DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 57
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 1
PART 8: The Mystery (2) (pages 28-30)
Let’s remember
Ask:
Curriculum:
SI: Students will answer questions about
familiar topics.
AI: Students will extract information
from visual data.
What did we find out last time? (Many bikes were stolen.)
What do Jack and Amy want Tom and Kate to help with? (finding the thief)
What is the mystery? (Someone is stealing bikes.)
What do we know so far? (Someone stole Alex’s bike near the community center on
Wednesday and someone stole Dana’s and Sharon’s bikes near the gym on Tuesday.)
1. Let’s Rap! (Track 11) (page 28)
Read the rap with the class.
Ask:
What questions are being asked? (Who are you? / What’s your address? / When do you
come here?)
Why are these questions being asked? (Someone is looking for information.)
What does the last sentence mean? (A good detective doesn’t guess, he/she works only
with real information from the clues.)
2. Let’s Read! (page 28)
Have the students read the comic strip.
Ask:
What does Amy want to find out? (who is stealing the bikes.))
Why did Kate write “Who are the people in the article?” (she thought it was going to be
important information)
Why does Amy say “Good for you, Kate!”? (She knows that Kate will make a good detective.)
Who are the people in the article? (Alex, Sharon and Dana)
How will Kate and Tom remember the clues? (They will write everything down.)
3. Let’s Answer! (page 29)
Have the students answer in their notebooks.
When they have finished, go over the answers with them.
Answer Key:
1. b
2. He says: "That's how we remember clues!"
3. c
Extra Activity – whole class
Have the students look at the sentence in frame 3 ‘If we ask them what happened’.
Tell them that the word ‘them’ in the sentence is a pronoun and it means someone specific.
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