Imagery Presentation and Sensory Details Escape Room Close Reading Activity

Imagery Presentation and Sensory Details Escape Room Close Reading Activity: This imagery reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of imagery! The detailed presentation introduces imagery 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 engage the autopilot and keep a plane in the air. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack an imagery-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the passphrase to keep the plane in the air!

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Included in This Imagery Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Imagery Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the imagery lesson and activity with instructional slides on sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch imagery. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Keep the Plane in the Air 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 find themselves aboard their great-great aunt Dorothy's private jet, en route to visit her remote home in the rainforests of Africa; when the pilot accidentally incapacitates himself with sleeping pills, leaving the plane in danger. Students must solve an imagery puzzle found in a briefcase to retrieve the passphrase needed to engage theautopilot and ensure the safety of the flight.

➡️ Imagery Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style imagery challenge, students must read an original short story and read passages to locate the different types of imagery to reveal a hidden passphrase to engage the autopilot!

How This Imagery Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:

• Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the imagery lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about the following types of imagery: sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch imagery. 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 imagery activity challenge.
• Once you have taught students about the different types of imagery 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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