Vocabulary in Context Presentation & Digital Escape Room Reading Activity Game
Vocabulary in Context Presentation & Digital Escape Room Reading Activity Game: This digital vocabulary in context reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their ability to determine the meaning of new words! The detailed Google Slides presentation introduces how to determine the meaning of new vocabulary in context 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 escape the Egyptian library. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a vocabulary in context-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the passphrase to escape!
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 Vocabulary in Context Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:
➡️ Vocabulary in Context Google Slides: Use these Google Slides to guide the vocabulary in context lesson and activity with instructional slides on determining the meaning of new vocabulary words in context. Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ Escape the Egyptian Library 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 on a school trip to Egypt, visiting the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. While exploring the vast library, one student gets lost in thought and realizes they've been left behind when the library closed. As they try to leave, they discover that the security system is activated, and they must deactivate it to catch their flight. Finding instructions for the password in the form of a riddle, the student sets out to solve the puzzle and escape the library in time.
➡️ Vocabulary in Context Digital Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style vocabulary challenge, students must read an original short story and determine the meaning of words in a story to reveal a hidden passphrase to escape the library.
How This Digital Vocabulary in Context Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:
- Start by using the Google Slides to guide you through each element of the lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach how to determine the meaning of new vocabulary in context, 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 vocabulary in context skills and read the story, students are ready to try the digital escape-room style 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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Included in your resource:
- A Google Slides presentation that shares practical information on how to use context clues in a text to determine the meaning of uncommon or unfamiliar words.
- An original narrative backstory that puts students within the story and sets up the digital escape room challenge.
- Google Slides to guide the lesson and activity with instructional slides, activity prompts, the narrative story text, the story conclusion slides, and an answer key for easy review.
- An interactive, paperless escape-room style challenge where students must use their vocabulary in context skills to complete the challenge.
- A password-protected PDF file where students can check their work. If they are correct, the conclusion slides will appear!
How it works:
- Start by using the Google Slides to guide you through each element of the lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach the vocabulary in context skills, introduce the story and challenge, and review the answers.
- Read the narrative story to hook students and introduce the challenge.
- Once you taught the vocabulary in context skills and read the story, students are ready to try the digital escape-room style reading challenge!
- When students successfully solve the challenge, they can check their work with the included password-protected PDF file which will reveal the conclusion to the story if they are correct.
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