Author’s Purpose Activities | Reading Digital Escape Room | Winter Christmas

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This digital escape room will help your students strengthen their author’s purpose skills. This fun Christmas digital escape room will have your students fully engaged in reviewing important reading comprehension skills, while also developing a growth mindset and teamwork skills. Perfect author’s purpose activities for reviewing PIE’ED, point of view, and perspective.

What do I get?

A link to the author’s purpose 360° digital escape room game

Easy-to-use instructions on how to assign the game

A self-validated Google Forms answer sheet

A student show your work sheet

A teacher answer key

2 BONUS completion activities – your students will always remember what they learned!

Reflection sheet — to show their teamwork and problem-solving skill

Certificate — to congratulate them for applying their author’s purpose skills

What problems will this product help solve?

Overcome student boredom — engage your students with fun and interactive puzzle activities

Save time — we’ve done all the prep for you! Easy-to-use directions and answer key

Add variety — the novelty and excitement of techy games, minus all the prep!

How will this help me?

Be prepared for an exciting author’s purpose lesson at any time!

Deliver the best lesson of the year!

Strengthen your students’ teamwork skills

Teach your students how to overcome challenges

A tool for students to effortlessly practice their author’s purpose skills

How is this escape room different?

Are you tired of plain old Google Forms escape rooms that are really just multiple choice activities on the computer?

This escape room is nothing like that! Your students will step into a world of possibilities, interact with a 360° image and choose which puzzle to start with. Each interactive clue will reinforce their author’s purpose skills and introduce them to friendly winter characters to cheer them on!

Who is this escape room NOT for?

Students who haven’t been introduced to author’s purpose, PIE’ED, point of view, and perspective

Schools that block Google Apps (Google Slides and Forms) when accessed from outside the school network

How do I use this?

Confirm with your IT person that student devices can access these two websites:

– Google Apps (Google Slides and Google Forms)

-ThingLink.com (this is where the escape rooms are hosted)

Print out the student “show your work” and reflection sheets

Share the link with your students

Feel proud and watch your students have fun!

This NO PREP reading escape room is easy to use in the classroom or during asynchronous learning. Simply share the link with the students and let them go!

It’s the perfect digital activity to review students’ knowledge about author’s purpose, and your students will be asking for more! Don’t let the fun fool you! This escape room is filled with rigorous, skills-based author’s purpose activities.

When can I use this?

• When students are tired but still need to learn
• Fun Friday
• The day before a holiday break
• As a team building activity
• To demonstrate the magic of Christmas
• Supplemental author’s purpose activity
• End-of-Unit performance assessment

What are some of the questions in this game?

• What is the author’s purpose in the passage?
• What is the author’s point of view?
• What is the author’s main point?
• Which reason (or part of the passage) supports the author’s main point?
• What evidence in the text supports the idea that ______?
• What is the setting of the passage?
• The author used the word ______ in order to?
• What is the author’s perspective?

PLEASE NOTE: We highly recommend that you clear the computer’s cache after each group so that the answers are erased from the computer. This is because the computer will remember answers until you clear the cache. This means that if students from different classes use the same computers, the answers that the 1st class put in will be visible to the 2nd class.

Grab it now, and see how much your students will love it!

What do other teachers think?

“ This is an excellent resource that gives students the opportunity to consolidate their reading comprehension skills related to author’s purpose.”

“ This was a very unique resource. I was most happy that my students were engaged throughout the activity. They really had to figure out how to work together in order to escape.”

“My principal walked in while my students were doing this– he was impressed! Thanks for providing a fun and academically rigorous resource.”

“ This kept 100% of my kids engaged for about an hour, and I think they walked away knowing a lot more about author’s purpose than by simply reading some passages.”

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Thank you, and enjoy!

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