Encourage students to make inferences by combining what they learn from a text with their own background knowledge.

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

This worksheet will expose your learners to important poets in the African American community.

This fun worksheet will expose your learners to important musicians in the African American community.

This fun worksheet will expose your learners to important female changemakers in the African American community.

Your young historian will learn about the some of the most notable African American inventors with this worksheet.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Mae Jemison.

The Underground Railroad helped thousands of enslaved Americans find freedom. In this worksheet, your student will learn about this historic network.

Give your students experience with reading and analyzing primary sources with this powerful excerpt from the memoir of Frederick Douglass.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about Frederick Douglass, an influential African American writer and abolitionist.

This worksheet, which reads like riddles, will expose your learners to important abolitionists in the African American community.

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored as one of the most important leaders in the civil rights movement. Give your fourth and fifth graders a chance to deepen their understanding of his life and legacy through this reader’s theater activity.

Use the game Two Truths and One Lie to help your students research facts about a famous person. Learners will research an important figure and then write down two true statements and one false statement.

Introduce children to American playwright Lorraine Hanberry, who was only 29 years old when she won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play for "A Raisin in the Sun."

Students are asked to think critically and hone their reflective writing skills with this thoughtful writing prompt based on a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. quote.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Young readers and sports enthusiasts will have a ball practicing sequence of events in this biography of Jackie Robinson. 

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

The Civil Rights Movement: The Later Years worksheet, children read about the issues that emerged later in the movement.

In this worksheet, children read the story of Parks' act of passive resistance, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on why the boycott was successful, as well as why it inspired the support of so many people around the United States.

Children are introduced to two beautiful examples of the power of words in this “I Have a Dream" Speech and "My Country ‘Tis of Thee" Song worksheet.

Use this worksheet to help students write sentences about the first African American women to enter space, Mae Jemison.

Learn about the Tuskegee Institute, an important site in American History. It was one of the first universities made to help educate African Americans.

Study the contributions of African American jazz legends with this worksheet on master bassist Charles Mingus.

This worksheet on Etta James celebrates the legacy of this African American singer of soul and jazz.

Children learn about Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner, a record-breaking silver and gold medalist in track and field, in this sports biography worksheet.