"The Football Team" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the goals of a school football team including learning leadership, teamwork, and sportsmanship. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes: determining main idea, underlining supporting text, and then writing a paragraph about what can be learned from playing football incorporating information from the text and their own ideas. This passage aligns with Common Core Anchor Reading Standards 1 and 2 requiring close reading, textual evidence, main idea, and summarizing.