Purim Escape Room: A Close Reading Challenge

Are you looking for the perfect Purim activity?

Well, you have found a great resource: Purim Escape Room with Close Reading and Comprehension Skills

Your students will love working in teams to use reading comprehension practice skills to collect the clues needed to solve the Encrypted Message. This is a fun reading comprehension activity that will have your students engaged and loving every minute of reading practice and review!

Your students will be highly engaged as they complete the tasks and discover the clues.

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All tasks in this challenge relate to the Purim and require students to use reading comprehension skills.

This engaging, high-interest Reading Escape Challenge includes these printable activities:

What's Included

✅ Challenge #1 - Matching: The students will match the words with their definitions by drawing a line between the two. The lines will pass through a letter in a box. The seven letters will create a word.

✅ Challenge #2 – True or False: Students will read EIGHT true or false statements found in the reading passage. The true statements on the odd numbers, provide the clues.

✅ Challenge #3 — Multiple Choice: To discover the clue, the students will answer multiple-choice questions based on the reading passage.

✅ Challenge #4 – Paragraph Hunt: Students will read SEVEN sentences from the reading passage. They will need to determine from which paragraph the sentences derive.

✅ EACH of the FOUR challenges includes a student page and an answer key.

LOW PREP

There are no locks, no hiding of objects, and no extra prep work. The beauty of this escape activity is that it requires very little prep work. Just make the needed copies, organize your teams, prepare your prizes if you are using them, and you're set!

Reasons why to use Escape Challenges with your students:

✏️ Academically rigorous and challenging

✏️ Engaging way to review content skills and/or strategies

✏️ Reinforce social skills, such as teamwork, collaboration, and respect

✏️ Students learn to manage time appropriately and focus under pressure

✏️ Gamify learning in a meaningful way

✏️ Encourage independence and risk-taking

✏️ Require students to problem-solve and think critically

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