Are you looking for beginning of the year reading activities or teambuilding activities middle school students will love to complete during the first week of school? What about middle school reading games that include engaging reading comprehension passages middle school students will actually want to read? This middle school reading skills escape room includes 6th, 7th, and 8th grade reading comprehension passages and digital + printable logic puzzles.
The Substitute Files escape room includes 5 texts with 29 state testing-like questions, 5 text dependent logic puzzles, and differentiated options to support or challenge your students. This solve a mystery game is the perfect escape room challenge to use for last day of school games, fun puzzles after testing, or as a before state testing ELA test prep review.
Get students engaged in this thrilling nonfiction reading comprehension activity centered around a mysterious substitute teacher, Ms. Format, who may or may not be human. Between Ms. Format’s strange mannerisms and random glitches, students are on a mission to uncover the truth behind what’s really going on in their classroom. Students will practice making inferences, main idea and supporting details, author’s purpose and point of view, context clues, and more key reading comprehension skills in the first part of each challenge. They must then use their multiple choice answers to help them solve the logic puzzles.
❤️ Why You’ll Love This Resource:
✅ Teacher Guide with Clear Directions & Tips
✅ Strategies and Activities to Promote Student Collaboration
✅ Student-Centered Activities: Let Your Students Do the Thinking!
✅ Covers ELA Reading Informational Texts + Literature Skills
✅ No Prep and Editable Challenges
✍ What’s Included:
1. Teacher Tips and Suggestions Guide + Set-Up Instructions
- Teaching Ideas + FAQs
- Escape Room A vs. Escape Room B Breakdown
- Storyline Advancement Pages
- Challenge Breakdowns with Answer Keys
- Student Grouping Cards
- Challenge Hint Cards
- Google Slides + Forms Breakdown + Links
2. The Substitute Files Escape Room Materials
- Student Directions + Escape Room Mission
- Challenge #1: Scrambled Code (Making Inferences)
– Text: Lesson Plan (5 Multiple Choice Questions)
– Scrambled Code Puzzle
- Challenge #2: End at the Start Questions Maze (Context Clues)
– Text: Human Behavior Study Log (6 Multiple Choice Questions)
– Maze Puzzle
- Challenge #3: Alpha Count (Central Idea and Supporting Details)
– Text: Confidential Report (6 Questions)
– Alpha Count Puzzle
- Challenge #4: Polybius Puzzle (Author’s Purpose and POV)
– Text: Press Release (4 Multiple Choice Questions)
– Polybius Puzzle
- Challenge #5: The Final Code (Trace and Evaluate Arguments)
– Text: Letter (8 Multiple Choice Questions)
– ATBASH Alphabet Puzzle
- Print Materials + Google Slides and Google Forms Materials
- Escape Room Reveal: System Code Accepted: Access Granted
✋ How Can You Use ELA Test Prep Escape Room?
-Before Spring Break Activity
-After Spring Break Activity
-ELA Activities After Spring Break
-Fun Activities After State Testing
-Last Day of School Games
-Middle School Sub Plans
-Early Finishers Activities for Middle School
