Close Reading Digital Mystery Text Evidence Inference Activity - Slime Hot Tub

Close Reading Digital Mystery Text Evidence Inference Activity - Slime Hot Tub: 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.

The Ooze family is hosting a little backyard get-together for Uncle Saul, who is visiting from out of town. When some of the family members jump in the hot tub at the end of the night, they immediately notice something is off. The hot tub has been filled with green sticky slime, and now they are covered in it. Your students need to figure out who’s 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 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 receive a variety of texts in different forms that include digital clues and evidence. Students must read the text closely and use their inference skills to analyze each of the clues.

➡️ 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. There is a blog post, a text message, a poster for a candy store, an email, a scientific study report, an overheard conversation, and an epoxy information sheet.

➡️ 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 the culprit and go through each of the suspects to show the evidence of their innocence or guilt.

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

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students loved using this resource! I used it in a small group; it was great to use independently, with a small group, or with partners.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is a great resource to have students make inferences and prepare for higher level thinking.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students absolutely love these mysteries - the hot tub slime was a favorite so far. They love the "funny" topics and situations, and I love that they use inferencing skills and other ELA skills to help them figure out things on their own. My 6th graders tend to be a bit "needy" and want me to TELL them the answer, so these mysteries are a gem for helping them get to the answers on their own!

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