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Jim Thorpeby Robert Hirschfeld

Fountas-Pinnell Level NBiographySelection SummaryThis is the biography of Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century. Despite facing prejudice because of his Native American heritage, Thorpe went on to win two medals in the 1912 Olympic Games. He later became a professional baseball and football player.

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Characteristics of the Text Genre • Biography

Text Structure • Major events presented in chronological order• Third person factual narrative

Content • Life and career of Jim Thorpe• Olympic games• Native Americans

Themes and Ideas • Pursuing your dream can be a life goal.• Racial prejudice toward Native Americans has always existed in this country.• It takes courage to speak out against injustice.

Language and Literary Features

• Exclamation: The other kids couldn’t get over the pole, but Jim did it!• Appositive set off by comma: His daughter, Grace Thorpe, …

Sentence Complexity • Simple sentences with introductory phrases: Then one day, he saw some students trying the high jump.

• Longer compound and complex sentences• Words in a series: power, skill, and speed

Vocabulary • Some sports terms that should be familiar: football, baseball, track, kicker, runner• Some sports terms that might not be familiar: decathlon, pentathlon• Place and proper names: Sweden, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Olympic Games,

Olympic Committee, American IndianWords • Some more challenging multisyllabic words:

national, applauded, committee, OlympicIllustrations • Historic archival photos

Book and Print Features • Nine pages of text, photos on all pages• Longer captions that extend content

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Target Vocabulary

athlete – a person who plays one or many sports, p. 2

championship – the game that decides who is the best player or team, p. 5

competitor – a person who is trying to win in a game or a sport, p. 7

court -– an area where a game is played, p. 8

entire – whole or complete, p. 10

power – strength, p. 6professional – a person who is

paid to play a game or a sport, p. 8

rooting – cheering, p. 6

Jim Thorpe by Robert Hirschfeld

Build BackgroundHelp students use their knowledge of sports to visualize the book. Build interest by asking questions such as the following: Who do you think is the greatest sports star in America today? Why do you feel this way? Then read the title and author and talk about the cover photo. Explain that Jim Thorpe was a world famous athlete who won medals in the Olympic Games long ago.

Introduce the TextGuide students through the text, noting important ideas and nonfi ction features. Help with unfamiliar language so they can read the text successfully. Give special attention to target vocabulary. Here are some suggestions:

Pages 2–3: Explain that this book tells Jim Thorpe’s life story. Suggested language: Turn to page 2 and 3 of this book. Jim Thorpe was a great athlete who played many different sports very well. Look at the photos of Jim Thorpe. What sports is he playing in these photos? How can you tell?

Page 5: Read the section heading. Point out that Jim Thorpe helped his college football team win a national championship. Find the word championship. How would you feel if one of your school teams won a championship?

Page 6: Explain that Jim Thorpe was an athlete in the Olympic Games in 1912. Everyone was rooting for Jim Thorpe to win – and he did. What teams do you root for?

Page 8: Read the section heading and the caption. Later Jim Thorpe earned a living as a professional baseball and football player. “Professional” means that he was paid to play on the teams. What professional baseball and football teams can you name?

Page 9: Read the caption. Many American Indians were not treated fairly, so Jim Thorpe spoke up for them. Why do you think Thorpe did this?

Now turn back to the beginning of the book and read to fi nd out why Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes in the world.

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ReadHave students read Jim Thorpe silently while you listen to individual students read. Support their problem solving and fl uency as needed.

Remind students to use the Question Strategy , and to think of questions as they read.

Discuss and Revisit the TextPersonal ResponseInvite students to share their personal responses to the book.Suggested language: Which events in Jim Thorpe’s life interested you the most? Why?

Ways of ThinkingAs you discuss the text, help students understand these points:

Thinking Within the Text Thinking Beyond the Text Thinking About the Text

• Jim Thorpe became a star athlete at college.

• Jim Thorpe was an Olympic champion.

• Jim Thorpe became a professional baseball and football player.

• Jim Thorpe spoke out on behalf of Native American rights.

• Speaking out against racial prejudice takes courage and commitment.

• Never giving up on your dreams can be a life goal.

• Photos from long ago help readers to visualize events in the past.

• Captions tell more information about photos.

• Section headings are good section summaries.

• The author’s purpose is to inform readers about the life and career of Jim Thorpe.

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Choices for Further Support• Fluency Invite students to choose a passage from the text to read aloud. Remind

them to pause slightly after commas and periods.

