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Fact and Opinion

• A statement of fact can be proved true or false.
• A statement of opinion is what someone thinks or feels. Statements of opinion often contain
words that make judgments, such as interesting or beautiful.
• A single sentence might contain both a statement of fact and a statement of opinion.

Directions  Read the following passage.

J ackie Robinson was the first African

American baseball player to play in
the modern major leagues. I think he was
success. At the end of his first season,
Robinson was named Rookie of the
Year. During his third season, he won the
very brave to do so. He played in the league’s batting title and was later named
Negro Leagues until 1947 when he was the league’s Most Valuable Player. He was
signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Despite probably the most valuable player of the
controversy about Robinson breaking entire twentieth century.
the color barrier, he was an immediate

For each statement, circle F or O to tell whether it is a fact or an opinion. Circle the words in the
sentence that tell you the statement is an opinion.

F    O 1. I think Jackie Robinson was very brave to play in the major leagues.

F    O 2. Jackie Robinson was the first African American baseball player to play in the
modern major leagues.

F    O 3. Jackie Robinson was probably the most valuable player of the
twentieth century.

F    O 4. Jackie Robinson was named the league’s Most Valuable Player.

F    O 5. The Brooklyn Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson.

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Home Activity  Your child read a short passage and identified whether statements were facts or opinions.
Read a newspaper article and an editorial about the same current event with your child. Have your child
analyze which statements are facts and which are opinions.

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Writing • Newsletter Article

Key Features of a Newsletter Article
• presents basic facts, and then adds details
• typically tells about an event, idea, or person
• includes direct quotations to enhance the article
• answers the questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?

Muhammad Ali
M uhammad Ali is a legendary fighter.
He began boxing when we was
twelve, and in 1960 he won a gold medal
discrimination. He once said, “I wish
people would love everybody else the way
they love me. It would be a better world.”
at the Olympics in Rome. After that, he Though he faced countless tough
became a professional boxer. opponents during his boxing career,
Ali’s career is legendary, and with Ali faced his biggest challenge when he
good reason: Not only did he not lose a was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
professional fight until 1971, but Ali was Parkinson’s is a disease that affects the
a great showman. He taunted opponents central nervous system and causes people
and relied on his quick reflexes to dodge to lose control of their movements. While
punches in the ring. He once spoke of the disease may have silenced Ali (he
an opponent, “Frazier is so ugly that he speaks rarely because of the way in which
should donate his face to the US Bureau of Parkinson’s affects his voice), it has not
Wild Life.” stopped him from fighting for what he
In 1964, Ali defeated Sonny Liston to believes. He continues to battle against
become the heavyweight champion of the Parkinson’s disease as well as other
world. He lost few fights after that and problems, such as world hunger, poverty,
truly earned his reputation as one of our and human rights’ abuses. Even in the face
country’s greatest athletes. He had many of his greatest challenge, Muhammad Ali
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1. Read the article. Who is the article about? What is he known for?

2. Name three important events in Muhammad Ali’s life.

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Vocabulary
Directions  Draw a line to match each word on the left with its definition on the right.

1. fastball firm belief in yourself

Check the Words
2. unique a pitch thrown at high speed You Know
3. weakness laughing at; making fun of
confidence
4. confidence having no like or equal fastball
5. mocking a weak point; slight fault mocking
outfield
unique
weakness
windup

Directions  Choose the word from the box to complete each clue and
fill in the crossword puzzle. 6 7

DOWN 8
6. We have full ___________ in his hitting.
7. Motions the pitcher makes before throwing
the ball is called a _________.

ACROSS 9
8. If the ball is hit out of the diamond, it’s in
the ______________.
9. A standout hitter like Hank Aaron
is __________ among
players. 10

10. Running too slowly is

a player’s major ________________.

Write a News Report

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On a separate sheet of paper, write a brief television news report about a baseball game, using as
many vocabulary words as you can.

Home Activity  Your child identified and used vocabulary words found in the biographical story Satchel
Paige. Look in the sports pages of a newspaper and read a description of a sporting event with your child.
See if you can identify any of the vocabulary words in the article.

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Compound and Complex Sentences

A simple sentence expresses a complete thought. It has a subject and a predicate.
The Negro League formed in 1920.
A compound sentence contains two simple sentences joined by a comma and a conjunction
such as and, but, or or.
The athletes played several games a day, and they traveled on a bus.
A complex sentence contains an independent clause, which can stand alone, and a dependent
clause, which cannot stand alone. The clauses are joined by a word such as if, when, because,
until, before, after, or since. In the following sentence, the independent clause is underlined
once; the dependent clause is underlined twice.
Many years would pass before the major leagues were integrated.

