End of the Year Close Reading Digital Mystery Inference Activity - Prom Crowns
End of the Year Close Reading Digital Mystery Inference Activity - Prom Crowns Missing: Engage your students with a captivating digital close reading inference activity that challenges them to explore and find text evidence, make inferences, and read more closely. This resource provides all the necessary materials to facilitate this fun and creative reading activity in your classroom. Students will have the opportunity to work collaboratively, enhancing their problem-solving and critical-thinking skills as they unravel the mystery together. This works well as an end of the year activity, but it also works well at any point in the year
It is prom night, and William and Claire get crowned prom king and queen. Leaving the venue, they realize that their crowns are missing. Someone stole them, and your students need to figure out who is responsible.
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.
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Included In This End of the Year Close Reading Digital Inference Mystery Activity:
➡️ Inference Mystery Presentation Google Slides: This 15-slide Google Slides presentation serves as the guide for the activity, leading students through the mystery with a captivating backstory, detailed evidence, and thorough explanations for each suspect's innocence or guilt. The slides are crafted to engage students and encourage critical thinking as they analyze the clues and find text evidence.
➡️ Original Narrative Backstory: Use this short story to introduce the mystery. Within the story are hidden clues and subtle hints, and the narrative will engage students' curiosity and initiate the mystery.
➡️ A Variety of Digital Clues and Evidence: Students will receive a variety of digital texts in different forms that include clues and evidence. Students must read the text closely and use their inference skills to analyze each of the clues. There is an email, a band poster, a written conversation, text messages, a limousine service website, and a crown information sheet.
➡️ Text Evidence Digital Graphic Organizer: Students will use the provided digital graphic organizer to organize their findings and evaluate the guilt or innocence of each suspect. This tool encourages students to support their conclusions with text evidence from the investigation.
➡️ Teacher Answer Key: Use the detailed answer key integrated into the Google Slides, to efficiently review students' work and share the reasons for each suspect's innocence or guilt.
How The End of the Year Close Reading Digital Inference Activity Works:
- Use the Google Slides to guide you through each element of the digital inference activity. The slides will help you introduce the story and evidence.
- Share all the digital evidence to students, allowing them time to read, make inferences, and find text evidence to solve the mystery.
- Once each group has made their final prediction, use the Google Slides to reveal the culprit and review each of the suspects to show the evidence of their innocence or guilt.
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