START Coming SMART Spring START START START START 2017! SMART Derr/Scott Angle Aaron SMART SMART Derr/Scott Angle Aaron SMART Playing a sport can be fun. Playing a sport can be fun. Plus, it is great exercise. Plus, it is great exercise. Being part of a team, or just playing with friends, BaseballBeing part of a team, or just playing with friends, Soccer is more fun for everyone when you know the rules of the game An Introductionis more to Beingfun for aeveryone Good Sport when you know the rules of the game An Introduction to Being a Good Sport and how to be a good sport. and how to be a good sport. Now you can Start Smart in Sports with these six fun titles! Now you can Start Smart in Sports with these six fun titles! Baseball Soccer Start Smart books introduce young readers to key themes in the early elementary curriculum and topics y y y y of keen interest to young readers. Lexile: XXXL Lexile: XXXL GR: X y GR: X y Look inside for Look inside for FUN FACTS! FUN FACTS! With Start Smart: Sports children y y y y y y learn rules of their favorite games. Narrative stories with original Baseball Soccer illustrations demonstrate rules, and 978-1-634401-29-6 (LB) 978-1-634401-32-6 (LB) model how to be a good sport in 978-1-634401-35-7 (PB) 978-1-634401-38-8 (PB) 978-1-634401-41-8 (eBook) 978-1-634401-44-9 (eBook) each game. START START START START • Reading Level: GradeSMART 2 Derr/Scott Angle Aaron SMART SMART Derr/Scott Angle Aaron SMART Playing a sport can be fun. Playing a sport can be fun. Plus, it is great exercise. Plus, it is great exercise. Being part of a team, or just playing with friends, Being part of a team, or just playing with friends, Volleyball • Interest Level: Grades 1-3 An Introduction to Being a Good Sport is more fun for everyone when you know the rules of the game is more fun for everyone when you know the rules of the game An Introduction to Being a Good Sport and how to be a good sport. and how to be a good sport. • Ages: 6-9 Now you can Start Smart in Sports with these six fun titles! Now you can Start Smart in Sports with these six fun titles! • 32 pages • 6.5” x 9” Basketball Volleyball Book Features: • Table of Contents y • Glossary y Lexile: XXXL Lexile: XXXL y GR: X y GR: X y Look inside for Look inside for • Index FUN FACTS! FUN FACTS! y y y y y y • More Resources • Sidebars and Fun facts Basketball Volleyball • Diagrams of how to 978-1-634401-30-2 (LB) 978-1-634401-34-0 (LB) set up the field or court 978-1-634401-36-4 (PB) 978-1-634401-40-1 (PB) • What did you Learn? 978-1-634401-42-5 (eBook) 978-1-634401-46-3 (eBook) checklist START START START START SMART Derr/Scott Angle Aaron SMART SMART Derr/Scott Angle Aaron SMART Playing a sport can be fun. Playing a sport can be fun. Plus, it is great exercise. TennisPlus, it is great exercise. Being part of a team, or just playing with friends, Being part of a team, or just playing with friends, is more fun for everyone when you know the rules of the game An Introductionis more to Beingfun for aeveryone Good Sport when you know the rules of the game An Introduction to Being a Good Sport and how to be a good sport. and how to be a good sport. Individual Library-bound Titles: Start Smart Start Smart $26.65 (List)/$19.99 (S&L)Now you can in Sports with these six fun titles! Now you can in Sports with these six fun titles! Library Multi-user eBook editions: Volleyball Volleyball $39.99 (List) /$29.99 (S&L) 6-book Set (LB): 978-1-5124-3424-8 $159.90 (List) /$119.93 (S&L) Individual Paperback Titles: $7.99 y y y y Lexile: XXXL Lexile: XXXL GR: X y GR: X y Look inside for Look inside for FUN FACTS! FUN FACTS! Distributed by y y y y y y Lerner Publishing Group 800 328-4929 www.lernerbooks.com Tennis Hockey 978-1-634401-33-3 (LB) 978-1-634401-31-9 (LB) Preview at: TM 978-1-634401-39-5 (PB) 978-1-634401-37-1 (PB) www.redchairpress.com 978-1-634401-45-6 (eBook) 978-1-634401-43-2 (eBook) START SMART After the Titans score, it’s the Bulldogs’ turn. One Suddenly, the player of their players is dribbling the ball up the court fast. from the Bulldogs tries He’s almost as fast as Brianna! to dribble closer to the basket. Brianna moves Brianna tries her best to keep the other player from with her, and out of scoring. She plays good defense by putting her hands nowhere, Jayden is out from her body so she can be ready to block the there, too! ball if the other player tries to pass or shoot. They have the other player trapped! The Bulldogs’ player tries to pass the ball to one of his teammates, but he can’t pass it over Nathan! Jayden jumps up and grabs the ball, and the Titans have a chance to score again. FUN FACT If you try to take a shot and a player from the other team fouls you, you get to shoot free throws. They’re called “free” because the other team isn’t allowed to try to block the ball. Free throws are only worth one point, but you usually get to shoot more than one. 20 21 From Basketball © 2017 Red Chair Press CHAPTER 2 Passing and Dribbling “When do we get to score goals?” Sophie asks Brian. But Brian is already working on his dribbling. DID YOU KNOW? Sophie already knows the basic rules of soccer. All of the players on one team try to kick the ball into the The sport that we call “soccer” is known throughout most of the world as “football.” A set of rules called other team’s goal. And all of the players on the other “Association Football” was formed more than 150 years team try to stop them. ago. By the time that sport started to become popular in the United States, we already had a game called “football,” But instead of having them kick the ball into the so “Association Football” became “soccer.” Now, what goal, Sophie’s coach asks the players first to practice we call “football” is known as either “American dribbling. football” or “gridiron” in the rest of the world. So confusing! 6 7 From Soccer © 2017 Red Chair Press .