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Let’s Play
Baseball!
by Jessica Quilty
Genre
Realistic
fiction
Comprehension
Skills and Strategy
• Realism and Fantasy
• Character, Setting,
Plot
• Prior Knowledge
Scott Foresman Reading Street 2.2.2
ISBN 0-328-13250-0
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illustrated by
Chad Thompson
Vocabulary
certainly
either
great
laugh
second
worst
you’re
Word count: 157
Let’s Play
Baseball!
Think and Share
Read Together
1. Is this a story that could happen in real
life, or is it a make-believe story? Give
two examples to support your answer.
2. What did you know about baseball
before you read the story? What
information about the game of baseball
does the story tell?
3. Draw this chart on a separate sheet of
paper. List all the contractions in this
story. Then write the words that make
up each contraction.
Contraction
Words
4. At the end of the story, all the kids
are smiling. Why do you think the kids
the Quilty
team that
did not
win Thompson
are also
byon
Jessica
illustrated
by Chad
smiling?
Note: The total word count includes words in the running text and headings only.
Numerals and words in chapter titles, captions, labels, diagrams, charts, graphs,
sidebars, and extra features are not included.
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Let’s play baseball! “Sam, you’re on
the team in the field,” says the coach.
“Take second base,” he tells me. “Jill,
you’ll be on the other team.”
3
Jill is at bat. She steps up to the plate.
The pitcher throws the ball really
fast! Jill hits it! She runs to first base.
Then she starts for second base.
4
Alex picks up the ball. He throws it to
second base. I catch the ball, but it’s too
late. Jill is safe.
“Jill, you certainly can run!” the
pitcher laughs. “Who’s next?”
5
Bryan is up, but he strikes out. Derek
is next. He also strikes out. Ann strikes
out too. “That was the worst inning
ever!” they moan.
6
Finally, it is the last inning. The score
is tied, 1-1. Either team can win!
I pick up the bat. The pitcher tosses
the ball, and I hit a home run! We win!
I can’t believe it! What a great game!
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Read Together
The
Big
World
of
Vocabulary
Little
League Baseball
certainly
Little League baseball began in 1939.
either
Today boys and girls, ages 5 to 18, play in
great and softball programs all over
baseball
the
world.
laugh
There are Little League teams in Asia,
secondthe Americas, and the Middle
Europe,
East. The winners from sixteen different
worst
regions around the world meet in South
Williamsport,
Pennsylvania, for the
you’re
Little League World Series every year.
Word count: 157
Think and Share
Read Together
1. Is this a story that could happen in real
life, or is it a make-believe story? Give
two examples to support your answer.
2. What did you know about baseball
before you read the story? What
information about the game of baseball
does the story tell?
3. Draw this chart on a separate sheet of
paper. List all the contractions in this
story. Then write the words that make
up each contraction.
Contraction
Words
The Little League World Series allows children
from all over the world to compete for the
championship.
4. At the end of the story, all the kids
are smiling. Why do you think the kids
on the team that did not win are also
smiling?
Note: The total word count includes words in the running text and headings only.
Numerals and words in chapter titles, captions, labels, diagrams, charts, graphs,
sidebars, and extra features are not included.
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