This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘A Guide and a Princess’, features two biographical texts about the courageous Native American women Sacagawea and Sarah Winnemucca. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about making an inference, making a judgment, detail, drawing a conclusion, reasoning, predicting outcome, and comparison/contrast.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Baffling the Enemy’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the role of Native American code-talkers in WWII. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Baffling the Enemy’, features an informational text about the work of Navajo code talkers in the U.S. Marines during World War II. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about figurative language, comparison/contrast, fact/opinion, detail, sequence, making a judgment, making an inference, …More
This Editing Task worksheet, ‘Cherokee Nation’, features a rough draft of an informational text about the Native American tribes that settled in the southeast. It encourages students to identify spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalisation errors in the text and then to write out a correct version. The purpose of this task is to develop students’ …More
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Geronimo’, features a biographical text about the famous Apache warrior who eluded the U.S. army for many years. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about comparison/contrast, detail, validity, drawing a conclusion, sequence, reasoning, and genre. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This analysing text worksheet ‘Honour Our Earliest People’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about creating a new public holiday. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to …More
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Important Details,’ teaches students to recognise the difference between essential and nonessential details. It is aimed at helping students determine what information is actually important and what isn’t by having them choose the main idea from a passage and selecting the three most important details that support it.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Making a Tipi’, features a procedural text and diagrams about making a model of the tipi used by the Great Plains tribes of North America. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and diagrams, and includes questions about vocabulary, importance, questioning, sequence, author’s purpose, visual …More
This music article, ‘Music Around the World: Native American Rattles’ features the different kinds of musical rattles used by Native Americans. It provides information about the materials from which the rattles are made and is aimed at broadening students’ historical, cultural and musical awareness in an engaging manner.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Native American Childhood’, features an informational text about growing up in an American Indian village and covers discipline, schooling, toys, games, family roles, and rituals. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about author’s purpose, reasoning, cause and effect, importance, making a …More
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 worksheet, ‘Rainbow Origins’, features an informational text about the natural phenomena of rainbows, and a recount of two Native American myths about rainbows. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making an inference, reasoning, drawing a conclusion, and comparison/contrast.
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 worksheet, ‘The Other Code Talkers’, features an informational text about members of various Native American tribes who developed codes and sent messages during World War I and II. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about detail, importance, sequence, fact/opinion, reasoning, and drawing …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 Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Two Cultures of the Southwest’, features two informational texts that explore the contrasting cultures of the Navajos and the Zuni. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the texts and includes questions about characteristics, cause and effect, relationship, drawing a conclusion, and compare/contrast.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘Walking Star’s Story’, features a Native American fable about a young brave who manages to visit the Sun God’s home with the help of a spider. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about making a judgment, character, classification, vocabulary, cause and …More
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