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Baseball Close Reading Informational Toolkit for Middle School

Rated 4.86 out of 5, based on 155 reviews
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Grade Levels
4th - 7th, Homeschool, Staff
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Pages
21 pages
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This was a big hit. I timed it with opening day. Many of my students play baseball, so this caught their attention.
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Description

Are you excited for opening day? Do you have students who are sports enthusiasts? These baseball close reading passages with comprehension questions and activities will be a hit with your BIG KIDS!

This 21-page NO PREP close reading tool is the perfect product to make test prep practice fun.

Utilize this with your students in a variety of ways:

Use for center work, read-to-self, read-to-someone, whole-class strategy work, small group or one-on-one intervention.

This bundle includes:

• 5 high-interest informational text passages with text-based questions

• clear directions about How to Use Close Reading

• Close Reading Strategy Organizer

• 2-graphic organizers to improve work on cause and effect and fact and opinion

• 2-extension activities that your students will love to complete after reading the selections and completing the questions

Estimated Lexile Measure is 1080

Close reading passages topics include:

• The History of Bobbleheads

• The Seventh Inning Stretch

• A Sing-Along for the Ages: Take Me Out to the Ballgame

• Forbes Field

• Baseball Grub: A History of Ballpark Food

Watch as your students become more engaged, independent readers, capable of answering text dependent questions. After this, your students will be asking for more selections to prepare for state testing.

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Monthly ELA Activity Bundles from Mrs. Beers Language Arts Classroom:

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I would love your feedback on this product. Also, FOLLOW me so that you have the chance to find out about any new novel units, reader's theaters, or other language arts materials for the middle grades I create as soon as they are posted.

Total Pages
21 pages
Answer Key
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Teaching Duration
2 Weeks
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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.
Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

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