The Australian Animals Reading Skills Codebreaker Scavenger Hunt with 8 Reading Stations provides an engaging way for students to enhance their reading abilities while learning about wildlife. This printable is ready to print and hang around the classroom. Students must solve the code and uncover the scrambled mystery word.

This innovative activity encourages students to actively move around the classroom, engaging with reading passages and responding to related questions. Designed as an interactive reading exercise, it features eight station cards, each offering a concise passage about a specific Australian animal followed by a question. This type of scavenger hunt replaces boring worksheets with a dynamic and educational adventure into the world of Australian fauna.

WHAT’S INCLUDED? 

• Directions for Use

•8 Stations = 8 Fact Cards - Each card contains a reading passage and facts about a particular animal.

• Decoder

• 1 Recording Sheet

•Teacher Answer Key

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Set up the stations and let the students start wherever they want. Print and hang the passages.
2. Students will move around the classroom visiting the eight stations, reading short passages, finding text evidence and answering 8 questions.
3. For each question, they must record the number of the passage where they found the information and use the decoder included to identify the correct mystery letter corresponding to the right answer.
4. After students record their answers on the answer sheet provided, they will use the letters to unscramble a mystery word and reveal an 8-digit code (corresponding to the right passage numbers). Students need to get the 8-digit code and mystery word correct to complete this activity! If they only get one correct, please tell them to try again. Do not indicate which question is wrong.