DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 207
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 4
Part 10. Extra Reading! (pages 158-159)
Appreciation of Literature
NOTE: This reading passage is an excerpt from a book called "Hoot", which is a book for children
written by Carl Hiassen.
Carl Hiassen is a very popular writer. He won the 2003 Newberry Honor for children's books.
"Hoot" is one of his many books.
For more information on him and his books, go to: http://www.carlhiaasen.com/index.shtml
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Let’s Read (track 44A) (pages 158-159)
Before Reading
Curriculum:
ALC: Students will be familiar with
age-appropriate literary texts.
ALC: Students will describe main
characters, settings and events in
literary texts.
ALC: Students will communicate a
personal response, verbally and / or
visually, to a literary text.
Say and ask:
We are going to read a small part of a
book called “Hoot” by the author Carl
Hiassen.
Read the introduction in your books.
Who is Roy? (the new kid at school)
Remember the mystery and the problem
we have been reading about in our unit,
the animal’s habitat.
What do you think the problem Roy talks about is? (Accept all logical answers.)
Reading
Have the students read the first paragraph
Stop along the way to ask questions.
Ask:
Paragraph 1
1. What will open in the city of Coconut Cove? (Paula's Pancakes)
2. Why do you think Roy says this seems like a good idea? (The land where they will build is
empty.)
3. What do you think Roy saw that changed his mind? (Accept all logical answers.)
Paragraph 2
4. What animal did he see there? (the burrowing owl)
5. What’s special about this owl?(It lives in old holes in the ground made by other animals.)
Paragraph 3
Have the students read the first 10 lines of this paragraph.
Ask:
6. What does Roy say is going to happen tomorrow at 12 o'clock? (tractors will start work.)
7. How does Roy know this? (It was in the newspaper.)
8. What does the red-haired girl want to know? (If the paper mentioned anything about the
burrowing owls.)
9. Why do you think that her question is important? (Accept all logical answers.)
Have the students read the rest of the paragraph.
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