Readers' Theater Brain Teaser Mystery Script GRADES 3 & 4 Bundle

3 readers' theater scripts for the price of 2! This fun 30% off grades 3-4 high-interest trio of brain teaser mystery scripts will delight both ELA and Drama students. They will practice reading and comprehension skills while testing their wits in deductive work. In one of the mysteries they will discover the thieves of a laptop at school. The main characters, Matt and Sophie, are upper elementary students who love riddles and are effective detectives. In another mystery, twins Sloane and Sporty untangle three clues to expose a scam haunted house. In the third mystery, "Who's There?", a sister and her brother are alone in their house for the first time. The array of strange noises prompt them to call out "Who's there?" several times. The bundle is rounded out by a colorful PowerPoint that gives students tips on how to read script parts convincingly, and by rubrics that assess students on their reading and their co-operation with group members. These scripts are so much fun that your students won't realize that they are learning! An Aesop's readers' theater script is included. These scripts are part of a 50% off bargain bundle: 50% OFF GRADES 3-4 BIG BARGAIN BUNDLE

The Mystery of the Stolen Laptop
This readers’ theater script will entertain your students and require them to perform inference tasks to solve clues. The script is intended for 8 readers but the number of readers can be contracted or expanded depending on how many groups you wish to have. This funny and engaging story is about the theft of a laptop at school and the detective work that two characters use to track it down. Matt fears he isn’t as speedy at working things out as his clever friend Sophie is, but he manages to wow her in this story- and discover where his stolen laptop is!

To track down the missing laptop students will unscramble anagrams. They will also work out clues using a numbers-to-alphabet code. After finishing, students have to discuss and write on six questions, complete a journal entry, and design a ‘Where’s Waldo?’ style drawing for a fellow student. This resource will delight both entire classes and small groups of early finishers. Question sheets and answers are included.

The Mystery of the Haunted House
This Readers’ Theater brainteaser mystery will give students practice in reading, comprehension and writing, while having lots of fun. The Mystery of the Haunted House script will entertain your students and require them to perform inference tasks to solve three major clues. The script is intended for about 9 students but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded depending on how many groups you wish to have.

This funny and engaging story revolves around the claim that a house is haunted. A boy seeking to raise money for a fashionable new pair of basketball shoes is trying to pull a scam. Only the teamwork of twins (a sister and brother) can solve the clues to reveal the scheme. Your students will enjoy testing their wits against those of the characters!

Students have to discuss and write on six topics, complete a journal entry, and also design a ‘spot the difference’ drawing for a fellow student. The resource ends with two pages of spooky jokes. These jokes have been separated from their punchlines. Students have to use their comprehension skills to reunite the jokes and answers.

Question sheets and answers are included.

"Who's There?" Mystery
This grades 3-4 Readers’ Theater scary brain teaser mystery script is perfect for when you want to give your students laughs and minor scares in small groups. The “Who’s There?” mystery script will give students practice in reading and comprehension, while having lots of fun. It can be performed by as few as four students. The Sound Effects role gives the script flexibility for group sizes. The sounds can be enacted by the four readers together, by a separate fifth reader, or even by several additional readers.

The script concerns a brother and sister whose family has recently moved into an old house. On the first night that 8 year old Joe and 11 year old Rosie are alone in the house before their parents get home from work, strange things happen. There are knocks on the door, but no-one answers. There are phone calls, but no-one is at the other end. There is banging and scratching in the basement. Joe fears they have ghosts as house guests, to the disgust of unsuperstitious Rosie. They work together to solve some of the “Who’s There?” mysteries, but they can’t manage to solve them all. They need the help of your students to carefully disentangle the clues!

Readers' Theater Reading Tips and Rubrics
This fun PowerPoint and PDF gives readers' theater participants several useful tips on how to read in a lively way. It also supplies a full teacher rubric, brief peer feedback forms AND self evaluation sheets. With this resource you have everything you need for a readers' theater unit- all you need to do is supply the script! Both a PowerPoint and a PDF are included to give you maximum flexibility on how you can use this resource.

What is included:

Advice to students on how to read to create an interesting, believable character

Two short exercises

A 30 point, 3 category rubric to mark students' performance

A peer feedback form (2 to a page)

A self-evaluation form (2 to a page)

Checklist of reading comprehension strategies that readers' theater mysteries are best at strengthening:
Inferencing
Cause and effect
Chronological sequencing
Prediction

Suspense

Point of view
Character traits

Story elements
Plot twists

A Drama Circle mystery provides fun and an analytical challenge:
DRAMA CIRCLE SPORTS MYSTERY

DRAMA CIRCLE CLASSROOM CHAOS MYSTERY
For Brilliantly Lit grades 3-4 ELA fun resources try
ELA Games: 65 no-prep fun activities GRADES 3-4

Brain Teaser Mystery Reading Comprehension fun passage

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