Readers’ Theater Brain Teaser Mystery Script GRADES 3-4

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This grades 3-4 Readers’ Theater fun mystery script will give your students high interest practice in reading aloud, inferencing, making predictions and drawing conclusions. The Mystery of the Stolen Laptop brain teaser script will entertain your students and require them to perform inference tasks to solve clues. If you have a class that dislikes anything they perceive as “babyish”, this amusing script with its relevant modern characters will get a thumbs-up! 

The cast list is intended for 8 readers but the number of readers can easily be contracted or expanded depending on how many groups you wish to have. This funny and engaging story is about the theft of a laptop at school and the detective work two characters use to track it down. The main character parts range in age from 8-11. Matt fears he isn’t as speedy at working things out as his clever friend Sophie is, but he manages to wow her in this story- and discover where his laptop is!

To track down the missing laptop students will unscramble anagrams. They will also work out clues using a numbers-to-alphabet code. Hints are supplied to help your students sort out the thief’s sneaky tricks! To end the activity, students have to discuss and write on six questions, and also design a ‘Where’s Waldo?’ style drawing for a fellow student. This resource will delight both entire classes and small groups of early finishers. Question sheets and answers are included.

This resource is based on a grades 5-8 resource in my store, but this version contains less slang, shorter sentences, and leads students through the mysteries more explicitly. For a gifted and talented group you might want to use the more challenging resource: READERS’ THEATER BRAIN TEASER MYSTERY SCRIPT Grades 5-8

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