Cover -- Credits -- Page 3 - Table of Contents -- Page 5 - What Is Fiction? -- Page 6 - The Importance of Using Fiction -- Page 10 - Elements of Fiction -- Page 12 - A Closer Look at Mystery -- Page 14 - Leveled Texts to Differentiate Instruction -- Page 17 - Teaching Suggestions -- Page 23 - How to Use This Book -- Page 27 - Correlation to Standards -- Page 31 - Setting Passages -- Page 31 - The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Page 39 - The Circular Staircase -- Page 47 - The Blue Ghost Mystery -- Page 55 - Character Passages -- Page 55 - The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle -- Page 63 - The Secret Adversary -- Page 71 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles -- Page 79 - Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery -- Page 87 - Plot Passages -- Page 87 - Penny Nichols Finds a Clue -- Page 95 - Penny Nichols and the Mystery of the Lost Key -- Page 103 - The Secret Adversary -- Page 111- The Man with the Twisted Lip -- Page 119 - Language Usage Passages -- Page 119 - The Scarlet Lake Mystery -- Page 127 - The Red House Mystery -- Page 135 - The Thirty-nine Steps -- Page 143 -Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill -- Page 151 - References Cited -- Page 152 - Contents of the Digital Resource CD -- Thank You Page.
Differentiate instruction with excerpts from 15 different classic mystery stories written at four different reading levels/ Each text focuses on setting, character, plot, or language usage and can be used for close reading or small-group instruction.