College Basketball Reading and Math Bundle

This bundle contains reading and math resources about college basketball!

Contents:
Paired Texts About Famous Coaches: Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams (Grades 1-6)

Math Problems About the 2016 National Championship Game (Grades 3-5)

Informational Texts About the 1966 Texas Western College Championship Team (Grades 1-6).

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Paired Texts About Krzyzewski & Williams

These paired texts require students to compare and contrast two of the most famous coaches in college basketball history!

Contents:
→ 6 Nonfiction Articles
→ 3 Quizzes
→ 1 Writing Prompt
→ Answer Keys

Topics Covered:

→ Life Story:
3 nonfiction texts about Mike's childhood and coaching career
3 nonfiction texts about Roy's childhood and coaching career
3 quizzes to cover these texts

→ Tying It All Together:
writing prompt to cover all texts

Length of Texts:
Passages on grade levels 1-2: 495 words & 540 words
Passages on grade levels 3-4: 703 words & 780 words
Passages on grade levels 5-6: 1,013 words & 1,032 words

Each quiz contains:
3 multiple choice questions
1 written response question
Quizzes are written to match the level of rigor required by CCSS while not being too confusing for students.
The questions assess many CCSS-ELA standards and elements of nonfiction, including vocabulary, cause and effect, citing evidence, summarizing, sequence of events, comparing and contrasting, and much more.

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College Basketball Math Problems

Sports-themed math problems for grades 3-5!

This file contains nine pages of story problems about the 2016 men's college basketball championship game between Villanova and North Carolina.

Contents:
Pages 1-3: Problems written based on the grade 3 CCSS.
Pages 4-6: Problems written based on the grade 4 CCSS.
Pages 7-9: Problems written based on the grade 5 CCSS.
Pages 10-12: Answer key for all problems.

All story problems meet the rigor demanded by the CCSS.

Problems ask students to explain their mathematical reasoning. While the problems are about basketball, they demand students to use mathematical skills involving fractions, data analysis, computation, area, perimeter, and number sense to solve the problems.

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Informational Texts About Texas Western

**One passage written on a 1st-2nd grade reading level (428 words).
**One passage written on a 3rd-4th grade reading level (739 words).
**One passage written on a 5th-6th grade reading level (958 words).

Each passage contains a quiz, writing prompt, and answer key.

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You may also be interested in my other sets of paired texts about famous athletes!

NBA: LeBron James and Michael Jordan (Grades 5-6)

NFL: Tom Brady and Julio Jones (Grades 3-4)

Soccer: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo (Grades 1-2)