College Basketball Reading and Math Bundle

This bundle contains reading and math resources about college basketball!

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Paired Texts About Women's College Basketball Players Asia Durr and Sabrina Ionescu.

This resource for grades 1-6 has differentiated paired texts about famous women's basketball players. It will help your students learn how to analyze similarities and differences in a pair of nonfiction texts.

→ Passage About Each Player's Life:

3 nonfiction texts about Durr's childhood and basketball career

3 nonfiction texts about Ionescu's childhood and basketball career

3 quizzes to cover these texts

* The 3 passages about each player contain the same information, but they are written on different reading levels to help you differentiate for your students. See the previews for more information.

→ Tying It All Together:

3 writing prompts to cover each set of passages

→ Passages and Quiz for Google Classroom

In addition to being in paper form, the passages and quizzes are available for Google Classroom. When you purchase this resource, page 8 of each file will contain links for you to make copies to your Google Classroom account. The self-grading quiz was created in Google Forms. The passages were made using Google Slides.

**You must have a Google Classroom account to use these digital files. Otherwise, just print from the PDF file.

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Length of Texts:

Passages on grade levels 1-2: 308 words and 293 words

Passages on grade levels 3-4: 709 words and 664 words

Passages on grade levels 5-6: 964 words and 930 words

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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.

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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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Note: The preview download will have watermarks and only shows part of the product. Your actual product download will not have watermarks.

Please remember, this purchase is for the use of one teacher. It is not intended to be shared. Please purchase an additional license if more than one teacher will be using it.

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