Search Informational Text Reading & Writing Martin Luther King Jr. Day Educational Resources

Children will practice identifying nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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 Martin Luther King, Jr. Learners will decide which two statements are true and which is a lie.

In this Martin Luther King Jr. Cut-and-Paste Timeline worksheet, students will learn about the life of an important historical figure.

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