One Wobbly Ship! One New Baby! One String of Islands! A Bunch of Missing Coins! And a lot of Lost Colonists! Mimi tells Christina and Grant a mystery story about North CarolinaÃs Lost Colony, complete with two boisterous boys, kidnapped coins, a foggy graveyard, a missing friend, and a moonlight trip on an old sailing ship!
LOOK what's inside this mystery - people, places, history and more! PLACES - North Carolina: Manteo's waterfront area • The Graveyard, Manteo • Kill Devil Hills • Sharktooth Sea • Rodanthe • Roanoke Sound • Shallowbag Bay on Ice Plant Island • Wingina, Chief of the Indians • Ocracoke Island Wild Ponies and Island Inn • Elizabeth II; Dimensions, Materials used, design.
PEOPLE: Sir Walter Raleigh • John White • Eleanor Dare • Virginia Dare • Queen Elizabeth Blackbeard the Pirate • Mighty Midgetts of Chicamacomico • The Werowance.
HISTORY: Legend of the Banks Pony • Elizabeth II • Difficulties in survival in the New World: Food and Habitat.
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: 5.4
Accelerated Reader Points: 2
Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 140441
Lexile Measure: 890
Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q
Developmental Assessment Level: 40
Want a sneak peak? Read the first three chapters
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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
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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
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4. Download additional activities including
Fact or Fiction, Fascinating Facts, Book Club Discussions and Book Club Activities HERE.
5. The corresponding
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