Students will enjoy reading about a variety of athletic activities from cliff diving and snowshoeing to flamenco dancing and acrobatics. The controlled vocabulary averages two readability levels below content to ensure understanding and promote confidence. Each passage includes follow-up questions to reinforce key comprehension skills and an answer key for easy assessment.

Students will enjoy this sports-themed packet, carefully currated for the reading ability of early learners. They will discover new things, learn new words, and show what they know. The comprehension questions will help them review and analyze the passages as well as words that may be new to them. Watch their reading, writing, and vocabulary skills improve with each reproducible single-page lesson.

With the rigorous reading standards called for in the Common Core State Standards, teachers need easy access to reading passages at an increasing level of complexity so students will have opportunities to read closely and stretch their skills as the school year progresses. This collection of passages offers just that. Each of the 25 passages comes with text-dependent comprehension questions, including open-ended questions that require students to use higher-order thinking skills when writing their responses. The lessons include teaching tips that target the challenges students will encounter in the passage and provide text-complexity information-- quantitative (Lexile level), qualitative, and reader and task considerations--to help teachers meet the needs of their class. For use with Grade 2.

The Giant Makes the Team: Early Reading Activities is a unique resource for young readers, combining a humorous, full-length story about the Giant and his friends with skill-building practice activities. Topics include reading comprehension, sight words, letters and sounds, and more. In this original story, the Giant tries baseball, gymnastics, and many other sports. But a baseball glove is too small for a giant, and a somersault is too hard to do. Can he find a sport just right for him? After the story, 25 fun activities based on Common Core Standards help children understand the story and develop essential skills. With tips for parents and suggested extensions, The Giant Makes the Team: Early Reading Activities is entertaining and educational for young readers and their families.

The informational texts in this packet focus on a topic most students enjoy: sports. They will learn about the Special Olympics, Ken Griffey Jr., ice golfing, and the Junior Ski Patrol. The controlled vocabulary averages two readability levels below content to ensure understanding and promote confidence. Each selection includes follow-up questions to reinforce key comprehension skills and an answer key for easy assessment.

These engaging selections focus on a variety of sports, with topics such as John Elway, the United States Army paratrooping team, the origins of hand signals in baseball, motocross racing, and more. The controlled vocabulary averages two readability levels below content to ensure understanding and promote confidence. Each selection includes follow-up questions to reinforce key comprehension skills and an answer key for easy assessment.

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