American Sports Legends Level Y
Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count: 2285
1) Before Reading
2) During Reading
3) After Reading
4) Build Skills
5) Build Fluency
6) Extend the Reading
7) Assessment
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Book Summary
American Sports Legends is a biographical text about four people who were legends in American sports. This book describes the accomplishments of Jim Thorpe, Mildred Didrickson Zaharias, Jackie Robinson, and Jesse Owens. All of these athletes showed magnificent strength of character, as well as accomplishing feats of physical strength. Overcoming obstacles such as racial prejudice, physical ailments, and sexism, these athletes proved that anyone can succeed with enough passion and commitment. Photographs support the text.
About the Lesson
Targeted Reading Strategy
- Ask and answer questions
Objectives
- Use the reading strategy of asking and answering questions to understand text
- Identify elements of a biography
- Understand the use of a dash as punctuation
- Identify homophones
Materials
- Book -- American Sports Legends (copy for each student)
- Chalkboard or dry erase board
- KWL, dash, homophones worksheets
Indicates an opportunity for student to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reusable.)
Vocabulary
- Content words: catcalls, conviction, discriminated, exploits, gridiron, intimidated, lucrative, legacy, ordeal, pentathlon, revolutionized, sharecropper, unprecedented
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