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Figurative Language Presentation & Escape Room Close Reading Challenge Activity
Figurative Language Presentation & Escape Room Close Reading Challenge Activity
Figurative Language Presentation & Escape Room Close Reading Challenge Activity
Figurative Language Presentation & Escape Room Close Reading Challenge Activity

Figurative Language Presentation & Escape Room Close Reading Challenge Activity

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Figurative Language Presentation & Escape Room Close Reading Challenge Activity: This figurative language reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of metaphor, simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, oxymoron, and pun! The detailed presentation introduces the figurative language 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 locate enemy submarines. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a figurative language-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the coordinates of the ships!

 

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Included in This Figurative Language Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Figurative Language Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the figurative language lesson and activity with instructional slides on metaphor, simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, oxymoron, and pun. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Locate the Enemy Submarines 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 play the role of a code-breaking graduate tasked with decrypting an intercepted enemy transmission to reveal the current location of six submarines

➡️ Figurative Language Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style figurative language challenge, students must read an original short story and find figurative language in a variety of tasks to determine the coordinates for the enemy submarines.

 

Figurative Language Covered in this Activity:

  • Metaphor
  • Simile
  • Alliteration
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Personification
  • Oxymoron
  • Pun

 

How This Figurative Language Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

  • Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the figurative language lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about the following literary devices: metaphor, simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, oxymoron, and pun. 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 figurative language activity challenge.
  • Once you have taught students about the different figurative language 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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