9th Grade Grammar Games

Get ready to have the most fun you'll have teaching with a lesson that your students will be talking about for years to come with the Christmas Grammar ESCAPE ROOM!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Christmas-themed Grammar Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this fun lesson on a sugar-filled holiday, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize how many grammar skills they are practicing they are applying in the playing of this game!

**Please note that although this activity is informative about the Christian holiday, it is a secular lesson and can be used for students of all backgrounds and religions. Students do not need any prior knowledge about Christmas in order to complete this lesson and have fun with it!**

How does it work?

Your students are stuck in your classroom and cannot leave for Christmas vacation until they solve 5 challenging grammar-based tasks about Christmas!

• Santa! I Know Him!: In the first task, students must identify the parts of the speech of words in facts about the origins of Santa Claus.
• Bah Humbug!: In the second task, students must identify homophones within a passage from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
• Belsnickel: In the third task, students must identify commonly misspelled words within a passage about Belsnickel, a character from German folklore that visits children around Christmas.
• 12 Days of Christmas: In the fourth task, students must the verb tense of verbs inspired by the 12 days of Christmas.
• Word Search: In the final task, students must complete the word search containing the names of Santa’s nine reindeer. Once they have found all of the words, the remaining letters spell out a question that they must answer to escape the room.

Product Includes:

- Escape Room Basics

- Detailed Day-Of Instructions

- Escape Room Print Checklist

- Student Teams Chart

- Welcome Sign for Your Door

- Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs to be folded upright, task instructions (2 per page for easy printing), and necessary information to be kept at stations

- Student Answer Booklet

- Teacher Answer Keys

- Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal for any time during the month of December.

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⭐ Christmas ESCAPE ROOM

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⭐ A Christmas Carol ESCAPE ROOM

⭐"Christmas Talk" Lesson Plan

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⭐ New Year's ESCAPE ROOM

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Looking to have a little fun with your students on April Fool's Day? Pretend you're giving them a test and fool them with this fun yet rigorous grammar-based escape room!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length April Fool's-themed Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this fun lesson, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

Your students thought they had a grammar test today, instead, you fooled them with an escape room! They are stuck in your classroom until they solve 5 grammar-based tasks about April Fool's Day!

• Don't Be a Crank, It's Just a Prank: In the first task, students will read 8 fun prank ideas (like the classic cream cheese on the toothbrush trick). In each passage, one word is underlined. Students must identify the part of speech of the underlined word by assembling a mat puzzle that, when assembled correctly, will reveal their first code.
• Spaghetti Tree: In the second task, students will read about the epic "Spaghetti Tree" prank done by the British media. In each paragraph there is an incorrect homophone. Students must identify the homophones and write them correctly on their answer sheet. Shaded boxes within each answer will form their code.
• April Foolin' Around the World: In the third task, students must match facts about April Fool's Day around the world to the type of sentence it is (declarative, interrogative, subjunctive, imperative, conditional) by drawing a line connecting the sentence with its type. Letters not intersected by these lines will form their third code.
• Fool Me Once: In the fourth task, students will read 8 "fool" quotes. Each one is missing a comma. Students must insert the comma in the correct place, then write down the word before it. Shaded boxes within each answer reveal the fourth code.
• Encrypted Message: In the final task, students must decode an encrypted message (a Shakespeare quote about the joy of April) from the codes they collected along the way.

Product Includes:

• Escape Room Basics
• Detailed Day-Of Instructions
• Escape Room Print Checklist
• Student Teams Chart
• Materials for 5 Tasks: task signs, task instructions, and supplementary materials
• Opportunities for Differentiation
• Student Answer Sheet
• Teacher Answer Keys
• Escape Room Reflection for homework or in-class writing activity

This escape room is suitable for middle and high school students and is ideal for use at the beginning of April.

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Can't get enough escape rooms? Check out more by Language Arts Excellence here:

⭐ Halloween ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Thanksgiving ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Christmas ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Hanukkah Kwanzaa Christmas Diwali ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ St. Patrick's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Easter ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Shakespeare ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Escape from Dystopia ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Edgar Allan Poe ESCAPE ROOM

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⭐ End of Year ELA ESCAPE ROOM

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Are you looking for fun and engaging ways to teach Present Perfect? Then this set is just for you! These task cards are perfect for a variety of classroom activities. They can be used to play Kaboom Game or Scoot, they are great for Centers, Quiz Games, and Bell Ringers. They are also low prep, requiring only printing and cutting. Most of the task card contain a picture prompt, making them perfect for visual learners.

The bundle includes three sets of task cards, each with a different focus.

1. Past Simple vs. Present Perfect Task Cards - Kaboom Game, Scoot, Centres

50 task cards focused on the use of past simple and present perfect. Each task card contains a picture prompt. Use them to play Kaboom Game or Scoot, they are great for Centers, Quiz Games, can be used as Bell Ringers. Low prep, just print out and cut up.

Contains:

• 50 task cards - they double up as Kaboom! sentence cards and Scoot cards
• 10 Kaboom! cards
• 5 answer sheets for Scoot
• instructions
• keys

This product focuses on:

• past simple
• present perfect
• the difference in use between the two tenses

2. Present Perfect - Already, Just, (Not) Yet - Kaboom Game, Scoot, Centres

50 differentiated task cards focused on using ALREADY, JUST AND (NOT) YET in Present Perfect. Each task card contains a picture prompt. Use them to play Kaboom Game or Scoot, they are great for Centers, Quiz Games, can be used as Bell Ringers. Low prep, just print out and cut up.

Contains:

• 50 task cards - they double up as Kaboom! sentence cards and Scoot cards
• 10 Kaboom! cards
• 5 answer sheets for Scoot
• instructions
• keys

3. Present Perfect Been vs Gone Task Cards - Kaboom, Scoot and Domino

Task cards to practice Present Perfect - BEEN and GONE. Use them to play Kaboom Game or Scoot, they are great for Centers, Quiz Games, can be used as Bell Ringers. Low prep, just print out and cut up.

Contains:

• 30 task cards - they double up as Kaboom! sentence cards and Scoot cards
• 15 Kaboom! cards
• 2 answer sheets for Scoot
• 12 sentence dominoes
• instructions
• keys

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