Christina, Grant, Mimi, Papa visit Papa's good friend who lives on a cattle ranch in Nevada. They land the Mystery Girl on a small airstrip near Area 51 and soon learn that the rancher and his wife have been losing their cattle. While trying to solve the mystery of the missing cattle, Christina and Grant find a "crop" circle clue. Could it be alien abductions? This spooky mystery has the kids traveling in an RV, riding on 4-wheelers, visiting a few ghost towns and getting stuck in a mine.
LOOK what's inside this mystery - people, places, history and more! Place in Nevada: Flyin' R Ranch • Little A'Le'Inn • Area 51 • Mojave Desert • Pahranagat Valley • Ash Springs • Richardville Road • E.T. Highway
Educational Items: S'mores • Cattle ranching • Crop Circles • Shoshone Indians • Sonic booms • The Gold Rush • Map coordinates • Pahranagat Valley: flora, alfalfa and cottonwoods • Air Force • Aircraft testing • Groom Lake • Night vision goggles • Radio transmissions
Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, this mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that will keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities.
Below is the
Reading Levels Guide for this book:
Grade Levels: 2-8
Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 3.9
Accelerated Reader Points: 2
Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 143635
Lexile Measure: 600
Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q
Developmental Assessment Level: 40
Want a sneak peak? Read the first three chapters
HERE.
For additional resources, go to the Resources Tab. On the Resource Tab, you will find Common Core State Standards for Teachers, Where Have You Been map, additional activities including Fact or Fiction, Fascinating Facts, Book Club Discussion Questions and Book Club Activities, and the Around the World Common Core State Standards Teacher Resource for classroom discussion questions and activities for ELA.
FREE resources for you!
1. Download the Carole Marsh Mysteries
Real Kids! Real Places! Correlations to Common Core/State Standards HERE.
2. Download the
Where Have You Been map
HERE.
3. Utilize the
Real Kids! Real Places! Common Core State Standards Teacher Resource for classroom discussion questions and activities for ELA grades 2-6. This can be used for all 50 mysteries
HERE.
4. Download additional activities including
Fact or Fiction, Fascinating Facts, Book Club Discussions and Book Club Activities HERE.
5. The corresponding
Teacher's Guide is a page-by-page supplementary resource that gives you additional activities to enhance the student's learning opportunities by using cross-curricular materials including discussion questions, reproducible vocabulary, science, geography and math activities. Click
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