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Have riddles been around forever? It seems so. Since ancient times storytellers have shared tales about heroes who solved tricky, funny, or puzzling questions as a test of their cleverness or skills. Riddles can be mysterious, misleading, puzzling, and usually difficult to understand … but only at first. Getting the hang of riddles takes practice and careful reading or listening skills. Riddles always contain clues for solving if you look—or listen—closely. Like a good mystery book, riddles tell a story with a twist! Kid Scoop invites you to read like a detective and see which riddles you can solve. Once you become a master riddle detective, you’ll be able to write your own!
In this issue students will:
- read informational text about the origin of riddles
- try to solve famous riddles
- meet the sphinxes of Giza and Thebes
- calculate sums to discover sphinx facts
- use a code to solve King Odin’s famous puzzler
- write about getting “sweet talked”
- use words in the newspaper to write an acrostic poem
- create a rebus message
- try your hand at riddle writing
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