March 2025

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Skill-Building Sheets

Academic Standards

 

Reading Objective:

Students will track the history of basketball.

 

Social Studies Focus:

long ago and today

 

ELA Skills:

key details, vocabulary, text evidence/writing

 

Page 4 Skill:

read a chart

 

Vocabulary:

tournaments, dribble, popular, professional, competitive

 

CCSS:

RI.2.1 key details; RI.2.2 identify main topic; RI.2.3 describe connect between historical events; RI.2.4 determine meaning of words; RI.2.10 read informational texts; RF.2.3 read gradeappropriate words; W.2.2 write informative texts; W.2.8 gather information; L.2.2 punctuation

 

Lexile level: 

540L