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Kentucky Derby Reading Comprehension Scavenger Hunt Coded Message Activity
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Liven up your May with this No-Prep Kentucky Derby Reading Comprehension Scavenger Hunt! It is the perfect way to continue to hone your students' skills in finding text evidence in non-fiction texts.
This interactive, engaging activity is a reading comprehension activity in disguise! Students will be given a mission to decode a secret message, but to do that- they must read all 10 reading passage cards and FIND the answers that will help them decode the message!
Your children will be focused on finding all the answers to decode the message and will forget all about this being a reading comprehension activity!
This is perfect for third graders! I have them work in small groups to make it even more fun. Second graders may need help at first, just until they get the hang of where to write their answers for the decoded message. And fourth graders should be able to rock this as an independent activity!
Enjoy this No-Prep Kentucky Derby Reading Comprehension Scavenger Hunt and take a few moments for yourself while the students are having fun!
HOW IT WORKS:
⭐ A “secret mission” is read, and students choose a card to start at.
It does NOT matter what card students begin at because the order of completion does not matter.
The "code word" question on their card will lead them to a different card to find the answer.
They will then record their answer on the answer sheet.
They will continue until all "code word" questions have been found and entered on the Answer Sheet.
Then, looking at the answer sheet, the students will pull all the letters that are in shaded boxes and unscramble them to decipher the Secret Code!
All you have to do is print the reading cards and answer sheet and cut them in half!
Format
PDF
✓ reading comprehension
✓ scavenger hunt
✓ kentucky derby
✓ no prep
✓ 10 Short Reading Passages
✓ 10 Text Evidence Questions
✓ Student Recording Sheet
✓ Student Directions
✓ Teacher Directions
✓ Teacher Answer Key
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This was a great way to end the year but still have the students thinking. They loved wearing fancy hats and learning about this.
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This resource worked great with the first grade student with learning disabilities that I tutor bi-weekly.
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This was a wonderful resource to use with the Kentucky Derby activities.
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Awesome to be able to use something that was happening at the present time. Made my students want to watch the race and choose who they thought was going to win.
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My students loved this as their morning work assignment. Wonderful resource!
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Hi, I’m Kim! I’m an educator with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Elementary Education and more than 30 years of classroom experience.
I started The Literature Lady because I wanted to make reading come alive for students—and make lesson planning a lot easier for teachers. I create resources that were way too time-consuming to create while teaching full-time, so that now you don’t have to! My passion is creating engaging, low-prep resources, such as novel studies, Word Noodle vocabulary games, and reader’s theatre scripts, that help kids fall in love with books while building real skills.
When I’m not writing or designing new lessons, you’ll find me teaching right here on the TeacherStore.io community platform! The Young Scholar Academy is an online small group learning community that teaches homeschool students in grades 1-8. We teach core classes, electives, one-on-one tutoring, and so much more! As Tiffany would say, "Come for the classes, stay for the community!"
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