Semicolons Punctuation Grammar Activity Escape Room Challenge, Slides, & Quiz
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This 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 presentation introduces semicolon rules with clear examples, ensuring student understanding from the start, and a pre or post-assessment quiz allows you to assess student understanding effectively. The highlight of the resource is the 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.
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Included in This Semicolons Punctuation Escape Room Challenge Grammar Activity:
➡️ Semicolons Pre-Assessment Quiz: Start by assigning this quick 10-question multiple-choice 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 Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint 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 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 Semicolons Punctuation Escape Room Challenge Grammar Activity Works:
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Start by assigning the quiz to check your students’ understanding of semicolon rules before you begin the lesson.
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Use the PowerPoint 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 semicolons 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 grammar challenge!
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When students find the answer, you can share the conclusion slides to wrap up the story.
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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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