Mysteries

We have started our Mystery genre unit. We are learning about the elements of mysteries and focusing on mystery vocabulary words: plot, clues, suspects, and mystery. As a class we read the book Chet Gecko: The Mystery of Mr. Nice. We are currently reading two different mysteries: Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Dinosaur Bones and Nate the Great and the Sticky Case. As we read these books, we are working on identifying the elements of the mystery, increasing our knowledge of our vocabulary words, and practicing fluency as we read the books aloud with our partners/groups. After finishing these books, each student will individually choose a mystery to read and then write their own mystery using the elements of a mystery.