Civil Rights Movement – 5th Grade Reading Packet
- Grades
- Grade 5, Elementary
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Social Studies, History, History: USA
- Topic
- civil rights movement, reading passage
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Standards
- CCSS.RI.5.2 CCSS.RI.5.4
About this resource
What's inside this resource
This resource is a Civil Rights Movement Reading Packet.
This is a great no prep resource that all you have to do is print and go!
Students will love learning about history as they read an informative passage and apply vocabulary terms.
Worksheets included such as multiple-choice questions and graphic organizers will allow them to show what they know.
These work well for social studies or reading instruction.
Answer keys included.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify the main idea and three supporting details of a nonfiction passage about the Civil Rights Movement
Match civil rights vocabulary terms to their correct definitions
Answer comprehension questions about key civil rights facts and figures, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Brown v. Board of Education
Select the best multiple-choice answer based on evidence from the passage
Teaching tips
Use the pre-reading concept web (page 2) to activate prior knowledge before assigning the passage
This is a print-and-go packet requiring no additional prep beyond printing
Use the included answer key (pages 9-13) to check the Main Idea organizer, fact web, vocabulary matching, and multiple-choice responses quickly
Skills covered
Main idea and supporting details — students identify the movement's main idea and three supporting facts in a graphic organizer.
Vocabulary in context — students match civil rights terms to their correct definitions based on the passage.
Textual comprehension — students answer short-response and multiple-choice questions using facts from the passage, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Brown v. Board of Education.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
What historical facts and figures does the passage cover?
It covers the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Brown v. Board of Education ruling that ended school segregation, and leaders including Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and Booker T. Washington.
Why does the packet include two concept-web pages?
One appears before the passage as a pre-reading activator (page 2), and a matching web appears again later in the packet (page 8) for a second pass at organizing the same key ideas.
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Standards
Standards
- CCSS.RI.5.2 — Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
- CCSS.RI.5.4 — Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
Core concepts
Core concepts
Civil Rights Movement
Main idea and details
Vocabulary matching
Historical facts and figures
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