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Exercise 1: four partner questions about the American flag, the nation's founding year, and Independence Day
Opening questions before the reading passage
Exercise 2 begins a gap-fill reading about the 13 colonies, the American flag, and July 4, with a word bank
First of three pages in the gap-fill reading
Gap-fill reading continues with July 4 parades, a 50-shot military salute, picnics, fireworks, and songs
Second part of the reading: holiday celebrations
Gap-fill reading concludes with slavery, voting rights, and a fact about the deaths of Jefferson and Adams
Final reading section: inequality and historical facts
Exercises 3 and 4: five true-or-false statements and eight vocabulary words to define and classify in pairs
Comprehension check and vocabulary exercises
Exercise 5 asks for research on another country's independence; Chatterbox adds five discussion prompts
Research writing task and Chatterbox discussion
Partner activity challenges students to name as many of the 50 U.S. states as possible in 10 minutes
Timed state-naming activity for pairs
Activity 2: a 10-question team quiz on U.S. independence, states, presidents, sports, language, and the flag
Closing U.S. knowledge quiz for two teams
Attributes
Subject

Holiday & Seasonal, Holidays, 4th Of July

Grades

Not Grade Specific

Types

Activities

File

PDF

Editable
No
Author
TEAM TEFL
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About This Product

This resource is a set of reading activities for Independence Day.

Students will read text and engage in 5 different exercises, from true or false and fill in the blanks.

There is a chatterbox exercise for your students to engage in dialogue.

Answer key included.

What's Included

2 PDFs with 9 ready to print pages

Resource Tags

4th of July Independence Day language arts worksheet USA reading comprehension

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