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Neighborhood Mystery Level R
Text Type: Fiction • Word Count: 1,137

Lesson Parts
1) Before Reading
2) During Reading
3) After Reading
4) Build Skills
5) Build Fluency
6) Extend the Reading
7) Assessment

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Book Summary
Neighborhood Mystery is a story about a boy who notices a strange occurrence every Sunday night in the house across the street. He sees a group of people entering a building, each of them wearing similar-looking uniforms and carrying some kind of case. While on a stakeout, he discovers a wonderful surprise. Illustrations support the text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

  • Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

  • Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
  • Sequence events
  • Identify and use contractions
  • Identify Spanish vocabulary words used in the text and understand their translation

Materials

  • Book -- Neighborhood Mystery (copy for each student)
  • Chalkboard or dry erase board
  • Index cards
  • Prediction, sequence events, contractions, vocabulary worksheets

    Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)

Vocabulary

  • Content words: binoculars, eerie, folk band, instruments, mariachi, serenade, sombrero, symphony orchestras, ukulele, vihuela


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