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Name ______________________________ Nate the Great- San Francisco Detective By Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and Mitchell Sharmat Illustrated by Martha Weston Prediction ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Author’s Purpose inform persuade entertain

Nate the Great • Focus Skills: • To use spelling and letter patterns to decode multisyllabic words • Compound Word review • To use commands and exclamations correctly • To read and understand a mystery selection- sequence the story • Genre • Mystery- a story about something that is not known, understood or explained • Summary • Detective Nate the Great searches San Francisco for a lost joke book. He discovers that the wrong place can be the best place to look for a lost item • Reading Strategy • Read Ahead • When reading a mystery story, you will use clues to try to determine the story outcome. Reading ahead is a strategy that you can use if you are confused or don’t understand something you’ve read. Readers often need to read ahead when reading a mystery because mysteries always include events that are not explained until later in the story.

Questions • *What problem does Nate have when he arrives at the airport? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • How is the problem solved? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • How can you tell that Nate is surprised and excited to ride in a limo? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • How would you break the word suitcase apart? • _______________________________________________ • *What problem does Nate learn about? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • Why does Nate say “Nate the Great for Olivia Sharp” when he answers the phone? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • What do you learn about Nate from his conversations with Annie, Rosamond and Claude? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________

*What is Duncan’s problem? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • When Duncan says the world is coming to an end, does he mean the earth is about to explode? Explain • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • 10. If you were Duncan, how might you solve the problem? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • 11. Why does Nate take Duncan’s case? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • 12. *Why does Nate call Duncan’s case “a California case”? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • 13. How does Duncan look when he answers the door? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • How does the author use Duncan’s appearance to show how Duncan feels? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________

15. *Why is it important that Duncan bought the only copy of Joke Stew? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • 16. Duncan won’t tell Nate everything that happened yesterday. How does that affect the case? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • 17. *Who is the girl who is looking for the joke book? How do you know? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • 18. Why didn’t Duncan want to tell Nate that he knocked the syrup over? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • 19. Do you think the waiter treated Duncan fairly? Why or why not? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • 20. *What do you think Nate has figured out? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________ • *Before he opens the freezer, what does Nate think happened to the joke book? • ______________________________________________________________________________________________

22. Why might Duncan be making a joke when he says, “Oh, cool!”? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 23. Does Nate’s idea about what happened make sense? Why or why not? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 24. *Why does Nate think someone might have brought the missing book back to Booksie’s Bookstore? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 25. How do Nate and Duncan react differently to problems that come up in the case? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 26. *What types of books have been returned? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 27. How can you tell that Nate is someone who never gives up? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 28. How might refusing to give up help Nate be a good detective? ______________________________________________________________________________________________

29. *How does Nate solve the case? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 30. How did Nate figure out that Joke Stew might be in the cookbook section? ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 31. What do you think Nate means when he says that the “wrong place” is sometimes the right place to look for something that is lost? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 32. What is Nate talking about when he says , “I knew the world was safe for now”? ______________________________________________________________________________________________

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