Women in History Month Reading Passages Writing Biographies 3rd 4th 5th Gr

This Women in History Unit for 3rd, 4th & 5th grade includes 7 Women in History Close Reading Passages; Writing Printable & Digital Biographies with graphic organizers, informative sentences starters, & rubric; Vocabulary Word Maps; a Google Forms Self Correcting Quiz; and a Google Slides Presentation for students to use as a final presentation.

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Meets many Standards including: Reading Comprehension, Informative, Biography Writing, and Social Studies

My inspiration for the unit came from the incredible book She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton. (You do not need the book for this unit.) It is made in Google Slides (with student resources in the margins) but hard copies can easily be printed.

THIS BUNDLE IS A MONEY SAVER AS IT INCLUDES 7 BIOGRAPHIES

1. Harriet Tubman Biography
2. Helen Keller Biography
3. Clara Lemlich Biography
4. Nellie Bly Biography
5. Virginia Apgar Biography
6. Maria Tallchief Biography
7. Oprah Winfrey Biography

Focus Question: 

How can being persistent help you achieve your dreams and make a difference in the world?

Included in This Unit

Reading Resources

• An Information Reading Passage: for each “Woman of Persistence”

     Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Clara Lemlich, Nellie Bly, Virginia Apgar, Maria
a, and Oprah Winfrey

• "My Questions and Thoughts" Page
• Vocabulary Activities connected to each passage
• Quiz in Google Forms Quiz for both Vocabulary and Comprehension (Self Correcting)
• Graphic Organizer to Summarize the Reading
• Compare/Contrast Graphic Organizer (Compare to one other woman in history who overcame obstacles and made a difference in history)
• Video resources for more information on each woman

Writing Resources

Prompt: Write an essay describing how this woman of persistence had an impact on American history.

• Informative Structure Anchor Charts (Introduction, Support Details, Conclusion)
• Informative Sentence Starters
• Informative Transition Words
• Scaffolded Graphic Organizers with resources in the margins
• Biography Stationery
• Sample Complete Graphic Organizer
• Sample Biography Writing Piece
• Student Checklist
• Informative Sentence Starters
• Rubric

Final Project

Google Slides Biography Presentation Using Essay from above as the graphic organizer

• Google Slides Template for student to add text and photos
• Google Slides Sample (Virginia Apgar)

Technology Requirements

• Access to the internet and a Google Account
• Google Classroom for sharing Google Slides and Google Forms documents to your students
  • Google Slides is in view only, make a copy and share out all or a portion of the presentation to your students
  • For Google Forms, you will be asked to make a copy. All quizzes for the reading passages are in Google Forms

Don't have Google Account

Convert to Microsoft PowerPoint

• Open Google Slides document
• Go to File, Download, Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx)

To Print

• To produce a hard copy simply hit File and Print
• Entire document can be printed or a portion of the slides you want
• Then simply click on the underlined links to move onto the slide they need.

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