Text Evidence Presentation & Citing Evidence Escape Room Close Reading Activity

Text Evidence Presentation & Citing Evidence Escape Room Close Reading Activity: This text evidence reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of finding text evidence to support claims! The detailed presentation introduces how to find text evidence 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 jungle animals. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a text evidence-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the pin to escape the pursuing jaguars!

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Included in This Finding Text Evidence Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Text Evidence Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the text evidence lesson and activity with instructional slides, activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Escaping the Jungle Animals 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. In a remote jungle in Southern Mexico, students flee from jaguars and stumble upon a gondola system over a ravine. To activate it, they need a six-digit PIN found in an old explorer's journal. With time running out, they must decode the journal to escape the pursuing jaguars.

➡️ Text Evidence Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style text evidence challenge, students must read an original short story and read an original text and find text evidence to support six claims made to reveal the PIN to get access to the journal.

How This Finding Text Evidence Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

• Start by using the presentation slides to guide you through each element of the lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach how to find text evidence, introduce the story and challenge, and review the answers.
• Read the narrative story as a class to hook students and introduce the challenge.
• Once you taught the text evidence skills and read the story, students are ready to try the escape-room style reading challenge!
• When students successfully solve the challenge, you can share the conclusion slides which will wrap up the narrative story.

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