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Dive into the intriguing world of mystery writing with essential techniques for crafting compelling narratives. This guide covers vital terms like red herring, sleuth, and suspect, while emphasizing problem-solving strategies. Learn how to keep track of characters, making predictions and adjustments as you write. Develop your deductive and inductive reasoning, and enhance your investigator skills by listing important clues with their significance. Capture setting changes and highlight vocabulary that enhances your storytelling. Perfect for budding authors and seasoned writers alike!
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Mystery Unit Terms • Problem solving • Red herring • Sleuth • Suspect • Victim • Witness • Alibi • Deductive reasoning • Inductive reasoning • Evidence • Inference • Investigator • Mystery
Sticky Notes in your novels • List characters as you meet them and tell about them. • Make predictions as you go along. Leave them on the page you thought about them and when you want to change it as you read put the new one there and tell why you changed your mind. • List clues as you find them, tell the page number and why they are important. • Note setting changes. • Words you don’t know or words from our list-page # • Anything you think will be important as we do activities I this unit.