Hockey LEVELED BOOK •
A Reading A–Z Level I Leveled Book
Word Count: 276
Hockey
Connections
Writing
Is hockey a popular sport where
you live? Why or why not? Write
a paragraph about it.
Art
Draw a diagram of a hockey
player and label his or her
equipment. Include labels for
the helmet, skates, gloves, pads,
hockey stick, and hockey puck.
Written by Curtis Thomas
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Hockey
Glossary
control (n.) the ability or power
to manage an object
(p. 7)
exciting (adj.) causing feelings of joy;
interesting and lively
(p. 4)
goal (n.) the act of putting
a ball or puck into
a goal, or the points
from doing that (p. 9)
puck (n.) a hard rubber circle
used in hockey (p. 7)
score (v.) to get points in a game
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or contest (p. 8)
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team (n.) a group of players
Focus Question
who play against
another group in a What is hockey, and how is it
sport or game (p. 7) played?
16
Words to Know
control puck
exciting score
goal team
Front cover: A player from Sweden competes at the Winter Olympic Games
in 2014.
Back cover: Russia (red) competes with the United States at the Olympic Games
in 2014.
Title page: A goalie guards the net during game in Michigan.
Page 3: The United States (white) plays a team from Europe (blue)
in an outdoor game in Canada.
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Many communities have teams
where you can learn to play hockey.
Players first need to learn
Hockey
Spectacular Sports
Level I Leveled Book Correlation to skate well.
© Learning A–Z LEVEL I
Written by Curtis Thomas
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Then they can have fun
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with this exciting sport!
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Hockey • Level I 15
People also play hockey in many
other countries.
Men, women, girls, and boys can
all play hockey.
Table of Contents
A Fast Sport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Some Game Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Hockey Long Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Hockey Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Learning to Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Men (top) and women (bottom) from around the world
play hockey in the Olympic Games. Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
14 Hockey • Level I 3
The Chicago Blackhawks won hockey’s biggest prize in 2015.
Hockey players must be able to skate very well.
Seven of these teams are
A Fast Sport in Canada, and twenty-three
Hockey is an exciting sport. are in the United States.
Hockey players skate very fast Teams play each other
on the ice. to see who is the best.
4 Hockey • Level I 13
Hockey Ice
85 feet (26 m)
goal line
(at each end
People play hockey inside or outside. of the rink)
Hockey Everywhere
People in Canada and the United
States soon began to play hockey. center
circle
Now there are thirty top hockey
200 feet (61 m)
center line
teams in North America. (red line)
Play begins
here at the
Where Hockey Is Played start of the
game and
after a goal
is scored.
NORTH EUROPE
AMERICA ASIA
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
AFRICA
PACIFIC INDIAN Equator
SOUTH
OCEAN AMERICA OCEAN
AUSTRALIA net (goal): To
score a goal,
the puck must
get in the net.
Countries in both hot and cold parts of the world play hockey.
12 Hockey • Level I 5
Hockey Long Ago
Long ago, people played
hockey with a ball.
The game was not safe.
Players first used a puck in 1875.
hockey
stick
puck
A puck is a small, flat circle made of hard rubber.
Some Game Rules
Hockey players play on a team.
A hockey team has six players.
The team works together to try
The first hockey games using a puck were played in this rink
to win the game. in Montreal, Canada.
6 Hockey • Level I 11
The game starts in the
middle of the ice.
A round, black puck is dropped
between one player from each team.
The two players try to get
control of the puck.
Gloves and leg pads help the goalie stop speeding pucks.
One player on each team
stays by the net.
This player tries to stop pucks
from going into the net.
Pucks can move faster than
cars on a highway!
Players move fast to get to the puck first.
10 Hockey • Level I 7
Players move the puck on
the ice with a long stick.
They try to hit the puck into
a net to score points.
The team with more points
at the end of the game wins.
Players shoot the puck into the other team’s net.
Players try to keep the puck
with their team.
They try to take the puck from the
other team and score a goal.
They also try to stop the other team
from making a goal.
Players try to take the puck
from the other team.
8 Hockey • Level I 9
