Learning on the Soccer Field

What sport do Gustavo and Felipe play?

• A. baseball

• B. basketball

• C. soccer

• D. tennis

In this story, an effect is that Felipe gets better at soccer. What is the cause?

• A. Felipe gets laughed at the first time he tries to play soccer.

• B. Felipe practices kicking the soccer ball.

• C. Felipe kicks the soccer ball with the wrong part of his foot.

• D. Gustavo gives Felipe a big high-five.

Gustavo is good at soccer. What evidence from the story supports this conclusion?

• A. After a week of practice, Felipe scores his first goal and Gustavo gives him a big high five.

• B. During a soccer game, Gustavo steals the ball from the other team and kicks it into the goal.

• C. When Gustavo's older brother taught him how to kick a soccer ball, Gustavo was never able to make it go where he wanted.

• D. Gustavo lives in Rio de Janeiro, a big city in Brazil that has very warm weather.

How do Felipe's feelings about playing soccer change in the story?

• A. He goes from feeling nervous to feeling excited.

• B. He goes from feeling excited to feeling nervous.

• C. He goes from feeling kind to feeling angry.

• D. He goes from feeling angry to feeling kind

What is a theme of this story?

• A. Living somewhere with warm weather is a lot of fun.

• B. Playing sports causes children to be mean to each other.

• C. People should choose their friends carefully.

• D. People can get better at something through practice.

Read the following sentences: "Gustavo's brother likes to kick the ball with his right foot. But Gustavo doesn't. Instead, he likes to kick it with his left foot so that it makes a loud sound - thwack!" Why does the author write thwack! in the sentence above?

• A. to give readers an idea of what the loud sound was

• B. to show readers why Gustavo likes soccer so much

• C. to make readers feel sorry for Gustavo

• D. to help readers understand what going to school in Brazil is like

Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below. Felipe is nervous about playing soccer at first, _______ he looks forward to playing every day by the end of the story.

• A. as a result

• B. yet

• C. like

• D. so

Gustavo's favorite sport is soccer. When he was only _______________, his older brother taught him how to kick the ball

• four years old

• five years old

• two years old

• six years old

Now Gustavo is ___________ old, and he has had a lot of practice

• two years

• nine years

• ten years

• eight years

True or False:

Gustavo laughed at Felipe because he did not how to kick the ball.

• True

• False