Purpose: To access prior knowledge and build vocabulary concepts
Inform students that the reading selection: "The Case of the Missing Garlic Bread," tells about a food snatching mystery set in a small neighborhood in America called Idaville and is solved by super-sleuth Encyclopedia Brown. Ask students to recall the elements of a mystery story.
Strategies Vocabulary
As a vocabulary strategy, the teacher will write the following terms on the board. The students would be invited to read them silently and put definitions next to them as they find them in the dictionary.
The key terms to define are:
1. detective
2. thief
3. windowsill
4. parsley
5. evidence
6. neighborhood
7. accuse
Check for understanding
To check for understanding the teacher will read the definition of each word, out of order, one at a time, and the students will give me the word being defined.