By Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

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Nate the Great San Francisco Detective

• By Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
• and
• Mitchell Sharmat

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Genre

• Mystery
• A mystery is a story about something that is not
  known, understood, or explained.

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Vocabulary

• Detective a person who solves mysteries
• Specific exact
• Positive completely sure
• Case a mystery or problem a detective is working
  to solve
• Returned brought back
• Definitely surely
• Assistant a person who helps someone do a job

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Spelling Words

1. easy 11. raise
2. grade 12. leave
3. meet 13. gain
4. late 14. theme
5. seat 15. scream
6. saved 16. mystery
7. pail 17. solve
8. these 18. search
9. reach 19. found
10. name 20. investigate

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Story Map
Characters
Setting
Plot
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Grammar pg. 85

• A command is a sentence that gives an order to a
  direction. End a command with a period.
• An exclamation is a sentence that shows strong
  feeling. End an exclamation with an exclamation
  point.

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Tell whether each sentence is a command or an
exclamation. Then write each sentence, adding the
correct end mark.

• Feed that duck some crumbs
• What a loud quack it has
• How pretty its feather are
• Please take its picture
• Wow, its flapping its wings
• Rewrite each sentence. Begin each with a capital
  letter and add the correct end marks.
• 6. hold this snake carefully
• 7. what a loud his it makes
• 8. be gentle with it
• 9. what soft skin snakes have
• 10. put it back into the weeds

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Grammar pg. 86

• Ronald is going home from camp. Find the
  exclamations and commands. Write each sentence,
  adding the correct end mark. Then tell whether
  the sentence is an exclamation or a command.
• Ronald What a good time I had
• Father Please help me load the car
• Father Get in the car, everyone
• Aunt Ruth My, what a long trip it is
• Mother Look at the map, Ronald
• Ronald Hooray, I see our town

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Grammar pg. 87

• If a word group is a sentence, write sentence. If
  a word group is not a sentence, rewrite the word
  group, adding words to make it a sentence.
• The camping trip.
• I gave her some raisins.
• Gave the duck a cracker.
• Practiced my song.
• We rolled down the hill.
• Write each sentence, adding the correct end
  marks. Write statement, question, command, or
  exclamation after each sentence.
• 6. I surprised two rabbits in the field
• 7. Are there many rabbits here
• 8. Shoo them away, Dave
• 9. How floppy their ears look
• 10. Please carry my pail for me