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Practice identifying and interpreting nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Play family detective and learn how to read old census documents.

Try your hand at being a history detective as you study primary sources from the night the Titanic sank.

Can you guess the job? Put your detective skills to the test in this fun worksheet for second and third graders!

Give your child a fun review of longitude and latitude with this fun detective activity! She'll hunt down a wanted criminal using the coordinates given.

Use this fun and interesting worksheets about maps to help your students use sentence level context clues, examples, and logic to decode text and become more fluent in reading informational text.

Children will practice using a text to create a timeline in this engaging worksheet.

Ask students to read an interesting biography about Dr. Mae Jemison and then answer questions about the text!

Students read the primary-source text of the first 10 amendments and summarize each one using their own words.

Read the text along with your child as she colors so she can learn more about Uncle Sam, an American icon.

Give middle school learners an opportunity to dig into the original text of this historical document with this two-page social studies worksheet.

In this social studies worksheet, learners will read a short paragraph about elections and then complete a crossword puzzle using vocabulary from the text.

Introduce students to the primary-source text of the Gettysburg Address—and the context in which was delivered—with this three-page social studies worksheet.

Read the text to this page aloud to your child as she colors, and talk about your family's heritage. Did her ancestors sail past The Statue of Liberty?

First, students will read a biography of Amelia Boynton Robinson, and then respond to comprehension questions, using text evidence.

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.

Students will read a biography of Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, and then answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text,

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Can your fourth grader assist Zoey Chase in tracking down this conspicuous culprit? Working through these multi-digit multiplication problems is the first step!

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Step right up to the most famous wall on Earth! Spanning nearly four thousand miles, the Great Wall of China is one of the oldest wonders of the world.

The Cuyahoga River in Ohio isn't the biggest or the most scenic river in the United States, but it played an important part in American society.

Use this worksheet to help your students understand patriotic songs, like an older national anthem.

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

This worksheet is a brief introduction to the human rights activist and feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes.

Discover the origins of our written alphabet! This chart shows the progression of glyphs and symbols that eventually led to the English alphabet.

Learn more about Clara Barton, an incredible woman who made many advances in medical care and started the American Red Cross.

This social studies worksheet is a great way to encourage the next generation to understand the value and impact of voting while helping learners practice reading comprehension strategies.

By drawing a picture of a pencil and a burger, your fifth grader can make a wacky but useful connection to remember Pennsylvania's state capital!

Paraphrasing is all about putting other people's writing in your own words. Your child will read about Annie Oakley as he paraphrases this passage.