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Black History Month Reading Comprehension Passages with Questions

Rated 4.67 out of 5, based on 9 reviews
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4th - 6th, Homeschool
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Standards
CCSSRI.4.3
CCSSRI.4.10
CCSSRI.5.10
CCSSRI.6.10
CCSSRH.6-8.10
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54 pages
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I used this during reading class. We were reading about different ethnic groups. My students loved this resource.
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* Perfect for Black History Month *

This collection of 18 well-reviewed reading passages about important civil rights events, leaders and African American trailblazers will inspire your students and exercise their close reading, inference and comprehension skills. The one-page passages are clearly written, printable, and include a set of questions to test comprehension.

This 54-page resource is perfect for Black History Month or for any social studies or history unit on civil rights in the United States or Canada.

Although targeted to 4th grade and higher, the reading passages are appropriate for learners of any age.

The stories are:

Who Is:

Martin Luther King Jr.

Rosa Parks

Sojourner Truth

Harriet Tubman

Frederick Douglass

Mary Ann Shadd

Viola Desmond

Barack Obama

Mae Jemison

Louis Armstrong

Benjamin Banneker

Afrika Bambaataa

Wille O'Ree

What Is:

The Underground Railroad

The Emancipation Proclamation

Juneteenth

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Black History Month

Perfect for Distance Learning: The terms of use allow you to share this resource with your students and their families.

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54 pages
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CCSSRI.4.3
Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
CCSSRI.4.10
By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSSRI.5.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
CCSSRI.6.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSSRH.6-8.10
By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

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