Black History ELA Bundle

Studying Black History? This bundle offers many ways to teach Black History, both print and digitally! It includes PowerPoint teaching slides, worksheets with a strong ELA focus, hands-on practice with vocabulary matching and clip cards, class "newspapers", an I Have Who Has game, vocabulary crossword puzzles, a famous African-Americans scavenger hunt, and even a review game!

What is covered?

Vocabulary plays a large role in this bundle. There are many opportunities for students to hear important content vocabulary! Slavery, Civil Rights, and influential African-Americans are highlighted throughout the lessons and activities.

A Brief Introduction to Black History Slideshow

The 28-page slideshow goes through slavery to the Civil Rights Movement. Using important content vocabulary, students learn about patterns of life for African-Americans in this country.

A second, separate slideshow for just vocabulary is also included.

Famous African-Americans Who Am I?

This interactive, digital, and self-checking activity is an engaging way for students to check their knowledge about twelve influential African-Americans. Students read and listen to poems about each person and guess whom the poem is referring to. If they're right, they see a screen telling them so! If they're wrong, they try again.

The people included are:

• George Washington Carver
• Sojourner Truth
• Ruby Bridges
• Rosa Parks
• Frederick Douglass
• Martin Luther King
• Etta James
• Thurgood Marshall
• Alice Coachman
• Malcolm X
• Langston Hughes
• Harriet Tubman

Literacy Worksheets

Digital and Print Versions! Students practice reading and language arts skills while learning about and reviewing Black History, and best of all: it is NO PREP! Just print and GO.

There are two worksheets for each skill. You will also have answer keys for it all!

• Context Clues
• Subject and Predicate
• Prefixes and Suffixes
• Main Idea & Details
• Inferencing
• Compare & Contrast
• Cause and Effect
• Fact & Opinion

Black History Self-Checking Clip Cards

Our Black History self-checking clip cards provide hands-on practice for identifying influential African-Americans. They can be used as a review or for centers with minimal prep!

Students read short poems about each person and try to guess who it is by clipping a clothespin onto the correct name. Then, they flip over the card to see if they're correct!

The historical people included in this set are:

• Frederick Douglass
• Martin Luther King
• Langston Hughes
• Ruby Bridges
• Rosa Parks
• Thurgood Marshall
• George Washington Carver
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Etta James
• Malcolm X
• Alice Coachman

Vocabulary Crossword Puzzles

These puzzles provide a fun and interesting way to practice challenging vocabulary words!

2 Sets of Vocabulary Matching Cards

Students match vocabulary words to their definition and a picture. One set includes vocabulary words related to slavery and the Underground Railroad. The second contains words related to Civil Rights.

Class Newspapers

Each edition of the newspaper series covers a different topic relating to Black History. In addition to a strong social studies focus, each one includes reading comprehension questions and foundational math and language arts practice/review.

In addition to the print version, there is also a digital resource is a collection of close reading articles with a focus on Black History. Their journey begins with a study of four African countries. These introduce students to basic geography and cultural diversity within the countries presented. Subsequent articles discuss significant events and famous African-Americans.

Comprehension questions are included and require students to practice vocabulary and identify text features.

The 13 article topics include:

• Africa is Not a Country
• Tanzania
• Nigeria
• Morocco
• South Africa
• Black History Month
• Slavery
• Martin Luther King
• Rosa Parks
• Frederick Douglass
• Jesse Owens & Alice Coachman
• Olympic Athletes
• Pittsburgh's Famous Hill District

Answer Keys are included!

Scavenger Hunt

This scavenger hunt gives students a fun way to either learn about a few influential African-Americans OR a great way to test their knowledge after learning about them. Students walk around with an answer sheet and try to identify each person based on their picture and important details about him/her.

I Have Who Has

Practice identifying influential African-Americans and figures who have made a difference in US History by playing a game of I Have...Who Has?