Mystery Vocabulary

What is an alibi?

• your reason for having been somewhere else when a crime was committed

• something intended to distract or draw attention away from the real problem

• another name for detective

• to break the law

What is a witness?

• someone who commits a crime

• someone who investigates a crime

• someone who sees a crime being committed

• someone who is thought to have committed a crime but hasn't been proven guilty

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

What is a suspect?

• someone who sees a crime being committed

• someone who is thought to have committed a crime but hasn't been proven guilty yet

• someone who solves a crime

• someone who has an alibi

What is a mystery?

• an unsolved puzzle

• another name for detective

• another name for sleuth

• a logical reason

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is a clue?

• someone who sees a crime being committed

• a gut feeling or educated guess

• a piece of evidence that helps solve a problem

• an unsolved puzzle

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is a red herring?

• a cause for someone's actions - the reason why someone might have committed a crime

• another name for detective

• using logic to solve a problem

• something intended to distract away from the real problem (good authors use this in writing mysteries)

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

What is a motive?

• the reason why someone might have committed a crime

• an unsolved puzzle

• proof - items found at a crime scene that help solve the myster

• to break the law

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

What is a detective?

• the person who commits a crime

• the person who sees a crime being committed

• the person who gives you an alibi

• the person who investigates a crime

What is evidence?

• another name for detective

• proof - items found in a crime scene that help solve the mystery

• someone who sees a crime being committed

• an unsolved puzzle

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

What is a crime?

• solving a mystery

• providing an alibi

• a gut feeling

• breaking the law