Baseball - Let's Play Sports!

Updated on 23 December 2024

Content Areas

baseball sports

Grade

Kindergarten - Grade 1

Lesson

Skills to Teach
HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS: a, are, ball, four, gets,
he, into, is, it, let’s, play, runs, she, the, their, then,
there, to, too
CONTENT WORDS: base(s), baseball, bat, first, flies,
home, home run, last, late, scores, second, slides,
swings, team, throws
PUNCTUATION: exclamation points, periods
WORD STUDY: compound word (baseball); /k/,
spelled c (second, scores); long /e/, spelled ea
(team); long /i/, spelled ie (flies)
TEXT TYPE: factual description
Before Reading Activities
• Read the title and give a simple statement
of the main idea.
• Have students “walk” through the book and
talk about what they see in the pictures.
• Introduce new vocabulary by having students
predict the first letter and locate the word in the text.
• Discuss any unfamiliar concepts that are in the text.
After Reading Activities
The book talks about the parts of a baseball
diamond and some of the rules of baseball.
For example, there are four bases. Hitting the
ball and running around the diamond and
reaching home is a home run. Did readers know
any of this information before reading the book?
Talk about some of the other rules of baseball.
What other sports rules do readers know of?

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