The New Reader as Detective is a reading skills book that teaches students to become reading detectives - active readers who search for clues and make inferences as they read. The book contains 22 classic and contemporary selections that feature an exciting mystery or twist at the end. Each story is followed by brief instruction and questions on key reading, language, and vocabulary skills. There are also writing, discussion, and technology applications.
Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective (Audiobook, MP3)
Ages 9-12
Leroy Brown, aka Encyclopedia Brown, is Idaville neighborhood’s ten-year-old star detective. With an uncanny knack for trivia, he solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids through his own detective agency. But his dad also happens to be the chief of the Idaville police department, and every night around the dinner table, Encyclopedia helps him solve his most baffling crimes. And with ten confounding mysteries in each book, not only does Encyclopedia have a chance to solve them, but the reader is given all the clues as well. Interactive and chock full of interesting bits of information—it’s classic Encyclopedia Brown!
Paul Auster's brilliant debut novels, City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room brought him international acclaim for his creation of a new genre, mixing elements of the standard detective fiction and postmodern fiction. City of Glass combines dark, Kafka-like humor with all the suspense of a Hitchcock film as a writer of detective stories becomes embroiled in a complex and puzzling series of events, beginning with a call from a stranger in the middle of the night asking for the author — Paul Auster — himself
Reading level: Ages 4-8 Be a word detective. Can you find these words as you read about light? Be a detective and try to figure out what they mean. You can turn to the glossary on page 46 for help.
