DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 63
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 1
After Reading
Say:
Now let’s go back and look for some clues.
What do you notice?
What might be important? (Have the students suggest things and steer them to the sign on
Carly’s Café and the boy with the green face if they don’t notice them. BUT don’t give it
away, just help them notice it.)
3. Let’s Answer! (page 33)
Have the students answer in their notebooks.
When they have finished, go over the answers with them.
Answer Key:
1. Lakeview and Greenville
2. 8:00
3. Dad
4. a. No
b.“Don’t worry, I know another way.”
5. They are wearing green.
6. b
Curriculum:
AI: Students will locate relevant
information for specific purposes.
4. Who Says It? (page 33)
Explain that they have to write the names of the person who said each statement. They should
write ‘Dad’, ‘Tom’ or ‘Kate’ for each statement.
Answer Key:
b.
c.
d.
e.
Tom
Kate
Dad
Tom and Kate
Curriculum:
SI: Students will express personal wishes
and opinions.
5. Let’s Write! (HOTS - Inferencing) (page 33)
Teach HOTS - Inferencing (see page xiii).
Say and ask:
There are many "green" things in the story.
What are some of them? (green-faced guy, green bikes, green shirts, green hats, green
signs)
Why do you think the town is called Greenville? (Accept logical answers.)
What does "green" mean to you other than the color? (Celicit the meaning of "green" as
environmentally friendly.)
Have students write one or two paragraphs in their notebooks.
42
