Boston Massacre Online Reading Comprehension |
| Grade Level: 5 | Lexile: 900 | Word Count: 534 |
| This activity gives an online score report and allows for narration |
Use this Activity: |
| Reading Groups - This passage serves as an excellent tool for enrichment-based reading groups in language arts or social studies |
| Morning Work - The passage and question sets takes most students about 15-20 minutes to complete, making it an ideal solution for morning work. It can be part of a series of Revolutionary War-themed reading comprehension activities offered to students as morning work. |
| Homework - This activity is a great way to assign homework in social studies or language arts. |
| Interactive Notebooks - This activity can be used as a narrative to add to interactive social studies notebooks. |
| Part of a Lesson - Teaching about the causes of the Revolutionary War? Distribute this activity to students and read aloud or have students read to themselves. Then, review the questions and answers together as a class. |
| Whiteboard - Have students come to the whiteboard to annotate important information. |
| Discuss - Do you think the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre were guilty of murder, or, were they acting in self-defense? Were you surprised that the push for independence fizzled after the trial? Why or why not? |