Crayola
Crayola: Mystery Flip Flap (Lesson Plan)
A great activity where students write their own mysteries-with a creative twist. Provides a list of resources, and adaptations. (To access this lesson plan, you must register with Crayola.com. Registration is free and takes only a few...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Everyone Loves a Mystery a Genre Study
Contains plans for lessons that teach about the mystery story genre, including its story elements and vocabulary. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Reading Is Fundamental
Reading Is Fundamental: Illustrate a Story: Mystery of the Mummy's Maze [Pdf]
Print this short mystery story for your advanced English language learners to illustrate. The story gives preterit and pluperfect tense practice.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Rasuptin: Mysteries of a Monk's Life and Death
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Taking the Mystery Out of Writing a Mystery
This mystery-writing lesson focuses on the structure of a short story and the elements of a mystery in particular. Learners complete the entire writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Students...
Harold D. Underdown
Writing Mysteries for Children's Magazines
An excellent resource for anyone looking to write in the literary genre of mystery, especially for children. Includes helpful information and tips for writers on topics such as publishing and content.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence Mysteries: The Mystery Spot
Here are a list of interesting interactive mysteries to go along with your science lessons. Students go through a short story and then try to solve the mystery. Topics include space, environmental issues, disease, and forensics. These...
Globe
The Globe Program: The Mystery of the Missing Hummingbirds [Pdf]
This story is an interesting way to help students understand the process of migration. It provides teachers with information on how to approach a particular lesson and its easy-to-read content is easily adaptable for grades K-12.
Other
Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704
This award-winning resource draws the reader into a consideration of history as witnessed from multiple perspectives. Discover the mystery of the French and Indian raid on colonial Deerfield, Massachusetts where five cultures clashed in...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teacher: Mystery Writing With Joan Lowery Nixon
Have you ever wanted to know how to write a mystery novel? Use this site to learn more about how a professional author goes about writing mysteries. With tips from prolific mystery writer Joan Lowery Nixon.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Mystery of Chronic Pain
We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in itself. Starting with the story of a girl whose sprained wrist turned into a nightmare, Elliot...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Mysteries of Vernacular: X Ray
The story of the word X-Ray is one of great thinkers. French philosopher Rene Descartes isolated the letters X, Y and Z to stand for unknowns, and centuries later, Wilhelm Rontgen discovered the X-ray, using the X for the unknown nature...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Expository Escapade: Detective's Handbook
Working on higher-level thinking skills with your readers is made easier with this lesson. You will have your students connect with and analyze a mystery story at their grade-appropriate level. Lesson plan, printable worksheets, and...
Other
Fiction teachers.com: How to Write a Mini Mystery
Use the ideas on this page to help your students create mini-mysteries.
Braingle
Braingle: Mystery Brain Teasers
Read stories and solve mysteries based on clues provided. Also, submit your own mysteries for other visitors to this site to solve.
Other
Mystery Net: The Fun Way to Learn in the Classroom
This online resource is for any teacher planning on using mysteries in the classroom. Includes lessons, links, and reasons to use mysteries in the classroom.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The History Mystery [Pdf]
"The History Mystery" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a teacher who made history more interesting by treating it like a mystery. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence...
Other
Mystery and Meaning: Webquest: "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hunt
WebQuest for "The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst. It focuses on what readers can learn about themselves by reading the story through three activities.
Just Books Read Aloud
Just Books Read Aloud: The Backyardigans: The Mystery of the Jeweled Eggs
A video of the book "The Backyardigans: The Mystery of the Jeweled Eggs", written by Lara Bergen, and illustrated by Warner McGee. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic)...
Other
Museum of Unnatural Mystery: The Tower of Babel
Archeological and historical information about the story of the Tower of Babel found in Genesis.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Mystery Spot: Croak
Access Excellence provides this fictional interactive story that explores the possible reasons for a disappearing species of frogs. Follow the clues, and email your answer!
Other
Roald Dahl Life and Stories
An enlightening biography of this children's writer whose books "are always a little cruel, but never without humor." We learn that some of that cruelty can be traced to Dahl's school years and the severe beatings boys were given there....
Other
Mystery Net: Edgar Allan Poe
Biography and analysis of the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. Examines Poe's contribution to the mystery genre. Also provides the text of several of Poe's writings.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: The Hound of the Baskervilles
View, read and discuss Conan Doyle's tale, "The Hound of Baskersvilles," and compare and contrast the story with the film. Explore the genres and elements of mystery and suspense that are present, and analyze characters, especially...
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