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Reading & Literacy Mysteries

Engaging Reading & Literacy Mysteries for Fun Learning

Make reading more exciting with reading mystery activities from Mrs J's Resource Creations. These interactive and story-driven resources encourage students to improve their literacy skills while solving fun challenges. Designed for teachers and parents, these tools transform reading lessons into adventures that captivate and inspire.

Interactive Reading Worksheets for Every Learner

Our collection of reading worksheets includes activities for all levels, from early readers to advanced learners. Each reading mystery worksheet immerses students in a story, requiring them to solve clues, decode messages, and draw conclusions. Perfect for building literacy skills, fostering critical thinking and problem-solving.

Comprehensive Reading Resources for Teachers

Simplify your planning with high-quality reading resources for teachers. These ready-made materials save time and bring creativity to your classroom. The collection includes everything from reading summary worksheets to engaging reading sheets that target key literacy objectives. With these tools, you can focus on teaching while keeping lessons fresh and dynamic.

Reading Resources for Parents to Support Learning at Home

Parents can also benefit from these versatile reading resources for parents. Perfect for homeschooling or supplementing classroom instruction, these activities make it easy to create meaningful reading experiences at home. From solving a reading mystery to completing a fun reading worksheet, students stay motivated while practising their skills.

Why Choose Reading Mystery Worksheets?

Inject fun into your lessons with our range of fun reading worksheets. Get a fresh take on traditional reading exercises and help students enjoy their learning adventure. Combined with resources like the teacher reading sourcebook, you’ll have everything you need to inspire students and make literacy lessons memorable.

Reading mystery activities bring stories to life, offering:

  • Interactive storytelling: Students engage actively with the narrative as they solve puzzles and uncover clues.
  • Skill reinforcement: These activities improve comprehension, vocabulary, and summarising skills.
  • Adaptability: Use them for group work, independent practice, or even as part of a classroom challenge.

You can also bring some seasonal flair to your literacy lessons with themed resources. Whether it's solving a festive reading mystery for the holidays or diving into autumn-inspired reading sheets, these activities make learning feel special.

Free Printable Math Sheets and Cross-Curricular Tools

Expand your resources with cross-curricular tools like free printable math sheets, designed to complement reading activities. These additional resources make it easy to integrate literacy with numeracy, creating well-rounded lessons.

Start Solving Reading Mysteries Today

Explore the exciting world of reading resourcesand literacy tools at Mrs J's Resource Creations. From reading summary worksheets to engaging activities for teachers and parents, we have everything you need to inspire and support your students.

Download your first reading mystery today and watch your students dive into learning with enthusiasm!

Junior Reading Mysteries

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Once Upon a Crime Reading Mysteries

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Private Eye CSI Literacy Mysteries

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Below you will find a range of reading and literacy mysteries. Clicking on an individual resource item will direct you to the activity download on my TPT store where you can find out more.
The difference between a 'Reading Mystery' and 'Literacy Mystery' in my range is the structure. A brief explanation below:
  • The 'Reading Mystery - Once Upon a Crime' series focuses mainly on reading, comprehension, finding evidence in the text, and vocabulary work. Answering questions will help students' discover letters to crack a clue code on each page. The clue will help students' narrow down a list of suspects to find the culprit! (This format is easier than the Private Eye CSI series).
  • The 'Private Eye CSI - Literacy Mystery' series focuses on reading, comprehension, vocabulary work, with a heavy emphasis on inferring throughout. In this format, students must collect the information about characters and decide whether or not they could be a possible suspect. They then must continue to read through the mystery and use information given (plus some bonus clues) to eliminate any suspects and figure out who the culprit is. (This format is more challenging than the Once Upon a Crime series).
To Learn more, check out the blog post 'What's the Difference between the Once Upon a Crime Reading Mysteries and Private Eye CSI Literacy Mysteries?' 
NEW Series: Junior Reading Mysteries - Designed for younger readers, this design is much simpler and easier than the other two reading mystery series. It comes with both printable and a digital graphic game option in the one pack. 

Reading Mysteries 'Once Upon a Crime' Series

More will be made for this series, so keep coming back to check for any new releases. 

Stolen Time

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SKILLS TARGETED
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Spelling
- Cause and Effect
- Finding Evidence in the Text
- Character Traits 
- Vocabulary
- Critical Thinking
- Writing (optional on the mystery declaration sheet)

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Rescue Rudolph

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SKILLS TARGETED
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Spelling
- Cause and Effect
- Synonyms
- Character Traits 
- Vocabulary
- Critical Thinking
- Writing (optional on the mystery declaration sheet)

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE!

Poisoned Valentine

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SKILLS TARGETED
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Spelling
- Rhyming
- Antonyms
- Character Traits 
- Vocabulary
- Critical Thinking
- Writing (optional on the mystery declaration sheet)

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE!

