Your students won’t just answer questions; they’ll become detectives, using clues from the text to uncover deeper meaning while staying actively engaged.

Perfect For:

• State test preparation
• Reading comprehension review
• Inferencing mini-units
• Test prep bootcamp
• Spiral review
• Literacy centers
• Early finishers
• Sub plans
• Homework or independent practice
• Small group intervention

What’s Included

✔️ 5 Fiction Activities
✔️ 5 Nonfiction Activities
✔️ 2 Interactive Activity Formats
✔️ Built-in Text Evidence Highlighting
✔️ Word Scramble Mystery Activities
✔️ Answer Keys Included

Perfect for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade ELA and aligned to Common Core & state standards for inferencing and evidence-based reading.

Activity Type 1: Traditional Doodle Detectives

Students will:

• Read a high-interest passage (fiction or nonfiction)
• Answer inference and drawing-conclusions questions
• Highlight text evidence to support their thinking
• Color the coordinating doodle based on their answers

This ensures students are not guessing—they must prove their thinking with the text.

Activity Type 2: Word Scramble Mystery Doodle Detectives

Add an extra layer of engagement and critical thinking!

Students will:

• Answer inference and conclusion questions
• Highlight supporting evidence in the text
• Color the coordinating doodle
• Collect letters from the answer key column
• Unscramble the letters to reveal a mystery word clue

This format increases:

• Attention to detail
• Accountability
• Engagement through problem-solving

Skills Covered

• Making Inferences
• Drawing Conclusions
• Citing Text Evidence
• Close Reading
• Critical Thinking
• Analyzing Fiction & Nonfiction Texts

Students learn to read between the lines and support their thinking—key skills for state assessments.

Why Teachers Love Doodle Detectives

✔️ Students are highly engaged and motivated
✔️ Built-in accountability (highlighting required!)
✔️ Combines creativity with rigorous ELA skills
✔️ No prep — print and go
✔️ Easy to check for understanding
✔️ Keeps students focused and on task
✔️ Mystery word scramble adds excitement and challenge

If you’re looking for a fun, rigorous, and highly effective way to teach inferencing and drawing conclusions, this Doodle Detectives resource will quickly become a classroom favorite.

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Your students are about to become Doodle Detectives, analyzing passages, hunting for text evidence, and solving reading mysteries while coloring their way to comprehension success!

Perfect For:

• State test preparation
• Common Core, NYS Next Gen, & TEKS standards practice
• Test prep bootcamps
• Review before benchmark exams
• Early finishers
• Sub plans
• Literacy centers
• Homework
• Bell ringers
• Spiral review

What’s Included:

5 Fiction Doodle Detectives

Students analyze:

• Character development
• Central message
• Theme statements
• Supporting details

5 Nonfiction Doodle Detectives

Students identify:

• Main idea
• Supporting details
• Central idea vs. topic
• Evidence that supports key points

Each activity includes:

• A high-interest passage
• Multiple-choice or short-response questions
• Required text highlighting
• A color-coded doodle response page

• Complete answer keys
• Skill Review Sheet

What Makes This Resource Different?

Students don’t just choose an answer and move on.

They must:

• Read closely
• Determine the main idea or theme
• Cite and highlight text-based evidence directly in the passage
• Color the coordinating doodle based on their answer

This format reinforces:

• Close reading skills
• Evidence-based responses
• Accountability and accuracy
• Engagement through creativity

It’s the perfect blend of rigor + fun.

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Perfect For:

-State test preparation

*Vocabulary review

-Figurative language mini-units

*Test prep bootcamp

-Spiral review

*Early finishers

-Sub plans

*Literacy centers

-Bell ringers

*Small group intervention

This ready-to-use Doodle Detectives pack includes:

* 5 Fiction Activities
– 5 Nonfiction Activities
* Two Interactive Activity Formats
– Built-in Text Evidence Practice
* Word Scramble Mystery Element

✔️ Skill Review Sheet & Practice
✔️ Answer Keys Included

Perfect for middle school ELA (6th–8th grade) and aligned to Common Core and state standards for figurative language, vocabulary acquisition, and close reading.

Activity Type 1: Traditional Doodle Detectives

Students will:

• Read a high-interest fiction or nonfiction passage
• Identify figurative language or determine word meaning in context
• Highlight text evidence directly in the passage
• Define vocabulary using context clues
• Color the coordinating doodle based on their answers

This format reinforces:

• Close reading
• Context clues strategies
• Evidence-based answers
• Academic vocabulary development

Activity Type 2: Word Scramble Mystery Doodle Detectives

This elevated format adds a critical-thinking twist!

Students will:

• Identify and highlight figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, etc.)
• Color the coordinating doodle
• Grab a letter from the answer key column
• Unscramble the letters to reveal a mystery word clue

This format increases:

• Engagement
• Accountability
• Attention to detail
• Higher-level thinking

Students LOVE the mystery element, and they stay focused because every answer matters.

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