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Full Year of Digital ELA Escape Rooms BUNDLE
By Language Arts Excellence
This bundle features a full year's worth (one escape room per month) of our rigorous and engaging digital escape rooms for your secondary Language Arts classroom for use with Google Drive.
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! Now, you can facilitate 12 of our popular digital escape rooms at home for distance learning or in the classroom using your school's technology (thereby cutting down on paper and valuable prep time) with this meticulously-crafted bundle of resources. Each escape room is skills-based so that with these fun activities, learning is not sacrificed. Distance learning can certainly be a struggle for both students and teachers, so these escape rooms aim to provide a welcome break from the monotony while encouraging higher order thinking skills and a fun review of language arts skills.
How does it work?
Your students must work to escape your digital classroom by solving 5 different Language Arts skills-based puzzles, discovering hidden messages, and finding clues along the way.
Each Escape Room Includes:
- Instructions for how to access and share escape room and answer key through Google Drive
- Materials for 5 Tasks: digital task signs, detailed task instructions, and interactive worksheets
- Digital Student Answer Booklet
- Digital Teacher Answer Key
Suggested Escape Room Progression:
- August - Back to School ELA Digital Escape Room for Distance Learning
- September - Back to School Grammar Digital Escape Room
- October - Halloween Digital Escape Room
- November - Thanksgiving ELA Digital Escape Room
- December - Christmas ELA Digital Escape Room
- January - Escape from Dystopia Digital ESCAPE ROOM & PowerPoint
- February - Valentine's Day ELA Digital Escape Room
- March - Spring Break Digital Escape Room
- April - Digital Poetry Escape Room
- May - Shakespeare Digital Escape Room
- June - End of Year ELA Digital Escape Room
- July - The Lottery Digital Escape Room
Purchasing this bundle saves 30% off the cover price of a year's worth of escape rooms. All are suitable for middle-high school students. Note that these products require free accounts through Google Drive and are completely paperless.
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Full Year of ELA Escape Rooms BUNDLE - Volume 2
By Language Arts Excellence
This bundle features a full year's worth (one escape room per month) of our rigorous and engaging escape rooms for your secondary Language Arts classroom - second edition.
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct 12 full-length ELA Escape Rooms. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours run smoothly from start to finish. These activities involve movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. Plus, all tasks are skills-based and aligned to the Common Core so that with each escape room, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of these games!
How does it work?
Your students must work to escape your classroom by solving 5 different Language Arts skills-based puzzles, discovering hidden messages, and finding clues along the way.
Each Escape Room Includes:
- Escape Room Basics
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Escape Room Print Checklist
- Student Teams Chart
- Welcome Sign for Your Door
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations
- Student Answer Booklets (small and large options)
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Code Word Theme Open Response for homework or in-class writing activity
- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity
Suggested Escape Room Progression:
- August - Back to School Grammar Escape Room
- September - Edgar Allan Poe ESCAPE ROOM
- October - Halloween Poetry ESCAPE ROOM
- November - Escape from Dystopia ESCAPE ROOM
- December - Hanukkah Kwanzaa Christmas Diwali ESCAPE ROOM
- January - New Year's ESCAPE ROOM
- February - Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM
- March - St. Patrick's Day ESCAPE ROOM
- April - Easter ESCAPE ROOM
- May - A Midsummer Night's Dream ESCAPE ROOM
- June - End of Year ELA Escape Room - Pop Culture Edition
- July - End of Year ELA Escape Room - Second Edition
Purchasing this bundle saves over 30% off the cover price of a year's worth of escape rooms. All are suitable for middle-high school students.
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If this combination of escape rooms isn't exactly what you're looking for, check out volumes 1 & 3 as well as our digital escape room bundle:
⭐ Full Year of ELA Escape Rooms BUNDLE - Volume 1
⭐ Full Year of ELA Escape Rooms BUNDLE - Volume 3
⭐ Full Year of Digital ELA Escape Rooms BUNDLE
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Full Year of ELA Escape Rooms BUNDLE - Volume 1
By Language Arts Excellence
This bundle features a full year's worth (one escape room per month) of our rigorous and engaging escape rooms for your secondary Language Arts classroom.
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct 12 full-length ELA Escape Rooms. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours run smoothly from start to finish. These activities involve movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. Plus, all tasks are skills-based and aligned to the Common Core so that with each escape room, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of these games!
How does it work?
Your students must work to escape your classroom by solving 5 different Language Arts skills-based puzzles, discovering hidden messages, and finding clues along the way.
Each Escape Room Includes:
- Escape Room Basics
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Escape Room Print Checklist
- Student Teams Chart
- Welcome Sign for Your Door
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations
- Student Answer Booklets (small and large options)
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Code Word Theme Open Response for homework or in-class writing activity
- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity
Suggested Escape Room Progression:
- August - Back to School ELA Escape Room
- September - Poetry ESCAPE ROOM
- October - Halloween ESCAPE ROOM
- November - Thanksgiving ESCAPE ROOM
- December - Christmas ESCAPE ROOM
- January - Winter Themed ELA ESCAPE ROOM
- February - Shakespeare ESCAPE ROOM
- March - 100th Day of School ELA Escape Room
- April - Escape to Spring Break ESCAPE ROOM
- May - Hero's Journey ESCAPE ROOM
- June - End of Year ELA Escape Room
- July - Escape to Summer Vacation ELA Escape Room
Purchasing this bundle saves over 30% off the cover price of a year's worth of escape rooms. All are suitable for middle-high school students.
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If this combination of escape rooms isn't exactly what you're looking for, check out volumes 1 & 3 as well as our digital escape room bundle:
⭐ Full Year of ELA Escape Rooms BUNDLE - Volume 2
⭐ Full Year of ELA Escape Rooms BUNDLE - Volume 3
⭐ Full Year of Digital ELA Escape Rooms BUNDLE
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Full Year of ELA Escape Rooms BUNDLE - Volume 3
By Language Arts Excellence
This bundle features a full year's worth (one escape room per month) of our rigorous and engaging escape rooms for your secondary Language Arts classroom - third edition.
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct 12 full-length ELA Escape Rooms. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours run smoothly from start to finish. These activities involve movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. Plus, all tasks are skills-based and aligned to the Common Core so that with each escape room, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of these games!
