DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 173
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 4
b. food
c. water
d. shelter
5. It has to move or it will die.
5. Let’s Practice! (HOTS - classifying and categorizing) (page 127)
Say:
Choose the word that doesn’t belong in
each group.
Then try to explain why you chose that
word. How did you decide which word
doesn’t belong? What do the words have in
common?
Write a sentence with each new word.
Curriculum:
AI: Students will use simple
information tools such as a glossary,
a simplified learner’s dictionary, and
a table of contents.
Have the students answer in their notebooks.
When they have finished, go over the answers with them.
For each word, have a few students read out their sentences.
Answer Key:
Word that
doesn’t belong
1 building
2 die
3 forest
4 mystery
5 green
6 information
7 plant
8 clouds
9 supermarket
10 bicycle
New word
habitat
survive
hummingbird
shelter
space
environment
missing
land
nature
plant
Extra Activity:
Simpler: Have the students copy the words in the activity and find their definitions and write them
into their notebooks. Then they should find the word that doesn't belong for each group.
More challenging: Have the students write a sentence for each group, using the words that are
connected in each group.
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