Are you looking for the day after Halloween activities that combine Halloween stories with comprehension questions, crack the code puzzles, and fun brain teasers? This Edgar Allan Poe reading comprehension escape room + solve a mystery game is the perfect challenge to use for Halloween middle school ELA or library activities, technology activities, and team building.
This Middle School ELA escape room includes 6th, 7th, and 8th grade reading comprehension passages and digital + printable logic puzzles. The Social Media Nightmare escape room consists of 5 texts with 19 state testing-like questions, 4 text-dependent logic puzzles, and differentiated options to support or challenge your students.
Get students engaged in this nonfiction and fiction reading comprehension activity that centers around an after school field trip to the Poe Museum on Halloween night. The students tour takes a scary turn when The Keeper of the Shadows takes over and traps them inside the museum. Will students be able to outsmart their twisted tour guide and escape before the clock strikes midnight?
Students will practice 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 Haunted Halls of the Poe Museum Escape Room Materials
- Student Directions + Escape Room Mission
- Challenge #1: Polybius (Central Idea and Supporting Details)
– Text: Nonfiction Text: Poe Obituary (4 Multiple Choice Questions)
– Polybius Puzzle
- Challenge #2: End at the Start Questions Maze (Context Clues)
– Text: The Raven’s Riddle Poem (6 Questions)
– Questions Maze Puzzle
- Challenge #3: Alpha Count (Author’s Point of View/Inferencing)
– Text: Letter from The Keeper of the Shadows (6 Questions)
– Alpha Count Puzzle
- Challenge #4: ATBASH Alphabet (Combination of Skills)
– Text: Short Story “What The House Keeps” (7 Multiple Choice Questions)
– ATBASH Alphabet Puzzle
- Print Materials + Google Slides and Google Forms Materials
- Midnight Museum Madness Reveal
- Escape Room Introduction Video for Students
✋ How Can You Use ELA Test Prep Escape Room?
-First Week of School Reading Activities
-First Day of School Activities 6th, 7th, 8th Grade
-Emergency Sub Plans Middle School
-October Community Building
-Halloween High School Activities
-Middle School Sub Plans
-Early Finishers Activities for Middle School
