by SNAPPY DEN Academy
5th - 8th Grade
🕵️♀️ Turn Reading into an Adventure This Holiday Season!
Get ready to embark on an exhilarating FREE Christmas escape room experience that brings together reading comprehension, critical thinking, and festive fun! This winter ELA activity transforms your classroom into an engaging escape challenge your students won’t forget.
Perfect for upper elementary or middle school, this activity gets students practicing close reading, inference, and context clues—all while racing to crack the secret code!
This resource is CCSS-aligned, interactive, ready to use, and completely NO PREP, making it the perfect way to celebrate the season while still hitting key literacy skills.
🎁 What’s Included
✅ Reading Passage – A surprise, festive-themed informational or narrative text
✅ Challenge #1: Matching
✅ Challenge #2: True or False
✅ Challenge #3: Multiple Choice
✅ Challenge #4: Paragraph Identification
✅ Recording Sheet – Track answers and find the final code
✅ Answer Keys – For quick teacher reference
🧩 How It Works
1️⃣ Give students the reading passage to read independently.
2️⃣ Set up the four challenges as stations around your classroom (or provide them all at once).
3️⃣ Students solve each challenge, finding context clues, textual evidence, and inferences along the way.
4️⃣ When they finish, they’ll have a final code to unlock the “escape.”
💡 If they get it wrong, don’t reveal the error—just encourage another attempt!
✨ Suggestions for Use
◈ Group or pair work
◈ Whole-class literacy activity
◈ Reading comprehension practice
◈ Bell ringers or warm-ups
◈ Sub plans and no-prep lessons
◈ Thematic holiday activity
◈ Class competitions or team-building
◈ Cross-curricular ELA + holiday fun
◈ Remote learning (use Google Slides)
🌟 Why Teachers Love It
✅ Boosts reading comprehension through interactive play
✅ Encourages collaboration and engagement
✅ Reinforces context clues and inference skills
✅ Works for print or digital classrooms
✅ Requires zero prep – just print and play!
Students won’t even realize how much they’re learning as they dive into this festive escape room full of clues, codes, and reading challenges. It’s a perfect mix of holiday cheer and academic rigor!
❤️ Teacher Feedback
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “This resource was a good match for my class! It gave me an efficient way to make learning fun during the holidays, and my students found it attractive and easy to use.” – Claudia J.
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