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

2. 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?

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. 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 .

7. 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 .

8. Let's Keep in Contact! Margot Kinberg margotkinberg@gmail.com