A genre study of mystery that includes the skills detectives need to solve cases--vocabulary, cause/effect, compare/contrast, prediction, sequence, fact/opinion, character traits, 2 observational photographs, and fun activities like invisible ink and coded messages. Also included are 6 anchor charts, practice sheets, a mystery poem, bookmarks, Detective's Notebook, and lesson plans for Cam Jensen and the Missing Dinosaur Bones by David A. Adler. This unit can be used with any mystery however.