Assessment for Learning Resource Bank

Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity – Detective Academy

Learning Targets for Key Stage 3:

KSb -	To interpret and use more extensive information through processes and activities such as comparing, inferring and drawing -conclusions
KDd -	To identify and define problems from given information, consider related factors, solve the problems and explain the situation

Learning Objectives:

Text Types

Vocabulary

Language Items and Communicative Functions

Language Skills

Generic Skills

-	Statements
-	News headlines
-	Poems

Spies and detectives Mysteries, codes, secret, messages, clues, magnifying glass, investigate, suspect, trap, solve, decode

Places at home
Dining room, living room, master room, bedroom, study, bathroom, kitchen

-	Give and follow more advanced instructions
-	Use the simple past tense for reporting procedures followed in the past

-	Reading
-	Writing

-	critical thinking skills
-	problem solving skill

Relevant Basic Competency Descriptors:

L6-R-1-S3BC:	Using an increasing range of reading strategies to understand the meaning of texts with some degree of complexity
L6-R-2-S3BC:	Extracting and organizing information and ideas from texts with some degree of complexity
L6-W-1-S3BC:	Writing a variety of texts of different purposes with relevant and generally adequate content
Level of Difficulty		- Preliminary to S3BC (at S1 level)
		- To S3BC (at S1 to S2 level)
		- At S3BC (at S3 level)

Activity

Description

Duration

(min)

Available for Self Learning

Part 1

Interactive Activity 1: Eye Spy
Students are asked to identify the magnified objects by examining the photos as well as reading the clues provided.

Part 2

Interactive Activity 2: Secret Codes
Students are asked to identify the hidden messages by investigating the secret codes and reading the clues provided.

Part 3

Interactive Activity 3: The Final Challenge
Students are asked to find the way out of a haunted house by using the clues provided (i.e. secret codes, news headlines, a map, a poem, etc.).

Part 4

Activity Sheet

Answers

Writing Activity: A "Day-Trap" in the Haunted House
Students are asked to write some field notes about how they escaped from the haunted house by revisiting Part 3 again.