Valentine’s Brain Teaser Short Stories, Puzzles & Riddles

Item description

The days surrounding Valentine’s Day are CRAAAAZY in Middle School! This Valentine’s resource is intended to keep grades 5-8 students happy and busy, while still exercising their brain cells. The brainteaser mystery stories require active listening and careful, inferential reading. The riddles, puzzles and writing races will provoke chuckles and co-operative learning. Bring laughter and learning to your classroom!
What is included:
3 Valentine’s brainteaser stories & solutions

Valentine’s dice roll story

Valentine’s numbers to words puzzles

Valentine’s scrambled words

2 Valentine’s writing races

Blind group poetry
2 Valentine’s riddles mix and match

Silly book titles mix and match

Book titles invention

Valentine’s word search
Valentine’s spot the difference
Valentine’s wingspark poetry

Paper-free ways to present some of the activities, like the mysteries and writing races, are to show them on your screen or pop them on your password protected Google Classroom homework site. The answers to the brainteaser stories have been placed on separate pages to avoid spoilers that would ruin the fun of being a detective.

Some of the activities, such as the word search, scrambled words, and number to words activities, need to be photocopied. To promote classroom spirit and to save on photocopying, these fun tasks could be completed in pairs. Again, to reduce the required amount of photocopying, you could put all of the answer keys up on your screen. The writing races could be completed on scraps of paper from the recycling bin.

The Internet is not required for any of the games.

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