Integrating Crime and Mystery Fiction Into the Content Areas Margot Kinberg National University Clute Institute 2014 International Education Conference Las Vegas, NV

Integrating Crime and Mystery Fiction Into the Content Areas Why integrate literature into the content areas? Why integrate crime fiction in particular? How has crime fiction been integrated successfully? Which crime fiction can be integrated?

Why Integrate Literature Into the Content Areas? Student Engagement Personal Connections Content-Specific Knowledge and Literacy Decoding and other Reading Skills Reflective and Critical Thinking

Why Integrate Crime Fiction in Particular? Popularity Available at a wide range of reading levels Adaptable Many options allow greater student choice

How Has Crime Fiction Been Integrated Successfully? Shimburg & Grant (1998) Who-Dun-It Furgiele & Gaudet (2007) Mysteries and Uncanny Happenings Wallace, Evans and Stien (2011) Integration of Crime Fiction into 9th Grade Math curriculum

Which Crime Fiction Can Be Integrated? Roald Dahl – Lamb to the Slaughter Agatha Christie – Blue Geranium Leith Hathout – Crimes and Mathdemeanours Keigo Higashino – Salvation of a Saint .

Which Crime Fiction Can Be Integrated? Roald Dahl – Lamb to the Slaughter Agatha Christie – Blue Geranium Leith Hathout – Crimes and Mathdemeanours Keigo Higashino – Salvation of a Saint Lamb to the Slaughter is short, easily accessible, and can be used for history lessons Blue Geranium- Also a short story, so easy to integrate, Leith Hathout has written a collection of short stories featuring Ravi, a 14-year-old math genius who helps the local police solve crimeand can be used for science, especially chemistry Keigo Higashino's novels feature Manabu ‘Galileo’ Yukawa, who is a physicist .

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