Football - Let's Play Sports
Grade
Preschool - Grade 1Lesson
Skills to Teach
• HIGH-FREQUENCY WORDS: brown, end, go, he, him,
his, is, it, let’s, other, play, runs, the, to, tries, we
• CONTENT WORDS: catch(es), cleats, field,
football, helmets, scores, team, teammate, throws,
touchdown, wear
• PUNCTUATION: exclamation points, periods
• WORD STUDY: compound words (football, teammate,
touchdown); long /e/, spelled ea (cleats, team,
teammate); long /i/, spelled ie (tries); long /o/,
spelled ow (throws); /oo/, spelled oo (football);
r-controlled vowels (wear)
• TEXT TYPE: factual description
Before Reading Activities
• Read the title and give a simple statement
of the main idea.
• Have students “walk” through the book and
talk about what they see in the pictures.
• Introduce new vocabulary by having students
predict the first letter and locate the word in the text.
• Discuss any unfamiliar concepts that are in the text.
After Reading Activities
Flip back to pages 6–7. Read the text out loud together:
“The football is brown.” Ask readers what else they
notice about the football. What color are its stripes and laces? What shape is it? Ask readers to think of other sports that you play using a ball. Show them
pictures of a basketball, tennis ball, soccer ball,
and baseball. What shape and color is each ball?