Spy Tools

Spy Tools is an expository nonfiction text that explains spy tools of the past and spy tools of today. The text explains how spy tools were used and why. Readers gain information from the text, captions, and labels.

Spy Tools is split into two sections to provide a comparison between spy tools of the past and spy tools of the present. Critical thinking questions are provided to guide the reader. Photographs match the text. A visual information guide is provided for teachers to draw students’ attention to the photographs, illustrations, Index, layout, and design. There is a photographic web at the end of the book that provides a visual summary of the past and present tools discussed. An activity on summarizing how one of the spy tools were or are used is provided for teachers to extend students’ learning.

Readers develop vocabulary such singular/plural (jaw/jaws) and homonyms (prey/pray). Opportunities arise to discuss using apostrophes within contractions (can’t). Focus on long and short vowel a and look at suffixes and base words (cutter).

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