Compare and Contrast Text Structure Slides & Digital Reading Escape Activity

Compare and Contrast Text Structure Slides & Digital Reading Escape Activity: This digital compare and contrast text structure reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of the compare and contrast text structure in nonfiction writing! The detailed Google Slides presentation introduces this nonfiction text structure with clear examples and signal words, ensuring student understanding from the start. The highlight of the resource is the engaging digital escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must decode a message in a bottle from a secretive order called The Keepers of the Truth. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a compare and contrast text structure-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the coordinates to escape!

This is a digital resource and students complete all the work on the computer. This works well with distance learning, 1:1 classrooms, remote teaching, Google Classroom, or online education.

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Included in This Digital Compare and Contrast Text Structure Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Compare and Contrast Google Slides: Use these Google Slides presentation slides to guide the compare and contrast text structures lesson and activity with instructional slides with examples. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Decode the Message in a Bottle 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. After discovering a message and hidden clues in a bottle, students embark on a quest to unearth and reassemble the dismantled halves of a magical talisman known as The Wealthy Compass buried on separate desert islands.

➡️ Compare and Contrast Digital Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style story elements challenge, students must find sentences in a variety of readings that use compare and contrast to determine the coordinates needed to find the two parts of the compass on the map.

How This Digital Compare and Contrast Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

• Use the Google Slides presentation to guide you through each element of the compare and contrast lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about the elements of this nonfiction text structure. It will also introduce the story and challenge, and review the answers.
• Read the narrative story as a class to hook students and introduce the compare and contrast activity challenge.
• Once you have taught students about the compare and contrast nonfiction text structure and read the story, students are ready to try the digital reading challenge!
• When students find the answer, you can share the conclusion slides to wrap up the story.

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