SPORTS Bundle: Informational Text Close Reading Passages for BIG KIDS

Sometimes it helps to add some “star power” to your reading comprehension activities. I know for my sports-obsessed readers, nothing captures their attention quite like their favorite sports teams and athletes.

With that in mind, I created these sets of close reading passages that feature several of today’s best NBA and NFL players. I've also included a set of baseball passages that feature the stories behind the most well-known baseball traditions.

This bundle gives you a nice selection sports reading passages and comprehension activities you can use over and over again. In addition to the baseball, basketball, and football passages, this printable PDF packet also includes comprehension worksheets for each selection.

This BUNDLE contains:

• All About Athletes Close Reading Passages Bundle

• Baseball Informational Text Close Reading Bundle

• Amazing Athletes Informational Text Task Cards

• 55-pages of No PREP reading comprehension work

• 15-reading selection topics with text-based worksheets

• ANSWER KEYS

Athlete Close Reads include:

• Patrick Mahomes

• Derrick Henry

• Peyton Manning

• Russell Wilson

• Lamar Jackson

• Travis Kelce

• Giannis Antetokounmpo

• Kevin Durant

• Luka Doncic

• LeBron James

• 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

Also included are 6-NO PREP graphic organizers to help students identify:

• Fact and Opinion

• The 5-W’s of Informational text

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

• 2-extension activities for students to complete after reading the passages and completing the questions

• Close Reading Strategy Page

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.

Estimated Lexile Measure is 850-1010

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For TASK CARDS and Literacy Center Tools for Test Review:

• Character Analysis Task Cards

• Context Clue Task Cards to Middle School

• Reading Literature Task Card Toolkit

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Happy Close Reading!