DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 93
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 2
More challenging: Have the students use the words to form one or two short texts. When they are
finished they should read their texts aloud.
Curriculum:
AI: Students will understand the
cycling
mobile
general meaning, main ideas, and
found out
minutes
sequence of events in the text and
race
printing
use this knowledge as needed.
athlete
strange
AI: Students will identify different
greatest
exciting
text types and use this knowledge as
give up
needed.
AI: Students will locate relevant
4. Let’s Read! (Track 20B) (page 56)
information for a specific purpose.
Before Reading
AI: Students will use simple
Say and ask:
information tools such as a glossary,
Look at the text.
a simplified learner’s dictionary, and
What kind of text is it? (a website; again, like in
a table of contents.
the previous reading, this is Lance Armstrong's
website)
Look at this web page. What is it about? (green
bikes)
What do you think of when you hear the word ‘green’? (the color and the environment)
How can a bike be more ‘green’ than it already is? (Accept all logical guesses – directly
from the text: by turning the pedals you produce energy, such as electricity; accept all
logical answers based on what was discussed earlier in the unit.)
Why do you think the bike thief stole only green bikes? (Accept all logical answers, but try
to get to the idea that the thief got confused and thought that the ‘green’ bikes should be
the color green.)
Who remembers what we have already said about Lance Armstrong? (Summarize with
the students what they have learned about Lance Armstrong until now.)
Reading
Now read the passage to the students, one paragraph
at a time, like before.
Ask:
What is Lance Armstrong’s favorite invention?
Curriculum:
AI: Students will understand the
general meaning, main ideas, and
sequence of events in the text and
use this knowledge as needed.
AI: Students will identify different
text types and use this knowledge
as needed.
AI: Students will locate relevant
information for a specific purpose.
(bicycles)
Why is Lance coming to Greenville? (for the
Green Show)
What’s special about the Green Show? (It’s to
see who has the greenest bike, i.e. the most
environmentally friendly bike.)
How is a bike green? (It doesn’t use electricity or
gas, some even make energy. If necessary, develop the idea of being green as
something we do or use that saves energy and doesn’t pollute the world.)
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