Scary Story Collection for Middle School: Escape Room, Task Cards, Printables

This spooky collection of fiction reading comprehension passages combines several standards so that students have an opportunity to practice their skills without isolating each standard. Each fictional story has descriptive characters and settings, drawing your students into the mystery. This unit will reinforce skills that you have taught. Students will use their skills to solve the mysteries (demonstrating comprehension of the text).

What your students will discover:

• Was Dracula real or just a myth? Three friends are about to find out. Will they be able to escape from Bran Castle? Only if they can solve the escape room puzzles.
• Will Jennifer make it out of the woods before the mysterious creature captures her? Students will have to write their own ending to this mystery.
• The house on Garnett Street holds many secrets. Dallas and Brady are determined to discover what really happened to the Reed family, but will they survive to tell others? Analyze the text using task cards and a scavenger hunt.

This resource includes:

• 3 spooky fiction stories
• escape room activity
• text scavenger hunt
• task cards
• printables
• answer keys

What is covered in this resource:

• figurative language
• character traits (how characters respond to a plot and how they interact)
• inferences
• setting
• suspense and foreshadowing
• write a narrative ending to a piece of fiction

Length of lessons:

• Mystery of Bran Castle story, printables, and escape room will take approximately one week.
• Forest Intruder story and printables will take two -three days.
• Dead-End on Garnett Street story, task cards, and scavenger hunt will take 3-5 days.

Now an Easel activity and assessment are included in this resource, making it great for classroom or distance learning! Assessment consists of 5 new questions per story (for a total of 15 questions) covering the same skills that were taught in the lessons.

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