How does it work?
Your students must work to escape your classroom by solving 5 different Language Arts skills-based puzzles, discovering hidden messages, and finding clues along the way.
Each Escape Room Includes:
- Escape Room Basics
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Escape Room Print Checklist
- Student Teams Chart
- Welcome Sign for Your Door
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations
- Student Answer Booklets (small and large options)
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Code Word Theme Open Response for homework or in-class writing activity
- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity
Suggested Escape Room Progression:
- August - Back to School Poetry Escape Room
- September - The Raven ESCAPE ROOM
- October - Halloween Grammar Escape Room
- November - Veterans Day Stations Activity
- December - A Christmas Carol ESCAPE ROOM
- January - Macbeth ESCAPE ROOM
- February - Valentine's Day Poetry Escape Room
- March - March Basketball ELA Escape Room
- April - The Lottery ESCAPE ROOM
- May - Memorial Day Stations Activity
- June - The Alchemist ESCAPE ROOM
- July - End of Year Grammar Escape Room
Purchasing this bundle saves over 30% off the cover price of a year's worth of escape rooms. All are suitable for middle-high school students.
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If this combination of escape rooms isn't exactly what you're looking for, check out volumes 1 & 2 as well as our digital escape room bundle:
⭐ Full Year of ELA Escape Rooms BUNDLE
⭐ Full Year of ELA Escape Rooms BUNDLE - Volume 2
⭐ Full Year of Digital ELA Escape Rooms BUNDLE
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Holiday Escape Room BUNDLE for ELA
By Language Arts Excellence
**Now with newly added material!**
Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with NINE holiday-themed escape rooms that will keep your students active and engaged on Halloween, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, New Year's, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, and Easter!
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct nine full-length holiday-themed escape rooms for Halloween, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, New Year's, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, and Easter. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours run smoothly from start to finish. The activities involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with these fun holiday lessons, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of these games!
Each Escape Room Includes:
- Escape Room Basics
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Escape Room Print Checklist
- Student Teams Chart
- Welcome Sign for Your Door
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations
- Student Answer Booklet
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity
Halloween ESCAPE ROOM: Your room has been transformed into a haunted house of horrors and your students can only escape by solving 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks about Halloween!
- In the first task, students must correct commonly misspelled words in a non-fiction article about Devil's Night. Once complete, they must unscramble circled boxes to reveal the first code.
- In the second task, students must identify the figurative language devices used in fun Halloween sentences. Shaded boxes in the correct answers form the second code.
- In the third task, students will read 8 fun facts about Halloween and must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within the passages. When matched correctly, shaded boxes will reveal the third code.
- In the fourth task, students must perform a close reading of Robert Grave's famously chilling poem, A Child's Nightmare. The letters of the multiple choice questions about the poem will form the fourth code.... Cat! Cat! Cat!
- In the final task, students must complete a fallen phrase that reveals a spooky poem. Once they bring that to you, they may escape the haunted house of horrors.
Veterans Day Stations Activity: Your students are stuck in your classroom and cannot leave until they solve 4 ELA-based tasks about veterans and Veterans Day! - newly added!
- In the first task, students will read 8 fun facts about Veterans Day and must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within the passages.
- In the second task, students must perform a close reading of The Star-Spangled Banner and match passages to the poetic devices they represent (example: onomatopoeia, allusion, alliteration...).
- In the third task, students will read 8 inspirational quotes about veterans and must determine the incorrectly-spelled word in each quote.
- In the fourth task, students will assemble a jig saw puzzle that, when assembled correctly, reveals a quote about Veterans Day.
Thanksgiving ESCAPE ROOM: Your students are stuck in your classroom and cannot leave for Thanksgiving break until they solve 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks about Thanksgiving!
- In the first task, students will read 8 fun facts about Thanksgiving and must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within the passages. When matched correctly, shaded boxes will reveal the first code.
- In the second task, students must solve a series of word mazes. Letters they collect along the way will form their second code.
- In the third task, students must identify the figurative language devices used in fun Thanksgiving sentences. Shaded boxes in the correct answers form the third code.
- In the fourth task, students must perform a close reading of Landing of the Pilgrims by Felicia Dorothea Hemans, a perfect poem to study on Thanksgiving. Letters of the multiple choice question answers following the poem reveal their fourth code.
- In the final task, students must solve an encrypted Thanksgiving message using the codes and clues from the first four tasks. Once they decipher the quote about Thanksgiving and bring it to you, they are free to escape to Thanksgiving break!
Christmas ESCAPE ROOM: Your students are stuck in your classroom and cannot leave for Christmas vacation until they solve 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks about Christmas!
- In the first task, students must identify the figurative language devices used in popular Christmas songs. Shaded boxes in the correct answers form the first code.
- In the second task, students must order the plot events of Clement Clarke Moore's famous poem, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, on Freytag's Pyramid. Once solved, corresponding letters reveal the second code.
- In the third task, students will read 8 fun facts about Christmas and must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within the passages. When matched correctly, shaded boxes will reveal the third code.
- In the fourth task, students must correct commonly confused words (like except and accept) in passages about how Christmas is celebrated around the world. Once complete, they must unscramble shaded boxes to reveal the fourth code.
- In the final task, students must solve an encrypted Christmas message using the codes and clues from the first four tasks. Then they must figure out the final line that completes the message. Once they sing that you, they can escape to Christmas vacation!
Hanukkah Kwanzaa Christmas Diwali ESCAPE ROOM: Your students are stuck in your classroom and cannot leave for vacation until they solve 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks about Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, and Christmas around the world.
- In the first task, students must read fun facts about Diwali, each demonstrating 1 of 6 comma rules. Students must match the fact with the comma rule. The code is revealed when cards are matched correctly.
- In the second task, students must perform a close reading of Hanukkah Lights by Philip M. Raskin (1880-1944) and answer multiple choice questions about the selection that when correct, reveal the code.
- In the third task, students will read 8 fun facts about how Christmas is celebrated in different countries around the world and must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within the passages. When matched correctly, shaded boxes will reveal the third code.
- In the fourth task, students must correct commonly misspelled words a passage about the origins of Kwanzaa. Once complete, they must unscramble shaded boxes to reveal the fourth code.
