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Hello teachers! I am here today with 8 super-fun reading escape room ideas. When it does come time for school, reading and escape rooms are some of my favorite activities! What better idea than using some fun reading escape rooms to excite your students and brush up on their reading skills when the new year begins?! Here are a few of my favorites!
1. Yellowstone Camping Adventure Escape Room
This outdoorsy, adventure filled escape room activity takes students on a trip through Yellowstone as they read passages and complete tasks to earn camping items needed to complete the challenge!
2. White House Visit Escape Room
This escape room challenge is packed full of reading passages and tasks for students to complete either in teams or individually. They must complete the reading tasks to earn the items needed to complete the escape room. Such a fun reading escape room idea!
3. Travel to the Moon Escape Room
What child doesn’t want to practice their reading skills through a space adventure? This reading escape room idea asks students to complete space related reading tasks as they venture through the escape room looking to solve the challenge!
4. Theme Park Adventure Escape Room
Hooray for a theme park adventure! With this reading escape room activity, students work through passages and assignments related to a theme park as they try to solve the escape room and complete the challenge! I love this reading escape room idea because it is so fun and cheery to draw students in!
5. Find the Statue of Liberty Escape Room
This reading review escape room is complete with teacher instructions for minimal prep and takes students on a journey to find the Statue of Liberty as they review their reading skills. This is another one of my favorite reading escape room ideas because it can be done individually or in groups making it so easy to use!
6. Johnny Appleseed Escape Room
Using this Johnny Appleseed escape room, students will practice their comprehension skills through related tasks like reading passages, word searches, and more! I love this resource for mixing up comprehension practice!
7. Baseball Reading Escape Room
Cater reading skills review to your sports loving students with this baseball reading escape room! Students can practice their reading skills by reading facts, statistics, and working their way toward an all star certificate! This reading escape room idea is sure to be a hit!
8. Tropical Luau Reading Escape Room
Give students the chance to practice their comprehension skills at a Hawaiian luau where they will read about Hawaii’s history and complete tasks. After students earn 5 luau items, they have beat the escape room!
9. African Safari Reading Escape Room
Can your students work in teams to use reading comprehension practice skills in order to collect all the items for an African Animal Safari Adventure? This is a fun reading comprehension review activity that will have your students engaged and loving every minute of reading skills practice!
Grab all of these reading escape room ideas in one place! This Reading Skills Escape Room Bundle is packed full of these resources and one more for tons of fun reading skills review!
Just compiling this list of fun reading escape room ideas has me excited, so imagine the fun students have completing the tasks! I just love having options to mix up comprehension and skills review, and escape rooms tend to be a big hit! Wishing you the best in your classroom this year!
Hi, I’m Shelly! Thank you for being here. I love helping third, fourth, and fifth grade teachers with fun and engaging activities that require no to little prep! Let me help you by taking some of the stress and work off your plate.
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