No Prep Digital Escape Room: ELA Critical Thinking All-Year Bundle

Capture the excitement of each season and challenge your students with these 12 fun, no-prep digital escape rooms! Holiday and Seasonal themes will keep your students engaged, thinking, and learning new words throughout the year.

Looking for an engaging way to grow students' language skills?✏️These escape rooms teach word relationships and expose students to new words with 3 analogy-matching activities in each escape room.

✏️ Students will practice Spelling with word ladder clues.

✏️Best of all, students will practice critical thinking skills as they decipher codes, figure out clues and solve a silly mystery.

Looking for a fun way to celebrate and still learn on special holidays?
Having a class party? No more scrambling to make the day special and educational with time-consuming games and crafts! Just assign one of these escape rooms with a few clicks. Kids can celebrate, have fun, and sneak in some extra learning. Make these escape rooms a class tradition!


Hoping for more student-directed, collaborative learning?
Students work together to solve a mystery in each escape room. Students will persevere to figure out clues! With each escape room played students will grow their problem-solving confidence and grit!

Mysteries Include:
⭐️The Cranky Crayon: A Back-to-School Mystery
⭐️The Wacky Wizard: An Escape Room for any time
⭐️Puppy Problems: An Escape Room for any time
⭐️The Miserly Monster: A Halloween Mystery
⭐️Reindeer Replacement: A Christmas Mystery
⭐️The Missing Cupcake: A Valentine's Mystery
⭐️The Missing Pot of Gold: A Saint Patrick's Day Mystery
⭐️Imposter Bunny: Easter/Spring Mystery
⭐️Seaside Swap: A Summer Mystery
⭐️Lemonade Charade: A Summer Mystery
⭐️The Case of the Missing Popsicle: A Summer Mystery
⭐️Camping Conundrum: A Summer Mystery

How does an escape room work?

Each escape room is housed in a Google Slide Show designed to be manipulated by students. Students solve five clues. Each clue helps them eliminate one of the six suspects and helps them solve the mystery.

Clues include:

✏️Clue 1: drag and drop analogies
✏️Clue 2: Logic Puzzle
✏️Clue 3: Drag and drop analogies
✏️Clue 4: A Word Ladder
✏️Clue 5: A surprising clue (math problems or a cipher of some sort)

Your students will practice using logical reasoning to persevere in solving problems. Build classroom community by playing this game in pairs. This game works great as a whole-class activity, or for Early Finishers and Enrichment. I often guide my younger students through these activities (checking the clues together one at a time) and let my older students work in pairs to figure out the mystery. I include some unique vocabulary words, so I encourage students to look these up in the dictionary!

This challenge is easy to assign with a few clicks. Just save and assign through Google Classroom, making a copy for each student, or if you don't have Google Classroom, share the link so students can create their own copy.
*Students need a Google Account for this activity.

I want to make sure you LOVE this product, so download this free Sample Escape Room to try out this activity.