LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Read about the role of a TV sportscaster, including its benefits and challenges; understand how to get started in a sportscasting career.

HEALTH ED STANDARDS

NHES 6: Use goal-setting skills to enhance health.

CASEL COMPETENCY: Self-management, responsible decision-making

Lesson Plan: I’m a Sportscaster

Think you might like to be a sportscaster one day? Here’s how sportscaster Alex Faust got started.

PREPARING TO READ

Before you read the article “I’m a Sportscaster,” ask your students the following pre-reading questions:

What does a sportscaster do, and what skills are required to become one?

READING AND DISCUSSION

  • Have your students read the article “I’m a Sportscaster”; read the article out loud to them; or have students partner-read the article out loud.
  • After they’ve read the article, revisit the pre-reading questions. Have their answers changed?

BUILDING COMPREHENSION AND VOCAB

Check students’ comprehension of and engagement with the story with the following assessment tools:

  • Comprehension Quiz

EXPANDING SEL OPPORTUNITIES

Continue the learning journey with the following extension activity:

Have students use the skills sheet to write a SPORTSCASTER JOB POSTING advertising a sportscaster position with the NHL or another organization they know about. They should draw on what they learned from the article to divide their job posting into different sections: purpose of the job, description of benefits and challenges, necessary skills, and hours the sportscaster can expect to work.

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