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This lesson will introduce mysteries to the students and help Reading - Literary Text
them learn to identify the mystery and who the crime solver is
Meaning and Context
by using clues.
RL - Standard 5: Determine meaning and
develop logical interpretations by making
predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions,
analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence, and
investigating multiple interpretations.
IMPORTANT CONTENT CONNECTION: Students have been reading different types of books and have talked about
different genres.
MATERIALS.
USC ID, Book Mission envelope, Welcome Detectives letter, Detective Mission letters, Mystery Book (The Missing Flags), Pencils, Chart paper, Sticky Notes.
“Mystery readers start off by doing the same thing. They - Highlights key concepts and ideas - Lists
figure out what’s wrong so they can figure out how they elements of mystery books, which leads to
can solve the mystery.” students knowing the teaching point.
“Solving mysteries in real life is similar in many ways to THINKING:
solving mysteries in books.”
- Practical thinking where students use,
“What do you expect a mystery to have?”
apply, and implement what they learn in
I will list elements for mystery books if students didn’t real-life scenarios (giving the demonstration
name them: detective, suspects, clues, and crime. of the lost ID).
PROBLEM SOLVING:
ACADEMIC FEEDBACK:
GROUPING STUDENTS:
PROBLEM SOLVING:
INSTRUCTIONAL PLANS:
EXTENSIONS/CONNECTIONS. The students will start Click here to enter text. We can ask
to choose mysteries to students to
I have connected this to their previous lessons about read and be able to read a short
different types of genres. The students have been identify things within mystery story
choosing their own books from the library to read on the story that were and
their own during their reading time. Students can be taught in this lesson. individually
given additional mystery books to read that are on identify what
their reading level to help them identify things that the mystery is
should be looked for in a mystery book. and who is the
crime solver
to see if they
are able to
identify these
items
correctly and
know what to
look for.
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