- In the final task, students must use all that they have learned about Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, and Christmas and fill out a crossword puzzle. Once complete, they must unscramble the circled letters to reveal their final code to escape!
New Year's ESCAPE ROOM: Your students must face their first major challenge of the new year and are stuck in your classroom until they solve 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks about New Year's!
- In the first task, students will read 8 fun facts about how people celebrate New Year's around the world. In each passage, one word is spelled incorrectly. Students must identify the incorrectly spelled word and write the word with the correct spelling in their answer sheet. Shaded boxes within the answers reveal the first code.
- In the second task, students will read 8 New Year's resolutions from their favorite celebrities and sports stars. They must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within each quote. When parts of speech cards are matched correctly with the resolutions, shaded boxes reveal their second code.
- In the third task, students must solve a word maze. Letters collected along the way, once unscrambled, reveal their third code.
- In the fourth task, students must perform a close reading of Burning the Old Year by Naomi Shihab Nye, a perfect poem to study on the New Year. Letters of the multiple choice question answers following the poem reveal their fourth code.
- In the final task, students must assemble a jig saw puzzle that forms a quote about New Year's. Once the puzzle is assembled and students bring the quote to you, they may escape the room and start the new year off on a strong note!
Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM: Your students are stuck in your classroom on Valentine's Day and cannot leave until they solve 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks about the holiday of love!
- In the first task, students will read 8 fun facts about Valentine's Day and must identify the incorrectly used homophone in each passage. They must write the correct homophone in their student answer booklet. Shaded boxes within the answers reveal their first code.
- In the second task, students will read 8 quotes about love from famous figures and must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within the quotes. When matched correctly, shaded boxes will reveal the second code.
- In the third task, students will perform a close reading of Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 18, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day. Then, they will answer multiple choice questions about the poem. Letters of the correct answers will reveal their third code.
- In the fourth task, students must identify the figurative language devices used in popular love songs. Shaded boxes in the correct answers form the fourth code.
- In the final task, students will be quizzed on what they learned throughout the first four tasks and enter their answers to Valentine's Day trivia questions in a fun crossword puzzle. Circled boxes within the puzzle will reveal their final code.
St. Patrick's Day ESCAPE ROOM: Your students are stuck in your classroom on St. Patrick's Day and cannot leave until they solve 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks that will teach them about St. Patrick's Day, St. Patrick himself, and Irish culture!
- In the first task, students will read 8 fun facts about St. Patrick's Day and must identify the incorrectly spelled word in each passage. They must write the correctly spelled word in their student answer booklet. Shaded boxes within the answers reveal their first code.
- In the second task, students will read 8 facts about St. Patrick and must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within the passages. When matched correctly, shaded boxes will reveal the second code.
- In the third task, students will perform a close reading of one of Ireland's most beloved poems, Raglan Road, by Patrick Kavanagh. Then, they will answer multiple choice questions about the poem. Letters of the correct answers reveal their third code.
- In the fourth task, students must solve a word maze. Letters collected along the way form the fourth code.
- In the final task, students will be quizzed on what they learned throughout the first four tasks and enter their answers to St. Paddy's Day trivia questions in a fun crossword puzzle. Circled boxes within the puzzle will reveal their final code. Students must act out this word in order to escape.
Easter ESCAPE ROOM: Your students are stuck in your classroom and cannot leave until they complete 5 tasks about Easter.
- Easter Fun Facts: In the first task, students must read fun facts about Easter, each demonstrating 1 of 6 comma rules. Students must match the fact with the comma rule. The code is revealed when cards are matched correctly.
- Easter 'Round the World: In the third task, students will read about how Easter is celebrated around the world. Many traditions may surprise you! In each passage is a commonly misspelled word. Shaded boxes in the corrected words on their answer sheet will reveal the code.
- Word Maze: In the third task, students solve a word maze about Easter.
- Easter Hymn: In the fourth task, students will perform a close reading of the poem, Easter Hymn, by A. E. Housman (1859-1936). A. E. Housman was one of the most widely-read poets of his time and a self-proclaimed atheist which students must keep in mind as they read. Then, they will answer multiple choice questions about the poem that when correct, reveals the code.
- Jig Saw Quote: In the final task, students must assemble a jig saw puzzle that forms a humorous quote about Easter. Once the puzzle is assembled and students identify the figurative language the quote exemplifies, they may escape the room!
Purchasing this bundle saves an incredible 30% off the cover price of the nine escape rooms.
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Short Story Escape Room Bundle - Volume 1
By Language Arts Excellence
This bundle includes 7 of our rigorous and engaging escape rooms for your short story unit featuring The Tell-Tale Heart, The Lottery, Harrison Bergeron, A Christmas Carol, The Black Cat, The Most Dangerous Game and the Gift of the Magi.
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct 7 full-length Escape Rooms for The Tell-Tale Heart, The Lottery, Harrison Bergeron, A Christmas Carol, The Black Cat, The Most Dangerous Game, and the Gift of the Magi. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours run smoothly from start to finish. These activities involve movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of these games!
How does it work?
Your students must work to escape your classroom by solving 5 different skills-based puzzles, discovering hidden messages, and finding clues along the way based on the short story they feature.
Each Escape Room Includes:
- Escape Room Basics
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Escape Room Print Checklist
- Student Teams Chart
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions, and supplementary materials for each station
- Student Answer Sheets
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Code Word Theme Open Response for homework or in-class writing activity
- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity
Purchasing this bundle saves an incredible 30% off the cover price of the 7 escape rooms. Suitable for middle and high school students.
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If this combination of escape rooms isn't exactly what you're looking for, check out Volume 2 or build your own bundle!
⭐ Short Story Escape Room Bundle - Volume 2
⭐ Build Your Own Escape Room BUNDLE
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By Language Arts Excellence
**Now with newly added material - Valentine's Day Poetry Escape Room
This bundle features all 6 of our rigorous and engaging Poetry Escape Rooms!
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct 6 full-length Poetry Escape Rooms. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours run smoothly from start to finish. These activities involve movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are skills-based so that with each escape room, learning is not sacrificed; in fact, your students will come away with a stronger understanding of poetic terms and devices. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying (and the number of poems they have analyzed) in the playing of these games!
How does it work?
Your students must collaborate with their peers to escape your classroom by solving 5 different poetry-based puzzles, discovering hidden messages, and finding clues along the way.
