Comprehension Detective, Grades 3-5

by Gunter Schymkiw

This engaging series provides students with opportunities to sharpen their critical-thinking skills with short, original detective stories. Each reproducible story contains plenty of clues and information, along with comprehension activities and a puzzle to solve. Reading carefully and using deductive reasoning skills, students can work alone or in small groups to be comprehension detectives. A great way to engage students of all ability levels, from the reluctant reader to the student who always seems to need a new challenge! Includes teacher's notes, skills overview, and reproducible student pages with crime story and literal and evaluative questions requiring analysis and synthesis. Eliminating Suspects, Follow the Clues, The Big Burger Burgle, The Breakfast Break-in, Who Got the Job?, Snow Job, and 12 more mysteries.

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004