Directions  Join each pair of simple sentences with and, but, or or. Write the compound sentence on
the lines. Change punctuation and capital letters as necessary.
1. My sister can hit the ball hard. She pitches well too.

2. The game should have started at one o’clock. A thunderstorm began at 12:45.

3. The teams will make up the game next Sunday. They will wait until the end of the season.

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sentence. Underline the word that joins the two clauses in each sentence.
4. All players are important to a team, but the pitcher may be most important.
5. If a pitcher strikes out batters, the opposing team cannot score.

6. Outfielders must catch the ball when the batter hits a pop fly.

7. The game was tied, and no one left the bleachers.

8. The pitcher struck out two batters, but the third batter hit a home run.
Home Activity  our child learned about compound and complex sentences. Have your child write a
paragraph about a baseball game, using at least one compound sentence and one complex sentence.

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Spelling Words
supplied supplying denied denying decided
deciding included including admitted admitting
occurred occurring qualified qualifying identified
identifying delayed delaying satisfied satisfying

Word Pairs  Write the best list words to complete each sentence pair.
Were you (1)____ with lunch? I found the food very (2)____.
1. ____________________ 2. ____________________
David (3)____ that he lost his key. (4)____ guilt was the best thing to do in his case.
3. ____________________ 4. ____________________
Did you see the eclipse as it was (5)____? Last time one (6)____, I missed it.
5. ____________________ 6. ____________________
The runners lined up for the (7)____ race. After that race, only three runners (8)____ for the team.
7. ____________________ 8. ____________________
My lost cat has an (9)____ number tattooed on her skin. She was easily (10)____ as mine when she
was found.
9. ____________________ 10. ____________________
I have so much trouble (11)____ between piano or karate lessons. Have you (12)____ on a choice yet?
11. ____________________ 12. ____________________
The coach used many (13)____ tactics, such as time-outs, during the game. Then the final quarter
was (14)____ by the rain.
13. ____________________ 14. ____________________
The school closet was fully (15)____ with pencils. Do you think the school will be (16)____ pencils
for the big test?
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15. ____________________ 16. ____________________

Stop (17)____ that you broke the window! Even though you (18)____ it, we all saw your ball break
the window.
17. ____________________ 18. ____________________
Are you (19)____ olives on your shopping list? I’ve (20)____ carrots, celery, and pickles on my list.
19. ____________________ 20. ____________________

Home Activity  Your child wrote words with -ed and -ing endings. Select a list word and ask your child
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Vocabulary • Antonyms
• An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another word.
• Words such as unlike, but, and instead may indicate the presence of antonyms.
• A thesaurus, a book that lists words and their antonyms and synonyms (words that mean the
same thing), may help bring clarity, instead of confusion, to your writing and reading.

Directions  Read the following passage about an athlete. Then circle the words in the list below
that complete antonym pairs. Use a thesaurus to help you.

A lthough Pete was born without legs,

he refused the idea that his disability
should slow him down. Unlike people
Pete always used caution when fastening
his ropes and caring for his equipment.
Two hundred feet above the rocky bottom
who accepted misfortune as an excuse of a canyon was no place for recklessness!
to give up, Pete tried to live life to the Starting at the base of a cliff, he would
fullest. It was true that his wheelchair pull his way up to the pinnacle. After
sometimes made him feel confined at straining for hours, he would reach the top,
school. But on the weekends, his favorite exhausted. Pete didn’t feel that school was
sport, rock climbing, made him feel boring, but it didn’t match the exhilarating
completely free. feeling that came from the physical and
mental challenge of rock-climbing.

1. refused disability excuse accepted

2. free confined completely favorite

3. caution recklessness rocky caring

4. base cliff reach pinnacle

5. boring mental feeling exhilarating

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Home Activity  Your child read a short passage and identified antonyms, words that mean the opposite
of each other. Have your child describe a familiar person, place, or thing using words and their antonyms,
using a dictionary, glossary, or thesaurus for help.

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Newspaper/Newsletter
• A newspaper is a daily (or weekly) periodical that contains timely news and information on
current events and issues. Daily newspapers use various text features in providing local,
regional, national, and international news. Most newspapers organize information from most
important to least important. There are three basic kinds of articles found in a newspaper: news
stories, editorials (opinions pieces), and feature stories.
• A newsletter is a brief publication by a group or organization that contains news of interest to
that group’s members.

Directions  Read the newspaper page and answer the questions below.

