Descriptive Mysteries Develops excellent communication skills! Critical Thinking Activities to Improve Writing Skills encourages students to think, choose their words carefully, and produce concise, accurate, detailed, and sometimes persuasive, writing. For higher grades, better test scores, and effective everyday communications, few skills are more important than clear, precise writing! Methods: Descriptive Mysteries teaches students to observe and discriminate between similarities and differences and describe objects in written detail. Teaching Support: Includes activity guidelines and answers. 48 activities. License: reproducible.