Roberto Clemente Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates by Jonah Winter is the current story that we are reading.  This story is a biography about the life of Jonah Winter’s hero, Roberto Clemente.  Roberto was a great baseball player who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1955 to 1972.

The eight new vocabulary words that go along with this story are the following:

1. stands ~ seats from which people watch a game

2. fans ~ people who enjoy watching a certain activity and supporting the people who participate

3. score ~ to make or earn points in a game

4. league ~ a group of teams that play against one another

5. slammed ~ hit or closed very hard

6. polish ~ to make something smooth and bright by rubbing

7. style ~ a person’s special way of doing something

8. pronounced ~ said in a particular way

The comprehensive skills that will be addressed during this story are cause/effect, visualizing, and prefixes.