HOMETOWN NEWS
July 17, 2004 Cloudy, 72º

BARR HITS FOR THE CYCLE–AGAIN

H ometown hero Billy Barr has been having
the kind of week baseball players can only
dream of. Last night, for the third game in a row,
the first Negro League players to break into
Major League baseball in the 1950s. Billy Barr
frequently makes reference to his grandfather,
Barr hit for the cycle, which means he hit who inspired his grandson to play baseball.
a single, a double, a triple, and a home run. The last time a Major League player hit for
“I guess my grandfather was looking out the cycle in three consecutive games was in
for me tonight,” said Barr after the game, 1971, when Sal Bando did it for the Oakland
referring to his grandfather Alan Barr, one of Athletics.

1. Where do you find the date on a newspaper’s front page?

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2. How does the headline give you a clue to what the article will be about?

3. Most newspapers give the daily weather forecast somewhere on the front page. What is the
forecast for this day?

4. Why does the writer mention the last time this event occurred at the very end of the article?

5. Which of the three basic types of articles is this one?

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Directions  Read the selection from the newsletter and answer the questions below.

EVANSTON SOCCER NEEDS VOLUNTEERS

Hello Evanston soccer families!
The new season starts soon, and we’re busy getting our teams and coaches organized and ready
to play. As you can imagine, it’s a lot of work. So once again we are asking for volunteers to help
us out for the new season. We are an all-volunteer organization. In 2006 we won the Regional Youth
Soccer Organization of the year award because of the great support our volunteers gave us. We want
to make it two in a row for this year!
Volunteering only requires a few hours of your time each week. Currently, we need about forty
parents to volunteer to be coaches, referees, and board members.
We know how busy everyone’s lives are, but our organization can only succeed if everyone
pitches in. We hope you’ll consider volunteering this year!

6. To whom is this newsletter story directed?

7. Who do you think would receive a copy of this newsletter?

8. Name two things this newsletter specifically asks soccer parents to volunteer to do.

9. Based on this newsletter article, who runs this youth soccer organization?

10. If you wanted to find out about a big event happening in your city, where would you go to find
out the information—a newspaper or a newsletter? Why?
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Home Activity  Your child answered questions about newspapers and newsletters. With your child, sketch
out the front page of a newspaper based on your family’s activities for the day.

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Adding -ed, -ing

Proofread a Newspaper Article  This is an article from a local weekly Spelling Words
newspaper. Circle six spelling errors. Write the sentence with a punctuation supplied
error correctly. Write the corrections on the lines below. supplying
denied
Three Caught After Holdup denying
by Rosy Redeye decided
deciding
The crime ocurred after midnight. The store’s included
videotape identifyed three suspects. The store including
owner supplyed the license plate number to the admitted
admitting
police department. Geting the results took no time.
The police quickly located the car and suspects occurred
occurring
They had trouble admiting their wrongdoing. qualified
However, in front of the judge, they deceided to qualifying
admit everything. The police were satisfied that identified
they had solved the case. identifying
delayed
delaying
satisfied
1. _________________ 2. _______________
satisfying
3. _________________ 4. _______________
5. _________________ 6. _______________ Frequently
Misspelled
7. ___________________________________________________________ Words

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9. included includid includ

10. qualifed qualifide qualified
11. deceided decided decieded
12. satesfying satisfying satisfiying
13. admitted admited admetted
14. suppliing sapplying supplying

Home Activity  Your child identified misspelled list words. Select three list words and ask your child to
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Compound and Complex Sentences

Directions  Read the passage. Then read each question. Circle the letter of the correct answer.

Just For Fun

(1) Every day Ted and I play catch, or we join our friends in a game. (2) We love
the game, but we aren’t the best players. (3) They say that if you practice every day,
you will do better. (4) Today, our game was fun because the crowd cheered us on.
(5) Although our team played well, we still lost. (6) Because we have fun, we don’t
mind an occasional loss. (7) We keep score, but we really play just for fun.

1 In sentence 1, Every day Ted and I play 4 What is the dependent clause in sentence 5?
catch is what? A our team lost
A Dependent clause B we still lost
B Independent clause C our team played well
C Compound sentence D Although our team played well
D Complex sentence

5 Sentence 7 is which type of sentence?

2 In sentence 2, which word is a conjunction? A Compound sentence
A We B Complex sentence
B aren’t C Simple sentence
C but D Exclamatory sentence
D best

3 Sentence 4 is which type of sentence?

A Compound sentence
B Complex sentence
C Simple sentence
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D Exclamatory sentence

Home Activity  Your child reviewed compound and complex sentences. Ask your child to explain how a
game is played using some compound and complex sentences.

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