A Teacher's Guide to Mysteries Spice up your reading lessons with a mystery T eachers are constantly being challenged by their students. One of the biggest challenges is to find a way to make reading become a fun activity rather than a chore. Teachers and parents are always looking for ways to instill a life-long love of reading. The secret is to find the type of story that will grab the reader's interest. What Mysteries Have to Offer Besides being exciting and engaging, mysteries offer some other excellent learning potential.
Students arrange characters and events in the mystery.
Students classify events, describe characters, and explain precisely what has occurred. Students apply existing knowledge to the mystery by illustrating, dramatizing, and writing their interpretations. Students analyze, categorize, and differentiate characters and events. Students collect and organize facts to form hypotheses. Students appraise, argue, assess, and evaluate their opinions in the process of solving the mystery.