The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: High Interest Classics with Comprehension ActivitiesBring the Classics To Life. These novels have been adapted into 10 short chapters that will excite the reluctant reader as well as the enthusiastic one. Key words are defined and used in context. Multiple-choice questions require the student to recall specific details, sequence the events, draw inferences from story context, develop another name for the chapter, and choose the main idea. Let the Classics introduce Kipling, Stevenson, and H.G. Wells. Your students will embrace the notion of Crusoe's lonely reflections, the psychological reactions of a Civil War soldier at Chancellorsville, and the tragedy of the Jacobite Cause in 18th Century Scotland. In our society, knowledge of these Classics is a cultural necessity. Improves fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. |
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12 | |
A CASE OF IDENTITY | 18 |
THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY | 24 |
THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP | 30 |
THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE | 36 |
THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR | 42 |
THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET | 48 |
A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA | 54 |
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEERS THUMB | 60 |
COMPREHENSION CHECK ANSWER KEY | 67 |
VOCABULARY CHECK ANSWER KEY | 69 |
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ADVENTURE Alexander Holder Alice Turner answer the following Arthur asked Holmes bank beggar BERYL CORONET best answer Blue Carbuncle BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY Check your answers Choose the best Clair COMPREHENSION CHECK Choose correct key word crime ENGINEER'S THUMB Finish Fill following question Fritz George Burnwell going goose Hatty Doran heard Helen Henry Baker Homser Angel husband Irene Adler James McCarthy jewel key on page King of Bohemia knew looking Lord St machine married Mary Sutherland Mary's stepfather mother Necessary Words Neville St NOBLE BACHELOR person picture police policeman PREPARATION Key Words Preview Answer Read the name Read the sentence read the story Read to find Red-Headed League reproduced for classroom right answer SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA Sentences to Finish Sherlock Holmes Simon snake someone speckled band stole story is mainly tell thing True False TWISTED LIP Victor Vincent Spaulding VOCABULARY CHECK wanted wedding wife woman