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Grade 5
Fountas & Pinnell S
Reading Recovery 40
DRA 40
Seeing the Evidence: Forensic Scientists at Work
Informational (nonfiction), 1,897 words, Level X (Grade 5)

Lesson Objectives
Reading Strategy Ask and answer questions
Comprehension Make Inferences
Grammar and Mechanics Possessives
Word Work Abbreviations

Book Summary
Seeing the Evidence: Forensic Scientists at Work is an informational book about the science of analyzing types of evidence found at crime scenes. The book provides a historical overview of the first forensic scientists in the early 1900s. Four case files give readers the opportunity to see modern forensic science at work, ranging from DNA testing to fingerprint analysis. Photographs and diagrams support the text.

About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
  • Ask and answer questions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions while reading
  • Make inferences
  • Recognize and use possessives
  • Identify and fluently read abbreviations

Vocabulary

  • Content words: convict, crime lab, crime scene, crime scene investigator, deduction, DNA, DNA profile, Exchange Principle, eyewitnesses, fingerprints, forensic science, informers, microscopic, suspect, trace evidence, vehicle identification number, victim
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