Each Escape Room Includes:
- Escape Room Basics
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Escape Room Print Checklist
- Student Teams Chart
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations
- Student Answer Booklets
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Code Word Theme Open Response for homework or in-class writing activity
- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity
Purchasing this bundle saves over 25% off the cover price of the 6 escape rooms. Suitable for middle-high school students.
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Christmas/New Year | Winter Bundle | Fun Games Writing Drawing Activities
By Perfectly Planned Designs
This money-saving winter bundle includes activities for December and January! It's chockful of games, writing & drawing activities, including Would You Rather that will keep elementary and middle school students busy when they finish their work! The bundle also includes tons of early finisher activities and fun seasonal activities to keep students engaged....and busy! Perfect for use throughout the winter holiday months to help celebrate Christmas and New Year!
I made these creative activities because I needed independent work that I could use in my classroom that I knew students would actually LIKE doing!
What's Included:
December Early Finishers Packet This best-selling Christmas-themed monthly packet features like puzzles, games, and SEL-centered drawing and coloring activities.They'll love the fun games they can play with a partner quietly, or anything from the selection of 20 fun pages of independent, challenging puzzles and creative activities this packet offers!
Would You Rather Christmas Edition This class game is a fun way to get your students excited to be in school, create relationships, and get students talking and connected! Questions are winter-themed and related to Christmas. All you need to do is project the questions on the board to get the fun started, no other prep is needed!
Found Your iPhone - Santa/Grinch Edition With this character cell phone analysis activity, students will make inferences using what they know about either Santa or the Grinch. The engaging design of this cell phone activity will ask students to "snoop" through a phone they found, peep their text messages, playlists and even check their most recent location history. This literary analysis activity can be used during the holidays for a fun activity that's in keeping with the holiday spirit.
Christmas Greeting Cards Help your students celebrate Christmas by being creative as well as mindful with these cards they can color! Perfect for teens and secondary students who may not have the time or patience to make a card. Choose from 5 design options for the cover of the card. Cards print double-sided. This card is cute and a fun way for students to share the Christmas spirit.
Letter to Santa Help your students celebrate Christmas by writing a letter to Santa! Choose from 2 different design options - black and white and color. These letters are a fun way for students to express their creativity this Christmas.
Christmas Coloring Pages Help your students celebrate Christmas by being creative as well as mindful with these coloring pages! Choose from 3 different design options. These pages are a cute and fun way for students to express their creativity this Christmas.
Gingerbread Reading Comprehension You may be in full swing with your holiday or Christmas celebrations, but do your students need practice to identify the elements of a story? This Gingerbread-themed worksheet with an original reading passage titled, "Gingerbread Adventure is designed to give your students an opportunity to practice identifying story elements, sequencing, and reading comprehension.
Secret Santa Questionnaire and Tracker These student gift questionnaires and trackers will make it a smooth process! Students will list three wishes on the form and write their names. Collect the slips, fold and have students select their Secret Santa. Use the handy tracker to match up the student they are gifting so there is no confusion. These print-and-go forms are a fun and easy way for students to participate in a gift exchange this Christmas without the stress!
January Early Finishers Packet This January-themed monthly packet features like puzzles, games, and SEL-centered drawing and coloring activities. They'll love the fun games they can play with a partner quietly, or anything from the selection of 20 fun pages of independent, challenging puzzles and creative activities this packet offers!
Would You Rather January Edition This class game is a fun way to get your students excited to be in school, create relationships, and get students talking and connected! Questions are winter-themed and related to New Year's. All you need to do is project the questions on the board to get the fun started, no other prep is needed!
New Year Time Capsule Project The new year is the perfect time to reflect on 2023, set goals, and have some fun as students readjust to being back in school after winter break. Purchase once, and this product can be used year after year and will be updated yearly! Students will have 15 pages in their "capsule" (including the cover) that help them reflect on who they are as a person, their goals, and their personalities. Lots of activities you would expect to see in a time capsule like letter to your future self and a list of current pressing issues happening in the world..all activities that are high-interest for Gen Z!
New Year Goal Setting Brochure for Gen Z Have students create this brochure when they return after New Year's and then let them keep it to track their goals. Purchase once, and this product can be used year after year and will be updated yearly! Pull these brochures out as students return from break. This resource requires NO PREP - simply print double-sided. Students will get a kick out of the hidden messages included on each brochure...the message reads "NEW YEAR VIBES" when read horizontally, and when read vertically, there are 3 different versions are included, which makes for great fun!
New Year Flip Book Goal Setting Activity The new year is the perfect time to reflect, set goals, and have some fun as students readjust to being back in school after winter break with this resolution flip book. Updated yearly! Pull this sheet out as students return from break for an easy and engaging activity. Students will enjoy reflecting on their greatest academic strength, a challenge, and a goal they have to improve in the new year. We all know that a goal is merely a wish without a plan, so students will provide a 3-step action plan to make this goal a reality!!
**For personal and single classroom use only. If using with multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses at the discounted rate.**
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Christmas Escape Room Bundle for ELA
By Language Arts Excellence
This bundle includes 5 of our rigorous and engaging escape rooms (4 in-class, 1 digital) to review grammar, poetry, and more ELA skills during the Christmas season!
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct 5 full-length Christmas-Inspired Escape Rooms. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours run smoothly from start to finish. These activities involve movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are skills-based so that learning is not sacrificed throughout December (a notoriously difficult time to teach students whose minds are on the holidays). Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of these games!
How does it work?
Your students must work to escape to winter break by solving 5 different skills-based puzzles, discovering hidden messages, and finding clues along the way.
Each In-Class Escape Room Includes:
- Escape Room Basics
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Escape Room Print Checklist
- Student Teams Chart
- Welcome Sign for Your Door
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations
- Student Answer Booklets
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Reflection Questions for homework or in-class writing activity
Digital Escape Room Includes:
- Instructions for how to access and share escape room and answer key through Google Drive
- Materials for 5 Tasks: digital task signs, detailed task instructions, and supplementary materials
- Digital Student Worksheets
- Digital Teacher Answer Key
*Note that this is the digital version of the Christmas Escape Room; tasks are identical, just reformatted for digital experience. Requires use of Google Slides.*
**Although these activities are informative about religious holidays, they are secular lessons and can be used for students of all backgrounds and religions. Students do not need any prior knowledge about Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali, or Kwanzaa in order to complete these lessons and have fun with them!**
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This resource features a bundle of our Christmas-themed lesson plans, materials, and activities designed specifically for middle and high school students in mind.
