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Literacy Investigations reading and writing mysteries for Years 3–6, shown on a desktop screen with three case cards
Literacy Investigations case cards for three different cases
Literacy Investigations slides: case open, evidence board, detective's version and case tracker
What's included: 91 teaching slides, evidence boards, 10 case cards and a teacher guide

Years 3–6: Literacy Investigations Case Files

Sale price$15.00

Literacy Investigations: Case Files | Years 3–6 | Reading & Writing Mysteries

Turn your class into detectives. These 10 reading and writing mysteries have students reading closely, inferring from evidence and then writing a real text type to close each case. Who left a backpack at the locked school gate? Which of three witnesses should you believe? Can you name the creature living underground, or work out which Australian place a postcard came from?

How it works

Every case follows the same routine, so students know exactly what to do:

Case Tracker → Opener → Hunch → Evidence Board → Investigation → Work Time → Case Closed → Detective's Version

All students need is a case card and blank paper or their workbook.

What's included

  • 91-slide Google Slides teaching deck with teacher prompts in the speaker notes
  • Case tracker slides to show progress across all 10 cases
  • Evidence board slides for every case
  • 20 Detective's Version slides (two per case), each with a model response and key
  • 10 black-and-white case cards, two copies per A4 page
  • Teacher guide covering the routine, cases at a glance, differentiation and assessment
  • Curriculum links to the Australian Curriculum v9.0 and the NSW English K–10 Syllabus

Why teachers use it

  • Zero prep: open the slides and hand out a card
  • No worksheets: students write on blank paper or in their books
  • Reading and writing in every case, with a drawing task in most
  • Talk comes before writing, using hunches and evidence
  • Open-ended, so it works from Year 3 to Year 6
  • Great for writing blocks, fast finishers, relief days and the end of term

Resource details

  • Years 3–6 (Stages 2 and 3)
  • Text types: narrative, incident report, advertisement, field guide, poetry, procedure, persuasive email, news report and postcard
  • Focus: inference, evidence, vocabulary, persuasive devices, cohesion and figurative language
  • 10 cases, each one long lesson or a week of short sessions
  • 109 pages, digital PDF download
Literacy Investigations reading and writing mysteries for Years 3–6, shown on a desktop screen with three case cards
Years 3–6: Literacy Investigations Case Files Sale price$15.00

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A connected literacy block

Fluency, vocabulary, comprehension and writing that build on each other all week.

NSW syllabus and AC v9.0 aligned

Every resource is aligned to the NSW English K–10 Syllabus and the Australian Curriculum v9.0, with the curriculum links included in the download.

Routines that stick

Easy to set up and easy to repeat, so students know exactly what to do each day.

Made by a NSW teacher

Written by a NSW primary teacher with more than 15 years in the classroom and in school leadership.

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