The Name Before the Name: Junior Field Manual Junior Field Manual · A DET & CW Casebook · Ages 6–9

The companion workbook to The Name Before the Name: naming things that have no name, DET’s three questions, a quiet sit spot, words in other languages and a water-path experiment. For ages 6–9.

DET already knows things fall. Now he wants to know what people called it before anyone said “gravity.” He opens an old locked drawer and finds letters, a fake frame, and a dozen different words for the same thing.

This Junior Field Manual follows The Name Before the Name chapter by chapter, with gentle, hands-on activities about noticing, checking and naming.

What’s inside (8 cases):

•     What Do You Call It? Naming something that has no name (like the tip of a shoelace)

•     The Evidence Drawer: DET’s three questions before you trust something

•     The Telephone Case, and honest words like “I’m not sure yet”

•     The Quiet Spot: five quiet minutes outside, then drawing what you noticed

•     Old or New? Clue-hunting on things around the house

•     One Apple, Many Words: apple in French, Spanish, German and Ojibwe

•     A Wonder Wall for questions that don’t have answers yet

•     The Water Path: watching water find its way around a pebble

Every case has three parts:

•     The Case: a short read-aloud with a picture, three words to trace and two easy questions.

•     Field Work: one real hands-on activity using things from around the house.

•     My Own Case: a drawing page that turns the case toward your child’s own life. These pages are theirs to keep private.

Good to know:

•     33-page printable PDF, US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), black-and-white pages that print cleanly at home

•     Made to go with the book The Name Before the Name. Read a chapter, then do its pages

•     Ages 6–9 (grades 1–3). Big print, tracing, drawing and short answers; drawing an answer always counts

•     Includes an “Open the Case” starter page, a word search, a Case Closed certificate, and a grown-up guide, “Things to Listen For,” with answers

•     Your download includes both a Canadian edition and a U.S. edition (spelling and a few examples differ)

•     Print for your own household or one classroom

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