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Lucy and Henry’s investigations - The Red-Haired Gang
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 20x27cm
Pages: 56
ISBN: 978-88-590-2756-0
Publication date: 01/02/2022
Suitable for: Primary 2nd level (ages 8-10)
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A fun reading workbook designed to help children, from 8 to 10 years old, reinforce their ability to understand written text. In addition to the exciting story, which stars Lucy Holmes and Henry Watson, direct descendants of the famous Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. John H. Watson, young readers will have to solve many stimulating puzzles which will enable them to crack the mystery while practicing reading comprehension skills in a playful way. Young readers will have to solve many stimulating puzzles and, at the same time, practice, in a playful way, in understanding the text.
The volume aims to train children in situations that require a deeper and more reflective reading that leads to an understanding based on inferences and deductions, to stimulate the fundamental components of the comprehension process.
Mini Mysteries on Text Comprehension
The series, designed for children attending the last two years of primary school, offers the most famous stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle revisited and enriched by captivating challenges. The ability to understand the written text is practiced through the reading of the stories and the carrying out of the proposed activities.
To fully enjoy reading a text, an experienced reader must be able to understand in depth the nuances and implicit information.
THE SERIES
The series Mini Mysteries on Text Comprehension – Lucy and Henry’s investigations, aimed at children in the last two years of primary school, has as its protagonists Lucy Holmes and Henry Watson, the descendants of Sherlock Holmes and his right hand man Doctor Watson from some famous adventures born from the imagination of the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories in the series have been adapted in a modern way and optimized to be suitable for children in the fourth and/or fifth grades of primary school. They are intended to offer children fun stories and stimulating puzzles in order to practice a playful understanding of the text.
THE STRUCTURE OF THE VOLUME
Each volume in the series features an engaging story complete with many puzzles to solve, designed to enhance reading skills:
Each volume presents the text on the left pages, and the riddle to be solved on the right pages
The solutions can be found at the end of the volume
Fun stickers complete the enjoyment
THE VOLUMES IN THE SERIES
Lucy and Henry’s investigations - The Red-Haired Gang
Help Lucy Holmes and Henry Watson to solve the mysterious case of The Red-Haired Gang: by reading the story and carrying out the proposed activities, children from 8 to 10 years old will be able to improve their understanding of the written text.
Leaf through the cards which have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation of the product:
THE AUTHORS
Enrico Angelo Emili works as an associate professor in Didactics and Special Pedagogy at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo. He carries out his research in the field of special educational needs, accessible literature, inclusive teaching and assistive technology.
Luciana Lenzi worked for decades in schools as a teacher and alongside the school as a tutor and pedagogical coordinator of after-school activities and learning centers. She has created educational materials trying to overcome the "exclusively for some" in favour of "inclusive for all." She has written books and done training for schools, MIUR and the University of Bologna (Master of psycho-pedagogy and teaching of DSA). She has a degree in Education.
Emanuele Rosada After graduation, he worked as a learning tutor in after-school and educational centers. As a consultant, he contributed to the creation of teaching materials with Luciana Lenzi and Enrico Angelo Emili.
