Language and Content

Think About “Action Shots”

Check Your Understanding

1.–2. Work with a partner to complete each item.

  • 1. Main Idea and Details Make a web like the one below. Then complete the web using information from the selection.

    illustration of a main idea and details web, a center circle connected to smaller circles

  • 2. Sum It Up Use your web to tell about what Jane Gottesman did.

Review Vocabulary

3.–7. Read the paragraph aloud. Add the vocabulary words.

Both men and women _____ in sports. Jane Gottesman saw a _____ of a female _____ named Picabo Street. Gottesman wondered why _____ athletes looked different in photographs than _____ athletes.

Vocabulary

  • athlete

  • compete

  • female

  • male

  • photograph

Write about Sports illustration of pen icon

8. Write about a sport that you like or one that you would like to try.