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jaij7's review against another edition
4.0
This book might work well for introducing mystery. It has all of the elements needed and is interesting enough to keep the kids' attention during a read aloud.
scostner's review against another edition
4.0
This book is fun to read and has so many possibilities for use in the elementary classroom.
-Duck has to solve the mystery and goes about eliminating suspects one by one. That's a great opportunity for working on using details from the story as supporting proof in an argument. (Hear that Common Core?)
-It also would make a good lesson on using details of the illustrations to support the text and extend meaning. Readers will need to look carefully at each scene to find the clues that Duck finds.
-Logical reasoning is a "logical" skill to work on, too.
-For late kindergarten or early first grade classes, it would work well as a read-aloud to accompany a lesson on subtraction - especially since the equation is right there on the page as each suspect is crossed off the list. Students could follow along using manipulatives or writing their own number sentences.
-Older readers who still enjoy picture books (and parents and teachers)will laugh at things like Raccoon complaining he is always a suspect because of his mask.
-I think it would be fun to use for Readers Theater. There are plenty of characters to go around and students could create masks to portray each of the animals in the story.
-Tie that in with some research on the animal assigned to each student and you would have an entire unit of study. Ta-da!
Note: I received this book as a goodreads.com giveaway.
-Duck has to solve the mystery and goes about eliminating suspects one by one. That's a great opportunity for working on using details from the story as supporting proof in an argument. (Hear that Common Core?)
-It also would make a good lesson on using details of the illustrations to support the text and extend meaning. Readers will need to look carefully at each scene to find the clues that Duck finds.
-Logical reasoning is a "logical" skill to work on, too.
-For late kindergarten or early first grade classes, it would work well as a read-aloud to accompany a lesson on subtraction - especially since the equation is right there on the page as each suspect is crossed off the list. Students could follow along using manipulatives or writing their own number sentences.
-Older readers who still enjoy picture books (and parents and teachers)will laugh at things like Raccoon complaining he is always a suspect because of his mask.
-I think it would be fun to use for Readers Theater. There are plenty of characters to go around and students could create masks to portray each of the animals in the story.
-Tie that in with some research on the animal assigned to each student and you would have an entire unit of study. Ta-da!
Note: I received this book as a goodreads.com giveaway.
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