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Rhonda McLeod is a novel written by Lach Ormonde. It was designed to be used as a novel study in a middle school classroom. It follows the titular character, a police detective in Western Australia who has lost her confidence to solve cases. In the first 5 week unit the students engage with this text one chapter at a time, playing as the protagonist and finding the literary clues in the text to solve the case. Students present their hypothesis to the class, justifying their choice of suspect us

Rhonda McLeod is a novel written by Lach Ormonde. It was crafted by a Year 6 teacher to be used as a novel study in a middle school classroom. It follows the titular character, a police detective in Western Australia who has lost her confidence to solve cases. In the first 5-week unit, students engage with this text one chapter at a time, playing as the protagonist and finding the literary clues in the text to solve the case. Students present their hypothesis to the class, justifying their choi

This book has been created so students can find intrigue and curiosity in the melting pot that is the English language. There are many fun pockets of patterns and word evolutions to discover and this book has 25 unique etymology units where students work independently to learn more about the building blocks of language. Each unit is designed to take approximately 75 minutes or 5 sessions of 15 minutes. This book functions as an independent inquiry where each unit is student-led. The structure i