Winter Escape Room Game Activities for 5th & 6th Grade Reading Comprehension ESL/ELA
Bring a cozy winter adventure into your classroom with this Winter Hot Chocolate Escape Room Activity for 5th & 6th Grade Reading Comprehension! This immersive escape room game invites students into a café, where they’ll work through four engaging reading comprehension and vocabulary activities to unlock the café’s door and enjoy the “world’s best hot chocolate.”
Perfect for intermediate ESL students with a foundational grasp of English, this activity features a winter-themed passage at a Lexile level of 610-800, designed for accessible yet challenging practice.
Story & Mission
The winter is cold, and a cozy café is waiting to be unlocked, with the warmest, richest hot chocolate inside. But the café door is locked with a secret code! Four special numbers are hidden in clues throughout the café. Each activity will reveal a number that’s part of the code. Once students gather all four numbers, they’ll use the café owner’s riddle to arrange the code and unlock the door before the hot chocolate gets cold!
✨ Step-by-Step Student Experience
Read the Passage
Students begin by reading a passage about hot chocolate traditions around the world. This high-interest reading sets the stage for their escape mission and provides essential details for solving each activity.Complete Each Activity to Gather Clues
Students then work through four interactive comprehension tasks:
Activity 1: Match items to reveal the first number.
Activity 2: Determine if each statement is true or false to find the second number.
Activity 3: Answer multiple-choice questions to uncover the third number.
Activity 4: Identify the correct paragraphs to discover the final number.
✨ Each activity provides one crucial number for the lock code!
Solve the Final Riddle to Unlock the Café Door
Once students have gathered all four numbers, they must arrange them in the correct order using the café owner’s final hint:
“Place the numbers in the order of where they landed in the snow: First drift (1st), third drift (3rd), last drift (4th), and second drift (2nd).”
By following the riddle, students place the numbers in the correct sequence to unlock the door.Celebrate with the Hot Chocolate Ingredients Menu
After successfully entering the code, students “escape” the winter cold and enjoy a peek at the café’s Hot Chocolate Ingredients Menu, featuring cozy items like whipped cream, peppermint sticks, and marshmallows.
✨ Product Highlights:
4 engaging comprehension activities with a final code to unlock
Winter café theme with a mission-based story to enhance engagement
Designed for 5th and 6th grade with a Lexile level of 610-800, perfect for intermediate ESL students
Flexible setup for classroom use: team competition, stations, or timed independent challenge
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Bring a cozy winter adventure into your classroom with this Winter Hot Chocolate Escape Room Activity for 5th & 6th Grade Reading Comprehension! This immersive escape room game invites students into a café, where they’ll work through four engaging reading comprehension and vocabulary activities to unlock the café’s door and enjoy the “world’s best hot chocolate.”
Perfect for intermediate ESL students with a foundational grasp of English, this activity features a winter-themed passage at a Lexile level of 610-800, designed for accessible yet challenging practice.
Story & Mission
The winter is cold, and a cozy café is waiting to be unlocked, with the warmest, richest hot chocolate inside. But the café door is locked with a secret code! Four special numbers are hidden in clues throughout the café. Each activity will reveal a number that’s part of the code. Once students gather all four numbers, they’ll use the café owner’s riddle to arrange the code and unlock the door before the hot chocolate gets cold!
✨ Step-by-Step Student Experience
Read the Passage
Students begin by reading a passage about hot chocolate traditions around the world. This high-interest reading sets the stage for their escape mission and provides essential details for solving each activity.Complete Each Activity to Gather Clues
Students then work through four interactive comprehension tasks:
Activity 1: Match items to reveal the first number.
Activity 2: Determine if each statement is true or false to find the second number.
Activity 3: Answer multiple-choice questions to uncover the third number.
Activity 4: Identify the correct paragraphs to discover the final number.
✨ Each activity provides one crucial number for the lock code!
Solve the Final Riddle to Unlock the Café Door
Once students have gathered all four numbers, they must arrange them in the correct order using the café owner’s final hint:
“Place the numbers in the order of where they landed in the snow: First drift (1st), third drift (3rd), last drift (4th), and second drift (2nd).”
By following the riddle, students place the numbers in the correct sequence to unlock the door.Celebrate with the Hot Chocolate Ingredients Menu
After successfully entering the code, students “escape” the winter cold and enjoy a peek at the café’s Hot Chocolate Ingredients Menu, featuring cozy items like whipped cream, peppermint sticks, and marshmallows.
✨ Product Highlights:
4 engaging comprehension activities with a final code to unlock
Winter café theme with a mission-based story to enhance engagement
Designed for 5th and 6th grade with a Lexile level of 610-800, perfect for intermediate ESL students
Flexible setup for classroom use: team competition, stations, or timed independent challenge
Would rather buy on TPT?
Buy on TPT
Bring a cozy winter adventure into your classroom with this Winter Hot Chocolate Escape Room Activity for 5th & 6th Grade Reading Comprehension! This immersive escape room game invites students into a café, where they’ll work through four engaging reading comprehension and vocabulary activities to unlock the café’s door and enjoy the “world’s best hot chocolate.”
Perfect for intermediate ESL students with a foundational grasp of English, this activity features a winter-themed passage at a Lexile level of 610-800, designed for accessible yet challenging practice.
Story & Mission
The winter is cold, and a cozy café is waiting to be unlocked, with the warmest, richest hot chocolate inside. But the café door is locked with a secret code! Four special numbers are hidden in clues throughout the café. Each activity will reveal a number that’s part of the code. Once students gather all four numbers, they’ll use the café owner’s riddle to arrange the code and unlock the door before the hot chocolate gets cold!
✨ Step-by-Step Student Experience
Read the Passage
Students begin by reading a passage about hot chocolate traditions around the world. This high-interest reading sets the stage for their escape mission and provides essential details for solving each activity.Complete Each Activity to Gather Clues
Students then work through four interactive comprehension tasks:
Activity 1: Match items to reveal the first number.
Activity 2: Determine if each statement is true or false to find the second number.
Activity 3: Answer multiple-choice questions to uncover the third number.
Activity 4: Identify the correct paragraphs to discover the final number.
✨ Each activity provides one crucial number for the lock code!
Solve the Final Riddle to Unlock the Café Door
Once students have gathered all four numbers, they must arrange them in the correct order using the café owner’s final hint:
“Place the numbers in the order of where they landed in the snow: First drift (1st), third drift (3rd), last drift (4th), and second drift (2nd).”
By following the riddle, students place the numbers in the correct sequence to unlock the door.Celebrate with the Hot Chocolate Ingredients Menu
After successfully entering the code, students “escape” the winter cold and enjoy a peek at the café’s Hot Chocolate Ingredients Menu, featuring cozy items like whipped cream, peppermint sticks, and marshmallows.
✨ Product Highlights:
4 engaging comprehension activities with a final code to unlock
Winter café theme with a mission-based story to enhance engagement
Designed for 5th and 6th grade with a Lexile level of 610-800, perfect for intermediate ESL students
Flexible setup for classroom use: team competition, stations, or timed independent challenge
Would rather buy on TPT?
