How to Teach Mysteries With Secret Coders
Aspiring detectives and coders will love working together to figure out these mysteries.
Exploring mysteries with your class is a great way for students to develop critical thinking skills in a fun and engaging way. Mystery books for kids, like the graphic novel Secret Coders, by Gene Luen Yang and illustrated by Mike Holmes, always have strong characters and compelling plot structures, and of course, there’s a big payoff at the end—your students get to solve a mystery!
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At Stately Academy, there’s no end in sight when it comes to mysteries for kids to solve, like why does the best school in town look like a haunted house? But Hopper and Eni are up to the challenge, using their coding skills to follow clues and solve puzzles the school’s founder left for them. This book not only provides students the opportunity to study important features of mystery books, but they get to learn about programming and binary numbers at the same time.
Here are a few tips for teaching the mysteries to your students using Secret Coders:
Reading mysteries like Secret Coders isn’t only fun, it’s a great way for students to develop the problem-solving skills they need for success inside and outside the classroom. For more books and tools to teach the mystery genre to your students, check out our favorite mysteries.