Symbolism Literary Devices Presentation & Digital Escape Room Reading Activity

Symbolism Literary Devices Presentation & Digital Escape Room Reading Activity: This digital symbolism reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of symbolism! The detailed Google Slides presentation shares information on the purpose of symbolism, how to locate symbols in a text, and examples of symbolism, with clear examples, ensuring student understanding from the start. The highlight of the resource is the engaging digital escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must shut down a band of evil robots. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a symbolism-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the passphrase to stop the robots!

This is a digital resource and students complete all the work on the computer. This works well with distance learning, 1:1 classrooms, remote teaching, Google Classroom, or online education.

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Included in This Digital Symbolism Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

➡️ Symbolism Google Slides: Use these Google Slides presentation slides to guide the symbolism lesson and activity with instructional slides on the purpose of symbolism, how to locate symbols in a text, and examples of symbolism. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.

➡️ Shut Down the Evil Robots 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. In a city overrun by rogue robots, a group of students finds themselves in a perilous situation. They sneak into Robotico Tech's control room to shut down the robots before it's too late. To gain access, they must complete a symbolism challenge displayed on the monitor. With time running out, they work together to decipher the clues and deactivate the robots.

➡️ Symbolism Digital Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style symbolism challenge, students must read an original short story and match up six stories to symbols and their meanings to reveal a hidden passphrase to stop the robots.

How to Use This Digital Symbolism Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:

• Start by using the Google Slides to guide you through each element of the lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach symbolism, introduce the story and challenge, and review the answers.
• Read the narrative story as a class to hook students and introduce the challenge.
• Once you taught the symbolism skills and read the story, students are ready to try the escape-room style digital reading challenge!
• When students successfully solve the challenge, you can share the conclusion slides which will wrap up the narrative story.

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