How The Grinch Stole Christmas BUNDLE: ESCAPE ROOM, Guided Reading Activity Pack and Answers

In using "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" to excite our learners during the festive period, we have placed our Escape Room and Guided Reading Packet together in one bundle to provide a complete package for your students.

Included in the bundle:

• Escape Room with 10 challenges focusing on the elements of the poem. The resources includes student workbook, answer key booklet, all the resources you need and full instructions for running the Escape Room. This resource is a Print and Go resource - providing a fast, yet focused resource for your students.
• Guided Reading Resource which breaks the poem into ten clear sections with line references for demarcation. Included in the product are 10 sets of comprehension questions with between 6 and 10 questions in each set (a total of 86 questions), answer key and 5 additional activities to engage learners even further (word search, crossword, sequencing stolen items, sequencing Christmas celebrations and investigating the rhyme scheme) Full answer keys are provided for both the comprehension questions and the additional activities.

The Escape Room and Guided Reading activities are all different.

Further details of both products can be seen below:

Guided Reading and Activity Packet:

This product takes the poem "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" by Dr. Seuss, and working through the entire poem in ten sections, sets a range of comprehension questions to explore the poem and develop the reading and comprehension skills of students. The product can be used daily with the poem (not included in the product) and will last for two school weeks if used each day. For more intense work, teachers can decide on the pace of the activity linked to the needs of their students.

This resources includes:

• 10 Question sets designed to be used daily for three weeks ranging between 6 in-depth questions and 10 questions each day
• 86 questions overall
• 5 Additional Activities to engage students further with this poem - including Wordsearch, Crossword, investigating the rhyme scheme of the poem, sequencing the items which the Grinch took from the Whos and sequencing the activities which the Whos would do each year to celebrate Christmas
• Answer key for each of the questions and the additional activities

The resource uses a range of questions styles to develop the eight key reading skills of:

• Vocabulary knowledge
• Prediction using the text cues to support responses
• Explanation of what is happening within the text and why
• Inference - where the answer is not specific but can be gained by looking deeper into the authorial intent and bringing own knowledge to the text
• Sequencing events within the text in the correct order
• Retrieving facts, ideas and responses directly from the text (using page references to support identification)
• Summarizing what has been read within a given section or chapter.

Each question has the abbreviation of the question type in brackets to show the coverage and balance between all the reading skills.

We developed this to support reading skills whilst also knowing that our students were becoming increasingly excited by the approach of the festive season. Therefore, we embraced Christmas and used the poem to further enhance the reading development of our pupils. The student booklet was a particularly useful innovation as it saved us time in preparation - with one booklet prepared for each student at the beginning of the unit, and then was used each day for two weeks, with student responses placed in their reading journal.

The answer key ensures that teachers can assess the learning quickly and accurately either on a 1:1 with the student or as a whole class.

We hope that your students enjoy the poem and develop their reading skills further in each of the key comprehension areas. We also hope that it supports you in preparing for Christmas, whilst saving you time in producing effective reading sessions.

Escape Room

Using an Escape Room to develop curriculum knowledge is an exciting activity that will inspire learners from 2nd Grade to 5th Grade to learn and enjoy the poem "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" by Dr. Seuss.

The curriculum content of this Escape Room is linked to the poem “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”:

• Rhyming vocabulary
• Comprehension
• Sequencing events
• Vocabulary development
• Festive fun!

The aim of the Escape Room is to provide jeopardy for the children to work under pressure to solve 10 clues to help raise their knowledge of the poem “How the Grinch stole Christmas”. The 10 Challenges within this Escape Room will support their growing knowledge and understanding of the poem through fun, exciting and stimulating activities – perfect for Christmas time!

Included within this Escape Room:

• Pupil Answer Book (Code Key Booklet)
• Answer Booklet for teachers
• Starting script to set the scene of the Escape Room and explain what the students must do
• Concluding script, celebrating the learning which has taken place and allows the students to “leave” the Escape Room
• Table labels for students to name their own teams
• Full instructions to be able to simply print and go within your own classroom

The only additional resource your students will need is a copy of the poem which is readily available online.

Before beginning, you will need to prepare the following - all of which are included in the product:

• A copy of the Pupil Workbook for each group
• A set of table team names for every group – prepared beforehand and given to each group to set up their own working space
• Initial Starting Script sharing the problem to the children
• Completion Script celebrating the completion of the challenge
• 10 letter cards (when put together spell the word CHRISTMAS!) which is the tenth and final challenge

The poem must also be provided for the students to refer to - but is not included in the product, be is readily available online.

Students do not need prior knowledge of the poem – but must have access to it to identify vocabulary and sequence key events within it. This Escape Room so is suitable for a one-off adventure for your students.

The activity begins by the teacher reading the Initial Message received. It clearly tells the students that the Grinch is intent on cancelling Christmas and only they can save the day. They are told that there are 10 Challenges to complete, and they must correctly complete each challenge before moving onto the next. Not only that, but with each correct challenge completed, the students are given a letter card to be used in Challenge 10. in order to escape the room.

After the 10th activity – the teacher can read the final script which reviews the learning the children have undertaken as they have completed each of the challenges. This script, together with team labels, letter cards and the opening challenge script are contained within the Resource Pack.

Each activity focuses and builds the children’s knowledge of “How the Grinch stole Christmas”.

The 10 activities are based on the following outcomes:

• Rhyming words from the poem – the students must identify which words rhyme – using the poem to check the accuracy of the pairs
• Word Search to focus on the key vocabulary of the poem. The students must also identify the one secret, hidden word before they successfully move onto the next challenge.
• Comprehension knowledge of the poem to complete the Crossword with 12 questions and answers.
• Beat the maze and find the Christmas tree before the Grinch steals it.
• Sequencing the events in the poem. Five sets of five events which must be sequenced correctly using the poem to support the activity.
• Comprehension (retrieve): Find the places where ten items are kept in the poem.
• Sequencing the order in which the Grinch stole the eight items from every Who-home
• Problem solving – identify all the ways in which the presents stolen from the Whos can be rewrapped without repeating the same method.
• True or False – answer ten questions about the poem which are either True or False
• Letter sort and Word making: Using the 10 letter cards given throughout the Escape Room – what is the secret word which will stop the Grinch? Following the successful completion of the letter sort, how many different words can the children make from the letter cards given?

When all 10 activities are completed, and the students have gained the correct Code Keys from each activity as well as the letter cards for Challenge 10, the final celebratory script can be read which reviews the learning and informs the students that they have been successful and can leave the Escape Room!

Setting up the Escape Room

1. Students should be split into groups of no more than four and be placed in their own workspace.

2. Access to the poem must be provided

3. Each group should have a Code Key Booklet and decide on a team name

4. Read the Initial Message to the children to set the challenge in context. Discuss what this means, and what the activity entails.

5. Turn to Code Key 1. Agree with the students a set time to complete the problem in – this ensures that the students stay on task and maintains the Escape Room element of working under pressure.

6. At the end of the time, students should have filled in the Code Key in their booklet. The teacher can then check the accuracy of all the groups and talk through the responses the students should have.

7. Move on through the remaining challenges until all 10 have been completed.

8. For those groups who have been successful, they are then able to read the completed statement where they find out if they have escaped the Escape Room!

There are other ways of running Escape Room activities, for example, each activity could be set up on 10 tables and the students then move from table to table completing the activity. This would reduce the need for as many resources, and access to non-fiction sources and Internet Resources could then be targeted at specific Challenges.

The Escape Room should last for at least 2 hours.

We hope that your children enjoy this Escape Room.

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