Product Includes:
⭐ Christmas ESCAPE ROOM:
This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Christmas-themed Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this fun lesson on a sugar-filled holiday, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!
⭐ Christmas Journal Prompt Task Cards:
This product features a set of 24 thoughtful writing prompts for middle and high school students during the Christmas season. Each question is carefully crafted to encourage deep thinking and personal reflection. Prompts, each on individual task cards, can be given at the start of class, end of class, for homework, as part of a stations writing or discussion activity, or even as part of an emergency substitute plan. I personally like to begin each class during the month of December with a prompt to really get students in the spirit of Christmas. The possibilities for use are endless during a time of year when every second you can get to be hands-off is precious and your students will appreciate the time to reflect on this very special holiday.
⭐ Christmas Song Figurative Language PowerPoint Presentation:
This fun and colorful 32-slide presentation is the perfect resource for the holiday season. Each slide features lines from popular Christmas songs for students to practice identifying figurative language devices. Your students will love seeing how many of their favorite Christmas songs are brimming with figurative language.
⭐ Christmas Song Figurative Language Task Cards:
This fun and colorful set of 32 task cards is the perfect resource for the holiday season! Each card features lines from popular Christmas songs for students to practice identifying figurative language devices. Cards coincide with the figurative language powerpoint.
⭐ Meaning of Christmas Lesson Plan:
This product features an engaging "Christmas Talk" activity that will have your students thinking, writing, collaborating, speaking, and moving around in one class period! In this activity, they must choose between 5 different quotes from famous figures about Christmas and articulate why the quote aligns with their own perspective about the holiday. I use this lesson every year during the week leading up to Christmas vacation to make sure that my students take some time out of their hectic lives to consider what Christmas truly means not to society, not to others, but to them.
⭐ Christmas Collaborative Writing Activity:
"Christmas Collaborative Story Time" is a communal story-telling activity in which students practice using Freytag's Pyramid plot structure in their own narrative writing. In this activity, each student begins a story inspired by a unique Christmas picture or photograph. With this intrinsically engaging activity, each student has the chance to tap into their creativity while applying knowledge of the 7 steps of Freytag's Pyramid. It is a great activity to introduce or reinforce the plot diagram and is perfect for getting students in the Christmas spirit. Since it runs itself, the lesson is also great for substitute plans or on those days when you need a quick plan to get you through the day. I trust you will find that your students will ask for this activity again and again!
⭐ The Little Match Girl Sensory Details Lesson Plan:
This product features 3 engaging, differentiated activities that focus on the rich sensory details of Hans Christian Andersen's devastatingly beautiful fairytale, "The Little Match Girl." The activities span before, during, and after reading the story with the intent to not only identify the sensory details, but to analyze their importance and how they add to the reader's experience with the tale and the little match girl herself. The activities support multiple learning styles so that all students walk away from the story with an appreciation for this heartbreaking tale and empathy for those less fortunate during the holiday season.
⭐ Christmas Quote Posters from Literature - newly added!
Make your classroom pop this Christmas season with this set of 25 beautifully-made posters featuring Christmas quotes from literature. Each 7.5 x 7.5 (square) PDF poster contains a noteworthy quote imposed over a stunning photograph that will spruce up your ELA classroom during the month of December. The square format makes for an eye-catching arrangement on your wall or bulletin board. I suggest laminating the posters so that you may use them year after year!
⭐ BONUS: Christmas Figurative Language Practice (included for free):
This resource features an engaging, Christmas themed worksheet to help students practice identifying figurative language. This can be given at the start of class, end of class, for homework, as part of an emergency substitute plan, or as part of a stations activity. Kids can never get enough practice with figurative language and this is the perfect worksheet to work on during the holiday season.
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Ultimate Christmas Bundle Would You Rather Games Writing & Drawing Activities
By Perfectly Planned Designs
You need this Ultimate Christmas Bundle to get through the chaos of the month of December. It's chockful of games, writing & drawing activities, including Would You Rather that will keep elementary and middle school students busy when they finish their work! Perfect for use throughout the month of December to help celebrate the Christmas holiday!
I made these creative activities because I needed independent work that I could use in my classroom that I knew students would actually LIKE doing!
What's Included:
December Early Finishers Packet This monthly packet features like puzzles, games, and SEL-centered drawing and coloring activities. They'll love the fun games they can play with a partner quietly, or anything from the selection of 20 fun pages of independent, challenging puzzles and creative activities this packet offers!
Would You Rather Christmas Edition This class game is a fun way to get your students excited to be in school, create relationships, and get students talking and connected! Questions are fall-themed and related to Christmas. All you need to do is project the questions on the board to get the fun started, no other prep is needed!
Found Your iPhone - Santa/Grinch Edition With this character cell phone analysis activity, students will make inferences using what they know about either Santa or the Grinch. The engaging design of this cell phone activity will ask students to "snoop" through a phone they found, peep their text messages, playlists and even check their most recent location history. This literary analysis activity can be used during the holidays for a fun activity that's in keeping with the holiday spirit.
Christmas Greeting Cards Help your students celebrate Christmas by being creative as well as mindful with these cards they can color! Perfect for teens and secondary students who may not have the time or patience to make a card. Choose from 5 design options for the cover of the card. Cards print double-sided. This card is cute and a fun way for students to share the Christmas spirit.
Letter to Santa Help your students celebrate Christmas by writing a letter to Santa! Choose from 2 different design options - black and white and color. These letters are a fun way for students to express their creativity this Christmas.
Christmas Coloring Pages Help your students celebrate Christmas by being creative as well as mindful with these coloring pages! Choose from 3 different design options. These pages are a cute and fun way for students to express their creativity this Christmas.
Gingerbread Reading Comprehension You may be in full swing with your holiday or Christmas celebrations, but do your students need practice to identify the elements of a story? This Gingerbread-themed worksheet with an original reading passage titled, "Gingerbread Adventure is designed to give your students an opportunity to practice identifying story elements, sequencing, and reading comprehension.
