DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 13
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE
Notebook teaches organization and helps them focus on the main ideas or facts, leaving out the
unimportant details. This is a great tool for working with the students on summarizing and
understanding the main idea of a text.
xiv. Case Summary
When the students write their Case Summary, they are taking the important facts they have in their
Detective’s Notebook and organizing them in a short summary form. This is, in fact, the culmination
of the main ideas of the unit and a presentation of these ideas in one coherent and cohesive written
piece. In reality, it’s a summary of the mystery they have read in the unit, and serves as a wonderful
tool for writing practice. There are guiding questions to enable even the weaker students in the class
to answer the questions and to help the students with the structure of their writing.
It's highly recommended to check these on the board, writing out the answers fully on the board,
thus allowing all students to check their own work and to fill in whatever they are missing in the
correct form.
It's important that all students have this summary; hence the checking on the board is vital.
xv. Let’s Sing
There are a few songs in the book. Each song has a direct connection to the unit and the topic. The
songs offer a wealth of information to the students, so it’s important to teach them since there are
clues and ideas that will help with comprehension. They are also a review of material learned.
You do not have to sing with the class. All the songs and listening texts can be played directly from
our website at: www.eadventure.co.il/detectives/listening , so you can play the song in class and
have the students sing along after they have read and understood what is in the song.
xvi. Extra Activity (aimed at heterogeneous classes)
In the Teacher's Guide, after many of the activities, there are ideas for an extra activity to do with
your class. This section offers ideas at two levels, one Simpler and one More Challenging. This
enables all the students another opportunity to work with the language they've just learned but at
their own level. You can start with the Extra Activity, incorporating it with the actual activity or if you
prefer, use it after the actual activity in the book has been done.
xvii. Extra Reading
A few of the units finish off with an Extra Reading passage. These passages are longer and more
complex reading, offering the students something different. These are literature pieces and they are
meant to be read for pleasure and to perhaps whet the students’ appetites for reading the entire
book from which the excerpt was taken. These offer a slightly higher thinking level and an
opportunity to work on a different genre than is usually done during the year.
xviii. Workbook
The Workbook offers activities at different levels for all students in the class. The activities are
designed to be worked on after finishing each part in any given unit. When you are finished a part in
the book, have the students turn to the corresponding page in their Workbook for more
reinforcement of what was taught.
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