Black History Month Activities – Reading Comprehension & Crafts for Kindergarten

Description

Are you looking for Black History Month activities, comprehension lessons and crafts for kindergarten, 1st or 2nd grade? This Black History unit focuses on a biography study of George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, and Rosa Parks. During the unit we will also focus on Nonfiction Text Features.

This unit includes a 5-day lesson plan for EACH book (15 days of lessons) that will guide you through the process of using Read Alouds to teach the comprehension standards for reading and vocabulary. The books needed for this unit include: George Washington Carver by Kitson Jazynka Rosa Parks by Kitson Jazynka Frederick Douglass by Barbara Kramer. (National Geographic Kids)

This Black History Unit includes:

• Vocabulary lessons
• Comprehension strategy lessons & posters
• Interactive writing prompts
• Print and digital timelines
• Response to literature (Differentiated for K-2)
• Text Features lessons
• Crafts
• Directed Drawings
• All About _____ research book templates
• Rubrics for each comprehension skill

Students will not only learn about using informational text structures in comprehending nonfiction books, they will also dive into creating their own text features as they write informational texts.

This resource will save you hours of work because EVERYTHING is all planned out in easy to follow lesson plans and the materials are included for you! Just PRINT and TEACH!

Each week focuses on one book and takes you through a variety of lessons to get your kids reading like never before.