No Taxation Without Representation Online Reading Comprehension

Grade Level: 4 | Lexile: 800 | Word Count: 194
This activity gives a printable 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 - Why did the colonists refuse to pay taxes? What products did Parliament try to tax? What does representation mean and why did the colonists demand it?