Crime Scene Investigation: Learn Reading Comprehension While You Solve a Crime

Reading comprehension has never been so fun! Join us in solving a crime each week and watch your reading comprehension skills grow! Students will encounter a crime that has stumped the local police department and be given a brief outline. Together we will create a "just the facts ma'am" list of facts only. We will then read witness statements and take jot notes of what was said. This will require careful reading of the statements and cross-checking against other witnesses. Along the way, we learn about red herrings, gumshoes, clues, suspects and resolutions. We will also create a timeline of events that students will use to solve the crime. Each lesson will take a methodical approach to solving a crime. While there will be some reading in this class, there will be lots of conversation about what is going on. Sharing and teamwork will be the way this works! Each crime will be solved in the lesson after participants take a stab at solving it themselves!