Solving Mysteries: The Fenway Foul-up (2021)

Explain what makes Fenway Park unique by answering questions to demonstrate understanding of key details.

Describe three baseball-specific words and why they are important to the game by determining the meaning of words in a story and explaining how they are connected.

Explain how David A. Kelly starts the story The Fenway Foul-Up and why by describing the overall structure of a story, including how the beginning introduces the story and the aspects of a mystery.

Describe how Kate and Mike respond to the news that Big D’s bat had been stolen by describing how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Explain why the chapter was titled “Sunflower Seeds” by recounting key details in a text and describing the features of a mystery.

Identify the four different types of sentences and explain when they are used.

Write a newspaper article detailing what has been happening at Fenway Park by retelling key details and characters’ perspectives on events.

Describe Mike and Kate and how their different strengths make them a good team by describing how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Explain what Kate means by “It’s probably been right in front of us all this time” by describing how characters respond to major events and challenges.

Explain if Kate and Mike are right to suspect Kevin or if they are unfairly jumping to conclusions about him by describing how different characters respond to major events and challenges.

Identify the four different types of sentences and explain when they are used.

Write a newspaper article detailing what has been happening at Fenway Park by retelling key details and characters’ perspectives on events.

Explain if Kate and Mike are right to suspect the photographer or if they are unfairly jumping to conclusions about him by describing how different characters respond to major events and challenges.

Explain the significance of the sentence, “Suddenly, the pieces fell into place” by describing how different characters respond to major events.

Write a newspaper article detailing what has been happening at Fenway Park by retelling key details and characters’ perspectives on events.

Debate if Mike and Kate have solved the mystery and why by describing how characters respond to major events.

Explain why Kate and Mike were MVPs by determining the central message of a story.

Write a newspaper article detailing what has been happening at Fenway Park by retelling key details and characters’ perspectives on events.

Describe how David A. Kelly uses elements of mystery to develop the plot of the story by describing the overall structure of a story and how elements of mystery help drive the plot of a story.

Brainstorm and write the first chapter of a mystery book that demonstrates an understanding of the story elements in a mystery.