CLOSE READING DIGITAL INFERENCE MYSTERY: WHERE IS THE TREASURE BURIED?

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This digital buried treasure close reading inference mystery is a fun way to engage your students and challenge them to look for text evidence, infer information, and read more closely.

An experienced treasure hunter gets a tip that there is a hidden treasure just one town over from where they live. The treasure has yet to be discovered, despite the valiant efforts of devoted treasure hunters from near and far. Your students, assuming the role of experienced treasure hunters, need to find where it is buried.

This is a Google-compatible activity, and students complete all the work on the computer. This works well with distance learning, 1:1 classrooms, remote teaching, Google Classroom, or for online education.

Included in your purchase:

A Google Slides teacher presentation that guides the mystery with the backstory, evidence, the correct answer, and detailed explanations of the evidence for each location.
An original narrative backstory that sets up and initiates the mystery.
A variety of digital clues that require students to close read and use their inference skills. There is a treasure map, a treasure hunting blog, an agricultural farmer’s digest, a treasure hunting social media group, and town council meeting notes. Two different slide options are provided. One more challenging option has two pieces of evidence per slide, and the other has one piece of evidence with a section for students to take notes along the side.
A final digital response slide where students can keep track of their findings that support or refute different suspects in the mystery.
A detailed teacher answer key in slide format for students and within the Google Slides presentation slideshow for whole-class review.

How it works:

Decide whether you want students to work in partners, groups, or independently for the activity.
Use the Google Slides presentation to guide you through each element of the lesson. The slides will help you introduce the story and evidence to students.
Share the digital file with students and allow them time to make their predictions and inferences and solve the mystery.
Once students have made their final prediction, use the Google Slides presentation to reveal the answer and go through the evidence for each location.