Description
Give students focused reading practice and opportunities to explain their understanding.
- Grades: 2–5
- Format: MagiCore Web + Printable pages + Google Slides
Learning Objective
Students read detective-style stories each with its own set of reading comprehension questions that will be answered to decipher a clue.
What's Included
- The Case of the Lost Pop Star Guitar
- The Case of the Tangled Settings
- The Case of the Vanishing Snowman
- The Galactic Space Station
- The Secret of Sugarville's Candy Factory – Fiction & Nonfiction
- Upcoming Magical Mysteries:
- The Case of the Mixed Up Speech
Ways to Use
Whole-class instruction, small groups, independent practice, or enrichment.
Preparation
Preview the student pages, choose the activities, and print the pages you need. For digital use, check device and internet access and assign the version you will use.
Standards & Skills
Students read detective-style stories each with its own set of reading comprehension questions that will be answered to decipher a clue.








Jason B. –
My students loved doing these at the end of the year during the review weeks, but I plan to use them throughout the year after seeing how much kids loved them! It was easy to break into a week-long task or to assign individually.
Learning With Lisa –
Easy to use, fun for the students. Keeps us all on track.
Sara O. –
These mysteries are a lot of fun for the students. They don’t even realize they are working hard.
Victoria O. –
My students really enjoyed this resource. It was easy to use and a great review.
Teresa M. –
I have used another resource for reading mysteries before, and my kids absolutely loved them. When I moved down to 2nd, I couldn’t use what I had because it was for higher grades. I purchased these toward the end of the school year and used a couple of them as review. My kids were totally engaged. They asked why I hadn’t given them a reading mystery before. Even my struggling readers enjoyed working on this resource with help of course!
Tasha Langford –
I had more fun with this than the kids did. I did by myself first to see how to help the students, and was like. I love this I want to do them all. I gave it to my students and they enjoyed doing them as well, just not as much as I did.
Nilda Allen –
These reading mysteries are so fun and my students are always excited to see when we do one!
Christy B. –
This is a great resource and came in handy at the end of the year!
Jessica Sumner –
Used this with my 5th grade class. Great resource that helped with FL Best Standards!
Tamara A. –
This is a great resource. This will be very helpful for my class. Thanks.
Rachel S. –
This is a great resource! My students were engaged and practicing important skills. Thank you!
The Ark 63 –
My students loved the variety of topics covered in this resource, so much that it was easy to keep them engaged in learning late into the school year.
Amanda Grisham –
Love using these virtual reviews for a sub day or just when we need extra practice with a reading skill. My students always love these.
Katherine K. –
Love this so much! I have enjoyed using it in my classroom.
Jenni Yingling –
The kids love the mysteries!! I love that everything is contained within one resource!! Thanks
Rose Grauwels –
My students loved completing the webquest. We did this on a day that we had many students absent, so it was an educational way to change things up so the absent kids didn’t miss too much that had to be made up. They all worked together to solve the tasks. They keep asking when we will be doing another one.