• Comprehension Based on your observations of the students’ reading and discussion, revisit parts of the text to clarify or extend comprehension. Remind students to go back to the text to support their ideas.

• Phonics/Word Work Provide practice as needed with words and word parts, using examples from the text. Remind students that longer words are often formed from shorter, familiar words. For example, the word football on page 3, is a compound word, combining the words foot and ball. Finding the shorter, more familiar words sometimes help readers understand the meaning of longer words. Repeat with the following compound words: newspapers (p. 7); basketball (p. 8), sometimes (p. 9).



Writing about ReadingVocabulary PracticeHave students complete the Vocabulary questions on BLM 11.1.

RespondingHave students complete the vocabulary activities on page 11. Remind them to answer the Word Teaser on p. 12. (Answer: professional)

Reading Nonfi ctionNonfiction Features: Captions and Photos Remind students that nonfi ction has many features to help readers fi nd and understand important information. Captions and photos are two of these features. Explain that captions can be longer sentences, as in this book, or short phrases. Captions tell readers what a photo, map, or diagram is about. Sometimes captions give readers information that is not found in the selection. By reading the captions in a nonfi ction book, readers can preview the book before reading the main text.

Photos are another important source of information. They often add information that is not in the text and help readers see what the author is writing about. Have students look again at the photo on page 5. Ask what information they learn from the photo (what Jim Thorpe looked like; what football players wore in 1912; how Jim Thorpe played football). Then have volunteers read aloud the caption. Then ask students to choose another photo in the book and write another caption for it, based on what they see in the photo.

Writing Prompt: Thinking Beyond the TextHave students write a response to the prompt on page 6.

Assessment Prompts• Which words on page 2 help the reader understand the meaning of the word athlete.

• On page 6, fi nd the word that means almost the same as “great force.”

• The author most likely wrote this book to

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Read directions to students.

Target VocabularyWrite words and ideas that go with the word athlete in the web. Then create your own webs for the remaining Target Vocabulary words.

athlete

championship

competitor

court

entire

power

professional

rooting

Vocabulary

soccer

good runner

baseball

hard work

athlete

Possible responses shown.

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Jim Thorpe

Target Vocabulary

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English Language DevelopmentReading Support Pair English-speaking and English language learners so that they can check their understanding with each other.

Cultural Support Explain that the Olympics are sports competitions that take place in the winter and summer every four years. The best athletes from all over the world compete in the different Olympic events. Every four years the Olympics are held in a different country.

Oral Language DevelopmentCheck student comprehension, using a dialogue that best matches your students’ English profi ciency level. Speaker 1 is the teacher, Speaker 2 is the student.

Beginning/Early Intermediate Intermediate Early Advanced/ Advanced

Speaker 1: Who is this book about?

Speaker 2: Jim Thorpe

Speaker 1: What are two sports that Jim Thorpe played?

Speaker 2: football and baseball

Speaker 1: Where were the Olympic Games held in 1912?

Speaker 2: Sweden

Speaker 1: What happened to Jim Thorpe at Carlisle Indian School?

Speaker 2: He became a star athlete.

Speaker 1: Why did people take away Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals?

Speaker 2: He once got paid for playing football.

Speaker 1: Why is Jim Thorpe so famous?

Speaker 2: He was the greatest athlete of the last century and won two Olympic medals.



Name Date

Jim ThorpeThinking Beyond the Text

Read the paragraph. Then write your news report in one or two paragraphs.

Imagine you are a sport reporter at the 1912 Olympic Games in Sweden. Write a news report about Jim Thorpe and what happened to him at those games. Use details from the book in your news report.



Target VocabularyWrite words and ideas that go with the word athlete in the web. Then create your own webs for the remaining Target Vocabulary words.

athlete

championship

competitor

court

entire

power

professional

rooting

Vocabulary

athlete

Name Date

Jim Thorpe

Target Vocabulary

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Jim ThorpeRunning Record Form

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Jim Thorpe may have been the greatest athlete of the last

century. He was a star in football, baseball, track, and other

sports, too.

Jim Thorpe was born in 1887 in Oklahoma. He had a hard

life and left school many times. Finally, his father sent him to

the Carlisle Indian School. It was one of the few schools where

an American Indian could get a college education then.

Jim had never competed in sports before Carlisle. Then

one day, he saw some students trying the high jump. They ran

and then jumped as high as they could to get over a pole.

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100)

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