The Body at a Soccer Game Reading

5th Grade ScienceHuman Body Systems5 pages

About this worksheet

A 5th grade reading passage follows Maya through a championship soccer game on this 5-page science worksheet. It ties each body system to what she does, from oatmeal and a banana before the whistle to her nerves reacting to the ball, her muscles and bones sprinting, her lungs and heart working harder, and sweat cooling her down. Ten questions follow in three parts, with four multiple choice, a True or False item and a vocabulary question on the word demanded. Page 5 is the answer key.

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Curriculum objectives covered

RI.5.1

“Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.”

Question 4 asks for an exact phrase, and questions 7, 8 and 10 ask for evidence from the passage.

L.5.4a

“Use context (e.g., cause/effect relationships and comparisons in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.”

Question 6 asks what demanded means in the third paragraph.

What's inside this worksheet

The Passage

Five paragraphs with a photo of a girl kicking a soccer ball. The terms digestive system, nervous system, muscular and skeletal systems, respiratory system and circulatory system are in bold.

Retrieve the Facts

Questions 1 to 3 are multiple choice, on why Maya ate before the game, which two systems pull on bones, and what her lungs do. Question 4 asks students to copy a phrase from the fourth paragraph that compares blood vessels to a road system.

Read Between the Lines

Question 5 is multiple choice on why her heart beats faster. Question 6 asks what demanded means in the third paragraph. Question 7 is True or False about her legs moving before her brain knows where the ball is, with an explanation. Question 8 asks what could happen if Maya could not sweat.

Evaluate and Respond

Question 9 asks how the respiratory and circulatory systems depend on each other. Question 10 asks students to use the passage to show the muscular system could not do its job alone.

Answers

Letters for the four multiple choice questions, the phrase a highway of blood vessels, and sample responses for questions 6 to 10.

How teachers use it

Read it twice

Read the passage aloud once, then have students reread it and underline each body system as it appears. The bold terms make this quick and give students evidence for questions 9 and 10.

Copy, don't reword

Question 4 asks for a phrase from the text, not a paraphrase. Try one with a different sentence first so students know to copy the words exactly.

Debate question 10

Question 10 works as a short class debate before anyone writes. Put the muscular system on one side of the room and ask each side for a line from the passage.

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