Secret Santa Questionnaire and Tracker These student gift questionnaires and trackers will make it a smooth process! Students will list three wishes on the form and write their names. Collect the slips, fold and have students select their Secret Santa. Use the handy tracker to match up the student they are gifting so there is no confusion. These print-and-go forms are a fun and easy way for students to participate in a gift exchange this Christmas without the stress!
**For personal and single classroom use only. If using with multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses at the discounted rate.**
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Christmas ELA Escape Room Bundle - In Class & Digital
By Language Arts Excellence
This bundle includes the in-class and digital versions of our highly popular Christmas ELA Escape Rooms!
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock. Now, you can facilitate our Christmas ELA Escape Room in the classroom and at home for distance learning with this meticulously-crafted bundle. All tasks are skills-based so that with these fun lessons, learning is not sacrificed. Whether they are in school or at home, your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of these games!
How does it work?
Your students are stuck in their digital classroom and cannot leave for Christmas vacation until they solve 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks about Christmas!
- Fa-la-la-la Figurative Language: In the first task, students must identify the figurative language devices used in popular Christmas songs. Shaded boxes in the correct answers form the first code.
- 'Twas the Night Before Christmas: In the second task, students must order the plot events of Clement Clarke Moore's famous poem, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, on Freytag's Pyramid. Once solved, corresponding letters reveal the second code.
- Christmas Fun Facts: In the third task, students will read 8 fun facts about Christmas and must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within the passages. When matched correctly, shaded boxes will reveal the third code.
- Xmas Around the World: In the fourth task, students must correct commonly confused words (like except and accept) in passages about how Christmas is celebrated around the world. Once complete, they must unscramble shaded boxes to reveal the fourth code.
- Encrypted Message: In the final task, students must solve an encrypted Christmas message using the codes and clues from the first four tasks. Then they must figure out the final line that completes the message. Once they write that on the final page, they can share the document with you (or sing it to you in the in-class version) and escape to Christmas vacation!
In-Class Escape Room Includes:
- Escape Room Basics
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Escape Room Print Checklist
- Student Teams Chart
- Welcome Sign for Your Door
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations
- Student Answer Booklets (small and large options)
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Code Word Theme Open Response for homework or in-class writing activity
Digital Escape Room Includes:
- Instructions for how to access and share escape room and answer key through Google Drive
- Materials for 5 Tasks: digital task signs, detailed task instructions, and supplementary materials
- Digital Student Worksheets
- Digital Teacher Answer Key
*Note that this is the digital version of the Christmas Escape Room; tasks are identical, just reformatted for digital experience. Requires use of Google Slides.*
Suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal during the month of December.
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A novel study unit covering The House Without a Christmas Tree By Gail Rock.
Included in Unit:
Novel Study Materials:
· Suggested Lesson Plans
· Daily Discussion Questions (with answers)
· Goals and Instruction Pages for Parent/Teacher
· Setting Worksheet
· Character Worksheet
· Conflict Worksheet
· Theme Worksheet
· Plot
· 3 Quizzes (Used weekly)- With Answer Key
· 2 Final Unit Test Options (Multiple choice or short answer)-With Answer Key
Vocabulary Materials:
· Goals and Teacher Instructions
· 3 Sets of Vocabulary Words
· Master definitions
· Student Dictionary
· 3 Crosswords
· 1 Vocabulary in Context Worksheet
· All Vocabulary Word Search
· Final Vocabulary Test
· Answer Keys
Recalling a Christmas Memory Project
Students will be able to use brain mapping worksheets to recall and answer the questions who, what, when, where, and why in reference to a Christmas memory. The project is a four-paragraph writing project.
Materials Included:
· Goals and Teacher Instructions
· Student Introduction Page
· Student Planning Page
· Grading Rubric
· Optional Writing Page
Christmas Tree Lot Project
Students will be asked to make a tree lot according to the student instruction page. Students will use special skills along with area and perimeter skills. A minor research component is included to research the types of trees to sell on their Christmas Tree Lot.
Materials Included:
· Goals and Teacher Instructions
· Student Introduction Page
· Student Planning Page
· Grading Rubric
· Optional Writing Page
· Christmas Tree Research Page
· Legends Page
· Elements and Pieces page
· 11x14 grid page
The Gift of the Magi ESCAPE ROOM
By Language Arts Excellence
Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi ESCAPE ROOM!
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Escape Room for The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this fun lesson near a sugar-filled holiday, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!
How does it work?
The ghost of O. Henry has returned from the grave and is upset because he believes that people nowadays care too much about getting expensive gifts at Christmas and no longer understand the true importance and wisdom of the magi. He has decided to destroy Christmas forever, unless your students can show their knowledge of the short story and in turn, recall the lessons that Jim and Della learned themselves not so long ago.
- Magi Trivia: In the first task, students must complete a crossword puzzle about major plot points, characters, setting, figurative language, and quotes from the story. Circled letters within the crossword, once unscrambled, reveal the code.
- Merry Vocabulary: In the second task, students must match the vocabulary words from The Gift of the Magi with their definitions by drawing a line connecting them. Letters not intersected by these lines will form their second code word. Clue cards using the words in context are included.
- Word Maze: In the third task, students must complete a word maze. Letters collected along the way form the third code.
- Off the Chart: In the fourth task, students must fill in a chart containing literary elements and questions about the short story. Shaded boxes next to the correct answers reveal the fourth code.
- Missing Word: In the final task, students must assemble a jig saw puzzle that forms a notable quote from the story with one missing word. Once the puzzle is assembled and students figure out the missing word, they may escape the room and save Christmas.
Product Includes:
- Escape Room Basics
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Escape Room Print & Classroom Preparation Checklist
- Student Teams Chart
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations
- Student Answer Sheet
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity
- Theme Reflection for homework assignment or in-class writing activity
This escape room is an ideal way to end your unit on The Gift of the Magi and a great way to review for the final test.
