Detective Santa: Short Vowel Inference Mission

Price: 375 points or $3.75 USD

Subjects: ela

Grades: 13,1,2

Description: Santa is becoming a detective as he goes on a mission to find the elves the perfect Christmas gifts. Being little, the elves love things that have a short vowel sound. Students will read the clues and use their schema to infer what gift Santa found. Learning to infer can be a difficult reading strategy. The simple clues and pictures help lend support to young students. The riddles are great to use whole group on an interactive board. Students will read all of the clues carefully and use the clues to infer the short vowel word. Not all items have a short vowel sound so students will have to think about the vowel sound in each word. This also provides a great time to ask higher level questions and a chance to build vocabulary. This deck will have your students engaged as they help solve the Short Vowel Inference Mission with Detective Santa. Grab it for all of your Christmas and December comprehension fun!