READING COMPREHENSION MYSTERY STORIES AND QUESTIONS Grades 5-8

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This exciting 30% off reading comprehension mysteries bundle gives your grades 5-8 students fun brainteaser stories to get their brain cells zinging! The passages and questions would make high interest independent study for students who moan about receiving homework. With these entertaining, humorous stories, complaints will vanish!

READING COMPREHENSION MYSTERY STORIES
Two high interest mystery stories will intrigue your grade 5-8 students, and the questions that follow each story will hone their comprehension skills. The exploits of Lazy Luke and Charming Charlee are followed by questions that test students on essential parts of their literary toolbox such as character analysis, author’s purpose, and working out the use of vocabulary and figurative language in context. A variety of formats are used to assess their understanding, including 15 multiple choice questions, 5 mix and match, and 15 true and false questions. The multiple choice questions resemble those asked on many state tests and thus will make fun test prep. Full answer keys are included. Both stories have a paragraph question, a rubric, and a model paragraph response. The resource ends with a page of quickie riddles for students to puzzle over, and a page of jokes whose questions have been separated from their punchlines; students must reunite them. They will have so much fun and so many chuckles that they will not realize they are learning!

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Lazy Luke’s Double Fail (story)

Literary terms definitions

Mystery questions

Multiple choice questions

Paragraph question

Paragraph rubric

Answers to “Lazy Luke” questions

Charming Charlee Gets Caught (story)

Mystery questions

Mix and match & true and false questions

Paragraph question

Paragraph rubric

Answers to “Charming Charlee” questions

Riddles

Jokes mix and match

Answers to riddles and jokes

READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES MYSTERY STORIES & QUESTIONS
These two high interest mystery stories for Middle School exploit the interest that many grade 5-8 students have in both wild animals and pets. One mystery story stars a cranky Texas alligator, while the other features Lazy Luke’s attempt to use his cat to get out of trouble. The questions that follow each story will hone students’ comprehension skills. These questions test students on essential skills such as character analysis, author’s purpose, and working out the use of vocabulary and figurative language in context. A variety of formats are used to assess their understanding, such as multiple choice questions, mix and match, and true and false. The multiple choice questions are modeled on those asked on many state tests, thus this resource provides super test prep.

Full answer keys are included. Both stories have a paragraph question, a rubric, and a model paragraph response. The resource ends with a page of quickie animal riddles for students to puzzle over. To add to the fun there are two mix and match pages of animal jokes whose questions have been separated from their punchlines. Students will have so much fun and so many chuckles that they will not realize they are learning!

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An Animal Legend is Born (story)

Literary terms definitions

Mystery question

Multiple choice questions & mix and match

Paragraph question

Paragraph rubric

Animal jokes mix and match
Answers to “Animal Legend” questions

Lazy Luke’s Cat to the Rescue- Not! (story)

Mystery question

Mix and match & true and false questions

Paragraph question

Paragraph rubric

Answers to “Lazy Luke’s Cat” questions

Animal Riddles

Animal jokes mix and match #2

Answers to riddles and jokes

READING COMPREHENSION LITERARY TERMS TEST MYSTERY
A fun brain teaser mystery comprehension story to get your grades 5-8 students’ brain cells zinging while simultaneously learning 15 literary terms? What a combo! It really doesn’t get much better, does it? This high interest 4 page mystery story for Middle School concerns a nasty note (or is it?) that a teacher finds on the classroom floor before the start of a big literary terms test. He won’t rest until he discovers who wrote it, but he needs help from two of his students, Knowlan and Jean Yuss, and from your students too, of course! The questions that follow the story will hone your students’ comprehension skills. These questions quiz students on essential skills such as character analysis, in addition to posing questions on the 15 literary terms. A variety of formats are used to assess their understanding, including multiple choice questions, mix and match, true and false and short answer. Some of the multiple choice questions are modeled on those asked on many state tests, thus this resource provides super test prep. Knowledge of the literary terms will help students to discover the writer of the nasty note.

Answer keys are included. A paragraph question on one of the major characters in the story is included, accompanied by a rubric and a model paragraph response. The resource ends with a page of quickie riddles for students to puzzle over. Students will have so much fun and so many chuckles that they will not realize they are learning!

Table of contents

15 literary terms definitions
“The Literary Terms Test Mystery” STORY

Mystery questions

Comprehension questions

Multiple choice questions

Finding and creating examples questions

Paragraph question
Paragraph rubric
Riddles

Mystery answers

Comprehension answers

Multiple choice answers

Finding and creating examples answers

Model paragraph response

Riddle answers

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