Halloween Close Reading Digital Mystery Inference Activity - Toilet Paper Prank

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Halloween Close Reading Digital Mystery Inference Activity - Toilet Paper Prank: 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 around Halloween; however, it can also be used at any point in the year.

The Hendersons 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.

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Included In This Digital Close Reading Inference Mystery Activity:

➡️ Inference Mystery 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 examine and read a message board with plenty of puns and word-play that require students to close read and use their inference skills to determine who toilet papered the house!

➡️ Text Evidence Digital Graphic Organizer: Students will use the provided 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 within the Google Slides to efficiently review students' work and share the reasons for each suspect's innocence or guilt.

How The Digital Close Reading Inference Mystery Activity Works:

Use the Google Slides to guide you through each element of the lesson. The slides will help you introduce the story and evidence to each of the groups.
Share all the evidence with students and allow them time to make their predictions and inferences and solve the mystery.
Once each group has made their final prediction, use the Google Slides to reveal which suspects are guilty and go through the evidence for each one.

What Teachers Are Saying About This Digital Close Reading Inference Mystery Activity:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love every single one of these - I may need an intervention because I own most of your TpT store :). Students love these and they are a perfect challenge!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students loved doing this the day after Halloween! It was just what we needed. We were able to continue working on inferencing skills yet made it fun on a day that is usually hard.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ironically, we just finished Homecoming week here. And, yes, the English teacher's yard was toilet papered. This was the PERFECT task especially with distracted sophomores! Good fun!!

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