Description
Our fun and engaging “Whodunnit” readers’ theaters are the perfect activities for your students! This bundle includes 7 holiday-themed mysteries:
- Back to School – Who’s Our Teacher?
- Halloween – Who Swiped the Spells?
- Thanksgiving – Who Stole the Turkey?
- Christmas – Who Stole Santa’s List?
- Valentine’s Day – Who Left Us Cupcakes?
- St. Patrick’s Day – Who’s Making Mischief?
- End of Year – Who Freed the Fish?
In these activities, students will learn to become detectives and then use their sleuthing skills to figure out what happened! With lots of suspects and circumstantial evidence, the students will have to take good notes, make lots of inferences, and think like a real detective in order to solve the mystery! This product was created with upper elementary students in mind, but it can definitely be scaled to work with other grade levels as well.
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Having the Reader’s Theater is the perfect platform for integrating real academic skills. This activity will feel like a fun day, but not a moment of the day will be wasted!
These mystery readers’ theaters are great because:
- They’re super engaging
- They target real skills to help students grow in reading and writing
- They help students enhance their inferencing skills
- There’s very little prep!
- If you choose the digital script, along with your projector, you do not have to make a copy for each student. The font is very large so that students can read their lines from across the room.
Great for 4th, 5th, or 6th grade!
CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO LEARN A LOT MORE!
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Terms of Use
This resource was created by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack for Minds in Bloom INC., all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students, but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded.
If you want to share this resource with colleagues, please purchase additional licenses. Thank you for respecting these terms of use.
This product is happily brought to you by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack of Minds in Bloom
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Shannon C. –
My students loved doing this during 2-3 library classes. They were very motivated toeach have a part and the mystery aspect kept them very engaged in the reader’s theater. They had some great table discussions and loved sharing their reasons of who they were suspicious of. I gave a small reward to students who guessed the suspect correctly. As soon as it was over, they asked if we could do another one! I’m so glad their was a bundle available to purchase! Thank you!
Kelly S. –
My kids loved this activity! We’ve only done the turkey one so far. My students did say that the women in the kitchen while the men watched tv was ‘super sus,’ but it gave us something to talk about. Thanks so much for this awesome resource!
Kelly S. –
My kids loved this activity! We’ve only done the turkey one so far. My students did say that the women in the kitchen while the men watched tv was ‘super sus,’ but it gave us something to talk about. Thanks so much for this awesome resource!
Stephanie H. –
Thank you for this resource. It was a great tool to have.
Verity C. –
I’ve used the first 2 in the bundle and my students loved it! A fun, engaging activity!
DENISE P. –
We had a Blast!!! I was sort of worried that it might be too much for my students because of their disabilities. But, we worked in teams and practiced lines, learned new vocabulary and put on our play! We will be doing another WHODUNNIT very soon!
DENISE P. –
We had a Blast!!! I was sort of worried that it might be too much for my students because of their disabilities. But, we worked in teams and practiced lines, learned new vocabulary and put on our play! We will be doing another WHODUNNIT very soon!
Anne R. –
At first, I was a little skeptical because many of my students are not fluent readers and gathering motives, means and opportunities while they participated in the play seemed tricky to me. To my surprise they all loved it especially with delivering their accusations! I can’t wait to try the next one!
Anne R. –
At first, I was a little skeptical because many of my students are not fluent readers and gathering motives, means and opportunities while they participated in the play seemed tricky to me. To my surprise they all loved it especially with delivering their accusations! I can’t wait to try the next one!
Greta T. –
This was a great resource for around the holidays! My students can’t wait to do the next one!