"My First Baseball Game" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a boy and his sister going to their first baseball game and learning what it means to be Chicago Cubs fans. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes: sequencing, making inferences, describing character traits, finding main idea, and summarizing. It also provides an answer key. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 and 2 requiring close reading, textual evidence, main idea, and summarizing.

Concepts

reading comprehension

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Additional Tags

main idea and supporting details, "my first baseball game" with questions and answer key, chicago cubs, cubs fans are loyal, depaul u.: center for urban education: my first baseball game with q & a key, depaul university, polk brothers foundation center for urban education

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)