Nonfiction Text Features Presentation & Digital Escape Room Reading Activity
Nonfiction Text Features Presentation & Digital Escape Room Reading Activity: This text features reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of a variety of text features found in informational text! The detailed presentation introduces the different text features with clear examples, ensuring student understanding from the start. The highlight of the resource is the engaging escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must escape the Bermuda Triangle trap underneath the ocean. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a text features-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the code 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 Text Features Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:
➡️ Text Features Google Slides: Use these Google Slides to guide the story elements lesson and activity with instructional slides on text features like table of contents, glossary, index, headings, subheadings, photograph, caption, keywords, diagrams, labels, charts and graphs, maps, timelines, fact boxes (or sidebars), bullet points, and quotations with examples of each one. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ Escape From the Bermuda Triangle 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 being pulled into a mysterious whirlpool while sailing through the Bermuda Triangle, students awaken in an underwater cell in what seems to be an enemy base, with only clues hidden in your mattress to help you unlock the door's PIN pad and escape.
➡️ Text Features Escape Room Digital Style Challenge: In this interactive digital escape-room style text features challenge, students must read an informational text and find and locate multiple text features within to escape the underwater cell.
Text Evidence Included in this Activity:
- Keywords
- Bullet Points
- Labels
- Headings
- Subheadings
- Photographs
- Captions
- Table of Contents
- Diagrams
- Index
- Charts/Graphs
- Maps
- Timelines
- Fact Boxes
- Glossary
- Quotations
How This Digital Text Features Escape Room Challenge Works:
- Use the Google Slides presentation to guide you through each element of the text features lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about the different types of text features found in nonfiction. 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 cause and effect activity challenge.
- Once you have taught students about cause and effect text structures in nonfiction 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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