End of the Year Reading Logic Puzzles | Activities for Enrichment

🏕️ End of the Year Reading Logic Puzzles | Summer Camp Reading Mystery

Enrich your end-of-year reading lessons with this engaging set of Reading Logic Puzzles! Students will love solving a fun summer camp mystery while strengthening reading comprehension, logical reasoning, and critical thinking skills.

Perfect for grades 3–5, these End of the Year Reading Logic Puzzles can be used as enrichment, early finisher work, small group centers, or a whole-class reading challenge before summer break!

✨ What’s Included:

• Practice Logic Puzzle – A beginner puzzle that teaches students how to use logic grids and reasoning skills. Perfect for introducing the activity or modeling as a class.
• “Camp Tales from Happy Trails” Story – A high-interest fiction story that sets the stage for the summer camp mystery.
• Four Story-Based Logic Puzzles – Two easier and two more challenging puzzles connected to the summer camp story. Students must use clues, context, and comprehension to solve the mystery.
• “Capturing All of the Clues” Activity – Students combine information from the puzzles, story, and nonfiction passages to solve the final mystery.
• Comprehension Checks – Each puzzle includes a short nonfiction text with questions on text structure and key ideas.
• Bonus Logic Puzzles – Two additional stand-alone logic challenges that extend the summer camp fun!
• Answer Key – Complete teacher answer guide.
• Digital Version (Google Slides™) – Great for paperless or distance learning!

🧩 Skills Students Will Practice:

• Identifying text structures
• Making inferences
• Comprehending informational text
• Determining main ideas and details
• Sequencing events
• Applying logic and reasoning

🎯 Recommended For:

• 3rd Grade: Enrichment or challenge work for advanced readers
• 4th & 5th Grades: Core or small-group reading and logic practice

⏰ Time Needed:

Approximately 90–120 minutes total — perfect for a multi-day activity, literacy rotation, or end-of-year project!

💡 Why Teachers Love It:

✔️ Fun and meaningful end-of-year review

✔️ Encourages collaboration and critical thinking

✔️ No-prep print & digital formats included

✔️ Perfect balance of reading comprehension and logic