

Who Wants to Play Basketball?
Realistic (fiction) 59 words, Level D (Grade 1), Lexile 150L
Have you ever wanted to play a game but had no one to play with? In Who Wants to Play Basketball?, a boy wants to shoot some hoops, but it seems that everyone around him is busy. Will he ever find someone to play? Colorful illustrations, high-frequency words, and patterned text make this book a good fit for emergent readers. This book can be used to teach students how to identify the problem and solution in a story as well as how to identify and use complete sentences.