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Read Works

Read Works: Play Ball!

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A descriptive essay about women playing baseball during World War II. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Sounds of Baseball

For Teachers 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An descriptive text about the sounds a person would hear at a baseball game. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Who Was Jackie Robinson?

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Jackie Robinson.. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Mc Gwire Strikes Out

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains questions and teacher guides and...
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Read Works: Pitcher Perfect

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about Katie Brownell, a female Little League pitcher who threw a perfect game. A question sheet is available to help students build reading comprehension skills.
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Read Works: The Olympics Then and Now

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read two charts with information about the Olympics in ancient Greece and in modern times. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in comparing and contrasting.
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Read Works: Juiced

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about steroid use in Major League Baseball. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Sir Isaac Newton and Le Bron James

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining how the laws of motion apply to basketball. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: How Soccer Can Help Us Understand Physics

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the physics behind soccer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Winning Shot

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Amber who liked to play soccer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Motion of Baseball

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A descriptive text about playing baseball. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Funny Old Ballpark

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a unique baseball stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Handout
Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Sectors of Discovery

For Students 9th - 10th
The 11 Sectors of Discovery have been highlighted, with significant inventions by Albertan's highlighted in each category.
Website
Central Home

Central Home: Social Dancing

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes the debate in the definition of social dance: recreation or sport.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Newton's Apple: Frisbee Physics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teacher's guide from Public Television's Newton's Apple discusses and illustrates the physics principles governing the flight of a frisbee. Includes teacher lesson plans, activity ideas, discussion questions, and information about...