Your 7th and 8th graders do not need another worksheet before the reading test. They need to get out of their seats, work with a partner, and actually use the strategies you have been teaching all year. This scavenger hunt does exactly that. Students move around the room, read task cards, hunt for code words, and unscramble a mystery answer, all while reviewing the ten reading comprehension strategies that show up on test day.
It is low prep, high engagement, and ready to run the week before any major reading assessment. Works for ELA, reading intervention, and ESL classrooms alike.
✨This product covers the following strategies:
Previewing
Annotating
Visualizing
Making Predictions
Monitoring Comprehension
Making Connections
Making Inferences
Summarizing
Using Context Clues
Main Ideas
✨This Product Includes✨
✨Directions:
Scatter cards around the classroom or tape them on the walls. Pair students up or put them in small groups. Students start with any card. Assign each group of students to a card. For a more stationary scavenger hunt, students can sit at their tables/desks and sort through them in groups.
For the first card, students will read the code word (the passage will be irrelevant to the code word question). The answer for the code word is found in another card and the cards DO NOT go in order.
Students will then find the answers to the code word question they read by searching through and reading other passages until they find the correct word.
Once they’ve found the answer, they write it on the answer sheet and move on to the next question.
When all code words have been found and written on the answer sheet, students will unscramble the mystery word that answers the riddle.
For extra fun, make it a competition and give out prizes!
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Your 7th and 8th graders do not need another worksheet before the reading test. They need to get out of their seats, work with a partner, and actually use the strategies you have been teaching all year. This scavenger hunt does exactly that. Students move around the room, read task cards, hunt for code words, and unscramble a mystery answer, all while reviewing the ten reading comprehension strategies that show up on test day.
It is low prep, high engagement, and ready to run the week before any major reading assessment. Works for ELA, reading intervention, and ESL classrooms alike.
✨This product covers the following strategies:
Previewing
Annotating
Visualizing
Making Predictions
Monitoring Comprehension
Making Connections
Making Inferences
Summarizing
Using Context Clues
Main Ideas
✨This Product Includes✨
✨Directions:
Scatter cards around the classroom or tape them on the walls. Pair students up or put them in small groups. Students start with any card. Assign each group of students to a card. For a more stationary scavenger hunt, students can sit at their tables/desks and sort through them in groups.
For the first card, students will read the code word (the passage will be irrelevant to the code word question). The answer for the code word is found in another card and the cards DO NOT go in order.
Students will then find the answers to the code word question they read by searching through and reading other passages until they find the correct word.
Once they’ve found the answer, they write it on the answer sheet and move on to the next question.
When all code words have been found and written on the answer sheet, students will unscramble the mystery word that answers the riddle.
For extra fun, make it a competition and give out prizes!
Would rather buy on TPT?
Buy on TPT
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