CLOSE READING DIGITAL INFERENCE MYSTERY: WHO GRAFFITIED THE SCHOOL?

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This digital graffitied school 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.

Spring Formal is finally here, and the students at Rockefeller High School couldn’t be more excited. At the dance, everything is going smoothly until a student discovers graffiti on a wall that looks fresh. This causes the dance to come to a screeching halt. Your students need to figure out who graffitied the school wall so that they can get the dance back in full swing.

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 culprit reveal, and detailed explanations for why each suspect is innocent and why the culprit is guilty.
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 an incident report, a battle of the bands poster, an email, a text message, a school budget, a teacher’s note, a website for a DJ, a school graffiti club poster, and a teacher supervision schedule.
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 culprit and go through each of the suspects to show the evidence of their innocence or guilt.