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Football Opposites
Is the goal line near or far? Is your team on offense or defense? Is the stadium full or empty? A football themed-opposites makes learning fun. Sports Illustrated Kids Football Opposites is sure to be a fan favorite!
- GenresPicture BooksSports
20 pages, Board Book
First published January 1, 2013
5 people want to read
About the author
Mark Weakland
130 books17 followersWhile earning a degree in the sciences, author/educator/musician Mark Weakland played drums and percussion with scores of Pittsburgh-based bands. He then went on to earn multiple teacher certifications and a master’s degree in education.
Mark expresses his creative side through music and writing. He is the author of eighteen non-fiction children’s books. Upcoming books, written as collaborations between Warner Brothers, Sports Illustrated Kids, and Capstone Press, include a set of Scooby-Doo (and mathematics) books, a set of Wile E. Coyote (and physics) books, and a set of hockey (shapes and patterns) books.
Other kid projects include an award-winning audio book, a poetry collection, and Jack Attack, his first YA novel. Mark’s books have received outstanding reviews from Booklist and Library Media Connection and won multiple awards, such as the 2012 Green Award for Sustainable Children’s Literature and the 2011 Eureka Nonfiction Children’s Book Award.
His academic book for teachers and administrators, Super Core! Supercharging Your Basal Reading Program with More Reading, Writing, and Word Work, will be published by the International Reading Association in January of 2014.
As a musician and songwriter, Mark has written and recorded music for both kids and grown-ups. His songs have won Parents' Choice and Children's Web awards and finished as finalists in The John Lennon Songwriting and USA Songwriting contests. Performing on drums, guitar, and vocals, Mark still records and plays with various artists and bands in Western Pennsylvania.
Mark expresses his creative side through music and writing. He is the author of eighteen non-fiction children’s books. Upcoming books, written as collaborations between Warner Brothers, Sports Illustrated Kids, and Capstone Press, include a set of Scooby-Doo (and mathematics) books, a set of Wile E. Coyote (and physics) books, and a set of hockey (shapes and patterns) books.
Other kid projects include an award-winning audio book, a poetry collection, and Jack Attack, his first YA novel. Mark’s books have received outstanding reviews from Booklist and Library Media Connection and won multiple awards, such as the 2012 Green Award for Sustainable Children’s Literature and the 2011 Eureka Nonfiction Children’s Book Award.
His academic book for teachers and administrators, Super Core! Supercharging Your Basal Reading Program with More Reading, Writing, and Word Work, will be published by the International Reading Association in January of 2014.
As a musician and songwriter, Mark has written and recorded music for both kids and grown-ups. His songs have won Parents' Choice and Children's Web awards and finished as finalists in The John Lennon Songwriting and USA Songwriting contests. Performing on drums, guitar, and vocals, Mark still records and plays with various artists and bands in Western Pennsylvania.
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March 15, 2018
Of all the Sports Illustrated Kids football themed books I've read so far, this one is my favorite. Nice use of opposites.
July 8, 2013
Football works incredibly well to illustrate the concept of opposites!
The live-action photos perfectly illustrate each concept pair (i.e. up/down, clean/dirty etc). Fans will enjoy picking out familiar players and teams in the pictures.
Text is exciting and unfamiliar terms are defined in a glossary in the back. I highly recommend this title, especially because a good opposites book is a gem. This title does a great job of defining each concept without just relying on the term itself to explain it. PreK-2.
The live-action photos perfectly illustrate each concept pair (i.e. up/down, clean/dirty etc). Fans will enjoy picking out familiar players and teams in the pictures.
Text is exciting and unfamiliar terms are defined in a glossary in the back. I highly recommend this title, especially because a good opposites book is a gem. This title does a great job of defining each concept without just relying on the term itself to explain it. PreK-2.
August 1, 2014
Great for any young fan of football. Great pictures including some amazing action shots with simple explanations of each pair of opposites. I also enjoyed all the pictures of the Indianapolis Colts, but that's just my bias.
November 7, 2014
A good one to teach kindergarten opposites. I used it to teach them that the library is the opposite of the playground. The playground is loud and fast and dirty. The library is quiet and slow and clean.
August 3, 2014
My husband was particularly pleased that they used the Giants for "slow." :0)
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