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Also, check out these resources to round our your unit on The Gift of the Magi:
⭐ The Gift of the Magi Anticipation Guide & Lesson Plan
⭐ The Gift of the Magi Socratic Seminar Materials
⭐ The Gift of the Magi & The Necklace Compare Contrast Essay
More great holiday products by Language Arts Excellence:
⭐ Christmas ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Christmas Poetry ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Hanukkah Kwanzaa Christmas Diwali ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ A Christmas Carol ESCAPE ROOM
⭐‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Figurative Language Lesson Plan
⭐ The Little Match Girl Sensory Details Lesson Plan
⭐"Christmas Talk" Lesson Plan
⭐Figurative Language in Christmas Songs Task Cards
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If you are looking for a rigorous yet engaging skills-based lesson for a chilly day during the seemingly endless winter, look no further than this Winter-Themed ESCAPE ROOM for ELA!
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Language Arts Escape Room with a wintery twist. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this engaging lesson, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!
How does it work?
Your students are snowed in your classroom until they solve 5 Language Arts skills-based tasks about winter!
- MLA All Day: In the first task, students must fill in an MLA Works Cited Page with fictional winter sources (like "Snowflakes on Eyelashes" by Julie Andrews). Once completed correctly, letters within the sources will reveal the first code.
- Winter Wonders: In the second task, students will read 6 fun facts about winter. They must identify which of 6 comma rules each fact employs. When comma cards are matched correctly with the facts, shaded boxes reveal their second code.
- Figuratively Frozen: In the third task, students identify the figurative language devices used in excerpts from beautiful winter poems (like Winter's Artist by Suzanne Bates). Shaded letters in the correct answers form the third code.
- Frost's Woods: In the fourth task, students must perform a close reading of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, the perfect poem to study on a blustery day. Letters of the multiple choice question answers following the poem reveal their fourth code.
- Encrypted Message: In the final task, students must solve an encrypted message using the codes and clues from the first four tasks. The message is a provocative quote about winter by French philosopher, Albert Camus. Once they bring that to you, they may escape their snowed-in classroom!
Product Includes:
- Escape Room Basics
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Escape Room Print Checklist
- Student Teams Chart
- Welcome Sign for Your Door
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations
- Student Answer Booklet (2 printing options)
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity
This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal for any day from November through March when there is a little chill in the air.
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Can't get enough escape rooms? Check out more by Language Arts Excellence here:
⭐ Halloween ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Thanksgiving ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Christmas ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ New Year's ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ St. Patrick's Day ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Shakespeare ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Escape from Dystopia ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Edgar Allan Poe ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Back to School ELA ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ End of Year ELA ESCAPE ROOM
More resources to use this winter:
⭐ Winter Themed Collaborative Writing Activity
⭐ Winter Figurative Language Practice
⭐ The Gift of the Magi Socratic Seminar Materials
⭐ Christmas Song Figurative Language {{BUNDLE}}
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This activity features a rigorous yet engaging escape room in which students tackle 5 ELA skills-based puzzles about Christmas - for middle and high school!
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Christmas-themed Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this fun lesson on a sugar-filled holiday, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!
**Please note that although this activity is informative about the Christian holiday, it is a secular lesson and can be used for students of all backgrounds and religions. Students do not need any prior knowledge about Christmas in order to complete this lesson and have fun with it!**
How does it work?
Your students are stuck in your classroom and cannot leave for Christmas vacation until they solve 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks about Christmas!
- Fa-la-la-la Figurative Language: In the first task, students must identify the figurative language devices used in popular Christmas songs. Shaded boxes in the correct answers form the first code.
- 'Twas the Night Before Christmas: In the second task, students must order the plot events of Clement Clarke Moore's famous poem, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, on Freytag's Pyramid. Once solved, corresponding letters reveal the second code.
- Christmas Fun Facts: In the third task, students will read 8 fun facts about Christmas and must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within the passages. When matched correctly, shaded boxes will reveal the third code.
- Xmas Around the World: In the fourth task, students must correct commonly confused words (like except and accept) in passages about how Christmas is celebrated around the world. Once complete, they must unscramble shaded boxes to reveal the fourth code.
- Encrypted Message: In the final task, students must solve an encrypted Christmas message using the codes and clues from the first four tasks. Then they must figure out the final line that completes the message. Once they sing that you, they can escape to Christmas vacation!
Product Includes:
- Escape Room Basics
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Escape Room Print Checklist
- Student Teams Chart
- Welcome Sign for Your Door
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and supplementary materials to be kept at stations
- Student Answer Booklet
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity
This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal for any time during the month of December.
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Also, check out more great holiday products by Language Arts Excellence:
⭐ Christmas ELA Digital Escape Room for Distance Learning (digital version)
⭐ Christmas Grammar Escape Room
⭐ Christmas Poetry ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ A Christmas Carol ESCAPE ROOM
⭐"Christmas Talk" Lesson Plan
⭐Christmas Song Figurative Language {{BUNDLE}}
Can't get enough escape rooms? Check out more by Language Arts Excellence here:
⭐ Easter ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Halloween ESCAPE ROOM
⭐Thanksgiving ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Hanukkah Kwanzaa Christmas Diwali ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ New Year's ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ St. Patrick's Day ESCAPE ROOM
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Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol ESCAPE ROOM!
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Escape Room for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this fun lesson near a sugar-filled holiday, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!
How does it work?
It is Christmas morning and you have traveled all the way to London to visit your Uncle Scrooge. He is visibly shaken and tells you that he’s had a terrible dream about 3 ominous ghosts. He says that apparently he’s supposed to have learned some valuable lesson last night but he can’t remember what it is…. and if he can’t remember it by midnight, Christmas will be destroyed forever! The only way to escape the room and save Christmas is by solving 5 different skills-based puzzles about A Christmas Carol to help Scrooge remember the lessons he learned last night.
- Plot it Out: In the first task, students must order the major plot points of A Christmas Carol on Freytag's Pyramid. When ordered correctly, letters in the shaded boxes on the chart form their first code.
- VocaBah Humbug: In the second task, students must match the vocabulary words from A Christmas Carol with their definitions by drawing a line connecting them. Letters not intersected by these lines will form their second code word. Clue cards using the words in context are included.
- Criss-Cross: In the third task, students must complete a crossword puzzle about major plot points, characters, setting, figurative language, and quotes from the story. Circled letters within the crossword, once unscrambled, reveal the code.
- Say What: In the fourth task, students must match notable quotes with the characters who said them. When cards are matched correctly, the fourth code is revealed.
- Missing Word: In the final task, students must assemble a jig saw puzzle that forms a notable quote from the story with one missing word. Once the puzzle is assembled and students figure out the missing word, they may escape the room and save Christmas.
