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What is a mystery?
What is a mystery? Learners complete an anagram worksheet to discover the mystery genre. First, they listen as the teacher reads from All About Mysteries and notes defining words on the board. Then they read a mystery and examine it for...
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Predicting a Mystery's Solution
Practice making informed predictions. Have your class create a paper fortune-teller and ask questions about the future. They compare the fortune-telling process to the more informed kind of predictions they make while reading. They...
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Making and Using a Graphic Organizer for Solving a Mystery
Students create tables in a word processing program which helps them organize their text clues when reading a mystery story. They develop reading comprehension strategies while using a computer based graphic organizer in order to solve...
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Questions for "The Black Cat"
In this Edgar Allan Poe instructional activity, students work in groups to answer a series of questions for Edgar Allan Poe's story, "The Black Cat."
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Modesto City Schools Library Lesson Plan
Students read and understand a variety of genres in a library setting. In this library activity activity, students act as detectives and use clues in text and pictures to hypothesize the title of the missing book for the library reading...