Halloween mystery bundle for Grades 2-4 (Years 3-5, KS2): a whodunit story with suspect statements, a junior detective notebook and a code-breaking reading mission.

Pupils read clues carefully, compare alibis, decode secret messages and justify who did it. Inference and close reading, with a spooky twist.

What is included

• Guess Who Stole the Pumpkin? (11 colour pages to project or read aloud): the crime, 6 suspect statements (Wanda the witch, Bob the ghost, Ziggy, Mino the vampire, Franky…), an investigation pause and the confession
• Junior Detective Notebook (6 pages): cover, suspect profile, investigation journal (5 clues found), evidence log, Who Did It? page and a Case Solved certificate
• Crack the Code Mission: The Stolen Bag of Halloween Candy (27 pages): a 5-chapter illustrated story set at an ice rink, 4 classified coded messages (number code, backwards words, reversed sentence, Morse code), evidence sheet, 8 comprehension questions, write-the-next-mystery page, mission review and answer key

Ways to use

• Halloween literacy lesson focused on inference
• Small-group detective stations
• Reading for evidence: pupils quote the clue that proves their answer
• Early finishers in late October

The notebook and the mission are split into 2 parts each for easy download. PDF, US Letter (choose “Fit to page” to print on A4). English.