Reconstruction Era Word Search, Scramble, and Crossword
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- Pre-K–6, Elementary, Middle School
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- 6
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- Answer key
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- Holiday & Seasonal, ELA, Reading, Language Development, Vocabulary
- Topic
- word search, word scramble
- Resource types
- Word Searches, Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables, Crosswords Puzzles
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Reconstruction Era word search, scramble and crossword puzzle
I made this Reconstruction Era puzzle set for my 4th graders during our post-Civil War unit. The kids knew the war ended but had no idea what happened next or how the South was rebuilt. So I put together a word search, a word scramble, and a crossword using words like reconstruction, rebuild, south, freedmen, rights, amendment, 13th, 14th, 15th, citizenship, vote, equality, sharecropper, military, and reunite. Nothing fancy — just puzzles to help the vocabulary finally click.
The PDF is four pages. Three puzzles plus one answer key page. The word search works well for quiet time after recess. The scramble gets them talking because they argue about what the 13th Amendment did. The crossword I use for partners. I added a couple simple handshake and building drawings but nothing too busy.
Works for 4th through 5th grade. Print and go. Sometimes I have early finishers name one right freed slaves gained during Reconstruction on the back. The kids actually ask for these now.
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Learning objectives
- Match Reconstruction Era terms to their descriptions
- Spell key terms such as amendment, segregation and scalawag correctly
Teaching tips
- Terms like scalawag, carpetbagger and Fourteenth Amendment are clued rather than defined, so the puzzles fit best after students have met the era in a lesson or reading.
Skills covered
- Using context clues — solving across and down clues about Reconstruction
- Word recognition — unscrambling terms from a clue description
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Core concepts
- Reconstruction
- Freedmen
- Sharecropping
- Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
- Carpetbaggers and scalawags
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