Sports and Society

Teacher Pacing Guide

The Teacher Pacing Guide offers a detailed nine-week plan for completion of a full thematic inquiry project using a reading, writing, research workshop model. In addition to highlighting key concepts and essential components, the guide supplies a schedule for daily activities. It also provides a rubric for student grading and makes project expectations clear for teachers, students, and parents.

Blackline Masters for Student Research

Blackline masters provide graphic organizers to teach and scaffold students’ note-making, research reading, and writing skills.

Project Blank Books

Students independently draft, revise, edit, illustrate, and publish a book demonstrating what they have learned on their topic.

Theme Related Folders

Theme Folders are decorated, heavy-stock folders that allow students to keep their books, log sheets, Skills Cards, and research notes together, making transport easy between home and school.

Writing Cards

Writing cards support students through each step of the writing process: drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Each card details the steps students need to take to successfully complete one stage of the full writing process (e.g., drafting) before proceeding to the next step (e.g., revising).

Writing Cards

• Drafting
• Revising
• Editing
• Publishing

Professional Development

FREE Professional Development with the purchase of five or more classroom modules (or webinar with 4 modules or fewer.)

6 Theme Baskets/150 Titles

Are you having difficulty tackling the dual problems of reading proficiency and research skills? Get students engaged with this gripping unit that explores the role of sports in our lives and in the larger arena of society. Using nonfiction books on sporting events, sports history, and biographies of sports figures, students will research a sport of their choosing and write their own informational book. They will score points by demonstrating their knowledge of their sport’s organization and practice, its origins, mile­stones, economic impact, and cultural significance.

Reference Library

The reference library is a collection of 15 books selected to provide additional information for students as they conduct in-depth research on their chosen topics. Although the reading levels are challenging, the rich photos, maps, graphs, charts, and accessible layouts make these books appealing and useful for all students. This library also can be used for teacher read-alouds, reference, and follow-up discussions aimed at expanding students’ background information and understanding of a theme.

Project Blank Books

Students independently draft, revise, edit, illustrate, and publish a book demonstrating what they have learned on their topic.

Theme Related Folders

Theme Folders are decorated, heavy-stock folders that allow students to keep their books, log sheets, Skills Cards, and research notes together, making transport easy between home and school.

Writing Cards

Writing cards support students through each step of the writing process: drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Each card details the steps students need to take to successfully complete one stage of the full writing process (e.g., drafting) before proceeding to the next step (e.g., revising).

Writing Cards

• Drafting
• Revising
• Editing
• Publishing

Teacher Pacing Guide

The Teacher Pacing Guide offers a detailed nine-week plan for completion of a full thematic inquiry project using a reading, writing, research workshop model. In addition to highlighting key concepts and essential components, the guide supplies a schedule for daily activities. It also provides a rubric for student grading and makes project expectations clear for teachers, students, and parents.

Blackline Masters for Student Research

Blackline masters provide graphic organizers to teach and scaffold students’ note-making, research reading, and writing skills.

Project Blank Books

Students independently draft, revise, edit, illustrate, and publish a book demonstrating what they have learned on their topic.

Theme Related Folders

Theme Folders are decorated, heavy-stock folders that allow students to keep their books, log sheets, Skills Cards, and research notes together, making transport easy between home and school.

Writing Cards

Writing cards support students through each step of the writing process: drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Each card details the steps students need to take to successfully complete one stage of the full writing process (e.g., drafting) before proceeding to the next step (e.g., revising).

Writing Cards

• Drafting
• Revising
• Editing
• Publishing

Professional Development

FREE Professional Development with the purchase of five or more classroom modules (or webinar with 4 modules or fewer.)

5 Theme Baskets/100 Titles

75,000 titles from more than 200 publishers have been reviewed by our team of content-area specialists and librarians to create each of our leveled theme baskets. Our collections provide single copies of hundreds of books focusing on a specific science, social studies, or language arts theme.

High-interest, low-readability titles allow students to engage in standards-based content-area learning, even if they are not yet reading on grade level. Above-level titles give advanced students the challenge they need. You select the basket levels appropriate for student reading levels in your classrooms.

Project Blank Books

Students independently draft, revise, edit, illustrate, and publish a book demonstrating what they have learned on their topic.

Theme Related Folders

Theme Folders are decorated, heavy-stock folders that allow students to keep their books, log sheets, Skills Cards, and research notes together, making transport easy between home and school.

Writing Cards

Writing cards support students through each step of the writing process: drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Each card details the steps students need to take to successfully complete one stage of the full writing process (e.g., drafting) before proceeding to the next step (e.g., revising).

Writing Cards

• Drafting
• Revising
• Editing
• Publishing

6 Theme Baskets/150 Titles

Are you having difficulty tackling the dual problems of reading proficiency and research skills? Get students engaged with this gripping unit that explores the role of sports in our lives and in the larger arena of society. Using nonfiction books on sporting events, sports history, and biographies of sports figures, students will research a sport of their choosing and write their own informational book. They will score points by demonstrating their knowledge of their sport’s organization and practice, its origins, mile­stones, economic impact, and cultural significance.

4 Theme Baskets/100 Titles

Are you having difficulty tackling the dual problems of reading proficiency and research skills? Get students engaged with this gripping unit that explores the role of sports in our lives and in the larger arena of society. Using nonfiction books on sporting events, sports history, and biographies of sports figures, students will research a sport of their choosing and write their own informational book. They will score points by demonstrating their knowledge of their sport’s organization and practice, its origins, mile­stones, economic impact, and cultural significance.

2 Theme Baskets/50 Books

Are you having difficulty tackling the dual problems of reading proficiency and research skills? Get students engaged with this gripping unit that explores the role of sports in our lives and in the larger arena of society. Using nonfiction books on sporting events, sports history, and biographies of sports figures, students will research a sport of their choosing and write their own informational book. They will score points by demonstrating their knowledge of their sport’s organization and practice, its origins, mile­stones, economic impact, and cultural significance.