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Sparkles, Smiles, and Successful Students
•Mystery anchor chart •Mystery Bubble Map •Cover page for writing •Writing page paper •Mini book for listening to Peer mysteries •Magnifying Glasses to “spot” clues Common Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.5 With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.5 With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
•Print out anchor charts for introduction •Introduce with a story -(optional •Plan out writing using any of the optional sheets
•Planning •Clue sheet •Bubble map
•Start writing process •Use detective notebooks for peer review •Copy final draft on paper • •Publish and Celebrate
•Ideas •Magnifying glasses
•Class Clue Hunt •Can be used to start teaching mysteries or to end the unit and have a surprise!
August- Backpack Mystery September- School Mystery October- Halloween or Costume Mystery November- Turkey Mystery December- Gift Mystery January- Snow mystery February- Valentines Mystery March- The Animal Mystery April- Easter Egg Mystery May- Waterslide Mystery * Use your imagination! For younger students choosing something like the Easter Egg or Backpack mystery where something could be inside is a great way to introduce students to mysteries whether than a who-done-it mystery.
•You can always start out by reading mystery books.
•Here are some great ones to try:
•I make a big deal out of publishing student work, if they put time into the writing process we take time to recognize and appreciate what they did.
•When we celebrate this time I like to: •Get a trench coat for the reader (detective) •Give each student a laminated magnifying glass they can hold up when they hear a clue.
Something that cannot be explained. A puzzle with clues to solving
it.
Piece of information used to solve a mystery.
This paper can be used for the final copy of a student’s mystery story.
For another fun option- in their
illustrations students can put a symbol for a clue
such as a question mark, special stamp, or footprint. This can be especially helpful in the younger grades with putting the mystery
together.
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Have students work in pairs as peer review for their mystery stories. Give each student a copy of their own detective notebook.
Have the student record clues they hear in another peer’s writing and how the mystery will be solved.
*you can put multiple clue sheets if done in larger groups.
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The Great _________________ Mystery
Clue 1: Clue 2: Clue 3:
What is inside? How does it end?
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The Great _________________ Mystery
I heard these clues: Clue 1: Clue 2: Clue 3:
My guess: ____________________ The ending: __________________
Take your class on a hunt for clues and learn about solving
mysteries!
Use the clues provided and place in the specific locations or use the blank clues and hide your
own!
Hand to the Students
1. Pens and Pencils
2. Gym 3. Something blue in classroom
4. Reading Nook
5. Cafeteria 6. Office 7. Library 8. Near the board – final location
Ideas for Ending:
Erasers, stickers, extra recess, anything!
Clue 1 Clue 2
Look where you keep the pens and pencils too,
There you will find your very
first clue!
Found the first one, look where you go to
run!
Clue 3
Doing good you found two, look
by something
blue.
Clue 4
Doing well, keep it up – look by our reading
nook.
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Clue 5 Clue 6
In the office it is true you just might find your next great clue.
Clue 7
Books, books, all around where oh
where could I be found?
Clue 8
Back to the classroom where could it be – look near the
board to see!
This is getting
pretty neat, look where you go to
eat!
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