📚 Explorers: Word Detective
A fully interactive A2.2 Kids reading-strategy lesson in the Explorer Club: Master Level series. Students become word detectives who guess unknown words from context instead of stopping. Part 2 is a three-box strategy toolkit: 'Guess, Don't Stop!' with the new-word + clues = smart guess formula and a five-step detective panel (read the sentence, look at the picture, think what makes sense, guess, read on and check); 'Three Kinds of Clues' (picture, nearby words, common sense) with worked examples; and a Clue Table matching clue types to how they help. Ten strategy words (clue, guess, context, detective, meaning, unknown, nearby, sense, hint, skip) come with kid-friendly definitions and examples, six as review flashcards. The reading is a magazine-style detective case where Team Compass crack four tricky words (huge, python, exhausted, gloomy, shiny, gem) using context clues, with hover tooltips. Practice offers 8 fill-in-the-blank items mixing strategy vocabulary and context guessing with live validation, hints and a score; speaking gives five detective prompts and a five-line model dialogue; the writing task guides a 30–50 word account of a real word the student guessed with a four-point checklist and live word counter; and an 8-question quiz mixes context-clue skills with two comprehension questions about the reading, featuring a progress bar, per-question explanations, a result circle and localStorage persistence.
Lesson Plan
- 4 questions about meeting new words while reading
- Silent thinking or pair-share format — no writing required
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Context-clue strategy: guess an unknown word from the words and pictures around it
- Three clue types: picture clues, nearby-word clues, and common-sense clues
- Five detective steps: read the sentence, look at the picture, think what makes sense, guess, then read on and check
- Opposite and feeling clues: words like 'but' and how a person feels hint at meaning
- Guess before you ask: keep reading instead of stopping at every new word
Prerequisites
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