Semicolons Escape Room Punctuation Digital Activity, Google Slides, and Quiz
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This digital semicolons grammar escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of semicolon rules! The detailed Google Slides presentation introduces semicolon rules with clear examples, ensuring student understanding from the start, and a pre or post-assessment self-grading Google Forms quiz allows you to assess student understanding effectively. The highlight of the resource is the digital engaging escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must find the missing Crown Jewels of England. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a semicolons-related challenge to unlock a solution and find the thief who stole the jewels.
This is a Google-compatible resource and students complete all the work on the computer. This works well with distance learning, 1:1 classrooms, remote teaching, Google Classroom, Google Drive or for online education.
This is included in our full-year grammar program:
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This is included in our full-year grammar program:
>>> The Grammar Challenge Digital Program
Included in This Digital Semicolons Punctuation Escape Room Challenge Grammar Activity:
➡️ Semicolons Pre-Assessment Google Forms Quiz: Start by assigning this quick 10-question self-grading multiple-choice Google Forms quiz to assess student understanding of semicolon rules. A detailed answer key is included for class review or grading. This can also be used as a post-assessment after the lesson if you prefer.
➡️ Semicolons Grammar Google Slides: Use these Google Slides presentation slides to guide the semicolons lesson and activity with instructional slides, activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ Find the Crown Jewels Narrative Back Story: Next, students are ready to put what they have learned into action! They will begin the challenge by reading a short backstory that sets up the escape room challenge. Tasked with safeguarding the Crown Jewels of England, students finds themselves facing a crisis as the jewels mysteriously vanish from the Tower of London. With no clues left behind except for a cryptic note, students must act swiftly to track down the thief and retrieve the priceless artifacts!
➡️ Semicolons Solve the CIA Mystery Digital Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style semicolons challenge, students read a passage and find incorrectly and correctly used semicolons and use a counting strategy to find a secret message to find the jewels.
How This Digital Semicolons Escape Room Challenge Grammar Activity Works:
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Start by assigning the self-grading quiz to check your students’ understanding of semicolon rules before you begin the lesson.
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Use the Google Slides presentation to guide you through each element of the lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach the grammar concept, introduce the story and challenge, and review the answers.
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Read the narrative story as a class to hook students and introduce the semicolon activity challenge.
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Once you have completed the quiz, taught the grammar concept, and read the story, students are ready to try the digital grammar challenge!
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Within the digital challenge, a link is included to a password-protected answer document where students can check their answer. If they are correct, the conclusion slides will appear to complete the story! These slides are also found in your presentation for you to read as a class when the challenge is over.
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Want to check to see if your students’ understanding of the concept has improved? Assign the pre-assessment quiz again after they have completed the challenge to see if they have improved.
What Teachers Are Saying About This Semicolons Punctuation Escape Room Challenge Grammar Activity:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ These challenges are detailed, well-organized, and engaging. The students love them and it's a great way to review or introduce grammar concepts. I'm using them every second week throughout the week, first thing in the morning.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I selected individual Presto Plans Grammar Challenges to use with my 6th graders. These are so much more engaging than a workbook page filled with boring sentences!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is a great resource and aligns nicely with my Daily Language Review. It was a fun way to practice the skill.
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