{"product_id":"close-reading-mystery-unit-years-5-and-6-no-prep-reading-lessons-emberwick","title":"Close Reading Mystery Unit Years 5 and 6 | No Prep Reading Lessons | Emberwick","description":"\u003cp\u003eA no-prep close reading mystery for upper primary: thirteen ready-to-teach reading lessons for Years 5 and 6, plus an end-of-unit assessment. Open one file on your projector, press the right arrow and teach. No logins, no student devices, and it works offline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour students become junior investigators in Emberwick, a harbour town. On Friday the Harbour Board will take the Arden family's home because of one night in 1926, when the lighthouse went dark and the steamer Marigold was wrecked and robbed. Wren and Felix have found a box of old evidence. Every lesson opens one piece of it to read closely, and a clue only counts when the class can quote the words that prove it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT A LESSON LOOKS LIKE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou run every lesson from the computer on your projector or board. Your students write on paper, in their own printed Investigator's Casebook. Every lesson has a short voiced story, a case to crack, one reading skill, a model you reveal step by step, a whole-class activity, their own writing and an exit ticket. The class activity changes every lesson: a scan race, two chairs in role, a case conference, a lock room, a reopened inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour notes are on every step. Press ? for what to say, questions to ask and the answers. 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Each clue lights a place on the Night Map, five suspects are weighed card by card, and in Lesson 13 the class reopens the 1926 inquiry and presents its finding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFOR THE STRUGGLERS, AND THE FAST FINISHERS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery writing task has a word bank and a Fill the gaps frame, printed straight after its writing page in the Casebook. The sentence starters fade as the case goes on (first words only from Lesson 9, a planner in Lessons 12 and 13), so students are ready to write on their own for the assessment. There's a plainer \"quick read\" of the longest letter, and every Support box in the Lesson Guide names the hard words to pre-teach for EAL\/D students. 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