Descriptive Text Structure Slides & Digital Nonfiction Reading Escape Activity
Descriptive Text Structure Slides & Digital Nonfiction Reading Escape Activity: This descriptive text structures digital escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of the descriptive text structure in nonfiction! The detailed Google Slides presentation explains how to recognize the descriptive text structure including how signal words act as clues with clear examples. The highlight of the resource is the engaging digital escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must act fast to unlock their companion's camera to capture a once-in-a-lifetime photo of a yeti. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a descriptive text structures-related challenge to solve the puzzle and determine the passcode to make history!
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 Descriptive Text Structures Digital Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:
➡️ Descriptive Text Structures Google Slides: Use these Google Slides to guide the descriptive text structures lesson and activity with instructional slides on how to recognize the descriptive text structure including how signal words act as clues. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ Capture a Photo of the Abominable Snowman 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. Students embark on a Himalayan expedition in search of the elusive yeti, only to find themselves face to face with the legendary creature after a mechanical mishap. With their camera inaccessible, they must quickly solve a puzzle to unlock their companion's camera and capture the ultimate photograph, potentially making history in the process.
➡️ Descriptive Text Structures Digital Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style descriptive text structures challenge, students must read original texts and identify where the subject has been directly described to solve the puzzle and reveal a secret passcode so they can photograph the elusive yeti!
How This Descriptive Text Structures Digital Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:
- Use the Google Slides presentation to guide you through each element of the descriptive text structures lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about how to recognize the descriptive text structure including how signal words act as clues. 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 descriptive text structures activity challenge.
- Once you have taught students about the descriptive text structure, 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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