Baseball

I Love Sports

by Allan Morey

Batter up! Through large, full-color action photographs and simple text, Baseball introduces beginning readers to the basic rules of the game and encourages them to try playing. A labeled diagram helps readers identify the different parts of a baseball field, and a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Baseball also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, and an index. Baseball is part of Jump!'s I Love Sports series.

Genres: Baseball

24 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2015

Reviews

[Shannon Garren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Twin Text: Dean, J. (2013). Pete the cat: Play ball!. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.

Rationale: Pete the cat is a beloved character of young readers. He loves baseball but is not that good at it. Through the book he shows that he tries his hardest and has great sportsmanship. Baseball introduces the sport with brief descriptions and pictures with young players and the correct equipment.

Text Structure: Description

Text Features: Table of Contents, Diagrams, Illustrations/photos, Index, and Glossary

Strategy: Webbing – I would read the Pete the Cat: Play Ball! book and have the kids start talking about what they know about baseball from the book. We will add what we find out from Baseball. What are the bases? What is the equipment? What are the positions? What are the rules?

[Kris Dersch · Rating 1 out of 5]

Structurally flawed. If you're gonna have a table of contents, you have to have...contents. "Picture glossary" is not a chapter.
This may sound like a stupid quibble, but a lot of what these books do is teach kids how nonfiction books work and this didn't even do *that,* much less anything else.