President’s Day Biography Lesson George Washington W.2.8 & RI.2.9, Fact Opinion

This President’s Day, celebrate our nation’s many commanders-in-chief while practicing reading and writing biographies. The three different texts about the life of President George Washington will help you focus on mastering W.2.8 and RI.2.9 while also practicing other vital literacy skills such as fact and opinion.

22 Unique Pages 100 Total Pages

A lesson plan is included

What’s Inside?

This first text, The Life of George Washington, is two pages and is an overview of his entire life. This text includes his birth, early childhood, education, and family background. It also goes into detail about his legislative journey and other accomplishments. There is not as much focus on the presidency in this text.

The second text, President George Washington, focuses almost exclusively on the presidency. With little mention of his early life, it goes into greater detail about his accomplishments while in office. It is written in a bipartisan way.

The third text, Quick Facts about George Washington, covers some of the facts mentioned in early texts while also including fun tidbits of information like his dogs’ names and his favorite sports team.

There is some repeated information from text to text so students can practice finding facts from multiple sources.

There is a fact recording sheet as well as a biography planning paper. There is a cute president-themed writing paper for the final draft. Also included are two rubrics, one for the teacher and one written in more kid-friendly terms for the students. There are also three exit tickets with biography questions.

There are 16 vocabulary cards. Eight vocabulary words and eight definitions with photos. The words are: politics, surveyor, legislative, accomplishment, historic, military, representative, and elected. These words are used frequently throughout all the resources to make sure kids get lots of practice with them. There is also a vocabulary drawing paper included to help kids visualize the word meanings.

Also included in this resource is a fact an opinion sorting activity. This includes three large cards with definitions for fact, incorrect fact, and opinion. The cover can be used as a poster and there are three presidential-themed early finisher coloring pages with writing prompts.

Documents are available in full color, ink-saving color, black and white, and ink-saving black and white

Answer sheets and rubrics are available where applicable

This printable document contains:

• 1 Lesson Plan

• 1 Poster of the President

• 1 Nonfiction Text about the President's Whole Life

• 1 Nonfiction Text focusing on just the Presidency

• 1 Nonfiction Text with Fun Facts about the President

• 16 Vocabulary Cards [8 word cards, 8 definition cards]

• 1 Vocabulary Visualization Paper

• 3 Large Fact and Opinion Cards

• 1 Fact and Opinion Sort

• 1 Fact Recording Sheet

• 1 Biography Planning Paper

• 2 Cute Themed Writing Papers

• 3 Themed Coloring Pages with Writing Prompts

• 3 Exit Tickets with Biography Prompts

Text level:

The texts were written on a middle-of-the-year second-grade level. Some of the names may make it harder to read.

Average Text level can be compared with: 2nd grade, age 7-8, lexis 810, AR 2.5, DRA 28, Fountas & Pinnell L, reading recover 20, PM readers 22 gold

This unit was originally made for 2nd grade but can be used with many elementary grades and possibly even an advanced preschooler.

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