Mystery Novels Lesson Plans & Worksheets Reviewed by Teachers

Scholastic

Scholastic: Teacher: Mystery Writing With Joan Lowery Nixon

For Teachers 3rd - 8th

Have you ever wanted to know how to write a mystery novel? Use this site to learn more about how a professional author goes about writing mysteries. With tips from prolific mystery writer Joan Lowery Nixon.

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Eric Wilson

For Students 2nd - 8th

Information about Canadian novelist Eric Wilson and his fiction are included along with the first chapter from each of his mystery novels.

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Fitzhenry and Whiteside: 'Dooley Takes the Fall' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th

"Dooley Takes the Fall", a mystery novel by Canadian author Norah McClintock for grade nine and up, is about a boy who has made some mistakes in the past. He becomes a suspect after he witnesses a boy jumping off a bridge and has to...

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Mystery

For Students 9th - 10th

This slideshow focuses on the genre of mystery; it provides background, compares and contrasts mystery and crime fiction, lists the common elements of mystery, and provides literary examples with Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie novels.

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British Library

British Library: Austen's Emma: Social Realism & the Novel

For Teachers 9th - 10th

In the course of the novel's development, Jane Austen was a significant contributor to the emergence of the modern novel as we know it today. The review of Emma in the Quarterly Review (October 1815) makes clear to a modern audience how...

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Gaslight: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

For Students 9th - 10th

This uncompleted novel by Charles Dickens is reproduced here in its 1912 edition. The thorough transcription indicates the revisions that both Dickens and his executor made. Be sure to read the message about copyright and permissions.

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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Cracked Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th

Cracked by Canadian author Michele Martin Bossley is a mystery novel for ages 9-12. The story centers on the bobsled competition at the World Cup. This teacher's guide includes a book summary and ideas for discussions and learning...

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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

For Students 4th - 8th

This is an online study guide for the mystery novel The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Green Tea by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

For Students 9th - 10th

This is the full text of the novel Green Tea by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. A drink opens the inner eye of the protagonist. What follows is a mind-boggling tale of...

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Virtual Salt

Visual Salt: Elements of the Gothic Novel

For Students 9th - 10th

This site gives a listing and description of the typical elements usually found in gothic novels. It also provides a list of example vocabulary typically found in gothic novels.

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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. Reeve

For Students 9th - 10th

This is the complete text of the mystery novel The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. Reeve.

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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Donal Grant by George Mac Donald

For Students 9th - 10th

This is the complete text of the mystery novel Donal Grant by George MacDonald.

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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer

For Students 9th - 10th

This is the complete text of the mystery novel The Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer, it is the second book in the Fu-Manchu series.

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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Agatha Christie

For Students 9th - 10th

This site features the author Agatha Christie including a biography and the full text of two novels: The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Secret Adversary.

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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Champdoce Mystery by Emile Gaboriau

For Students 9th - 10th

Read the full text of the mystery novel "Champdoce Mystery" by Emile Gaboriau. Ms. Gaboriau is considered a pioneer of detective fiction and to have inspired Sherlock Holmes.

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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim

For Students 9th - 10th

This is the full text of the novel The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim, a mystery novel. German Leopold von Ragastein meets Englishman Everard Dominey, in Africa, and plans to murder him and steal his identity to spy on...

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Curated OER

Mystery Writing With Joan Lowery Nixon

For Students 3rd - 8th

Have you ever wanted to know how to write a mystery novel? Use this site to learn more about how a professional author goes about writing mysteries.

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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: 'Marked' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th

In 'Marked' by Canadian author Norah McClintock, Colin has a job cleaning up graffiti in a well-to-do neighborhood. He becomes a suspect in a rash of robberies and must solve the mystery himself. This teacher's guide includes a book...

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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Bio Pirate Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th

Bio-Pirate, a novel by Michele Martin Bossley, is a science mystery about medical research materials that go missing. This teacher's guide includes a book summary, extensive teaching ideas and a short profile of the author.

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Abcteach: Book Report Forms

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will find several blackline masters for primary, elementary and middle school students for use when doing various types of book reports such as fiction, biography, fairy tales, historical...

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