Reading Comprehension Biographies Inventors - Black History - Presidents BUNDLE

Create a love of biographies with these informational texts and reading comprehension activities. This reading bundle includes texts on famous inventors, famous African Americans, and the US presidents. There are 85 biographies in this download that will be sure to engage your students in reading nonfiction text. After students read, they will complete one of the activities included to practice their reading comprehension skills. These science and social studies reading comprehension passages, activities, and questions are the perfect way to connect science, social studies and reading.  They are high interest, non-fiction passages and will give your 3rd through 7th grade students the opportunity to connect science, social studies, and language arts while also focusing on reading comprehension and summarization.

In this bundle, you will receive:

• 31 Famous African American Biographies and Yearbook Style Summary Activities
• 44 United States Presidents Biographies and Yearbook Style Summary Activities
• 10 Famous Inventors Biographies and Question Pages

How can I use this informational text?

• Biography of the day/week/month
• Workstation or center activities
• Morning work
• Early finisher activities
• Substitutes
• Send home to engage student families

Why use biographies in reading?

“In learning about the life of another, you create comparisons and differences and begin to understand yourself a bit more,” says Burke. “Kids can see ‘famous’ and ordinary people as real people — with their failures, successes, challenges, feelings, and emotions — making extraordinary accomplishments. This can influence how a child reacts to their environment and expand their thinking.” (Scholastic, 2021)

Spark a love of science with these high interest, science based reading passages.  A great way to meet multiple standards with one activity. 

Ways to implement:

• Famous Person of the Month/Week/Day: Create a place in your classroom (bulletin board, wall, door, etc.) to display the person of the month. Students can read the information on the person and complete one of the info sheets provided in this resource. There can be designated time for this, such as morning work or when students finish classwork early.
• ELA or Science Workstation: Students can read about each famous person, discuss with teams, then complete the information sheets provided.
• Articles can be printed and put together as a book, displayed around the classroom, or put in small groups for station activities!
• Encourage students to ask questions about the famous person and later research them. This will increase a love for science in students, while allowing the students to think critically about the text.

Teachers Like You Say:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “These passages were great close reading practice during our biography unit. Students read and annotated their passage, then completed an eight-square response activity where they shared their learning in different ways. The amount of text was manageable and provided good background on many inventors they'd never heard of!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My students love nonfiction more and more every year. One of their favorite topics is inventions. They were really interested in these passages.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Wow! Much more than I was expecting - looking forward to using this resource. Thank you!”

The Famous Inventors Biographies Science Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions set includes:

• 10 non-fiction articles
• 10 Question pages (one for each inventor)
• 2 Additional question pages with 3 questions for each inventor

The following people are included in this set:

• Amelia Earhart
• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Edison
• Albert Einstein
• Marie Curie
• Steve Jobs
• Johannes Gutenberg
• Wright Brothers
• Eli Whitney
• George Washington Carver

Black History Month Reading Passages / Famous African American Biographies includes:

• 31 non-fiction biographies about famous African Americans 
• Each passage comes in color or black & white options
• Summary page for each biography

This resource includes biographies for:

• Tuskegee Airman

• Thurgood Marshall

• Wilma Rudolph

• Sojourner Truth

• Sarah E. Goode

• Rosa Parks

• Ruby Bridges

• Phillis Wheatley

• Marian Anderson

• Michael Jackson

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Michael Jordan

• Marcus Garvey

• Jackie Robinson

• Langston Hughes

• Jesse Owens

• Harriet Tubman

• George W. Carver

• Frederick Douglas

• Edna Lewis

• Booker T. Washington

• Billie Holiday

• Bessie Coleman

• Bill Pickett

• Benjamin Banneker

• Hank Aaron

• Matt Kemp

• Ozzie Smith

• Halle Berry

• Barack Obama

• Will Smith

US Presidents resource includes:

• 44 non-fiction articles available in 2 versions: printer friendly (black/white clipart) or in color
• Yearbook style summary pages - 3 leveled options: blank version, lined version, and pre-completed version that includes the president name, years in office, vice president name, political party, and first lady name.
• Additional cards with president name and years in office, cards with just years, and cards with just names. This provides you with the ability to implement a variety of sorting activities, timelines, and matching activities.

All 44 presidents are included:

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• James Monroe

• John Quincy Adams

• Andrew Jackson

• Martin Van Buren

• William Henry Harrison

• John Tyler

• James K. Polk

• Zachary Taylor

• Millard Fillmore

• Franklin Pierce

• James Buchanan

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• James A. Garfield

• Chester Arthur

• Grover Cleveland

• Benjamin Harrison

• Grover Cleveland

• William McKinley

• Theodore Roosevelt

• William Howard Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• Warren G. Harding

• Calvin Coolidge

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Harry S. Truman

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

• Gerald Ford

• Jimmy Carter

• Ronald Reagan

• George Bush

• Bill Clinton

• George W. Bush

• Barack Obama

• Donald Trump

• Joe Biden (Updated 2021)

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