Drone Detective: Read Between the Lines

A middle-school speech-language lesson about drones. Students learn drone words, read how drones fly and the rules for flying one, then use those facts like a detective: spot the detail that makes a news story impossible, pick the best way to check a story, infer what happened from clues, sort active and passive sentences, match prefixes and suffixes, choose an assertive way to speak up in a group project, and find a passage's main idea. Every passage, question and answer has a read-aloud button. Clean tech illustrations with no cutesy characters, built for grades 6 to 8.

• 15 scenes with read-aloud narration on every passage, question and answer
• Two matching sets: drone words and word parts
• A news-story highlight task, two sorts (active and passive; passive, assertive and aggressive) and a safe-flying finale

• Cite the detail in a text that shows a claim can't be true
• Infer a cause from clues in a short scenario
• Tell active from passive voice
• Use prefixes and suffixes to work out a word's meaning
• Choose an assertive way to share an idea in a group