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Learn about the Founding Fathers and the Constitution while practicing important reading skills! Informational text, skill pages, and writing pages combine social studies curriculum with reading standards. **********************************************************************************************Price $8.20Original Price $10.25Save $2.05
Looking for informational texts and skill pages to teach about U.S. history surrounding the American Revolution, Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers, and the U.S. Constitution? This money-saving bundle includes it all! Many informational texts included along with comprehension questionPrice $17.50Original Price $21.00Save $3.50
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Looking for resources to help you teach about the Founding Fathers while practicing important reading skills? Look no further! These no-prep, short biographies of the Founding Fathers are perfect for adding to your current social studies curriculum or to use by themselves. INCLUDES BOTH A PRINT AND DIGITAL VERSION MADE FOR GOOGLE SLIDES.
Learn about each Founding Father with a kid-friendly text and text-based questions where students need to "prove" the support of their answer by color-coding the text. Practice other important ELA skills with each by using the character traits skill page, graphic organizer (recall important details), and an acrostic poem (summarize what you have learned.) Combine social studies curriculum with reading skills for a big win!
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PRODUCT INCLUDES:
- link to digital version made for use with Google slides
- informational introduction page about the Founding Fathers
- context clues graphic organizer for new words
- text-based questions page about the Founding Fathers
- the Founding of the United States timeline and questions page
- The Founding of the United States color & black/ white poster
- Benjamin Franklin: biography text, text-based questions, graphic organizer, character traits skill page, acrostic poem
- Alexander Hamilton: biography text, text-based questions, graphic organizer, character traits skill page, acrostic poem
- John Adams: biography text, text-based questions, graphic organizer, character traits skill page, acrostic poem
- Thomas Jefferson: biography text, text-based questions, graphic organizer, character traits skill page, acrostic poem
- James Madison: biography text, text-based questions, graphic organizer, character traits skill page, acrostic poem
- John Jay: biography text, text-based questions, graphic organizer, character traits skill page, acrostic poem
- opinion writing: graphic organizer and writing page
- compare and contrast graphic organizer: George Washington and Benjamin Franklin; John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
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How I like to use this resource: Read about the Founding Fathers whole group using the included text and timeline. Let students research one member individually for seat work or a learning center activity, then let your students be the teacher! You could also use the skill pages for small group teaching!
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WHAT TEACHERS LIKE YOU ARE SAYING...
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sarah R. said, "This was a wonderful in depth resource to use while we were learning about the founding fathers! It had so many extension activities."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Alexandra said, "The color coded highlighting for textual support was great!"
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Mrs. Isler said, "My students have really enjoyed this resource and I love that it incorporates reading and social studies!"
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