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5th Grade October Reading Adventure- Mystery of the Latinx Leader
The Learning League has had so much fun celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month in school, but someone they know would rather have the attention on themselves. The Culture Crook is throwing a fit that there is no month celebrating him and his thieving accomplishments, so he’s decided to steal a Presidential Medal of Freedom from a Hispanic leader!! Good thing the League is around to stop him, and they need your help. Solve the clues by answering reading questions, and figure out who that medal really belongs to. This Reading Adventure will keep your classroom explorers engaged and working hard on reading skills, while learning some history! Also available for 3rd and 4th grade.
100% of the earnings from this resource will go directly to the Chicanos Por La Causa, an organization created in the wake of Cesar Chavez's movement and an active fighter for Hispanic equality in the Southwest.
WHO is this mystery for?
Students on the 5th grade level who are practicing these reading skills:
Read Dictionary Definitions
Make Predictions
Personification
Main Idea- Nonfiction
Simple Cause and Effect
Teachers looking for a quick-prep, rigorous but differentiated, interdisciplinary activity that showcases topics that are often ignored or unexplored within social studies and science curriculum.
WHAT is included?
This adventure is an hour-long activity that can be completed in 3 Tracks:
Students read the mystery on a printed booklet, and they solve the clues by answering questions on Google Slides, which they can access with a QR code or link on a computer, tablet, or phone.
Students read the mystery on a printed booklet, and they solve the clues by answering questions on printed task cards.
Students read the mystery in one browser window of Google Slides, and they solve the clues by toggling between another browser window of Google Slides to answer questions. This method works great for laptops, but is not recommended for tablets.
No matter which track you take, the core of the activity is the same. Students always have access to the mystery story, 38 reading problems, 5 Social Studies Exploration posters, a Writing Challenge, and an integral poster about:
Anthony Romero, Cesar Chavez, Ellen Ochoa, Lin-Manuel Miranda, & Sonia Sotomayor
Students will walk away from this lesson knowing these social studies concepts:
- The importance and history behind Hispanic Heritage Month
- The history behind the Spanish colonization and the Latin countries that built unique cultures out of their resistance
- How students can celebrate and experience the wide array Hispanic culture is expressed and has been expressed through art, history, science, and progress
- and more!!
WHEN is it designed to be completed?
These skills are best practiced during Hispanic Heritage Month, which lasts from September 15th to October 15th each year!
WHERE can students solve this mystery?
Students can complete this activity in your classroom with pen and paper or technology, and even from home, thanks to the Digital Track!
HOW can this activity be differentiated?
Using either of these methods, you can scaffold these activities to meet each of your students, exactly where they’re at.
CUSTOMIZATION: great for students above and below grade level
Each math problem can be edited to whatever you please! Hypothetically, you could buy this mystery for the framework it provides, and change every single question.
AUDIO SUPPORTS: great for multilingual students
For the tracks including technology, your students have access to a read-aloud of not just the story, but each word written on Google Slides.
WHY should your students adventure with the Learning League?
Low teacher prep/High student engagement
Anti-racist curriculum that uplifts women and Black and Indigenous people of color
Three activity tracks with DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION
Audio scaffolding and editable problems
TRY OUT A MYSTERY FOR FREE!
Download The Oil Spill Mystery for math and The Case of the Absent Abolitionist for reading.
Adventure also available on TeachersPayTeachers!