Reading Detective, Beginning Book

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Using this fantastic Whodunnit resource is a great way to encourage your child to become a reading detective. Like every top detective, your child will need to use their deduction, inference and reasoning skills in this solve-the-crime activity. Private investigation reports and evidence can be used within legal cases and private detectives can provide witness statements. Guide costs are provided above for the types of work we undertake. However, the specific price for your service or services will depend on your circumstances and requirements. Students read and analyze short literature passages and stories that include fiction and nonfiction genres. Then they answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence evidence to support their answers. Concepts and skills covered include:

With so many options available, you can be sure that you'll find something to help your child progress. What is a Whodunnit? A1 (Grades 5-6) has only three sections although students work on a variety of reading skills within each section. The ten lessons in the first section use excerpts from well-known literature. At the front of the book are ten optional literature essay questions that relate to each of these lessons. The second section uses brief fictional pieces while the third section works with non-fiction. All reading passages in the second and third sections are written by the authors of this workbook. The Grades 3–4 ( Beginning) and Grades 6–12+ remedial ( Rx) levels are organized into single-skills units with a concluding mixed-skills unit. The Grades 5–6 (A1) and 7–8 (B1) levels include mixed-skills throughout. All levels provide an introductory lesson for each skill.

The Critical Thinking Co.™ hereby grants to you a non-exclusive license to use the software product identified above (the "Software") and the accompanying printed materials and User Manual (the "Documentation") on the terms set forth below. B1 (Grades 7-8) is arranged in the same fashion as book A1 with three sections: fiction passages from well-known literature, other fictional short stories, and non-fiction articles. A few of the lessons include work with data analysis. It is legal to physically follow someone (covert surveillance) and take photographic evidence of their activities, locations and persons they interact with.

T he Grades 3–4 ( Beginning) level is organized into single-skills units with a concluding mixed-skills unit. A brilliant way for children to organise their thoughts after reading is with this Reading Response Graphic Organiser Worksheet! It’s a very versatile tool that can be used either in the classroom or from the comfort of home.

What is a Whodunnit?

Rx is written for remedial students in grades 6 through 12. This workbook is written at a fourth to sixth grade reading level, but the content is for older students. Like Beginning, it has 11 units with instructions at the beginning of each unit. Unit topics are: main idea and supporting details, conclusions and inferences, story elements, literary devices, theme, vocabulary (from context), figurative language, cause and effect, prediction, fact and opinion, and mixed skills. Students read and respond to fiction and non-fiction passages throughout these workbooks. They answer simple comprehension questions as well as more challenging questions that require them to analyze or make an inference. However, even on the simple questions, students are asked to provide evidence by indicating the number (or numbers) of the sentence(s) in the reading passage that best support the student’s answer. This forces students to read closely, which might be especially helpful with children who tend to skim a reading passage and guess at the multiple-choice answers. While many questions are multiple choice, some require students to come up with their own responses. Reading Detectives offer a comprehensive range of private investigation services in Reading and throughout the UK.