Welcome New Reading Detectives!

All of Ms. Holland's READING DETECTIVES know that it is all about the CLUES!

Can you solve this riddle? (Remember those clues!)

My two webbed feet help me move around.  I am dressed in black and white.  I am a bird but I cannot fly.  I live in ice cold water.  What am I? 

Clues:

• two webbed feet
• black and white
• bird
• cannot fly
• ice cold water

Click HERE for the answer.

Did you guess the right answer?  

This year we will discover new and useful strategies to uncover the meaning of our reading.  We will use reading detective skills like:

• Inferencing
• Drawing Conclusions
• Main Idea 
• Asking Questions
• Summarizing
• Using Text features
• Understanding Genre

Get ready to discover the mysteries of reading!

Do you like riddles? Check out this cool site to practice those inferencing skills.

• Can you guess who or what I am?