Theme as a Story Element in Fiction Presentation & Escape Room Reading Activity

Theme as a Story Element in Fiction Presentation & Escape Room Reading Activity: This theme reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of theme! The detailed presentation introduces theme 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 shut down a roller coaster. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a theme-related challenge to unlock the solution to stop the roller coaster!

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Included in This Theme Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Theme Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the theme lesson and activity with instructional slides on how to determine a theme in a fictional text. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Stop the Roller Coaster 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. On their first day at the amusement park, students find themselves in a crisis when the roller coaster malfunctions due to sabotage. With riders in danger and no time to waste, they discover a user manual containing crucial information hidden in a literary puzzle. Determined to solve it and regain control, they jump into action, knowing time is of the essence.

➡️ Theme Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style theme challenge, students must read an original short story and read three stories and match them up with different themes to reconnect the electrical wires and fix the roller coaster.

How This Theme 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 theme, 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 theme 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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