3rd Grade Reading Comprehension Escape Room | Digital | Spring, Easter, Patricks

This spring escape room is 100% digital. The included PDF contains a link to play.

Looking for an exciting springtime, St. Patrick's Day, or Easter escape room? Whether we're talking March, April, or May — Puzzle Punks: Beehive Blitz doesn't feel like learning; it feels like a video game! In this no prep digital reading game, your class will work through five standards-based, 3rd grade reading comprehension review activities. Each is soaked in custom artwork and secret lore, encouraging dangerous levels of classroom engagement, team work, and problem solving.

Use Puzzle Punks for:

• a reading escape room for the entire spring season

• a March, April, or May reading review game

• a no-prep third grade literacy center or digital small group activity

• a reading test prep game — just in time for spring break

3rd grade ELA standards covered:

1. Main idea and supporting details

2. Poetry (stanzas, syllables, rhyme scheme, author)

3. Similes and metaphors

4. Context clues

5. Elements of a story (character traits, theme, setting, details)

How Puzzle Punks works

This is a digital-only escape room. After purchasing, you'll download a PDF with a link to play the game.

You'll then divide your classroom into teams of up to 6, and assign each team a device — a Chromebook, iPad, laptop, PC, Mac, etc — Puzzle Punks works on (quite literally) everything. Then, in typical escape room fashion, each team will complete a number of reading challenges. For each challenge, they will:

1. Read: a passage, a short story, a poem, etc.

2. Answer questions about the reading: multiple choice, crossword, etc.

3. Decode the secret word: using critical thinking to decipher clues hidden within the answers

Upon completing all five challenges, the game is complete! The entire experience takes about 45-60 minutes.

Why Puzzle Punks rocks

• No prep required: start playing in less than a minute

• No supplies needed: just a single digital device for each team

• Big-time differentiation: tailor the game to each individual group

• Unnecessarily cool artwork: you've never seen an escape room like this

• Standards-based (but actually fun): your kids won't even know they're learning

The lore of the Beehive Blitz

Bumbleburg Hive is desperate for your help. A massive storm is coming, but the bees haven't finished gathering nectar. Assist them in any way you can — but be quick! If any task remains unfinished when the storm blows in, spring will be ruined...

3rd grade Common Core ELA standards

Language: CCSS.L.3.4, CCSS.L.3.4a

Reading - Literature: CCSS.RL.3.1, CCSS.RL.3.2, CCSS.RL.3.3, CCSS.RL.3.4, CCSS.RL.3.5, CCSS.RL.3.10

Reading - Informational Text: RI.3.2, RI.3.6, RI.3.10

Reading - Foundational Skills: RF.3.3, RF.3.4, RF.3.4a, RF.3.4b, RF.3.4c

Anchor Standards for Language: CCSS.CCRA.L.3, CCSS.CCRA.L.4, CCSS.CCRA.L.5, CCSS.CCRA.L.6

Anchor Standards for Reading: CCSS.CCRA.R.1, CCSS.CCRA.R.2, CCSS.CCRA.R.3, CCSS.CCRA.R.4, CCSS.CCRA.R.5, CCSS.CCRA.R.7, CCSS.CCRA.R.10

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