Tone as a Story Element in Fiction Slides & Digital Escape Room Reading Activity

Tone as a Story Element in Fiction Slides & Digital Escape Room Reading Activity: This digital tone reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of tone! The detailed Google Slides presentation introduces tone with clear examples, ensuring student understanding from the start. The highlight of the resource is the engaging escape digital room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must gain access to a dragon's treasure. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a tone-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the passphrase to gain access to the treasure.

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 Tone Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Tone Google Slides: Use these Google Slides presentation slides to guide the tone lesson and activity with instructional slides, activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ The Dragon's Treasure 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. As students enter the caverns of Dragon’s Crown Mountain in search of legendary treasure, they are met with a massive chamber filled with riches beyond imagination. However, their excitement is cut short when they encounter a fearsome red dragon guarding the treasure chest. The dragon challenges them to prove their worthiness by solving a puzzle. With their fate hanging in the balance, the students focus intently on the task ahead, knowing that their survival depends on it.

➡️ Tone Digital Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive digital escape-room style tone challenge, students must read an original short story and connect a variety of stories to their correct tone to get the passphrase!

How This Digital Tone Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

• Start by using the Google Slides to guide you through each element of the lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach tone, 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 tone and read the story, students are ready to try the escape-room style digital 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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