Dear Dragon Detectives, the lost baby dragon needs your help! This 1st-grade mystery reading passage with comprehension questions will have students cracking codes and solving the mystery!

Many reading comprehension activities are all about reading a story and then reflecting on it. But this 8-page NO-PREP story allows first-graders to be a part of the story through immersive storytelling. Students work their way through the story, stopping along the way to reinforce what they've read while helping the characters in the story.

Cracking the code on these skills:

~CVC phonics

~order of events sequencing

~new vocabulary

~prediction practice

~shapes & adjectives

Engage in these activities:

~coloring & drawing

~decoding ciphers (image and numbers)

~unscrambling words and letters

~deciphering footprints and facial expressions

~maze

~logic puzzle

Students will beg you for more of these Solve the Mystery Games! True reading comprehension happens when students feel immersed and engaged in the story, no matter how long or short it is. Help save the baby dragon today!

Love,

Teacher Bethanie