Reading Escape Room Halloween Character Traits Haunted House Escape Room

Description

This Reading Escape Room is great for reviewing literature standards related to character traits, setting, character development, theme, point of view, and author’s message.

Students have a blast while showing you what they know about character traits!

Engage students in an immersive 360-degree digital reading escape room with a Haunted House theme. This digital escape room works for 4th and 5th grade and reviews ALL character traits standards for Florida, Texas, Virginia, and the Common Core:

How setting impacts a character
How setting, events, character development contribute to plot
How to infer a character’s feelings
Character change and development
How character change and character traits helps reveal theme
How details contribute to the development of theme
Identify narrator’s point of view
Identifying author’s message
THIS RESOURCE COMES WITH A FREE LIST OF CHARACTER TRAITS (which you can find in our Character Traits Lesson Plan).

We recommend that you teach character traits to your students before allowing them to try the reading escape room. This reading escape room does assume that students have been exposed to character traits lessons prior to playing.

How long does it take to complete the challenge?

We recommend you allow 60 – 90 minutes to complete the reading escape room.

The escape room can be completed over multiple classes as long as the students keep their answer sheet open.

We recommend students work in groups. Groups who finish early can complete the Digital Escape Room Reflection Sheet.

How do I “move around” in the 360º photo?

Click and drag the mouse to move throughout the 360 environment.

Clues involve:

Putting together jigsaw puzzles, solving word searches and crossword puzzles, completing fill-in-the-blanks, sequencing events, finding synonyms for specific character traits, and reading, listening to, and answering questions based on short stories.

Spooky noises surprise the students throughout the escape room so you might want to have them wear headsets so others aren’t disturbed.

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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.

PREVIEW the VIDEO to see how EASY and FUN it is for students to review and apply their knowledge of character traits while playing a digital escape room.

STATE STANDARDS

FLORIDA

Literary Elements (ELA.4.R.1.1)

Explain how setting, events, conflict, and character development contribute to the plot in a literary text.

Theme (ELA.4.R.1.2)

Explain a stated or implied theme and how it develops, using details, in a literary text.

Point of View (ELA.4.R.1.3)

Identify the narrator’s point of view and explain the difference between a narrator’s point of view and character perspective in a literary text.

VIRGINIA (4.4a, 4.4b, 4.4c, 4.4e, 4.4h)

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

a) Describe how the choice of language, setting, and characters contributes to the development of plot.

b) Identify the theme(s).

c) Summarize events in the plot.

e) Identify the narrator of a story and the speaker of a poem.

h) Draw conclusions/make inferences about text using the text as support.

TEXAS (4.1A, 4.6.E, 4.6.F, 4.6.I, 4.10.A, 5.6.E, 5.6.F, 5.7.A, 5.7.C, 5.7.G, 5.7.H, 5.10A)

infer basic themes supported by text evidence
explain the interactions of the characters and the changes they undergo
analyze plot elements, including the rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
explain the influence of the setting, including historical and cultural settings, on the plot.
Common Core

RA. R1

RA. R2

RA. R3

RA. R10

RL.4.1

RL.4.2

RL.4.3

RL.4.10

RI.4.1

RI.4.2

RI.4.3

RI.4.10

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Standards
CCSS
CCRA.R.10
Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
CCSS
CCRA.R.3
Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
CCSS
CCRA.R.2
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
CCSS
CCRA.R.1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
CCSS
RI.4.10
By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSS
RI.4.3
Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
CCSS
RI.4.2
Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
CCSS
RI.4.1
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
CCSS
RL.5.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
CCSS
RL.5.2
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
CCSS
RL.5.1
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
CCSS
RL.4.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSS
RL.4.3
Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
CCSS
RL.4.2
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
CCSS
RL.4.1
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

Total Pages
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Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
1 hour