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Making and Using a Graphic Organizer for Solving a Mystery

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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 the mystery.

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comprehension strategies, mystery genre, english language arts
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3rd - 5th
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English Language Arts
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