Reading Comprehension Fun Mystery

Want your students to practice inference making and close reading skills? This fun brain teaser mystery will entertain your students and give them comprehension tasks to deduce the thief’s identity. It will work well for independent work, homework or home school learning because all of the answers are in a separate PDF from the mystery. To track down the thief students will have to unscramble the answers to jokes and riddles told by riddler Sophie to her friend Matt. They will also work out clues using a numbers-to-alphabet code. A further slice of challenging fun is rooting out the writer’s ‘mistake’- an event in the story that really could not have happened. Students will enjoy the humorous, rapid-fire interaction between Matt and Sophie. He fears he isn’t as speedy at working things out as his clever friend is, but he manages to wow her in this story- and discover who stole her phone!
To complete the activity, students have to complete two short fun writing tasks and a ‘Where’s Wally?’ style drawing to find the missing phone.

A question sheet is included, and a separate PDF answer key. Each student will need their own question sheet. If you are doing this activity in class, for read-aloud fun (and paper saving), you could put the story and answers up on your screen. If this is assigned for homework, you can photocopy the story, questions and answers, and give them to pairs or individuals. The answer key has been put into a separate PDF to allow for teachers to post the mystery first, and then follow it up a few days later by the answers.

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