Winners Never Quit

by Mia Hamm
Illustrated by Carol Thompson

Meet the Author

Meet the Illustrator

Respond to this book on the Powers Ferry blog

Words and Phrases to Explore
 

Curriculum Connections

Literacy/Language Arts

Text Features

• Ellipsis (...)

• Dialogue

• Bold print/Color

• Onomatopoeia ( Tap, tap, tap)

• Photo Captions

Social Studies

Time Lines

Science

Motion/Force - Many of these concepts can be related through sports.  See video streaming below.

Health/PE

• Team Sports

• Good Sportsmanship

• Lifetime Fitness

Activities Integrating Technology

Kidspiration/Inspiration

• Build a web for sports.  Add nouns and verbs that are associated with that sport.

• Use the Super Grouper tool to create a group for each sport.  Place the equipment needed for the sport in the correct group.

Timeliner

• Create personal timelines.  Use the pictures and captions in the back of the book as an example.

• Create timelines for other famous people.  Conduct research using the famous person search on nettrekker.

Graph Club - What is your favorite sport?  Graph the results for your class/grade/school.

Video Streaming - Listed below are titles that are available at www.unitedstreaming.com.  Please preview any videos before using them with students.  You may also want to import the video into PowerPoint and then create questions to use with Beyond Question.

• Lifetime Fitness

• Math Investigations (Part 1)

• Let's Move It:  Newton's Laws of Motion

• The Magic School Bus Plays Ball

Book-Based Skill Builders - Shape poem and other activities to do with Winners Never Quit.

A Quotation a Day - A lesson-planning article that utilizes quotes such as "winners never quit."

Onomatopoeia - Short activity for teaching the concept of onomatopoeia.

Onomatopoeia - This site has some visual examples with a link to many example.  Good source for a mini lesson.

Onomatopoeia - See how one school used digital cameras to have students illustrate their sentences with onomatopoeia.

Judi's Forces & Motion Classroom - Teacher guided activities to use while teaching force and motion.

Force and Motion Resources - A list of many sites.  Most of them are interactive.  Great resource for simple machines too!

Updated on:  January 9, 2007