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Investigating Genre: The Case of the Classic Detective Story
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| Grades | 9 – 12 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Standard Lesson |
| Estimated Time | Three 50-minute sessions, plus additional time for reading, listening to, or viewing a mystery. |
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Champaign, Illinois |
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LESSON PLANS
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Recurring Lesson
Genre Study: A Collaborative Approach
Students explore multiple genres through genre studies. They record evidence of genre characteristics on bookmarks as they read, and finish by giving a book review for their classmates.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Recording Readers Theatre: Developing Comprehension and Fluency With Audio Texts
Students investigate audio texts of mystery stories, evaluate them in terms of both literary and audio qualities, and create Readers Theatre scripts, which they use to record their own podcasts.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Everyone Loves a Mystery: A Genre Study
Students track the elements of mystery stories through Directed Learning–Thinking Activities, story maps, and puzzles. Then they offer clues for other readers as they plan and write original mystery stories.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts: Exploring the Ways Writers Scare Readers
Students analyze scary stories to 'break the code" of horror writing and use what they learn to write scary stories of their own.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Expository Escapade—Detective’s Handbook
Students create a Detective's Handbook based on a detective mystery they have read. The handbooks include expository and descriptive writing, as well as a letter.
STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
The interactive Cube Creator helps students identify and summarize key elements. It can be used as a prewriting or postreading activity.
Grades 6 – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
The Mystery Cube helps students identify and summarize story elements in this popular genre. It can be used as a postreading or prewriting activity.
CALENDAR ACTIVITIES
Grades 3 – 8 | Calendar Activity | February 3
In 1927, Joan Lowery Nixon was born.
As a class, a genre study of mysteries takes place and a chart is made about what makes a good mystery.
PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY
Professional Library | Book
Genre Theory: Teaching, Writing, and Being
Dean synthesizes theory and research about genres and provides secondary-level teachers with practical classroom applications.
PODCAST EPISODES
Grades K – 7 | Podcast Episode
Get on the case with these tales about extraordinary detectives! Listen in as Emily highlights untraditional mysteries for kids.