Soccer Say What?
A Story Using Text Features
By: Kelly Martin
4th Grade Teacher
Glen Avenue Elementary School
The History of Soccer
Do you yawn during history classes? Well not anymore! Get ready to learn about the history of soccer with these fun and interesting facts! Be sure to pay special attention to the text features.
Lets Review. A text feature can be anything from bold print to a map of a country. The author uses text features to help the reader understand more about the text. Use the text features in this book to help you comprehend what you are reading.
Vocab Words:
Chinese Warriors
banned
World Cup
China:
People played soccer almost 2,000 years ago! The picture above shows people in China playing soccer with a small leather ball. Soccer was even considered exercise for Chinese warriors !
England:
The modern game of soccer that we play today came from England. There, it was called "foot ball." The leather ball was bigger than in China, and everyday villagers would play.
Soccer even became banned in Englad because it became so popular.
Soccer Back Then and Soccer Today:
Rules were written down for the game of soccer. At first, there were only 13 offical rules. Soccer grew more and more popular, and the World Cup has caused soccer to become one of the most popular sports in the world.
http://www.footy4kids.co.uk/short_history_of_football.htm#
Timeline
This timeline shows you important soccer moments in history. Which fact do you find most interesting?
http://www.footy4kids.co.uk/short_history_of_football.htm#
The Rules of the Game:
"The Laws of the Game" are created each year by FIFA . The soccer rule book is about 70 pages long! The rule book contains rules about soccer fouls, the field, the size of the soccer ball, and even rules about injury. Can you think of anything else that might be in that rule book?
Famous Soccer Players
Pele played for Brazil and is known as The King of Football. Keep in mind that soccer used to be called football, and still is in some countries!
http://www.latinosportslegends.com/Pele_bio.htm
Famous Soccer Players
Mia Hamm was born in Alabama and played for a team in the United States. She was even named the FIFA world player of the year twice!
http://www.biography.com/people/mia-hamm-16472547
Soccer is the fastest growing and most popular sport in the world! After reading this story, the use of text features should be more clear to you.
The End!