Back to School Escape Room – Grades 5 and 6 | Print and Go!

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Back to School Escape Room – Grade 5 & 6 | Print & Go!

Kick off the school year with an exciting Back to School Escape Room that combines fun, movement, and critical thinking with essential literacy skills! Designed for students in Years 5 and 6, this interactive challenge gets learners up and moving as they read, solve puzzles, and decode a final 4-digit ALPHA code—all while practising close reading and comprehension skills.

Students go on a secret classroom mission, reading a high-interest passage and working through a series of four engaging challenges to discover how the first day of school looks in different countries around the world.

Why Teachers Love This Activity:

✔️ Boosts student engagement with movement and friendly competition
✔️ Reinforces reading comprehension through repeated close reading
✔️ Encourages collaboration and critical thinking
✔️ No prep, no locks, no fancy materials—just print and go!
✔️ Ideal for classroom teachers, relief teachers, or small group work

Skills Students Will Use:

  • Reading comprehension
  • Citing evidence from text
  • Problem solving
  • Collaboration (or independent work)
  • Decoding and critical thinking

What’s Included:

  • ✏️ 1 Engaging Reading Passage
  • ✏️ 4 Escape Room Challenges
  • ✏️ Optional Student Recording Sheet
  • ✏️ Teacher Instructions
  • ✏️ Answer Key
  • ✏️ Lockable PDF version

How It Works:

Challenge 1: Make a Match
Students match vocabulary words with definitions to reveal a mystery word—and the first number clue.

Challenge 2: Adding Truths
Using the text, students identify true/false statements and add the values of the correct ones to find clue #2.

Challenge 3: Missing Letters
Students answer multiple-choice questions from the passage to uncover the third number in the code.

Challenge 4: Which Paragraph?
Students match statements to the correct paragraph in the reading passage to reveal the final clue.

✅ Students must answer all questions correctly to unlock the final code—ensuring true comprehension rather than guessing!

Perfect For:

  • Back to School Fun
  • Literacy Centers or Rotations
  • Early Finishers
  • Gallery Walks
  • Small Groups or Partner Work
  • Extension Tasks
  • Supply/Relief Teacher Plans
  • Reward Activities

This escape room activity is a fantastic way to energise your classroom while reinforcing essential reading skills. Whether working in pairs or independently, your students will love the mix of competition, creativity, and learning!

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Subjects

English, Literacy, Mathematics, Humanities And Social Sciences

Product Type

PDF, Activities, Worksheets

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