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Ugly Christmas Sweater Mystery Reading Passages & Escape Room | CSI

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GATER Educator - Kris Prince
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  1. Get ready to have some fun with your students and get them learning before the holiday break! With this Ugly Christmas Sweater BUNDLE from GATER Educator, you’ll get everything you need for math practice, reading comprehension exercises, writing activities, and an exciting escape room challenge!This
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Are you looking for a fun and engaging reading comprehension activity for the holidays?

Check out this popular themed escape room and have your students unlock the "Mystery of the Swiped Sweaters!"

Get your students thinking and using their analytical skills with GATER Educator's "Case of the Swiped Sweaters"!

Through puzzles and challenges, students will use deductive logic, inference, forensics, and common sense to solve this mystery.

Close Reading CHALLENGES include:

  • Informational Text- “Processing the Evidence, Understanding the Motive” and “The Case of the Swiped Sweaters: What Happened?”
  • Mystery Code Tasks 1a & 1b - Plot an Escape: Vocabulary Word Match
  • Mystery Code Tasks 2a & 2b - Use Deductive Logic: Alibi Logic Puzzle and Decode a Pig Pen Cipher to Confirm Alibis
  • Mystery Code Task 3- Another Clue: Solve a Dropdown Puzzle
  • Mystery Code Tasks 4a & 4b – Investigate Fingerprints and Solve a Polybius Cypher Code to Reveal the Culprit
  • Complete an Exit Ticket: Fill in the Code. Respond to 3 reading comprehension statements.
  • Approximately 1 hour of Activities (4-6 separate activities for all at once or separately)
  • Optional, “How to Solve a Logic Puzzle” Practice Page
  • BONUS Activity: Understand Misdemeanors and Felonies- Determine Guilt- You Be the Judge Writing Prompt

1 Hour Activity for Grades 5-7

(Check out the PREVIEWS, older or slightly younger students may enjoy this activity as well!)

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Escape Rooms

Love FUN FRIDAYS? Check out these themey activities for each month!

SEPTEMBER Activities: Back to School, Hispanic Heritage Month, Lunchbox PBL, Back to School STEM Challenges, writing prompts, and more!

OCTOBER Activities: Halloween C.S.I, Design a MONSTER Mansion PBL, SCARY STEM Challenges, Halloween Logic Puzzles, Monster Mash Music fun and much more!

NOVEMBER Activities: Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos), COCO Movie Guide, King Tut Day, Tongue Twister Day, Got GRATITUDE? Growth Mindset Activity, November Writing Prompts, and Logic Puzzles

DECEMBER Activities: Gingerbread Reading, Ugly Sweater Math and Reading, The Elf Enigma (CSI for Kids), Design a Holiday Hideaway PBL, December Logic Puzzles, and so much more!

JANUARY Activities: New Year, New Selfie, Chinese New Year Reading and Art, MLK Jr., Jinxed Jersey (CSI for Kids) Braille Literacy Month, and Logic Puzzles

FEBRUARY Activities: Chinese New Year, Black History Month, Hidden Figures, Jackie Robinson, Ben Carson etc...Biographies, Presidents Day, Valentine's Day, Groundhog Day, February writing prompts and more!

MARCH Activities: Super Mario Day, St. Patrick's Day, Irish-American Heritage Month, Pi Day, Shepherds Pie Math and Reading, logic puzzles and more!

APRIL Activities: Bunny Brainteaser CSI for Kids, April Fools Day Classroom Prank, Financial Literacy Month BUNDLE, Easter, Earth Day, Paying Taxes, April Logic Puzzles and writing prompts...

MAY Activities: Star Wars Day, The Sixth Revenge Day, Cinco de Mayo, Mother's Day, Memorial Day, and much more!

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Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant, accurate data and evidence that demonstrate an understanding of the topic or text, using credible sources.

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