This page is currently being updated weekly. The teacher I support, Shannon Shanning, just began reading Lost Lynx to our middle school students on January 17th, 2025. What a treat it is for me to be listening in as our readers dive in!
Listed below will be some of our favorite classroom lessons and projects as we make our way through Mystery of the Lost Lynx. There are also additional projects within the curriculum guides for books 1, 2 and 4, and that could easily be tweaked to use with Lost Lynx.
Come visit again for updates, and please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Prime The Pump
One thing I’ve learned from Shannon, is it is very important to get students familiar with the setting, and/or the subject matter of a book before reading. This helps them connect to the story quicker, helps them visualize it. Even if readers are familiar with camping in a campground, they might not be familiar with winter camping. She used the following to help get our readers imaginations flowing.
What Do You Already Know About Camping?
Hand out an ABC organizer and ask students to give a winter fact for each letter, to get them thinking about the setting and time frame of this story. Here are examples from our students:
A = accidents (falling down, cars), angel, artic
B = boots, blanket, black ice
C = coat, cold, cocoa
D = dog sled, downhill
Note: You can also do this with the words campground or lynx