This document provides context and instruction for students to read a mystery story called "The Mystery of the Missing Lunch". It previews vocabulary words, genre elements of mysteries, and strategies for making inferences and identifying problems and solutions in stories. Students are asked to preview illustrations from the story and predict what the problem may be and how it could be solved before listening to the selection.

1. The Mystery of the Missing LunchIntroductionMacMillan/McGraw-Hill Treasures4th Grade – Unit 1 – Week 1Created by Teresa Wilson – Desert Palms Elem. – June 2010

2. OBJECTIVESToday we will… Read a mystery

3. Make inferences and analyze text to come to a conclusion about the plot or characters Identify the problem and solution in the story

4. VOCABULARY REVIEWAssignmentsAssignmentsare tasks to complete.Consideration Giving something consideration means taking time to think about it.Accuse To accuse someone is to say that the person did something wrong.Suspicious When something is suspicious to you, it makes you feel distrustful.

5. VOCABULARY REVIEW EvidenceEvidence is used to show whether something is true.Consume When you consume something, you use it up or eat it.AllergiesAllergiesare physical symptoms caused by the body’s overreaction to things.

6. GENRE: MysteryA mystery is a story in which the characters and the reader must use clues to find the explanation for a troubling event. In the beginning, the author describes a puzzling situation. The characters in the story try to find out who did something or how it happened.

7. STRATEGY: Make Inferences Authors do not always directly tell the reader everything that is happening in a story. Good readers use their own prior knowledge and clues from the text to make inferences, or draw reasonable conclusions about the characters and the plot. To make inferences, readers analyze, or think critically about, the characters’ experiences and compare these to their own experiences.

8. SKILL: Problem and Solution In most plots, the main character has a problem that he or she takes actions to solve. By the end of the story, the character usually finds a solution to the problem.

9. PREVIEW & PREDICTWhen I say “Go”, take 1 minute to preview the illustrations. Ask yourself: What could the problem be?

10. How might it get solved?On your index card, write yourpredictions. After we listen to the selection, we will see if your questions were answered.

11. FOCUS QUESTION Read to find out…Can you solve the mystery before Ramon does?NOW…you will read alongas we listen to….

12. The Mystery of the Missing Lunch