Finding the Best Evidence_Pickleball (Infer)

Open Ended

Based on the picture, what other sports does pickleball remind you of?

Reorder

Reorder the steps for answering evidence based questions

• Identify the idea that the evidence should support

• Judge each answer choice

• Select the BEST answer

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• 2
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Multiple Choice

Which detail from the text shows how pickleball is different from tennis?

• “It’s a new year, so how about trying a new sport: pickleball.” (Paragraph 1)

• “Seriously, that’s the goofy name of a fast-growing game that’s a combination of tennis, ping-pong and badminton.” (Paragraph 1)

• “Players use wooden or composite rackets that are slightly larger than ping-pong paddles” (Paragraph 2)

• “The net is a few inches lower than a standard tennis net.” (Paragraph 2)

Multiple Choice

Pickleball first spread when…

• A. its inventors taught it to others.

• B. rowers began playing the game.

Multiple Choice

Which detail from the text best supports your answer to question 2?

• “The game was invented in the 1960s by several parents vacationing in Bainbridge Island, Washington.” (Paragraph 3)

• “The kids and the parents played all summer and then went home to Seattle, introducing the game to neighbors and friends.” (Paragraph 4)

• “Some of the creators say they called it pickleball because a neighbor’s dog (named Pickles) kept running off with the balls.” (Paragraph 5)

• “The game, they say, was named after a pickle boat, a crew term for a boat made up of spare rowers.” (Paragraph 5)