Middle Grade Student Workbook: Born to Play (U.S. Edition)

Everything your students need to work through the Born to Play novel: more than 200 activities across all 24 chapters, covering comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, writing and discussion.

This Student Workbook is the companion to Born to Play, the Middle Grade novel by Dan Freedman, and is part of HATRIQA's Soccer Reader Method™. Jamie Johnson lives and breathes soccer, and his story hooks reluctant readers as well as keen ones. This workbook helps students get more from every chapter, from Chapter 1, The Soccer Computer, to Chapter 24, Junior Captain. The Jamie Johnson series has sold over 1 million books worldwide and inspired a BBC TV series.

What's inside

• 16 lessons covering all 24 chapters, each with Before reading and After reading tasks, including reading comprehension
• Learn the words vocabulary activities, such as crosswords, gap-fill sentences and writing about yourself with words from the chapter
• A Language work section in almost every lesson, from metaphors and punctuation in speech to fronted adverbials, relative clauses, expanded noun phrases, linking words and past continuous vs past simple
• Guided paragraph writing, so students practise each skill in their own words
• Talk about the story activities that invite a personal response and discussion of the issues raised in the story
• My learning pages where students read the chapter again and see how their answers have changed
• My Vocabulary pages to record new words, pronunciation, an example sentence and notes in the student's own language
• Answers are in the Teacher's Book and can also be downloaded from the HATRIQA website

Built for real classrooms
Designed to be used in the classroom alongside the Born to Play novel. The activities are aimed at middle grade readers, including reluctant readers, and build reading, writing and speaking skills, with vocabulary and grammar.

Level: Middle Grade, matched to the Born to Play novel (Lexile 760L).

Please note: this workbook does not contain the story. You will need a copy of the Born to Play novel by Dan Freedman.