Technology Wins the Game

by Mark Andrews

Genre: Informational Text - gives factual information about a topic

Reading Skill: Sequence of Events, Text & Graphic Features

Strategy: Question

Essential Question: How do inventions help athletes?

Student Objectives:

  • Describe the relationship between steps in a technical procedure in a text.

  • Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs that show sequence.

  • Use questioning strategies to self-monitor understanding of a text.

Vocabulary

contribute: to help or add to

athletes: people who do physical exercise or play sports

improve: to get better

power: strength

process: the steps taken to complete a task

flexible: able to bend

fraction: a part of a whole unit

compete: to try to do something better that others


Online Practice Resources:

Vocabulary Quizlet or Vocabulary Quizlet with Pictures

BrainPOP Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes