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Students act as investigative reporters writing articles for a local newspaper. Every activity requires students to put clues together, and then evaluate the evidence to infer or deduce what happened in the story.The high-interest stories make it easy to motivate students to do the analytical work needed to piece together the evidence and write the article. Before writing, students complete an outline detailing When, Who, What, Where, and How or Why. Sample answers and a simple scoring rubric are provided to making grading easier. If you believe you need to think clearly to write so readers can understand what you have written, you'll find that Writing Detective® is a very helpful set