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If your kids like motorcycles and dirt bikes, they'll enjoy reading about Mike and his daredevil tricks. After reviewing eight words in a word bank, they fill in the blanks throughout the short passage using context clues.
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Instructional Ideas
- Bring to a unit about vehicles or sports
- Have kids write about their own favorite sports, and how they learned to improve
- Use the words in the word bank as vocabulary words for the week
- Include in a short reading assessment or homework packet
Classroom Considerations
- Some parts of the resource are in color, but printing in black-and-white shouldn't impede understanding
Pros
- Subject might be appealing to your more reluctant learners
- Prompts kids to examine the context of each sentence before adding the words
Cons
- There are some grammar mistakes in the passage, as well as some typos
- Does not address any higher-level skills