4th Grade Escape Room 1

ESCAPE ROOM

MUSEUM

Main room

wc

Oh, no!

Someone has stolen all the works from the museum

ROOM 2

ROOM 3

The only way to get them back is to negotiate using your reading knowledge! Work together to rescue all the stolen art pieces! We need to start in Room 1 and work our way through the whole museum... DO NOT READ THE PASSAGES YET. Can you help us?

ROOM 1

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ROOM 1

Ready to Read

Question 1

Don't get to reading just yet! Scroll up and down. How many passages do you notice?

1 Passage

3 Passages

2 Passages

2/5

ROOM 1

Ready to Read

Question 2

Read the titles and authors of both passages. Skim any text features. What type of reading do you expect to be doing today?

Fictional Stories

A Mix of Both

Informational Texts

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ROOM 1

Ready to Read

Question 3

Hmm.. two informational passages... Based on what you know about informational texts, what can you expect to be on the lookout for?

Characters, Setting, Conflict, Events

Central Idea & Relevant Details

Theme

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ROOM 1

Ready to Read

Question 4

Oh you know what else, we should be on the lookout for in informational text is...

Author's Claim

Narrator's Point of View

Stanzas

5/5

ROOM 1

Ready to Read

Question 5

Looking at these two titles, I can predict the texts are connected by the same topic of...

Magic Charms

The Globe Theater

Earth

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ROOM 1

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You have completed this room!

CONTINUe

ROOM 1

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

You have lost a museum piece!

main room

wc

Whoo,

We've made it through room 1...

room 2

room 3

Follow the instructions for each piece of artwork to work through each part of the passages chunk by chunk. DO NOT read the passage all at once... good readers (and escapers) pause to think! Reading 2 Passages requires STAMINA... Read actively, staying curious about the story or topic of the text. Ask yourself questions along the way and then read to answer the questions. Make predictions: I bet…. Then read to confirm or revise predictions.

room 1

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ROOM 2

Chunk it!

Question 1

Read Passage 1 Paragraphs 1 and 2. These two paragraphs work together to explain...

why & where the Globe Theater was built

why Shakespeare started acting

2/5

ROOM 2

Chunk it!

Question 2

Read Passage 1 Paragraphs 3 and 4. These two paragraphs work together to...

describe the structure of the theater

describe the weather that impacted the building of the theater

3/5

ROOM 2

Chunk it!

Question 3

Read Passage 1 Paragraphs 5 and 6. These two paragraphs work together to...

describe what the theater was like once it opened

describe the Hercules play that was performed

4/5

ROOM 2

Chunk it!

Question 4

Read Passage 2 Paragraph 7, paragraph 8, and the illustration/caption. These two paragraphs and illustration/caption work together to...

give examples of the materials needed to build the Globe

explain why and how the Globe was built

5/5

ROOM 2

Chunk it!

Question 5

Read Passage 2 Paragraph 9 and remaining text features. This paragraph and text features work together to...

give examples of the plays performed at the Globe

describe the different parts of the Globe

5/5

ROOM 2

Chunk it!

You have completed this room!

CONTINUE

ROOM 2

Chunk it!

You have lost a museum piece!

main room

wc

Whoo,

room 2

We've made it through room 2...

room 3

You are so close to recovering all of the pieces of artwork! Now that you have made it through both passages, you are ready to ANSWER IT! This is where things start to get really tricky! When reading answer choices use self talk: think/say, “Nope! Nope! Maybe…. YEP!” Give yourself a pep talk/Use self talk... I got this! I can do this! I believe in myself!

room 1

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ROOM 3

Answer It!

Question 1

Which of the following belongs in a summary of Passage 1? SCROLL IT! Make sure you have scrolled back up to Passage 1!

The Globe was built to include trenches, ditches, and a funnel to avoid flooding.

The pillars were painted to look ike Italian marble.

Shakespeare was a part-owner of The Lord Chamberlain's Men.

The structure of the Globe was similar to the neighboring bear garden.

2/5

ROOM 3

Answer It!

Question 2

How did the author organize the information in paragraph 3 of Passage 1?

problem-solution

sequence

description

comparison

3/5

ROOM 3

Answer It!

Question 3

Which sentence from Passage 2 supports the author's claim that the Globe opened to instant success? SCROLL IT! Make sure you have scrolled back down to Passage 2!

"An open-air playhouse like the Globe was for the summer months."

"For threepence they sat on cushions in the Gentleman's Rooms."

"Audiences packed into "the house with the thatched roof," sometimes three thousand at a time."

"When it rained, they knew it."

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ROOM 3

Answer It!

Question 4

Read this sentence from Passage 2. At night they secretly began to dismantle the Theatre and floated it across the Thames piece by piece. What does the word dismantle mean as it is used in this paragraph?

bury

hang over a fireplace

put together

take apart

5/5

ROOM 3

Answer It!

Question 5

Read this sentence from Passage 2. In desperation, the brothers decided to act. What does the suffix -tion tell you about the meaning of desperation?

It means the opposite of desperate.

It means that something is desperate tomorrow.

It means that something is not abe to be desperate.

It means the act or process of being desperate.

5/5

ROOM 3

Answer It!

You have completed this room!

CONTINUE

ROOM 3

Answer It!

You have lost a museum piece!

main room

wc

room 2

room 3

Another room down!

The main room is the most important room in the museum!

room 1

Don't give up now! This room will require a lot of scrolling back and forth - get those fingers ready! This time, if you answer incorrectly you will have to start from the beginning of the main room again.

main room

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Question 1

COMPARE IT! SCROLL IT! Questions like this will require you to scroll back and forth between passages to be a real detail detective! Which of the following tables is completed correctly to show what information is explained in Passage 1, Passage 2, or both passages.

MAIN ROOM

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COMPARE IT! SCROLL IT! Questions like this will require you to scroll back and forth between passages to be a real detail detective! Which of the following tables is completed correctly to show what information is explained in Passage 1, Passage 2, or both passages.

Question 2

MAIN ROOM

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You have completed this room!

CONTINUe

Start Over?

Congratulations!

You did it!

Through your hard work and reading knowledge, you helped to recover all of the museum pieces! We knew you would be the right person for the job!