This graphing sports worksheet has 2nd Grade students count sports balls, color a bar graph from their own data, and answer three questions about it. An answer key is included.
These sports flash cards help PreK to 3rd Grade students name 18 sports from pictures of their gear, with an answer key included, to grow everyday vocabulary.
This Sports Word Jumble Worksheet gives 2nd grade students five scrambled sports words and a Word Bank to unscramble them with. An answer key is included, so spelling practice is ready in a minute.
Using this Evidence Olympics Authors Purpose Activity, students try to earn a gold medal during Evidence Olympics by reading a passage and finding evidence to support an author's point.
Using the Beginning Consonants Baseball Activity, students play Baseball to practice identifying the beginning consonants of words.
This Casey's Super Bowl Party - Reading Comprehension Worksheet will help your students build their reading comprehension skills while reading about Casey's Super Bowl Party.
This Reasons the Author Gives Worksheet has 2nd Grade students read a short text about bowling and name the reasons the author gives for the point being made. Includes an answer key.
These Basketball Desk Name Tags are a perfect way for your students to identify their desks and practice spelling their name with a basketball theme.
These Football Desk Name Tags are a perfect way for your students to identify their desks and practice spelling their name with a football theme.
These Desk Name Tags - Soccer are a perfect way for your students to identify their desks and practice spelling their name with a soccer theme.
Learning that plays like a game
Sports are a winning theme for second graders. Kids learn sports vocabulary, read sports stories, and practice reading skills like author's purpose and finding reasons and evidence. They gather data on favorite sports and make bar graphs, then compare results. Sports also open conversations about teamwork, fair play and how communities come together at games. The click comes when a sports-loving reader who avoids books grabs a story about a big game and can't put it down.
Sports bring instant buy-in. These moves turn that energy into reading, writing and math.
Use sports flash cards to build vocabulary like team, score, coach and referee. Kids sort them by sport and act some out. Strong vocabulary makes sports stories easier to read.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withSports Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Read a short story about a big game party and ask quick questions: What happened first? How did the characters feel? It's comprehension practice that sports fans enjoy.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withCasey's Super Bowl Party - Reading Comprehension WorksheetAssessmentsOpen it →Survey the class on favorite sports and have kids build a bar graph together. Then ask, "How many more chose soccer than baseball?" Real data from classmates makes graphing meaningful.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withGraphing Sports WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Sports activities that get kids cheering.
WorksheetsUnscramble sports words, then use them in a game-day sentence.
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ActivitiesCompete to find the best evidence for the author's purpose.
Open Evidence Olympics Authors Purpose Activity →
ActivitiesHit a home run by matching words to their beginning consonant sounds.
Open Beginning Consonants Baseball Activity →Teacher favorites right now: Graphing Sports Worksheet, Sports Flash Cards and Sports Word Jumble Worksheet.
Sports themes work for reading stories, vocabulary, graphing data, measurement and writing opinion pieces. They also lead to talks about teamwork and good sportsmanship.
Offer sports stories, player biographies and game-day reading passages. When kids read about something they love, they read more and stay focused longer.
Graphing favorite sports, adding scores, comparing numbers, measuring distances and reading time on a game clock all build real math skills.
Read sports articles together, keep score during games, and graph your favorite team's wins. Ask your child to write a short game recap.
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