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Great Wall of China Text Marking Detective Mystery – Reading Passage

$5.00

With their Great Wall of China Reading Passage in hand, students will move around the classroom answering questions, playing detective and finding clues to the case. This Text-Marking Detective Mystery has students using their reading passage multiple times for a deeper comprehension of the lesson!

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Number of Pages: 23 pages

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Description

With their Great Wall of China Reading Passage in hand, students will move around the classroom answering questions, playing detective and finding clues to the case. This Text-Marking Detective Mystery has students using their reading passage multiple times searching for evidence to each of the 18 questions. Great addition to your Ancient China unit.

 

Topics include: Ancient China, Great Wall of China, construction, dynasties, uses

 

Students will work individually (or in pairs) and race to see who can solve the case first! A friendly competition always increases engagement. As students answer each question, they will need to underline or highlight where they found the answer in the reading passage.

 

This activity can be used for individual work, partner activities, anticipatory sets, unit review, sub plans, extension activities, early-finishers, or just for fun the day before break.

 

What’s Included?

  • Reading Passage
  • 18 Questions – Task Cards
  • Student Case File Recording Sheet
  • Student Directions
  • Teacher Answer Key
  • Teacher Directions
  • Early Finisher or Extension Activity (summarize passage)

 

What do students need?

  •  Pencils or Highlighters (to mark the text)

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4 reviews for Great Wall of China Text Marking Detective Mystery – Reading Passage

  1. Stephanie E. –

    Who doesn’t love a good mystery? This activity gets my students up and moving around the class as they worked together in pairs to find the culprit while reinforcing their knowledge about ancient China.

  2. Fam H. –

    My students worked in pairs to complete this activity. They were engaged and enjoyed the challenge. I will use this again next year!

  3. Rebecca Y. –

    This was by far is one of my best purchases. My students love the challenge of figuring out the mystery and I loved that they were reviewing information as they did it.

  4. Kristine Millett –

    My students loved this activity. They are wanting to do more things like this!

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