Description
Ready for a poetry review your students won’t forget? These escape rooms will help your students review the elements of poetry in any learning environment. Each version has a Figurative Language Sort, Poetic Devices Puzzle, Close Reading activity, and a Secret Poem.
✅ 45-60 minutes
✅ Paper or digital
✅ Grades 7-10
If you’ve never done an escape room, never fear! The Teacher’s Guide has been written with total beginners in mind. You get step-by-step instructions and a full answer key.
⭐️ Task 1: Figurative Language Sort – players sort snippets of poetry to identify the type of figurative language used (metaphor, hyperbole, personification, simile)
⭐️ Task 2: Poetic Devices Puzzle – players identify poetic devices in longer excerpts of poetry
⭐️ Task 3: Close Reading – players complete a close reading passage and answer multiple-choice questions. Three versions for differentiation
⭐️ Task 4: Secret Poem – players use clues they’ve found along the way to decode a secret poem!
What teachers like you are saying about the poetry review escape room:
Your poetry review escape room resource includes:
⭐ 4 core tasks with instructions and clues (includes 3 difficulty options for the close reading)
⭐ Writing extensions (analytical and personal responses)
⭐ Student answer sheet
⭐ A full Teacher’s Guide with set-up instructions and an answer key
⭐ Station cards, instructions, and a poster for your door
⭐ Instructions for using this game with physical locks
Your download is a .zip file containing a .pdf of the Teacher’s Guide and a .ppt of the editable written extensions. For the paper version, you can edit all four tasks in the .ppt file for maximum flexibility and differentiation for your classroom.
If you don’t need to edit, you can use the .pdf and “print and go!” Feel free to email me at nouvelle.ela@gmail.com if you have any questions. 🙂
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