HALLOWEEN CLOSE READING DIGITAL INFERENCE MYSTERY: WHO TOILET PAPERED THE HOUSE?

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This digital Halloween 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.

The Henderson’s are hosting a Halloween Fright Night Party for which everyone in attendance must hide their identity with a costume. As a pre-party game, the partygoers drop hints for what costumes they will be wearing using puns and wordplay in a group chat. These clues become all the more important when the house is toilet papered. Your students need to find out who did it.

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.

This works well around Halloween; however, it can also be used at any point in the year.

Included in your purchase:

A Google Slides teacher presentation that guides the mystery with the backstory, evidence, the culprit reveal, and detailed explanations of the evidence for each of the suspects.
An original narrative backstory that sets up and initiates the mystery.
A digital message board with plenty of puns and word-play that require students to close read and use their inference skills.
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 which suspects are guilty and go through the evidence for each one.