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My students work with texts in a variety of ways in my classroom. They read self-selected "just right" books each day during reading workshop, engage with whole class texts focused on social studies and science content during shared reading, and grow thoughtful ideas about novels during read aloud. One of the best ways for students to synthesize their text-based work and develop collaborative skills is through literature circles. In the Mystery Genre Literature Circles unit, students will read mystery novels in small groups. This small group work will follow a read aloud unit in which I will read a mystery novel (Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring by Angela Cervantes). I will introduce the class to key features of the mystery genre as well as model and guide students in practicing key thinking skills: noticing and recording important pieces of evidence or clues, making inferences, and developing and revising theories based on evidence from the text. After the whole class read aloud unit, students will select books from the literature circle texts included in this project. The texts are differentiated to accommodate the range of readers in my class and allow them to choose between at least two books. Students will learn how to schedule literature circle meetings, determine the number of pages to read by the next meeting, and apply collaborative discussion techniques learned throughout the year to have meaningful and engaging conversations as they work together to solve the mysteries. I believe that this experience will deepen the love of reading my students already possess while sharpening their attention to detail as readers. Thank you for helping my students walk in the shoes of gumshoes!

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My students work with texts in a variety of ways in my classroom. They read self-selected "just right" books each day during reading workshop, engage with whole class texts focused on social studies and science content during shared reading, and grow thoughtful ideas about novels during read aloud. One of the best ways for students to synthesize their text-based work and develop collaborative skills is through literature circles. In the Mystery Genre Literature Circles unit, students will read mystery novels in small groups. This small group work will follow a read aloud unit in which I will read a mystery novel (Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring by Angela Cervantes). I will introduce the class to key features of the mystery genre as well as model and guide students in practicing key thinking skills: noticing and recording important pieces of evidence or clues, making inferences, and developing and revising theories based on evidence from the text. After the whole class read aloud unit, students will select books from the literature circle texts included in this project. The texts are differentiated to accommodate the range of readers in my class and allow them to choose between at least two books. Students will learn how to schedule literature circle meetings, determine the number of pages to read by the next meeting, and apply collaborative discussion techniques learned throughout the year to have meaningful and engaging conversations as they work together to solve the mysteries. I believe that this experience will deepen the love of reading my students already possess while sharpening their attention to detail as readers. Thank you for helping my students walk in the shoes of gumshoes!

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