Product Includes:
- Escape Room Basics
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Escape Room Print & Classroom Preparation Checklist
- Student Teams Chart
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations
- Student Answer Sheet
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity
- Theme Reflection for homework assignment or in-class writing activity
This escape room is an ideal way to end your unit on A Christmas Carol and a great way to review for the final test.
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Also, check out more great holiday products by Language Arts Excellence:
⭐ A Christmas Carol "Silent Conversation" Quote Pass Activity
⭐ Christmas ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Christmas Poetry ESCAPE ROOM
⭐ Hanukkah Kwanzaa Christmas Diwali ESCAPE ROOM
⭐‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Figurative Language Lesson Plan
⭐ The Little Match Girl Sensory Details Lesson Plan
⭐"Christmas Talk" Lesson Plan
⭐The Gift of the Magi & The Necklace Compare/Contrast Essay
⭐Christmas Song Figurative Language Powerpoint Presentation
⭐Figurative Language in Christmas Songs - 32 Task Cards
⭐Letter to a Member of the Military
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Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with the Christmas Poetry ESCAPE ROOM!
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Christmas-themed Poetry Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this fun lesson on a sugar-filled holiday, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!
How does it work?
Your students are stuck in your classroom and cannot leave for Christmas vacation until they solve 5 challenging poetry-based tasks about Christmas!
- Festively Figurative: In the first task, students must identify the figurative language devices used in beautiful Christmas poems. Shaded boxes in the correct answers form the first code.
- Little Tree: In the second task, students must perform a close reading of the poem [little tree] by E. E. Cummings and fill in a poetic elements chart with correct answers about the poem. Shaded boxes next to the correct answers will reveal the second code.
- Rhyme Scheme: In the third task, students will read the first lines of 8 Christmas poems and identify the rhyme scheme of each excerpt. When the rhyme scheme cards are matched correctly, the code is revealed.
- The Oxen: In the fourth task, students must perform a close reading of the poem The Oxen by Thomas Hardy. The letters of the multiple choice questions about the poem will form the fourth code.
- Jig Saw Quote: In the final task, students must assemble a jig saw puzzle that forms a short Christmas poem. Once the puzzle is assembled and students answer the final question, they may escape to Christmas vacation!
Product Includes:
- Escape Room Basics
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Escape Room Print Checklist
- Student Teams Chart
- Welcome Sign for Your Door
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations
- Student Answer Sheet
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity
This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal for any time during the month of December (or Christmas in July!).
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Have you stumbled upon this resource but it is nowhere near Christmas? Check out the original best-selling escape room here:
⭐ Poetry ESCAPE ROOM
Also, check out more great Christmas resources by Language Arts Excellence:
⭐ A Christmas Carol ESCAPE ROOM
⭐‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Figurative Language Lesson Plan
⭐ The Little Match Girl Sensory Details Lesson Plan
⭐"Christmas Talk" Lesson Plan
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Hanukkah Kwanzaa Christmas Diwali ESCAPE ROOM
By Language Arts Excellence
This activity features a meaningful and inclusive escape room in which students tackle 5 Language Arts skills-based puzzles about the winter holidays: Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, and Diwali!
There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Winter Holidays Escape Room for ELA. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this fun lesson, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!
Where this lesson truly shines is its objective: to help students on their journey to becoming global citizens as they learn about the holidays of diverse cultures and religions around the world. Being more culturally aware has become increasingly important in a world that seems to be getting smaller as we get more connected. As we build relationships with people from other cultures and religions, it is necessary to have some perspective of where we are all coming from which ultimately helps us to acknowledge how much we have in common.
How does it work?
Your students are stuck in your classroom and cannot leave for vacation until they solve 5 challenging Language Arts skills-based tasks about Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, and Christmas.
- Diwali Fun Facts: In the first task, students must read fun facts about Diwali, each demonstrating 1 of 6 comma rules. Students must match the fact with the comma rule. The code is revealed when cards are matched correctly.
- Hanukkah Lights: In the second task, students must perform a close reading of Hanukkah Lights by Philip M. Raskin (1880-1944) and answer multiple choice questions about the selection that when correct, reveal the code.
- Christmas 'Round the World: In the third task, students will read 8 fun facts about how Christmas is celebrated in different countries around the world and must identify the parts of speech of underlined words within the passages. When matched correctly, shaded boxes will reveal the third code.
- Kwanzaa Extravaganza: In the fourth task, students must correct commonly misspelled words a passage about the origins of Kwanzaa. Once complete, they must unscramble shaded boxes to reveal the fourth code.
- Pop Quiz: In the final task, students must use all that they have learned about Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Diwali, and Christmas and fill out a crossword puzzle. Once complete, they must unscramble the circled letters to reveal their final code to escape!
Product Includes:
- Escape Room Basics
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Escape Room Print Checklist
- Student Teams Chart
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and supplementary materials to be kept at stations
- Student Answer Booklet
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity
This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal for any time during November-December.
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By Language Arts Excellence
This resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a Stations Activity to teach students about Hanukkah. The lesson involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this engaging lesson, learning is not sacrificed; in fact, students will come away with it with a greater understanding about the history an importance of Hanukkah.
How does it work?
Your students will work to complete 5 Language Arts-based tasks about Hanukkah in order to learn more about this important and beloved holiday.
Origin Story: In the first task, students must correct incorrectly used homophones within the origin story of Hanukkah.
Quote Worthy: In the second task, students must identify parts of speech within 7 quotes about Hanukkah.
Figuratively Traditional: In the third task, students must identify figurative language woven into passages describing popular Hanukkah traditions.
The Miracle: In the fourth task, students must answer multiple choice questions about the poem, The Miracle by Philip M. Raskin.
Criss-Cross: In the fifth and final task, all students have learned throughout the stations activity will come together as they must fill out a crossword puzzle about Hanukkah. Once they have completed the puzzle and cracked the final code, they are done.
Product Includes:
- Stations Activity Basics
- Preparation Checklist
- Detailed Day-Of Instructions
- Student Teams Chart
- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and supplementary materials to be kept at stations
- Student Answer Sheet
- Teacher Answer Keys
- Stations Activity Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity
- Reflection Writing Prompt
This lesson is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal for use during Hanukkah.
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