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Reading Logic Puzzles Activities for Enrichment

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3rd - 5th
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I used this with my high 3rd graders and it was great. They enjoyed the puzzles and found the topics interesting.
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Enrich and extend your reading lessons and student reading comprehension with these reading logic puzzles that help students solve a fun reading mystery. They are the perfect way to build critical thinking in 3rd, 4th and 5th grades. Help your students increase their logical reasoning in a way that’s so much fun!

This reading mystery has an engaging baseball theme! There are a total of SEVEN logic puzzles for students to solve. One logic puzzle is meant for practice. FOUR puzzles help students solve a high-interest reading mystery, and two puzzles stand alone.

Tell me more about these logic puzzles! What’s in the resource?

  1. Practice Logic Puzzle - Stand-alone puzzle to help students learn how to grid responses and use logic to deduce the answer. This can be used as a whole-class or as an example in a center. 
  2. ‘The Case of the Missing Souvenir’ - A fiction story to set up the logic puzzles. Read the story to find out what the characters are up to and what the mystery is.
  3. Four logic puzzles that directly connect to the story. Two are easier and two are more challenging.  The clues require students to relate back to the original story as well as the nonfiction texts included on each puzzle page. These are all reading comprehension based.
  4. Rounding Up the Clues - Use the answers from the logic puzzles, the original mystery story, and context clues to complete the tale.
  5. Comprehension Check - Each logic puzzle has a short informational text that relates to the puzzle. Students read the text and identify the text structure. 
  6. Bonus Logic Puzzles - Two more challenging puzzles that follow the same baseball theme of the story. 
  7. Answer Key
  8. A DIGITAL (Google Slides) version of all student pages. Perfect for paperless practice. 

Which grade(s) are these logic puzzles good for? 

  • 3rd Grade - The perfect tool for enrichment for gifted and talented students or students needing an extra challenge.
  • 4th and 5th Grades - A great challenge that also builds critical thinking skills related to reading comprehension!

How long will it take to complete this set of logic puzzles?

Completing this entire packet should take about 90-120 minutes. It can be done all at once or split over multiple days!

These logic puzzles can help your students build so many essential skills…

  • Identify text structures
  • Making inferences
  • Reading and comprehending informational text
  • Finding the main idea of a text
  • Structure and sequence of events
  • Critical thinking
  • Logical reasoning

Your students will love finding clues and solving these engaging reading logic puzzles!

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Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.

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