Enigma - A Magical Mystery

Base, Graeme. Enigma- A Magical Mystery. (2008). Base, Graeme (Illus.). New York, New York Abrams Books for Young Readers

Bertie was expecting a typical visit to see his grandfather at his retirement home. But much to Bertie's surprise it was not a typical visit. Bertie spend his time trying to find his grandfather's rabbit Enigma, and helping the other residents of the retirement home get their magic back.

Connecting to the Standards
Grade 2 RL (2): Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

• Students will demonstrate this when we are discussing the different character and what their magic power is. 

Grade 2 RL (7): Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

• Students will meet this standard when they make predictions about what magic power each character has prior to finding out what magic power they actually have.

Learning Outcomes 
Given the question "If you could have any magic powers, what would they be and why?," students will formulate an answer with 80% accuracy.

Adapted to the Classroom
This would be a read a loud used when discussing sequence and patterns due to the code that has to be broken in the back to display. While reading students would make predictions as to what the different characters magical powers are before we read.When we are finished reading we will make a chart listing the character and their magic power. After we are done reading we will work toward trying to solve the code in the back of the book.

After discussing the code, we would go back and discuss the events that happened in the text. While discussing we would touch on Magic and discuss Magicians. While discussing Magicians and what they do we would discuss magic. After discussing I would students the chance to answer the question "If you could have any magic powers, what would they be and why?" After students had a chance to answer this question they would report back to class, so the class could hear about what magic power they would want to have.

Bloom's Taxonomy 
What is a Magician? (Knowledge)
What approach would you use to solve the mystery in the retirement home? (Application)

Differentiation
For students with Dyslexia, they would be aloud to use the dictionary to look up words they are not sure how to spell in order to answer the questions about which magic power they would want
For students who finish early, they would be given worksheets where they are trying to crack the code.