Mood Literary Device Presentation & Fiction Escape Room Digital Reading Activity

Mood Literary Device Presentation & Fiction Escape Room Digital Reading Activity: This digital mood escape room style reading challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of mood in literature! The detailed Google Slides presentation introduces mood and explains how the mood of a text affects readers emotionally, and the impact specific elements and devices have on mood with examples. The highlight of the resource is the engaging digital escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must solve a psychic mystery. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a mood-related challenge to unlock the solution and find a specific location.

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 Mood Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Mood Google Slides: Use these Google Slides presentation slides to guide the mood lesson and activity with instructional slides on how the mood of a text affects readers emotionally, and the impact specific elements and devices have on mood with examples. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Solve the Psychic Mystery 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, devastated by the loss of their dog Lucy, reluctantly consult a psychic medium for help; after a peculiar session, the medium provides them with pieces of writing, hinting at a puzzle to solve; determined to find Lucy, students diligently piece together the clues, hoping to unravel the mystery and reunite with their beloved pet.

➡️ Mood Digital Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive digital escape-room style mood challenge, students must read an original short story, read a variety of texts, and solve a sliding puzzle using their knowledge of mood to get the location of their missing pet.

How This Digital Mood Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

• Use the Google Slides presentation to guide you through each element of the mood lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about mood. 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 mood activity challenge.
• Once you have taught students about mood 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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