The Westing Game 6th Grade Unit
- Genre
- Mysteries
- Concepts Taught
- Character, Drawing Conclusions, Genre, Plot, Predicting
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The Westing Game
- Fountas and Pinnell
- V
- Lexile
- 750L
Lessons
Genre Lesson: What is a Mystery? Identify the elements of a mystery.
Lesson 1: Mysterious Plot Problems Describe the mysteries, or plot problems that need to be solved, in a piece of detective fiction.
Textual Analysis Lesson: Taking Stock of the Stock Market Use the Textual Analysis process to answer comprehension questions about a text.
Lesson 2: Character’s Motive Draw a conclusion about characters’ possible motives for committing a crime, in order to determine which characters are suspects.
Lesson 3: Identifying Clues to Help Solve a Mystery Draw conclusions about which details in a mystery are useful clues.
Lesson 4: Predicting a Mystery’s Solution Predict the solution to a mystery based on what they know about character motivation and possible clues.
Lesson 5: Red Herrings Identify red herrings used to mislead the reader.
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