Book Summary
The Olympics is one of the most famous athletic events worldwide. To athletes, the Olympic Games means striving to be the best in the world. The Olympics: Past and Present examines the ways in which the Olympic Games in ancient Greece evolved into the modern-day Olympics. Photographs and illustrations support this informative text.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Connect to prior knowledge

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of connecting to prior knowledge to understand text
• Identify details to compare and contrast information in text
• Identify past-tense irregular verbs
• Identify multiple-meaning words

Materials

• Book -- The Olympics: Past and Present (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Prior knowledge, compare and contrast, past-tense irregular verbs, multiple- meaning words worksheets

    Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are not reusable.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: adamant, ancient, apartheid, athletic, controversies, competitors, elaborate, exposition, pagan, procession, symbolic, truce, unification