THE “SHERLOCK HOLMES STRATEGY”

INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY - STEP 1

In this introductory activity you will experience what I call “the Sherlock Holmes strategy”, i.e. the ability to make inferences and deductions – using general “rules” to make sense of particular items of information.

Read this sentence carefully:

I want to buy some new brinches

What do you think brinches could be?

Copy the table below. Write your hypotheses or predictions in the column on the left; write the reasons for your hypotheses (i.e. the criteria that you are using) in the column on the right.

 

 

 

Possible hypotheses or predictions

 

 

 

 

Reasons or criteria for prediction

 

 

 

 

When you are ready to see the continuation of the sentence, click here. Watch out! Don’t click until you’ve made your predictions …!

 

 

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