Soccer

Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #29

by Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce, Sal Murdocca (Illustrator)

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better.

Track the facts with Jack and Annie!

When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #24: Soccer on Sunday, they had lots of questions. How did soccer get started? Who are some of its greatest players? What is the World Cup? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts behind one of the world's most popular sports.

Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures. And teachers can use Fact Trackers alongside their Magic Tree House fiction companions to meet common core text pairing needs.

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Genres: Nonfiction, Childrens, Sports, Chapter Books, Soccer

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Mary Pope Osborne is an American author of children's books and audiobook narrator. She is best known as the author of the Magic Tree House series, which as of 2017 sold more than 134 million copies worldwide. Both the series and Osborne have won awards, including for Osborne's charitable efforts at promoting children's literacy. One of four children, Osborne moved around in her childhood before attending the University of North Carolina. Following college, Osborne traveled before moving to New York City. She somewhat spontaneously began to write, and her first book was published in 1982. She went on to write a variety of other children's and young adult books before starting the Magic Tree House series in 1992. Osborne's sister Natalie Pope Boyce has written several compendium books to the Magic Tree House series, sometimes with Osborne's husband Will Osborne.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

In 2014, Mary Pope Osborne and her sister Natalie Pope Boyce published Soccer. This book is a nonfiction research guide to the book entitled Soccer on Sunday by Mary Pope Osborne which was published in 2014. The book was written to preview the Men’s World Cup in Brazil in 2014. The book contains an explanation of why football is called soccer in the United States. Osborne and Boyce write “Years ago, when teams started playing under British Football Association rules, players called them Assoc (A-sock) rules. The word soccer became a nickname for the association. The team caught on in countries that have a different sport called football.” The book covers the basic rules of soccer, basic soccer play during a match, a brief history of the World Cup, famous soccer players up to the year 2014, and an introduction to the World Cup up to 2014. The book was written with the advice of a soccer consultant and an educational advisor. The soccer consultant was Jessie McManmon Cooney, a board member of the soccer league in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The book has wonderful black-and-white illustrations. The book has wonderful black-and-white photographs. The illustrator for this book was Sal Murdocca. The book has an index. Similar to the other books in the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers series, the book has a section on how to do more research for young readers about soccer. Osborne’s and Boyce’s book on Soccer is a good introduction to the sport of Soccer as of 2014.

[Jenny Clark · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quick overview of soccer, its rules and how it brings people together, as well as some facts about the world cup. Goes with Soccer on Sunday

[Colin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fact Tracker about soccer. Sports are not really my thing, and I feel like my kids did not get the point of having a whole fact tracker about a sport, but still, it was good to show them how important football/soccer is to people all over the world . . .

[Tara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned so much about soccer that I didn’t know or understand. The game makes a lot more sense now.
I love these books.

The World Cup brings the
World together like nothing
Else in sports can do.

[Maximilian Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this book because I like nonfiction books. I also liked this book because I like information. I learned a lot of facts about the World Cup.

[Trey Auntie Paige · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learned billions of people watch soccer.

[blueygurl2016 · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was okay. I’m not a soccer fan.

[Alexandra Seals · Rating 4 out of 5]

Text Features: Table of contents, illustrations, black and white photographs, captions, headings, fast facts from Jack and Annie, a short guide on how to do more research, a bibliography of books about soccer, a list of soccer museums, a list of soccer-related websites to visit, index
Text Structure: Description

Paired intermediate fiction text: Soccer on Sunday
Osborne, M. P. (2014). Soccer on sunday. New York, NY: Random House

For students who love the Magic Tree House series, the Magic Tree House Fact Tracker companion texts are the perfect nonfiction text pairing. The Magic Tree House series covers a variety of topics a child might be interested in. In my example, I chose soccer because children who play or watch soccer might want to read about it. In the Fact Tracker, Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce explain their research about soccer and it’s history in order to reiterate and expand on the facts in Magic Tree House #52: Soccer on Sunday. The lists of books, museums, and websites will inspire children to do their own research about soccer and possibly write their own story like Jack and Annie’s!

Strategy Application: In grades 2-4, I would guide a book club or guided reading group to read both texts then compare the two books using a venn diagram. Camp (2010) suggests using a venn diagram to graphically organize content for students who learn better through visual display of information. One circle should contain facts from Soccer: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #52: Soccer on Sunday which were not referenced in Soccer on Sunday. The other circle should contain fiction elements from Soccer on Sunday. The middle circle should contain facts that were in both books. After completing the venn diagram, discuss the differences between fact and fiction. Talk about how the two meet up in books like the Magic Tree House series. How can readers read books, news, and internet stories critically to determine what’s fact and what is fiction?

If you’re interested on using more Magic Tree House text pairings in your classroom, check out this link to the Classroom Adventures curriculum designed for use with the Magic Tree House books and aligned to Common Core standards. http://mthclassroomadventures.org/ind...

Reference
Camp, D. (2010, February). It takes two: Teaching with twin texts of fact and fiction. The Reading Teacher, 53(5), 400-408.

[Mundie Moms & Mundie Kids · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fans of soccer and The Magic Tree House series will love this book!

I don't know about you guys, but even as a kid, and especially now as a parent, I love it when I can sit down and read about the history of something that interests me. Not only is there history like when and were soccer was invented, but how it evolved over the years. There's also information about some of the biggest names is the world wide sport, as well some of the most important high lights about the sport that have taking place through out the world. There's plenty of World Cup talk too, which makes this another one of those reads that is worth picking up, especially with all the exciting surrounding the World Cup games right now.

This fact tracker is full of pictures, history, and includes a lot of fun intriguing easy to read information that's both exciting and informative. I'd highly recommend picking up Soccer on Sunday, and grabbing this Soccer fact tracker to go along with it. The nice thing about these two books, is you can read them in any order you'd like. Whether your a fan of the sport, or the book series, I'd highly recommend picking up both books. These books make great additions for personal libraries, as well as classroom and school libraries.

Read my full review here http://mundiekids.blogspot.com/2014/0...

[Anne Patkau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Futbol is beautiful game. Happy place.
Chapters:
1 Soccer
2 The laws of the game
3 Let the game begin
4 Great players
5 The world cup
6 Soccer changes lives

From general to specific. Origin of soc-cer is futbol a-ssoc-ker-iations. If you say so. Balls go to Africa for kid soldiers. Realistic drawing of tiger tough test, paw on ball.

Text goes out of date for World Cups. I'll never forget full Toronto streets went wild for Youth Cup, every face friendly. Opposite of empty SARS and Covid streets.

Photos start in 1895. Pelé and greats are in action. Renaldo, Ronaldhino. Women too. I'd prefer more photos.

Upbeat. So many smiles from teams make this book a happy place. Like futbol.

[Teri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good basic introduction to the game of soccer. Cool facts about the World Cup.

[Cadlee Dsouza]

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