title: Reading Detective A1
author: Critical Thinking
description: These highly-effective, literature-based thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 192-page activity book is especially effective at helping students in Grades 5-6 understand challenging critical reading concepts such as making inferences, drawing conclusions, determining cause and effect, using context clues to define vocabulary, and making predictions and generalizations. Students answer multiple-choice and short-response questions then provide sentence-level evidence for their answers. Each reproducible book contains goals, pretests and posttests, 50 activities, a glossary of terms, and answers with evidence and detailed explanations.
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  # The Azteck Opal
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Rodrigues Ottolengui
  
  
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  "Mr. Mitchel," began Mr. Barnes, the detective, after exchanging greetings, "I
  have called to see you upon a subject which I am sure will enlist your keenest
  interest, for several reasons. It relates to a magnificent jewel; it concerns
  your intimate friends; and it is a problem requiring the most analytical
  qualities of the mind in its solution."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Ah! Then you have solved it?" asked Mr. Mitchel.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "I think so. You shall judge. I have today been called in to investigate one
  of the most singular cases that has fallen in my way. It is one in which the
  usual detective methods would be utterly valueless. The facts were presented
  to me, and the solution of the mystery could only be reached by analytical
  deduction."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "That is to say, by using your brains?"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Precisely! Now, you have admitted tha