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

Materials

• Book -- Seeing the Evidence: Forensic Scientists at Work (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• KWL, make inferences, possessives 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: 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