Foreshadowing Literary Device Presentation & Escape Room Reading Activity

Foreshadowing Literary Device Presentation & Escape Room Reading Activity: This foreshadowing reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of setting, character, point of view, plot, conflict, theme, mood, and tone! The detailed presentation introduces foreshadowing 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 escape a haunted castle. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a foreshadowing-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the passphrase to escape!

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Included in This Foreshadowing Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Foreshadowing Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the foreshadowing lesson and activity with instructional slides on setting, character, point of view, plot, conflict, theme, mood, and tone. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Escape The Haunted Mansion 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, daringly exploring an abandoned and haunted two-story house, find themselves trapped in the attic after the door locks behind them; discovering a mysterious literary puzzle hidden behind a mirror, they must solve it to uncover clues and escape before encountering the lurking terrors of the cursed attic.

➡️ Foreshadowing Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style foreshadowing challenge, students must read a variety of texts and locate the examples of foreshadowing to reveal a hidden passphrase to escape the attic of the haunted house!

How This Foreshadowing Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

• Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the foreshadowing lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about foreshadowing with detailed 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 foreshadowing activity challenge.
• Once you have taught students about foreshadowing 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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