Score One More

Some children refuse to let May join their soccer game, but a boy on one team extends an invitation to her. When he gets a chance to score the winning goal himself, he chooses to pass the ball to May instead, so she can share in the thrill of a win. This is a Level E title in the I Like to Read series, which grades books by guided reading level from A to G using Fountas and Pinnell standards. Level E stories have a clear beginning, middle, and end, and the illustrations offer hints for harder sentences. The text includes varied punctuation and simple contractions. Level E suits early first graders, and readers who master it can move on to Level F.