Nonfiction Text Features Presentation & Escape Room Reading Activity Game
Nonfiction Text Features Presentation & Escape Room Reading Activity Game: This text features reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of a variety of text features found in informational text! The detailed presentation introduces the different text features 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 the Bermuda Triangle trap underneath the ocean. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a text features-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the code to escape!
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Included in This Text Features Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:
➡️ Text Features Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the story elements lesson and activity with instructional slides on text features like table of contents, glossary, index, headings, subheadings, photograph, caption, keywords, diagrams, labels, charts and graphs, maps, timelines, fact boxes (or sidebars), bullet points, and quotations with examples of each one. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ Escape From the Bermuda Triangle 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. After being pulled into a mysterious whirlpool while sailing through the Bermuda Triangle, students awaken in an underwater cell in what seems to be an enemy base, with only clues hidden in your mattress to help you unlock the door's PIN pad and escape.
➡️ Text Features Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style text features challenge, students must read an informational text and find and locate multiple text features within to escape the underwater cell.
Text Evidence Included in this Activity:
- Keywords
- Bullet Points
- Labels
- Headings
- Subheadings
- Photographs
- Captions
- Table of Contents
- Diagrams
- Index
- Charts/Graphs
- Maps
- Timelines
- Fact Boxes
- Glossary
- Quotations
How This Text Features Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:
- Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the text features lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about the a variety of text features found in nonfiction texts. 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 story elements activity challenge.
- Once you have taught students about the different text features 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.
- When students successfully solve the challenge, you can share the conclusion slides which will wrap up the narrative story.
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