Easter Close Reading Digital Inference Mystery - Who Stole the Easter Eggs?

Easter Close Reading Digital Inference Mystery - Who Stole the Easter Eggs?: This Easter close reading digital inference mystery activity is a fun way to engage your students and challenge them to look for text evidence, infer information, and read more closely. The resource includes everything you need to facilitate the activity in your classroom. This works well around Easter; however, it can also be used at any point in the year!

Grandma Ann is hosting a special Easter celebration for her family. Each year, her three beloved grandchildren visit for the Easter egg hunt. Just as the festivities are about to begin, Ann notices that the Easter eggs she masterfully hid around the house are now missing from their hiding spots. Someone stole the Easter eggs, and 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.

Included In This Digital Easter Close Reading Activity:

➡️ Google Slides Presentation: This 15-slide Google Slides presentation guides the mystery with the backstory, evidence, and detailed explanations for why each suspect is innocent and why the person is guilty of taking the Easter eggs.

➡️ Original Narrative Backstory: Use this short story to set up and initiate the mystery, with clues hidden within the text!

➡️ A Variety of Digital Clues and Evidence: These require students to close read and use their inference skills. There is an e-invitation, an upholstery cleaning service work order, a childcare list of instructions, a social media group, a veterinarian medical report, a text message, a video game chat room, a social media post, and a social media message.

➡️ “Who Stole the Easter Eggs?” Digital Graphic Organizer: Students can use this to keep track of their findings that support or refute different suspects in the mystery.

➡️ Teacher Answer Key: Use the slideshow presentation to easily review the answer to the mystery with students with detailed information.

How The Digital Easter Close Reading Activity Works: 

• When students enter, put them in pairs or small groups, so they can work together to try to solve the mystery.

• Use the Google Slides to guide you through each element of the activity. The slides will help you introduce the story and evidence to each of the groups.

• Share the digital files with students that includes the evidence students must examine. 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 the guilty party and go through each of the suspects to show the evidence of their innocence or guilt.

What Teachers Are Saying About The Easter Close Reading Activity:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students loved this! I asked them for evidence as to why the person did it and also why they could not have done it to tie in to our lesson on counterclaims for argumentative. As one kid said, "you're giving us something fun so we don't realize we are learning again, aren't you?". He's not wrong!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I absolutely LOVE these activities - and so do my students! I print the handout front/back and have my students give textual evidence to support both for & against it being each suspect. They LOVE solving mysteries. This is my third one purchased.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students ADORE any of these mystery activities! They really get into being the first one to figure everything out. It's also a great way for them to practice some of the skills less practiced on the daily worksheet-type assessments.

 
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