Grade(s): 7-12+
Activities: 64
Pages: 69

Students learn to think beyond literal meaning!

Red Herrings Mysteries develops students' inferential and deductive thinking skills for more effective reading, listening, and logical thinking. The activities also encourage creative brainstorming and flexible thinking.

This title was previously published in two books as A Case of Red Herrings B1 and B2.

Table of Contents

About This Book

Graphic Organizers

Exercises

Behind the Scenes

Each page contains a paragraph with a statement. The student(s) pose inferential questions to ascertain the situation which makes the paragraph true. The questions can also be used to brainstorm possible solutions.

The first example is: "Out for a drive, he stopped for gas, but when he filled up, the fuel indicator never budged. Why not?"

The solution:
He was filling the tires of his care with air (a gas). Concept: A gas is not a liquid or a solid. Gases, liquids and solids are differentiated by their properties. In a gas, atoms do not stick together; a gas is compressible. The atoms of a liquid or solid do stick together and the substance is not compressible.