Author’s Purpose Activities Bundle – 4th & 5th Reading Comprehension Escape Room- SCHOOL LICENSE

Description

This bundle of 5 digital escape rooms will revolutionize how you practice author’s purpose with your students. With 4 author’s purpose rooms – and 1 BONUS Halloween Character Traits escape room – your students will be 100% engaged in reviewing critical reading comprehension skills.

This set of author’s purpose escape rooms will also help students develop a growth mindset and teamwork skills. This is the perfect author’s purpose activities bundle to review PIE, PIE’ED, point of view, and perspective.

Check out the preview to see exactly what you’re getting!

What problems will this product help solve?

1. Overcome student boredom — engage your students with fun and interactive puzzle activities
2. Save time — we’ve done all the prep for you! Easy-to-use directions and answer key
3. 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

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
• Supplemental author’s purpose activity
• End-of-Unit performance assessment

What do I get?

• FOUR 360° digital escape rooms for reading comprehension
• 4th grade author’s purpose PIE’ED monster matching activity
• 4th grade author’s purpose PIE’ED sorting activity
• 4th grade author’s purpose PIE’ED concentration activity
• BONUS reading comprehension lesson plan

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Resources #1 – 4: Digital Escape Rooms

What is included in each of the 360° digital escape rooms?

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

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

✅ A student “show your work” sheet

✅ A teacher answer key

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

1. Reflection sheet — to show their teamwork and problem-solving skills
2. Certificate — to congratulate them for applying their author’s purpose skills

How are these escape rooms different?

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

These escape rooms are 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 themed characters to cheer them on!

Who are these escape rooms 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 the 360° digital escape rooms?

1. 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)
2. Print out the student “show your work” and reflection sheets
3. Share the link with your students
4. Feel proud and watch your students have fun!

These NO PREP reading escape rooms are 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! These escape rooms are filled with rigorous, skills-based author’s purpose activities.

What are some of the questions in the 360° digital escape rooms?

All together, the escape rooms included in this bundle have a total of 236 academic questions, with varying difficulty. Here are some examples:

• 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?

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

• How should students be organized when playing a Digital Escape Room?
  We recommend that students play in groups. This fosters independent learning and ensures teachers are able to serve as a Guide on the Side, maximizing teachable moments and guiding students toward higher-level thinking. Groups who finish early can complete the Digital Escape Room Reflection Sheet.

• I’m using an escape room with different classes on the same computer. Why are the answers from the 1st class showing for the 2nd class?
  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.

• Are all the answers self-validated?
  YES! The game is built to reduce your work as much as possible, and all the answers are self-validated! This said, please note that this game is built on the “honesty policy”. This means that students have the freedom to try as many times as necessary to get to the correct answer. Please monitor students throughout the 360° digital escape room to ensure students are giving their best intellectual effort and not just clicking through the author’s purpose activities.

Do you have any more questions? Please ask them below, we are here to help you!

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Resources #5 – 8: 4th grade author’s purpose PIE’ED activities

• Monster match: 20 cards, 5 students work pages and a corresponding answer key. Each of the 20 cards has it’s own monster and a unique text type. The activity helps students categorize the 5 main reasons that author’s write (i.e., persuade, inform, entertain, explain, and describe).

• Digital and printable sorting: 24 types of text (i.e., comic books, poems, etc.). In the digital version, students drag and drop each text type into the appropriate column i.e., persuade, inform, entertain, explain, describe. In the printable version, students cut and paste each text type into the appropriate column. An answer key is included.

• Concentration game: 20 cards; 5 author’s purposes (i.e., persaude, inform, entertain, explain, describe); 5 definitions (i.e., 1 for each author’s purpose); 5 text type groups (i.e., newspapers, comics, poems, love songs, etc.); 5 examples; teacher and student directions.

• FREE: This author’s purpose activity includes an Explicit Instruction Worksheet for Teachers and 4 warm-up activities. Directions are included on each worksheet. The 4 activities are:
  – Guided Walk
  – Scavenger Hunt
  – Book Sort
  – Clue Sheet

❤️ This bundle contains all our author’s purpose material, it’s the GO-TO author’s purpose resource! Grab it now, and see how much your students will love it!

What do other teachers think?

✅ ”I downloaded this bundle of author’s purpose digital escapes because I wanted to use an escape room the day I was observed. My principal loved the content of the puzzles and I soooo appreciated the very clear and easy-to-use directions! I would just recommend that student devices can access Google Forms and Slides hyperlinks that come from outside the school. Fortunately, I knew my school already does this.”

✅ “My students had fun using the New Year’s escape room to practice Author’s Purpose. They can’t wait for another escape room!”

✅ “Detailed and fun practice with Author’s Purpose. And LOVE that it’s digital! I use the author’s purpose digital escape room both remotely and in the classroom.”

Thank you, and enjoy! ❤️

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