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Elementary Classrooms Celebrating Black Excellence: Famous Biographies for Elementary Students

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These engaging and diverse biographies for elementary students, all featured on CommonLit’s digital literary platform, share the inspiring stories of Black Americans across history, sports, and more. Reading about these empowering leaders and innovators will surely spark reading engagement from elementary students, launch deep classroom discussions, and support reading comprehension practice. These biographies are great to use as Black History Month lesson plans and throughout the school year!

“ Claudette Colvin ” by Briannica Kids (3rd Grade)

This biography from Brittanica Kids shares the moving story of Claudette Colvin, an African American teenager who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to white person. Students may be surprised to learn Claudette’s actions came before those of Rosa Parks and will have ample opportunity to discuss why Parks is often remembered before Colvin.

After reading, ask students to discuss why Colvin may not have gotten the same credit as Rosa Parks within history with Discussion Question 1, “Why do some people’s stories get told, while others do not? What do you think it takes to become famous or remembered in history? Do you think there are other people we should learn about that we do not talk about a lot? What should we do to tell these people’s stories?”

“ Guion Bluford ” by Linda Barr (3rd Grade)

This biography by Linda Barr shares details of Guion Bluford’s life and inspiring career as the first Black astronaut.

After reading this text, invite students to think about their own futures with Discussion Question 3, “Guion Bluford was interested in flying from an early age. What is something that you are interested in? How could you turn that interest into something where you feel like your ‘hobby is going to work,’ as Bluford says in paragraph 21?”

“ Dancing Towards Dreams ” by Sara Matson (4th grade)

This informational article shares the journey of contemporary ballet dancer Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to hold the highest-ranking ballet position at the American Ballet Theater.

Once students finish this text, invite them to explore the Paired Text “ Fastest Woman in the World ” by Pat Parker. This additional informational text discusses Wilma Rudolph’s journey to becoming a gold medalist in the 1960 Olympics. Ask students to discuss how both women excelled as athletes, what sets them apart, and how both have created positive changes in sports.

Want more content featuring contemporary figures? Check out the interview “ A Way with Words .” In this text, former First Lady Michelle Obama interviews poet Amanda Gorman.

“ Benjamin Banneker and His Amazing Clock ” by Linda Trice (4th grade)

Linda Trice explores the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Banneker, a famous Black scientist whose accomplishments included creating a clock and almanac.

Pair this text with the Related Media video “ The Exceptional Life of Benjamin Banneker. ” As students watch the video, have them jot down the additional details they learn about Banneker’s activism fighting for equal rights. Ask students how this information deepens their understanding of his life and accomplishments.

“ Katherine Johnson ” by Brittanica Kids (4th grade)

From Britannica Kids, this biography details the life and accomplishments of mathematician and scientist Katherine Johnson. Students may have some background knowledge regarding Katherine Johnson if they have seen the film Hidden Figures .

After reading this biography, show students the Related Media video “ Daughters of NASA Trailblazer Katherine Johnson Remember Her Legacy .” Ask students to share what they learned from this interview and how what they learned adds to their understanding of Katherine Johnson’s “remarkable journey.”

Want more engaging biographies for elementary students? Check out other Britannica Kids biographies about   Rosa Parks , Michael Jordan , Jackie Robinson , and Bayard Rustin !

“ Ruby Bridges ” by Kio Herrera (5th grade)

In this informational text, Herrera discusses Ruby Bridges’s experience integrating a school as a six-year-old and how she became a symbol for the  fight for civil rights in America.

After reading this biography, have students read the Paired Text, “ We Will Walk ” by Sarah Kovatch. This piece of historical fiction focuses on a young girl, Sadie, during the Montgomery Bus Boycotts. Ask students “How are Ruby’s and Sadie’s actions similar and different? What would Ruby say about Sadie’s point of view on the boycott? How did both Sadie’s and Ruby’s actions lead to change in their communities?”

“ The History of Michael Jordan for Kid s” by Breck LeSuer (5th grade)

In this text, LeSuer teaches about the life and achievements of famous basketball player, Michael Jordan.

After reading this text, have students reflect on Discussion Question 2, “Michael Jordan believes failure is a part of success. Do you agree with him? Why or why not?” This Discussion Question would also serve as a great morning meeting or journal activity for students, especially for a lesson focused on perseverance!

“ Justice for All ” by Lynn Rymarz (5th grade)

This informational text discusses an incident in which journalist and activist Ida B. Wells refused to give up her seat on a train when asked to do so because of the color of her skin.

After reading this biography on Ida B. Wells, have students read the Paired Text poem “ The Many and the Few ” by J. Patrick Lewis. Use the following prompts to help students dive into some cross-textual analysis: “Ask students to discuss how Ida B. Wells’s actions compared to Rosa Parks’? How is Wells one of the ‘Few’ who changed the lives of the ‘Many,’ in terms of J. Patrick Lewis’ poem?”

