Current Unit: Mystery, Foundational Skills in Disguise
Students are learning:
Students are learning:
- How to Understand a Mystery Book:
- Identifying what the mystery is, sharing discoveries with others, try to solve the mystery before the crime solver does, searching for clues, keeping track of suspects, making predictions based on suspects, opportunities, and motives, collaborate with partners to solve mysteries, comprehension and fluency
- Raising the Level of Mystery Reading:
- Noticing patterns and common characteristics, talking and writing about their books, identifying red herrings, finding hidden clues, text complexity, figurative language, self-assessment, setting goals
- Reading Mysteries Can Help You Read Any Kind of Fiction
- Applying the work of mystery to all fiction books, solve mysteries that relate to character and plot, using clues to drive predictions, connecting tiny details from across a book
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