Main Idea and Supporting Details Slides & Digital Nonfiction Reading Activity
Main Idea and Supporting Details Slides & Digital Nonfiction Reading Activity: This digital main idea reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of main idea. The detailed Google Slides presentation introduces what a main idea is, how it's distinct from the topic, what supporting details are, and how to locate the main idea in a text! The highlight of the resource is the engaging digital escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must activate the brakes on a self-driving car. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a main idea-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the information they need to stop the car!
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 Main Idea Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:
➡️ Main Idea Google Slides: Use these Google Slides presentation slides to guide the main idea lesson and activity with instructional slides. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ Escape From the Hypnotic Trance 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 test their genius aunt's self-driving car, only to find it accelerating uncontrollably due to ripped cables in the control box; they uncover clues hidden in torn pages to solve a puzzle and regain control of the vehicle before disaster strikes.
➡️ Main Idea Digital Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive digital escape-room style main idea challenge, students must read an original short story and four texts to determine the main idea of each to reveal a the information about what they need to do the stop the car.
How This Digital Main Idea Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:
- Use the Google Slides presentation to guide you through each element of the main idea lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about what a main idea is, how it's distinct from the topic, what supporting details are, and how to locate the main idea in a text! 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 main idea activity challenge.
- Once you have taught students about main idea 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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