Description

✅ Your Complete, Easy-Prep Case File Includes:

You get everything you need to run this engaging activity smoothly. Just print and go!

• Easy-to-Follow Teacher Instructions for a quick and simple setup.
• An Engaging Introduction Page to set the stage and hook your students into the mystery.
• Detective Case File Templates, where students can organize their suspect list, evidence, and notes.
• ⭐ NEW! Optional Table Format: A separate PDF file provides a master list table for a different, streamlined way to organize clues!
• 7 Pages of Investigation Materials, blending reading passages with comprehension questions and two fun “crack the code” challenges focusing on synonyms and antonyms.
• The Final Declaration, where students must act as lead prosecutor, using clues to write a conviction (differentiated options included!).
• Printable “Top Detective” Awards to celebrate a case well-solved!
• Complete Answer Keys & Solution Guide to make your life easy.

✅ A Unique Critical Thinking Challenge

This isn’t your average reading worksheet! This “Private Eye CSI” mystery is designed to make students think more deeply. Instead of just answering questions, students will:

• Act like real detectives, deciding for themselves what information is a useful clue and what is irrelevant.
• Actively build their own case files from scratch.
• Synthesize information from multiple sources to solve the crime.
• Use text evidence to support their claims and write a final report to convict the true culprit.