Patriotic Bundle | Constitution | Independence Day | Citizenship | U.S. History

Looking for informational texts and skill pages to teach about U.S. history surrounding the American Revolution, Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers, and the U.S. Constitution? This money-saving bundle includes it all! Many informational texts included along with comprehension questions, graphic organizers, coloring notes, and other skill pages. Use whole group, in small group skill teaching, as part of a learning center activity, etc.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED:

Citizenship Unit

• Link to digital version made for Google slides
• Vocabulary Posters: 14 full color vocabulary posters including the words citizen, citizenship, Law of Blood, Law of Soil, naturalization, 14th Amendment, citizen obligations, citizen responsibilities, selective service, jury summons, allegiance, Bill of Rights, immigration, immigrant
• Lesson Plans: Complete 9 day unit of plans. Written in easy to follow steps.
• Tab Book: Step by step teacher directions page, 6-page tab book in black and white and color versions. Tabs include-What is citizenship?, Who is a U.S. citizen?, Steps to become a U.S. citizen, Rights of a U.S. citizen, Responsibilities of a U.S. citizen, and Immigrants/ Immigration
• Being a Good Citizen Coloring Page: Identify sentences as being an example or a non-example of a good citizen.
• Ways I Can be a Good Citizen: Acrostic Poem writing page
• How to Become a U.S. Citizen Foldable: Cut and paste foldable including Law of Blood, Law of Soil, and Naturalization
• Ways to Become a U.S. citizen Explanatory Writing: Includes writing prompt, graphic organizer, and writing page
• Naturalization Cloze: Naturalization cloze reading passage with word bank.
• Naturalization & Citizenship Practice Test Poster: QR code and website link posters take students to the naturalization civics practice tests
• Naturalization Oath of Allegiance poster: Color posters stating the Oath of Allegiance, one with vocabulary underlined and one without
• Naturalization Oath of Allegiance Vocabulary: Vocabulary definitions and sentence writing about the Oath of Allegiance
• Bill of Rights Posters: Two color posters linking to videos about the Bill of Rights, one with QR codes and one with website links
• Bill of Rights graphic organizer: Fill in the first ten amendments after watching the videos
• U.S. citizens: Rights and Responsibilities cut and paste: Cut and paste citizen rights and responsibilities into the correct column
• Responsibilities of Being a U.S. Citizen Opinion Writing: writing prompt, graphic organizer, and writing page included
• Immigration Stories: graphic organizer to accompany website
• U.S. Citizenship Timeline: history of citizenship timeline and comprehension questions
• Amendment posters: color posters explaining the what the amendments say and their history. Includes the 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, 19th Amendment, and 26th Amendment
• Amendment Sort: Amendment sorting activity cards for the 14th, 15th, 19th, and 26th Amendments
• American Symbols Gallery Walk: Gallery walk includes posters for the Statue of Liberty, The bald eagle, the White House, the Liberty Bell, the American flag, Mount Rushmore and a gallery walk graphic organizer/ notes page.
• Citizenship coloring notes: Coloring notes page and directions.
• What's that Word?: Vocabulary words cut and paste
• Citizenship Project Choice Board: choice board includes 9 extension project ideas. Grading rubric also included.

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Independence Day

PRODUCT INCLUDES:

• 4th of July Videos: Includes a video poster with links to kid-friendly July 4th videos. Also includes a video viewing guide to use while watching.
• Independence Day text: Read about the history of July 4th. Includes context clues graphic organizer, main idea graphic organizer, and comprehension questions that go along with the text.
• Independence Day writing: Use the descriptive writing graphic organizer and writing page to tell about your Independence Day holiday. Practice narrative writing with the patriotic "roll and write a story."
• Independence Day Facts Puzzle: Use the code to fill in the blank on some Independence Day trivia.
• Citizenship text: Read about citizenship using the included text. Answer the comprehension questions. Put your knowledge to the test by deciding what it means to be a good citizen. Write about how you will be a good citizen.
• Founding of the United States timeline: Use the included timeline to answer questions about the founding events of the United States.
• Thomas Jefferson text: Read about Jefferson, answer comprehension questions about the text, and fill the in Jefferson graphic organizer.
• Math Skills worksheets: Practice various math skills with a patriotic twist using these engaging worksheets. Skills include time with a clock, elapsed time on a number line, reading a line graph, rounding to the nearest hundred, multiplication facts practice, completing number sentences, addition and subtraction, and math word problems.
• ELA Skills worksheets: Practice various ELA skills using these engaging patriotic worksheets. Skills include plurals, synonyms/ antonyms, patriotic sentence writing, capitals, and Independence Day making words.

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Founding Fathers

PRODUCT INCLUDES:

• link to digital version made for use with Google slides
• informational introduction page about the Founding Fathers
• context clues graphic organizer for new words
• text-based questions page about the Founding Fathers
• the Founding of the United States timeline and questions page
• The Founding of the United States color & black/ white poster
• Benjamin Franklin: biography text, text-based questions, graphic organizer, character traits skill page, acrostic poem
• Alexander Hamilton: biography text, text-based questions, graphic organizer, character traits skill page, acrostic poem
• John Adams: biography text, text-based questions, graphic organizer, character traits skill page, acrostic poem
• Thomas Jefferson: biography text, text-based questions, graphic organizer, character traits skill page, acrostic poem
• James Madison: biography text, text-based questions, graphic organizer, character traits skill page, acrostic poem
• John Jay: biography text, text-based questions, graphic organizer, character traits skill page, acrostic poem
• opinion writing: graphic organizer and writing page
• compare and contrast graphic organizer: George Washington and Benjamin Franklin; John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

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Constitution Day

PRODUCT INCLUDES:

• Constitution Videos Posters: Two posters (QR codes & website links) and a video viewing guide to use with any of the videos
• The Preamble: informational text explains the Preamble in kid terms. Coloring text-based questions page to accompany text.
• Making Words Activity: Use the word "Constitution" to make other words. Great activity for early finishers or a literacy center.
• Constitution Day: informational text & comprehension questions
• Context Clues graphic organizer: "What's that word?" context clues practice page goes along with the Constitution Day text
• Main idea and details: Skills practice page to go along with the Constitution Day text
• "The Framers" Biography Research: Research one of the Constitution Framers. Includes list of teacher directions, graphic organizer to record facts, and writing page to compile information into an essay.
• "Did you know?": Use the code to learn interesting Constitution facts.
• The Constitution Facts Page: "Who, what, when, where, why, how" facts page (in color and black/white)
• Coloring Notes: The Constitution coloring notes page (think graphic organizer meets coloring page)
• Fact and Opinion cut-and-paste: Constitution fact and opinion cut and paste activity page
• Constitution timeline: informative timeline with events surrounding the writing of the Constitution, including questions page
• Opinion Writing: Writing prompt with graphic organizer and writing page
• Constitution acrostic poem: Write an acrostic poem about the Constitution to review what you know.

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