Plenty of Poison! Three Finger Findings! A Ghostly Gang! One Big Brand! Equals a Howling Good Mystery! Christina and Grant try to help their new friends unravel a mystery and keep their town from becoming another relic of the Old West! Why are the cattle getting sick? Who is sneaking into the old mine? "Hey, was that a ghost? Or was that you, Grant? GRANT?"
LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more!
Cowboy attire • General cowboy lifestyle • Boot Hill Cemetery history • Tombstone, AR history • Old West history • Navajo symbols • Mining facts • Hendersonville history • Pollution from mining • Branding cattle • Camping materials • Tombstone Courthouse Museum • OK Corral • Sunshine Gap, Arizona • Eureka Gulch, Arizona • Bisbee, Arizona • Hendersonville, Arizona • Rose Tree Inn.
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: 3-6
Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.6
Accelerated Reader Points: 2
Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 126335
Lexile Measure: 750
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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Teacher’s Guide.
