

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Please e-mail me at kristy.teachwithallyourheart@gmail.com with any questions, comments, or concerns.

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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.

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