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Visual Ranking Tool: Mystery Elements
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Materials and Resources
Printed Materials
Variety of mystery novels, short stories and mini-mysteries at different reading levels
Internet Resources
Urban Dreams - Lesson plans
http://urbandreams.ousd.k12.ca.us/lessonplans/himes/
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Lesson plan ideas on teaching how to write a mystery
How to write a mystery
www.figma.com/howto/rkemp/rk_mystwriting_01.htm
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Ideas on how to write a mystery
Forensic Files
www.courttv.com/onair/shows/forensicfiles/index2.html
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Summary of television show that deals with forensics and solving cases
Mystery Net Kid Mysteries
http://kids.mysterynet.com/
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Short mysteries that kids can solve and mysteries written by kids
Mystery Net
www.mysterynet.com/learn/main.shtml
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Ideas and background information to support the teacher
FBI Youth
www.fbi.gov/kids/6th12th/6th12th.htm
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Follow a case with the FBI. Good background information for the young author.
Yale-New Haven Teacher Institute
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1989/4/89.04.06.x.html
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Lesson ideas and supporting information for the teacher
Technology – Hardware
Printer to print out stories to share
Computer with Internet connection for searching Web resources
Technology – Software
Word processing software to write and publish stories
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