STEP 5 - Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Reading Skills Most of the poems are

Most of the poems are from the hardcover picture books by husband-and-wife team Ron and Amy Schmidt

and each with a single wish

shady place to call home

secrets come to light

if word got out that they planned to buy up lots of land

STEP 5 - Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Reading Skills Most of the poems areIllus. in full color with black and white photos. "Covers not only the story of Robinson's prowess and his problems as the first black man to play in the major leagues, but also the story of the rise and fall of black baseball and some of its star players and managers. Nicely geared by vocabulary, sentence length, and print size to the primary grades audience." Bulletin, Center for Children's Books.