Flashback and Flashforward Slides & Literary Device Escape Room Reading Activity

Flashback and Flashforward Slides & Literary Device Escape Room Reading Activity: This flashback and flashforward reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of flashback and flashforward and how to locate them in a text! The detailed presentation introduces the literary devices 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 open a mysterious secret locker in the school library. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a flashback and flashforward-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the combination to open the locker!

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Included in This Flashback and Flashforward Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Flashback and Flashforward Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the flashback and flashforward lesson and activity with instructional slides. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Open the Secret Locker 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 stumble upon a mysterious puzzle while studying late at night in the library, leading them to uncover clues to unlock a secret locked locker.

➡️ Flashback and Flashforward Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style flashback and flashforward challenge, students must read an original short story and find moments of flashforward or flashback in a variety of stories to determine the combination to open the locker.

How This Flashback and Flashforward Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

• Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the flashback and flashforward lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about the literary devices with a variety of examples. 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 flashback and flashforward activity challenge.
• Once you have taught students about flashback and flashforward as a literary device 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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