Name: Baseball Time Reading Comprehension Worksheet
SKU: 610e3294c8579a0e34964513
Price: 39.99 USD
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What's inside this resource

Robbie, a boy who plays pitcher, narrates a passage that walks through baseball basics: the equipment needed for baseball, wiffle ball, and softball, the nine player positions from pitcher to outfielders, and the structure of nine innings including the seventh-inning stretch. The one-page passage blends Robbie's own experience on the mound with explanatory detail about game rules, giving students both a story voice and factual content to draw from. A follow-up page asks five questions: three four-option multiple-choice items checking recall of Robbie's sport, position, and the number of innings, plus two true/false statements that require students to judge whether a claim matches what the passage actually says. The format pairs a sports topic likely to hold student interest with a text that mixes narrative and informational structure.

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From the author

This Baseball Time - Reading Comprehension Worksheet is a great way for your students to build their reading comprehension skills. The worksheet includes information on how to play baseball, which will help your students understand the game better.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Students identify facts stated explicitly in a passage, such as a character's sport and position.
Students recall structural details of a game (number of innings, player positions) from an informational-narrative text.
Students judge whether a stated claim is supported by the passage rather than assumed from outside knowledge.

Teaching tips

Have students underline the sentence that answers each of the first three questions before choosing a response, since the passage states those facts directly.
Point out to students in advance that the two true/false items ask them to check a claim against the passage rather than simply locate a fact, since neither statement is drawn word-for-word from the text.
Pair the passage's explanation of wiffle ball and softball with a quick class discussion comparing the three games' equipment, since the passage draws that comparison directly.

Skills covered

Reading comprehension for a narrative-informational blend — students extract facts about Robbie's sport, position, and game structure from a first-person sports passage.
Multiple-choice test-taking — students select the correct answer from four options across three comprehension questions.
Evaluating claims against text evidence — two true/false items ask students to judge a statement's accuracy rather than only locate a stated fact.

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What kind of comprehension questions follow the passage, beyond simple fact recall?

Three questions check recall of details stated directly in the passage, such as Robbie's position and the number of innings. Two additional true/false items ask students to judge whether a statement about baseball's nickname or its walk count matches what the passage actually says, pushing beyond simple lookup.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

CCSS.RI.5.1 — Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text

Core concepts

baseball rules and equipment
reading comprehension
player positions

Topics

Reading Comprehension sports reading passage

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