Description
This is a mini escape room about phonemes! As usual, the product images can explain this far better than words can. But here’s the summary:
- The solution to every puzzle is a specific phoneme—an individual spoken sound, like
/s/or/ă/. (How you arrive at this sound is obviously the actual puzzle.) - If Apprentices solved the puzzle, they get a SOCK showing that phoneme.
- When you’ve solved all 10 of the puzzles, you can combine all the socks to get a word! (That is, if you read all individual sounds one after another, it gives you a location that kids will recognize.)
Every puzzle applies one fun trick to get you playing around with phonemes and see them in a different way. They are obviously textless, simple, and small enough that multiple fit on one printed page. The goal is for Apprentices to have fun while practicing these skills, not to sit around a table being stumped for 15 minutes. We’ve designed the escape room such that you can leave out puzzles if you believe they’re too hard or would make the activity too long.
We’re very proud that we were able to create an escape room, for pre-readers, around this topic. We hope you enjoy it too!
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Product Contents
- Front page explaining how to setup and run this experience
- Sheet of (10) Socks to cut out
- 10 puzzles to cut out
- Answer sheet (illustrated)
Fine Details
| Detail | Value |
| Categories | phonemes |
| Duration | 45 |
| Language | en |
| Level | 1 |
| Subject | language |
| Textless | true |
Subject: Language
The curriculum is split into six main subjects that align with your typical school subjects.
This resource is part of the Language subject. Below is a summary:
This subject teaches the English language! From an Apprentice’s first utterances to being able to read any book and write their own stories.
Faction: Runaways
This resource is part of the Runaways Faction.
But that's just one way to teach and explore its topic(s)!
You can always move to a different Faction to find a more effective way to teach the same topic.
Played a quiz? Try a game! Played a game? Try an escape room! And so on.
For example,
Charm: Printable Escape Kit
This product is part of the Printable Escape Kit charm.
Visit its main page to learn more about what that means. Below is a summary:
Printable Escape Kits are escape room experiences meant to be printed (and thus played physically, offline).
Escape Rooms are a combination of puzzles and mysteries that you try to solve as a group, so you can “escape” before time runs out. Because every puzzle presents a revelation or new information, they are great educational tools.
Spell: Phoneme Awareness
This resource is part of the Phoneme Awareness topic (or "spell").
This step teaches Apprentices to cut syllables into their smallest parts: individual sounds called phonemes.
Use the buttons below to navigate to the previous or next topic in the curriculum.