Bring festive fun to your English lessons with this Christmas English Mystery, where pupils must solve literacy-skills challenges to uncover who stole the Christmas Storybook. Perfect for KS2–KS3 classrooms, this activity blends English comprehension, SPaG practice, vocabulary knowledge, and deductive reasoning as learners work through each clue.
Students unscramble Christmas words, choose the correct punctuation and homophones, identify correct capitalisation and apostrophes, and match synonyms to reveal key traits about the culprit. Each solved clue eliminates suspects from the character list until pupils identify the thief.
This makes a brilliant end-of-term activity, literacy centre task, group challenge, or whole-class festive treat.
What’s Included:
✦ Complete Christmas English Mystery (4 clues + final solution)
✦ Large Christmas-themed suspect grid with names, icing colours, treats, jobs & hobbies
✦ Clue tasks covering:
— Word unscrambling
— Punctuation & apostrophes
— Homophones
— Synonyms & vocabulary
✦ Logic-based suspect elimination
✦ Full answer sheet for quick marking
✦Print-ready, student-friendly layout
A fun, confidence-boosting literacy activity that keeps pupils engaged while reinforcing essential English skills in a festive, memorable way.
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