Making Inferences & Drawing Conclusions With Mysteries Interactive Read Aloud

Mysteries are the key to teaching your students how to make inferences, draw conclusions, ask and answer questions, and engage deeply with text!

You're probably thinking, mysteries for elementary students? But the truth is, mysteries are perfect for second-grade teachers who want to engage their students in critical thinking.

Mystery stories are exciting, and they teach your students how to think like detectives. Mysteries are also perfect for teaching literary vocabulary, text structures like cause and effect, and character development.

And the best part is that Making Inferences & Drawing Conclusions Using Mysteries Interactive Read Aloud lesson plans makes it easy for you to teach these concepts to your students.

These lesson plans are standards-based and include high-engagement strategies that will keep your students motivated and excited about reading.

So if you're looking for a way to engage your students in critical thinking, then you need my Making Inferences & Drawing Conclusions Using Mysteries Interactive Read Aloud lesson plans.

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This unit is intended to be used over four weeks but can easily be adjusted to meet your needs. 

Included in the Packet:

* Highly Effective Lesson Plans include essential questions, gradual release of responsibility model, high engagement cooperative learning structures incorporated, rubrics to help make students aware of criteria in advance, higher-order questions, standards-based lessons, and beginning and ending review

* Graphic Organizers that can be used with easy to find literature

* Formative Assessment

* Anchor Charts

* Writing in response to reading

* Vocabulary

* Reading and Discussion Tasks including

Asking Questions (text-based)

Predicting/Inferring and Visualizing

Connecting Background Knowledge

Integrating Knowledge and Ideas

Character Responses

Points of View

Cause and Effect

Story structure

Language Tasks

Vocabulary

Writing Tasks

Writing about reading (answering text-based questions and retelling)

Writing opinion pieces about hunches or motives in the mystery with supporting evidence from text

Speaking and Listening

Collaborative conversations about text

Foundational Skills

Fluency work

Authors Chosen for this unit

These are suggested books. (Copies of the books are NOT provided):

Mini Mysteries (Provided)

Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew The Case of the Sleepover Sleuths by Carolyn Keene

Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All (The Case of the Super-Secret Hold) by Donald J. Sobol

Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All (The Case of the Missing Clues) by Donald J. Sobol