Author’s Purpose Activities | Winter Escape Room | Reading Comprehension | Santa

Author’s Purpose Activities Can Be Hard!

Author’s purpose is one of the most challenging reading concepts to teach. Admittedly, author’s purpose activities were a bit easier to handle when it was just PIE. But now that we have PIE’ED, it’s helpful to highlight the easiest ways to get started on this challenging topic.

But how can you do this in a fun and easy way? 

Our Solution: 360° Digital Escape Rooms

360° Digital Escape Rooms are responsive three-dimensional images with hidden hotspots and puzzles. This resource works both in the classroom and online and teach perseverance and determination while engaging the students in fun activities to let the learning in!

This 5th Grade Author’s Purpose  360° Digital Escape Room will really help your students practice the reading strategy of identifying author’s purpose (i.e., PIE and PIE’ED), perspective, and point of view.

Its Winter theme makes it perfect for December or anytime you want to give students an opportunity to practice an Author’s Purpose activity! If students are careful, they’ll see Santa and his reindeer!

The interaction they get in a game format . . . will save you time and headache!

Learn more about our Escape Rooms.

Included In This Product

This Fun Reading Comprehension Escape Room includes:

•  A link to a 360, immersive digital escape room with 8 challenges,
•  2 Clue Sheets (within the escape room) to support students’ reading comprehension
• An Answer Key for Teachers
• A video for teachers that shows how to use the fun Reading Comprehension Escape Room
• Reflection Sheet for students who finish the Reading Comprehension Escape Room

Puzzle Types

• crossword puzzle
• jigsaw puzzle
• word search
• decoder puzzle
• google form activity
• 4 short (video-based) reading passages and
• 20 multiple-choice questions about author’s purpose, point of view, and perspective.

Types of questions in this reading comprehension escape room:

1. What is the author’s purpose in this passage?
2. What is the author’s main point?
3. Which reason (or part of the passage) supports the author’s main point?
4. In what point of view is the text written?
5. What is the author’s perspective?
6. The reader knows . . . . because:
7. The author begins the passage with . . . because:
8. The author used the word . . . to communicate:
9. Which sentence tells the importance of . . .

Frequent Questions

How Long Does It Take to Play This Author’s Purpose Activities Reading Comprehension Escape Room?

• We recommend that you allow about one hour to complete the Escape Room
• The escape room can be completed over multiple classes as long as the students keep their answer sheet open.

How Should Students be Organized when Playing the Escape Room?

• You may want to put students in groups to foster independent learning.
• Any student who receives a link will have access to the escape room. Once inside the escape room, students can work together or on their own at the teacher’s discretion. If you like, each group can enter answers on only one computer.
• Groups who finish early can complete the Digital Escape Room Reflection Sheet.

Where do students record their answers?

• Students enter their final answers on the Answer Sheet* (i.e. Google Form) inside the Escape Room. This enables them to complete the Escape Room. Students may take a screenshot of their answer sheet (before hitting submit) and submit to you on Google Classroom.

Students find the Answer Sheet by clicking on the magnifying glass icon.

• We believe it’s helpful for students to use scratch paper while playing the Escape Room to record their answers.
• Using scratch paper ensures that if there is an unexpected technical glitch, students will still be able to re-enter their answers onto the Answer Sheet inside the Escape Room.)
• A paper answer sheet is included if you would like students to enter their answers on paper.

How do Students Play the Escape Room Game i.e., “move around” in the 360º photo?

• Click and drag the mouse to move throughout the 360° environment.
• Students enter their answers in the Google Form located at the Magnifying Glass.
• We recommend students keep the Answer Sheet open (or use scratch paper) throughout the escape room game until they are finished.
• There are some audible noises in some of the clues so you might want to have them wear headsets so others aren’t disturbed.

What is the grade-level for this Escape Room?

This reading comprehension escape room is appropriate for the following grades:
4th
5th
6th

What if a student is struggling and needs support?

• There are TWO CLUE SHEETS within the Reading Comprehension Escape Room for students who need support.
• Each Clue Sheet makes a fun sound when students click on it, so you’ll know which groups are using them to support their reading comprehension.

Everyone Loves This Author’s Purpose Reading Escape Room 

Why Teachers Love this Author’s Purpose Reading Escape Room 

• This Author’s Purpose Reading Escape Room has 2 Tip Sheets inside the escape room.
• The Tip Sheets can be used for students who may have been taught PIE or PIE’ED
• You can keep track of which groups use the tip sheet because a funny sound will alert you
• The winter-themed Reading Escape Room is GREAT for ANY TIME OF YEAR

Why Students Love Author’s Purpose PIE Activities Inside a Reading Escape Room

• All the PIE and PIE’ED activities occur inside a 360 immersive digital environment
• It’s almost like a video game!

Why Administrators and Parents Love This Author’s Purpose Escape Room

• Students practice identifying the 5 main reasons authors write (PIE’ED). Every puzzle is an author’s purpose PIE activity!
• This Author’s Purpose Lesson Plan provides a rigorous, standards-based activity to review Author’s Purpose (as well as Point of View and Perspective).
• Students become leaders and work independently and collaboratively

Covered Standards

The fun activities in this reading comprehension escape room draw on a number of reading strategies, including, but not limited to author’s purpose and the following:

COMMON CORE (Grades 4 & 5)

• Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
• Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.

VIRGINIA

ELA 5.5f, ELA 5.5g, ELA 5.5i, ELA 5.5l

The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of fictional texts, narrative nonfiction, and poetry.

f) Identify and ask questions that clarify various points of view.

g) Identify main idea.

i) Draw conclusions and make inferences from text.

l) Use reading strategies throughout the reading process to monitor comprehension.

FLORIDA (4th and 5th grade)

• Author’s Purpose, Point of View and Perspective Standards for Florida:
• Identify the narrator’s point of view
• Explain the difference between a narrator’s point of view and character perspective
• Describe how an author develops a character’s perspective in a literary text.

TEXAS

TEKS ELA.5.10.A and ELA.5.10.E

Author’s purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors’ choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author’s craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.

(A) explain the author’s purpose and message within a text;

(E) identify and understand the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view

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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.

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