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Digital escape rooms can be a middle school ELA teacher’s best friend throughout the year.
They are at once the perfect sub plan, a quick test-prep addition, and engaging activity for those days before and after breaks when students are not at their most focused.
Quick, No-Prep Activities
One of the many benefits of digital escape rooms is that they are no-prep.
Since these digital escape rooms are housed on Google Forms™ and are completely connected and delivered through links that students can quickly open up as they work their way through the problems.
As long as students have computer access and are generally familiar with the skills, these escape rooms can be used throughout the year with very little instruction.
Perfect for Sub Plans
Due to the easy set-up and all-in-one nature of the digital escape rooms, you can have them ready to go as emergency-sub plans.
Simply share the link with students via email or through an online platform like Canvas or Google Classroom, and they can get going on the activity as soon as they get into the room and receive instructions.
For an emergency sub-plan situation, we strongly recommend either the Summer Reading escape room or the ELA Test Prep escape room, as these are not holiday specific, and the content will work well enough at any time of the year.
Individual or Small Group
These digital escape rooms work well for either individuals or small groups. When students are first getting comfortable with the escape rooms at the beginning of the year, challenge them to complete the assignment as a small group. Having others to lean on as they work through the problems will give them some extra confidence and scaffolding.
Once they have done a few of the escape rooms, assign one to be done in pairs.
Having just one other person to lean on while working through the activity will still provide them with a sounding board and someone to discuss possible answers with, but it is less support (and less distraction) than working with a whole group.
After working in pairs, assign an escape room for students to complete individually. This will allow you to formatively assess the students individually on the skills the escape room is testing.
After working through the escape rooms in all three ways, you can mix and match these different groupings as you do the other escape rooms throughout the year, depending on what you feel each day.
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Many Topics to Choose From
When you’re looking for some middle school ELA digital escape rooms to use throughout the year, start with this Digital Escape Room Bundle. The Holiday Bundle includes many of the digital escape rooms found below, and by purchasing the full bundle, you’ll get a discount.
However, if you just need a middle school ELA digital escape room for a specific holiday, you can also just click on that holiday below, and get just that single escape room.
Valentine’s Day (Reading Comprehension)
Valentine’s Day (Figurative Language)
Halloween (We also have a blog post on how you can create your own Halloween escape room here!)
Christmas (Figurative Language)
Christmas (Reading Comprehension)
Summer (Reading Comprehension)
Thanksgiving (Figurative Language)
Thanksgiving (Reading Comprehension)
Back to School (Professional Learning for Teachers)
Back to School (Figurative Language)
ELA Test Prep (Reading Literature)
Using these middle school ELA digital escape rooms throughout the year will allow students to practice and review skills in a fun way that is also easy for the teacher to implement and assign!