"My First Baseball Game" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a child going to his first baseball game and learning what it means to be a Chicago Cubs fan. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes: sequencing, making inferences, describing character traits, finding main idea, and summarizing. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 requiring close reading, textual evidence, main idea, and summarizing.

Concepts

reading comprehension

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Additional Tags

"my first baseball game", chicago cubs, common core anchor reading standard 1, cubs fans are loyal, depaul university, depaul university: center for urban education: my first baseball game, polk brothers foundation center for urban education

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 1 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)