Burrow Slime

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SKILLS TARGETED
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Spelling
- Rhyming
- Definitions
- Character Traits 
- Vocabulary
- Critical Thinking
- Writing (optional on the mystery declaration sheet)

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE!

Fool's Gold

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SKILLS TARGETED
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Spelling
- Definitions
- Character Traits 
- Vocabulary
- Nouns/Verbs/Adjectives

- Critical Thinking
- Writing (optional on the mystery declaration sheet)

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Egg-Pocalypse

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SKILLS TARGETED
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Spelling
- Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives
- Synonyms
- Character Traits 
- Vocabulary
- Cause and Effect
- Critical Thinking
- Writing (optional on the mystery declaration sheet)
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FOREST GRIME

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SKILLS TARGETED
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Spelling
- Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives
- Rhyming
- Character Traits 
- Critical Thinking
- Writing (optional on the mystery declaration sheet)

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Teacher Toads

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SKILLS TARGETED
​- Reading
- Comprehension
- Spelling
- Nouns, and Adjectives
- Definitions and vocabulary
- Character Traits
- Critical Thinking
- Writing (optional on the mystery declaration sheet)

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Haunting Hat

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SKILLS TARGETED
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Spelling
- Rhyming 
- Proper and common nouns
- Character Traits
- Critical Thinking
- Writing (optional on the mystery declaration sheet)

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Humpty's Fall

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SKILLS TARGETED
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Spelling
- Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives
- Definitions and vocabulary
- Synonyms
- Character Traits
- Critical Thinking
- Writing (optional on the mystery declaration sheet)

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Turkey Trouble

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SKILLS TARGETED
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Spelling
- Nouns, verbs, adverbs, and adjectives
- Cause and effect
- Character Traits
- Critical Thinking
- Writing (optional on the mystery declaration sheet)

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE

bundle & save

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Includes all of the Reading Mysteries for the Once Upon a Crime Series. Any new mysteries in this series will be added to this bundle. 

Save 20% off full price with this bundle. Every time I add a new mystery to it, the price will increase a bit too, so the earlier the 'buy in' the sweeter the deal.

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Which Witch?

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Reading Mystery: Once Upon A Crime, Which Witch?
Your students will have fun solving this mystery while learning skills in reading, comprehension, homophones, critical thinking, and deductive reasoning!


EASY PREP, just print and solve!

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Wizard Blizzard

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End of Year Reading Mystery: Once Upon A Crime, Wizard Blizzard!
Your students will have fun solving this mystery while learning skills in reading, comprehension, synonyms, antonyms, nouns, verbs, adjectives, critical thinking, and deductive reasoning!


EASY PREP, just print and solve!
CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE!


Private Eye C.S.I - Literacy Mysteries

More will be made for this series, so keep coming back to check for any new releases. ​

The Case of the
​Wacky Wand

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TARGETS
- Reading
- Making Inferences
- Comprehension
- Main Idea
- Vocabulary (Definitions)
- Drawing Conclusions
- Analyzing Text for Clues
- Critical Thinking

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The Case of  The
Stolen Surfboard

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TARGETS
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Main Idea
- Vocabulary (Definitions, Synonyms)
- Drawing Conclusions
- Analyzing Text for Clues
- Making Inferences
- Critical Thinking
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The Case of the
​Pilfered Pencils

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TARGETS
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Main Idea
- Vocabulary (Definitions, Synonyms)
- Drawing Conclusions
- Analyzing Text for Clues
- Making Inferences
- Critical Thinking
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The Case of The
​Critter Chaos

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TARGETS
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Making Inferences
- Main Idea
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Drawing Conclusions
- Analyzing Text for Clues
- Critical Thinking

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The Case of the
Masked MEnace

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TARGETS
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Making Inferences
- Main Idea
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Drawing Conclusions
- Analyzing Text for Clues
- Critical Thinking

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE!

The Case of the
Ruined Research

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TARGETS
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Making Inferences
- Main Idea
- Synonyms
- Drawing Conclusions
- Analyzing Text for Clues
- Finding and Analyzing Evidence
- Critical Thinking

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE!


The Case of the 
Grumpy Ghost

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TARGETS
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Making Inferences
- Main Idea
- Definitions
- Drawing Conclusions
- Analyzing Text for Clues
- Finding and Analyzing Evidence
- Critical Thinking

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE!

The Case of the 
​Reckless Reindeer

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​TARGETS
- Reading
- Comprehension
- Making Inferences
- Main Idea
- Rhyming Words
- Drawing Conclusions
- Analyzing Text for Clues
- Finding and Analyzing Evidence
- Critical Thinking

​CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE!

BUNDLE & SAVE
Private EYE CSI  PACK

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Includes all of the Literacy Mysteries for the Private Eye CSI Series. Any new mysteries in this series will be added to this bundle. 

Save 20% off full price with this bundle. Every time I add a new mystery to it, the price will increase a bit too, so the earlier the 'buy in' the sweeter the deal.
CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE

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