Mini-mystery stories are not only fun brain teaser activities, but also practice listening and inference skills. Boost reading comprehension and critical thinking skills with these 4 engaging mystery passages. They are perfect as high interest bell ringers, exit tickets, time-fillers, and best of all, carrots for the end of the day. Alternatively, early finishing students can read the mysteries on their own. The most obvious methods of using these tales are to read them out loud or to show them