George Washington Carver – Black History Reading

Answer literal questions about an informational passage by returning to the text - naming art, music and botany as Carver's college subjects

Locate a definition embedded in a sentence and mark it, using the passage's own gloss of botany as "the science of plants"

Pull four specific details from a single sentence, listing dyes, plastics, paint and make-up as peanut products

Question 2 is the one that teaches a habit: it asks students to underline the evidence, so model marking "the science of plants" in the passage before releasing the sheet

The peanut question wants four items from a single sentence that lists exactly four, so it works well as a scanning exercise before any full-sentence answering

Keep the side prompt for a partner share: because it asks for a question rather than an answer, responses can vary and it gives a discussion tail to the reading

Answering questions from an informational text - three numbered questions each have their answer stated somewhere in the short passage on Carver.

Citing textual evidence - question 2 asks students to underline the words in the passage that define botany, not just to write the meaning down.

Writing an original question with a justification - the side prompt asks what students would ask Carver and why, requiring a reason rather than a fact.