MYSTERY STORIES & QUESTIONS READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES
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What grades 5-8 student doesn’t love a fun brainteaser mystery to get their brain cells zinging? Two high interest mystery comprehension passages will intrigue your grade Middle School students, and the questions that follow each story will hone their close reading and inference skills. The exploits of Lazy Luke and of Charming Charlee are followed by questions that challenge students to delve into essential parts of their literary toolbox, such as character analysis, author’s purpose, and working out the use of vocabulary and figurative language in context. A variety of formats are used to assess their understanding, including 15 multiple choice questions, 5 mix and match, and 15 true and false questions. The multiple choice questions resemble those asked on many state tests and thus will make fun test prep. Full answer keys are included. Both stories have a paragraph question, a rubric, and a model paragraph response. The resource ends with a page of quickie riddles for students to puzzle over, and a page of jokes whose questions have been separated from their punchlines; students must reunite them. They will have so much fun and so many chuckles that they will not realize they are learning! This resource is part of a 50% off reading comprehension bundle: 50% OFF READING COMPREHENSION BIG BARGAIN BUNDLE
Table of contents Pages
Lazy Luke’s Double Fail (story) 1-2
Literary terms definitions 2
Mystery questions 3
Multiple choice questions 3-5
Paragraph question 6
Paragraph rubric 7
Answers to “Lazy Luke” questions 8
Charming Charlee Gets Caught (story) 9-11
Mystery questions 12
Mix and match & true and false questions 12
Paragraph question 13
Paragraph rubric 14
Answers to “Charming Charlee” questions 15
Riddles 16
Jokes mix and match 17
Answers to riddles and jokes 18
A resource with a similar format to this one is ANIMAL MYSTERY STORIES & QUESTIONS
For a daily brainteaser to add zing! to the start of a class: BRAINTEASER BELL RINGERS: MYSTERY STORIES, RIDDLES AND PUZZLES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL
A long single mystery to prompt excitement in your students is: Brain teaser mystery fun inferential skills practice AKA "The Mystery of the Campfire Thief." Or a Readers' Theater mystery script: Readers' Theater - Mystery of the Stolen Laptop.
There are also five other mini-mysteries in ELA Games Grades 5-8
Punctuation mentor sentences and exercises using JOKES will make grammar classes fun! Students will laugh their way to accuracy. PUNCTUATION DIALOGUE PRESENTATION & EXERCISES USING JOKES
and END MARKS PRESENTATION AND EXERCISES USING JOKES
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