Introduce your students to interesting events, people, animals, and places in the United States using the 44 stories in U.S. Facts & Fun, Grades 1-3! Every story is followed by a comprehension activity and two fun pages featuring puzzles, mazes, secret codes, games, hidden pictures, maps, and a lot more.
Topics include:
- events, such as the Iditarod race, the invention of the telephone, and the creation of the U.S. flag
- people, such as Levi Strauss, Dr. Seuss, and Annie Oakley
- animals, such as prairie dogs, state birds, and alligators
- sites, such as the Great Salt Lake, Mammoth Cave, and Tornado Alley
Use the 44 short stories to make connections with holidays, celebrations, and other curricular topics or to practice nonfiction reading skills.
This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.
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