Genres Introduction Presentation & Escape Room Reading Activity Challenge
Genres Introduction Presentation & Escape Room Reading Activity Challenge: This literary genre reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of a variety of genres! The detailed presentation introduces 19 different genres including historical fiction, fantasy, mystery, science fiction, autobiography, and much more. The highlight of the resource is the engaging escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must unlock the drawer to become a millionaire. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a genre-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the passphrase to open the drawer!
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Included in This Genre Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:
➡️ Literary Genre Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the literary genre lesson and activity with instructional slides on 19 different genres with definitions. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ Become a Millionaire 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. Students find themselves in possession of a custom work desk invented by the brilliant and reclusive billionaire, Carlos Manuel, after winning it at an auction; intrigued by a locked drawer, they discover a mysterious challenge hidden inside an envelope within the unlocked drawer, which they must solve to unlock the drawer and uncover the secrets within.
➡️ Genre Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style genre challenge, students must read an original short story and assemble a puzzle, showing their understanding of a variety of different genres to reveal a hidden passphrase to open a drawer to become a millionaire.
Literary Genres Included in this Activity:
- Fairy Tale
- Fable
- Historical Fiction
- Fantasy
- Mystery
- Myth
- Comedy
- Tragedy
- Horror
- Science Fiction
- Biography
- Autobiography
- Utopian
- Dystopian
- Magic Realism
- Thriller
- Adventure
- Bildungsroman
How This Genre Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:
- Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the literary genre lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about a variety of different genres. 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 genre activity challenge.
- Once you have taught students about the different genres and read the story, students are ready to try the reading challenge!
- When students find the answer, you can share the conclusion slides to wrap up the story.
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