Grab Our Newest ELA Breakout Game! – Google / PPT Slides

Turn your upper-elementary comma review into an unforgettable adventure with our newest Breakout Game – Google Slides / PowerPoint Activity! Designed specifically for students learning more advanced comma rules, this ELA Breakout Game Google Activity puts students in the notorious Comma Castle…a creepy manor owned by a terrible wizard. When students enter, the wizard quickly traps them inside and only gives them one shot at escape! 

Engage students as they apply comma rules in a high-stakes escape scenario—yes, this Breakout Game – Google Slides Game makes comma practice the highlight of your writing block!

Your Students Will ♥️ This Comma Escape Room

Escape from Comma Castle is an engaging and exciting Comma Escape Room challenge! The evil wizard has locked your students inside a spooky medieval stronghold. The only way out? Mastering comma rules! 

From items in a series to coordinating conjunctions and introductory phrases, students must solve ELA-based puzzles and decipher clues. Every correct answer reveals critical letters and numbers to crack the code and escape. Will they make it out, or will they be trapped inside Comma Castle forever?

How To Use This ELA Escape Room Activity

This ELA Escape Room Activity is quick and easy to set up and complete! Here are some helpful tips and tricks to get you started.

1. Assign your escape room students to small groups of 2-3. Print a workbook booklet for each group (or one for each student, if you prefer). Have them cut apart the pages, arrange them in order, and staple them into booklets.
2. Use your school’s LMS system to assign the ELA Escape Room Activity via Google Classroom, etc. Upload the PowerPoint or Slides file to your LMS and set it to make a copy for each student.
3. Project Slide 2 in presentation mode and introduce the escape game to the students. 
4. Have students open the file on their device and place the slides in EDIT mode. 
5. Students will begin their quest using the puzzles in the slide deck.. As they work through the problems on screen and work through the workbook, they will reveal a series of letters and numbers needed to escape. 
6. Once a challenge has been solved, students will move to the next challenge.
7. Play continues in this manner until groups escape from Comma Castle!

Downloading Our Comma Games & Guidebooks

Getting started is easy! Our Comma Games come with everything you need:

• An interactive, self-guided Google Slides version (also available in PowerPoint format)
• A printable student workbook in easy-to-use PDF format

To prepare your materials, click the dropdown arrow on the download button. You will need to download the slideshow and PDF file of the student workbook. Make your guidebook copies, and you’re ready to play!

We have included an answer key for the student guidebook to use when checking if students have completed their escape.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Indiana and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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