This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Preparing to Hunt’, features a narrative text about a young Native American learning to hunt with a bow and arrow. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about vocabulary, detail, reasoning, cause and effect, purpose, making an inference, mood/tone, genre, and predicting …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Puerto Rico: The 51st State’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Puerto Rico.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘Red Hawk’, features a poem about a Native American boy growing up into a strong young man. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about making an inference, making a judgment, vocabulary, reasoning, and author’s purpose. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity ‘Remembering Their Journey’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the Museum of African American History.
This graphic organiser, ‘Revolutionary War and the Timeline’ asks students to place events from the revolutionary war in chronological order on a timeline.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Roger Sherman’ asks students to answer questions about Roger Sherman, who was prominent in American politics. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions, form opinions and think about word meanings.
This history article, ‘Rosa Parks’ features the famous civil rights figure Rosa Parks, and how she protested against an unfair law on a bus journey home one day, and in doing so helped to achieve racial equality for other African Americans. It provides factual information about civil rights and a fun maze activity, complete with …More
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘Rosa Parks: An American Hero’ encourages students to relate new information from the text to prior knowledge and personal experience. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 4 readers.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Sally Ride’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘San Francisco Cable Cars’ encourages students to understand structural patterns or organisation in informational texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 6 readers.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Saving a Village’, features a narrative text about a young man who displays courage during the American Revolution. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about genre, reasoning, character, vocabulary, detail, making a judgment, cause and effect, drawing a conclusion, and predicting …More
This Poetry worksheet, ‘Ship Talk’, features a light-hearted poem about semaphore, the flag code used on ships. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the poem and includes questions about poem structure, detail, word meaning, figurative language, punctuation, and reasoning. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Writing Task worksheet, ‘Significance of the English Language’, features instructions for students to create an article about why English is so widely used. It encourages students to plan their writing and to check it for errors. Prompts suggest considering the importance of English in air travel, business, international politics, and other contexts.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Assembly Line’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Charreada’ encourages students to summarise and paraphrase information in texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Delaware People’ asks students to answer questions about the Native American Delaware people. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Dust Bowl’ encourages students to use text organisers to determine the main ideas and to locate information in a text. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 7 readers.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Eagle and the Bear’ encourages students to recognise spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Great Depression’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This graphic organiser, ‘The Great Depression and Divided Time’ helps students learn about the great depression and then compare it to their lives today.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Industrial Age’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Loon’ asks students to answer questions about a Native American tale about how a grandmother saves her grandchildren. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This Poetry worksheet, ‘The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere’, features Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem about the start of the American Revolution. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about comparison/contrast, vocabulary, sequence, detail, figurative language, vocabulary, author’s purpose, categorising, and literary devices. Answer sheet provided …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Mounties’, features an informational text about the history of Canada’s mounted police, which were formed in 1873 to keep peace in the west and are now the national police force. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Packs Are Back’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the wolves in Yellowstone National Park.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Peacemaker’ asks students to answer questions about a messenger, known as the Peacemaker, who carried powerful words of peace. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and form opinions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Raven’ asks students to answer questions about a Native American tale about how Raven stole from Grey Eagle. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and form opinions.
This reading comprehension activity ‘The Sandia Pueblo Should Share the Land’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about Sandia Mountain in New Mexico.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘The Swamp Fox’, features a biographical text about the famous Patriot Francis Marion and his role in the American Revolution. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about detail, making a judgment, sequence, drawing a conclusion, vocabulary, genre, information sources, character, and …More
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Turtle Story’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘The Twin Brothers’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, correct tense, punctuation and sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Wolf Packs Are Back’, asks students to answer comprehension questions on a text about the wolves in Yellowstone National Park.
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘Tornadoes on the Loose’, features the rough draft of a report on tornadoes in the United States. It encourages students to identify spelling, punctuation, usage, and sentence structure errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose of this task is to develop students’ accuracy in …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘WASP’ asks students to answer questions about the Women Air Force Service Pilots, or WASP. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and form opinions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Watseka’ asks students to answer questions about a Native American legend about a brave woman named Watseka. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, make comparisons and draw conclusions.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘What a History!’ asks students to answer questions about the naming of New York City in the United States. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information and think about word meanings.
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