Illustration of the title page from the selection “Roberto Clamente Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates”
Selection 2 Overview
  • Build Background

  • Language & Grammar

    Justify

    Use Compound Sentences

  • Prepare to Read

    Learn Key Vocabulary

    Learn a Reading Strategy

    Make Inferences

  • Read and Write Focus on Genre

    Biography

    Apply the Reading Strategy

    Make Inferences

    Critical Thinking

    Reading Fluency

    Read with Intonation

    Vocabulary Review

    Write About the

    Guiding Question

  • Connect Across the Curriculum

    Literary Analysis

    Make and Support

    Inferences

    Analyze Text Structure: Chronological Order

    Vocabulary Study

    Interpret Baseball Jargon

    Listening/Speaking

    Deliver an Informative

    Presentation

    Language and Grammar

    Justify

    Writing and Grammar

    Combine Your Ideas

Photograph of a bat making contact with a baseball (background photo)
Build Background
Meet Athletes Who Made History

People do amazing things every day in sports. But some athletes change the sport forever. Learn about athletes who did what nobody said they could do.

Connect

Quickwrite Write about an athlete who plays sports today who you think of as a hero. What makes this person a hero? Is it his or her athletic talent, or is it something else?