Presidents Day Writing Activities Reading Passages Research Project Poster

Getting ready to study U.S. Presidents this February? These high-interest informative nonfiction close reading passages and research writing activities will help your students learn about U.S. Presidents and conduct research on a U.S. President of their choice!

Included are 6, two-page articles to help your students understand and learn about a wide range of U.S. Presidents and their time in the White House all while they gather important information as they read informational text.

Close reading anchor charts are also included to help your students understand the text more deeply.

These passages and the comprehension activities will have your students critically thinking and reflecting as they read high-interest social studies content within informational texts.

Directions are clear and easy to understand for the research project and come in two layouts for students to either work at their own pace or work as a class step by step.

Note-taking sheets and organizers help students to record information they learn from the sources they are using, as well as, gain a deeper understanding of the U.S. President they are researching.

This set includes BOTH print and digital versions.

CONTENTS of the U.S. President Close Reading Pack:

✓ Link and directions to use the digital version in Google Classroom™

✓Close Reading Anchor Charts in two sizes

✓Close Reading Graphic Organizer

✓5 reading passages with reader response text-dependent questions and additional reflection activity specific to the U.S President for the following:

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• John F. Kennedy
• Ronald Reagan
• Barack Obama

✓Answer Keys

✓Bonus Activities Include:

-Agree or Disagree

-Vocabulary Understanding

-Thinking Beyond

-3-2-1 Reflection

-Comparing Presidents

-Visualizing Presidential Memories

-U.S President Poster

-U.S President Flipbook

CONTENTS of the U.S. President Research Project Pack:

✓Link and directions to use the digital version in Google Classroom™

✓Anchor Charts

• What is a U.S. President? Poster (color and BW)
• What is Biography? Poster (color and BW)

✓U.S. President Article: Abraham Lincoln

✓Student Project Directions

✓Preparing for President Research and KWL

✓Detailed Student Note Taking Sheets with Guided Ideas for 2 Different Sources

✓Planning Your Writing:

• Introduction Paragraph Plan
• Paragraph Organizer
• Conclusion Paragraph Plan

✓Student Editing Checklist

✓Teacher Rubric

✓Lined Paper and Cover Sheet for Report

✓Creative President Display Options:

• Presidential Photo Album
• My Oval Office
• Display Posters

✓8 “You Choose” Going Further Extension Activities

✓Teacher Notes and Suggestions

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