Women's History Month Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions March Activity

Want your students to learn about some amazing women in history? This Women’s History Literacy Set in print and digital is filled with engaging passages and activities. It has 12 biography passages that target Main Idea, Text Evidence, Cause and Effect, Inferences, Close Reading, and Point of View. It includes context clues, and figurative language. Your students will love the 32 mini-biography shades of meaning (vocabulary) task cards, as well as the poetry timeline activity.

It includes:

12 Passages:

Harriet Tubman (Close Reading)

Clara Barton (Close Reading)

Bessie Coleman (Cause and Effect)

Deborah Sampson (Cause and Effect)

Ruby Bridges (Inferences Using Informational Text)

Pocahontas (Cause and Effect)

Wilma Rudolph (Comprehension Questions)

Grandma Moses (Reading Skills Review)

Sarah Edmonds (Reading Skills Review)

Dian Fossey (Main Idea)

Maya Lin (Text Evidence)

Sojourner Truth (Inferences Using Informational Text)

3 Main Idea Matching Pages:

Amelia Earhart

Georgia O’Keeffe

Malala Yousafzai

Activities:

• Women’s Suffrage (Point of View)
• Make a Timeline Activity
• The Important Thing Biography Poem with Directions, Examples, Research and Writing Pages (with an option of researching one or three notable women)
• Context Clues
• Figurative Language
• Venn Diagram for Sarah Edmonds and Deborah Sampson

32 Mini-Biography Task Cards for Shades of Meaning:

Includes: Sally Ride, Anne Frank, Jane Goodall, Nellie Bly, Molly Pitcher, Margaret Thatcher, Harriet Tubman, Joan of Arc, Helen Keller, Marie Curie, Sacajawea, Rosa Parks, Mother Teresa, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nellie Taylor Ross, Marian Anderson, Maya Angelou, Rachel Carson, Zora Neale Thurston, Billie Jean King, Sybil Ludington, Sonia Sotomayor, Ella Fitzgerald, Lucille Ball, Juliette Gordon Low, Martha Graham, Sarah Hale, J.K. Rowling, Frida Kahlo, and Mary Walker.

Why you'll love this resource:

• The materials are easy to prep and to use.

• The print and digital formats give you lots of options for teaching and learning.

• The digital version is NO PREP and some of the unit is self-grading in Google Forms (Task Cards, Context Clues, Figurative Language, Main Idea Matching)

• You'll be able to integrate reading and social studies.

• Students love to learn using thematic materials!

• This literacy set hits standards, while being engaging.

• It includes many reading and writing skills with different types of resources to keep learning fun!

• There are so many ways to use this resource, as guided reading, reading workshop, independent work, homework, literacy centers, substitute plans, and more!!!

Looking for more March materials?

St. Patrick’s Day Task Card Bundle

St. Patrick’s Day Fact or Opinion Task Cards

St. Patrick’s Day Figurative Language

St. Patrick’s Day Informational Text Structures

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