Unit 1 - Want to Play?

Understand general and specific information from a variety written texts of a suitable level.
Use reading comprehension strategies: identify literary types  using textual and non-textual elements; use previous knowledge on a topic and make predictions about the content.

Unit 2 - Olympic Challenge

Understand general and specific information from a variety written texts of a suitable level.
Use reading comprehension strategies: identify literary types using textual and non-textual elements including informative texts, news articles and poems.

Unit 3 - Xenophon Goes to Olympia

Understand general and specific information from a variety of visual and auditory texts of a suitable level.
Use reading comprehension strategies: identify the venue, sports events, culture, and interesting historical facts of ancient Olympic Games.

Unit 4 - "Batter's Up"

Understand general and specific information from a variety written texts of a suitable level.
Develop the students ability to apply the skills and strategies of a successful listener
Use reading comprehension strategies: To understand and respond to written language drawn from a variety of sources, activate their background knowledge about baseball and describe some of the necessary skills inherent to the game of baseball.
Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

Unit 5 - Everyone is a Winner at Special Olympics

Adapt to the right attitudes toward inclusion in Physical Education.
Use reading comprehension strategies: to identify literary types using textual and non-textual elements and to consider how the core Olympic values apply to them and the world today.