Compare and Contrast Text Structure Slides & Nonfiction Reading Escape Activity

Compare and Contrast Text Structure Slides & Nonfiction Reading Escape Activity: This compare and contrast text structure reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of the compare and contrast text structure in nonfiction writing! The detailed presentation introduces this nonfiction text structure with clear examples and signal words, 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 decode a message in a bottle from a secretive order called The Keepers of the Truth. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a compare and contrast text structure-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the coordinates to escape!

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Included in This Compare and Contrast Text Structure Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Compare and Contrast Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the compare and contrast text structures lesson and activity with instructional slides with examples. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Decode the Message in a Bottle 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 discovering a message and hidden clues in a bottle, students embark on a quest to unearth and reassemble the dismantled halves of a magical talisman known as The Wealthy Compass buried on separate desert islands.

➡️ Compare and Contrast Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style story elements challenge, students must find sentences in a variety of readings that use compare and contrast to determine the coordinates needed to find the two parts of the compass on the map.

How This Compare and Contrast Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

• Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the compare and contrast lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about the elements of this nonfiction text structure. 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 compare and contrast activity challenge.
• Once you have taught students about the compare and contrast nonfiction text structure and read the story, students are ready to try the reading challenge!
• When students find the answer, you can share the conclusion slides to wrap up the story.

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