The Wright Brother's First Flight Reading Comprehension Passage PRINT & DIGITAL

This easy to read passage details the story of Wilbur and Orville Wright's first successful flight of a motor-driven airplane on December 17, 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. It explains the Wright brothers':

• background repairing bicycles in Dayton, Ohio
• experiments building gliders and studying birds to learn about flight
• time spend in Kitty Hawk preparing and testing their plane
• legacy in North Carolina and how they are honored on NC license plates, the NC quarter, and with a monument at the site of their first flight

The passage includes 10 multiple choice reading comprehension questions, an answer key, and 2 self-scoring digital versions - EASEL and Google Forms.

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