“ Voice for Freedom ”  by Jodie Shull (5th grade)

This biography by Jodie Shull discusses the life and accomplishments of James Weldon Johnson, a Black American writer and civil rights activist.

After reading this inspiring text, invite students to share their thoughts on Discussion Question 4, “After college, James Weldon Johnson returns home to Jacksonville, but finds that it has changed. Have you ever left a place and then returned later? Was it the same when you returned? If it was the same, how did that make you feel? If it was different, how did you react?” Students may benefit from journaling independently before sharing full-class.

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A great way to teach about history and content-area topics, biographies highlight famous figures, inventors, scientists, civil rights leaders, sports legends, and heroes. Many of these mini-books, plays, and passages feature question/response activities, biography worksheets, teaching guides, lesson ideas, and graphic organizers.

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Below you’ll find 3rd grade reading comprehension passages along with questions and answers and vocabulary activities. These printable 3rd grade reading activities include short story excerpts,  passages from popular books as well as high-interest information topics.

The Long Nap

Ella never liked to take naps. When she was a baby, she would stay wide away all afternoon, playing with toys in her crib. Her mother told her that Ella could only sleep when it was dark outside, no matter how dark and thick the curtains were in her room.…

The Big Mistake

Jeremy likes to help his family with chores. He spends time playing with his baby sister while Mom cooks dinner. After supper, he dries the dishes for Dad. But Jeremy’s favorite job is feeding Fletch. Fletch is the family cat. He is brown and black, with tiger stripes across his back.…

The Diving Board

Katie was six years old. She was part of a big family. She lived with her mom, dad and three older brothers. Her older brothers all played sports. They rode their bikes around town. Katie wanted to be just like them when she got bigger. One summer day, the boys…

The New Girl at School

One morning Eric’s teacher began the day with an announcement. “Today we have a new student joining our class,” she said. “Please welcome Akiko to second grade and to America.” Everyone said hello. Akiko smiled and looked down at the floor. “Akiko is from Japan. She is still learning English, and…

The Day the Earth Shook

Every night, Caroline ate dinner with her mom, dad, and older brother Graham. When they sat at the table, they each told a story about their day at work or school. Then they each told about something new they had learned that day. Sometimes the stories were serious, and other…

The Surprise Job

Tiegan always liked to sing. Her earliest memories all have songs in them. Tiegan liked to sing in the bath tub when she was getting ready for bed, and she liked to sing in the morning while she walked to school. Sometimes, though, Tiegan’s family liked the house to be quiet.…

Pansy Takes a Trip

Anika pulled her wheeled suitcase behind her as she followed her parents through the airport. She looked all around her in the huge building that seemed to be filled with thousands of people. It was going to be her first time on an airplane. She was very excited, and maybe…

Madison Dreams Big

Madison stared through the window and watched a puffy white cloud pass over the woods across from the school. A solitary bird glided, wings stretched, across the sky and seemed to pierce the cloud. It must be wonderful to be a bird, she thought. Just fly across the sky without…

The Little Mermaid and Her Sisters

This young mermaid is the youngest of five sisters. She has never seen the world above the sea, but she has heard many stories about the land of humans. ————————- Nothing gave her so much pleasure as to hear about the world above the sea. She made her old grandmother…

Alexander and the Jewels

Alexander pushed with all his might against a huge stone. “I saw a wizard put jewels behind the stone. If we can move it, they’ll be ours. We’ll be rich.” “It’s too heavy for us to move,” said Raja. He leaned against the rock and wiped his forehead. “We can…

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Third grade is the year students switch from “learning to read” to “reading to learn,” meaning that when they are on grade level, they have the skills to read text on their own and learn from it. The 3rd grade reading block has less instruction in phonics and sight words and more time reading and learning from text. By now, students also have reading preferences and opinions about everything they read, which means they can engage in discussion and even analysis.

Use these reading comprehension activities to help students make the transition to “reading to learn,” and bring them to the next level. 

1. Create anchor charts together

Help 3rd graders move toward independence by creating anchor charts that they can refer to as they read. Some anchor charts to create:

• Questions to ask while reading
• How to retell a paragraph or story
• Reading fix-up strategies like Read, Cover, Remember, Retell
• Types of nonfiction and key words for each type

Learn more: Reading Comprehension Anchor Charts

2. Teach graphic organizers

Third graders are starting to read more complex text. Teach them how to use graphic organizers, like these Venn diagrams, to get the most out of each text. First, they check out the text and decide which graphic organizer they need. If it’s a text that is comparing two topics, they’d use a Venn diagram. Then, they complete the graphic organizer while reading. They can refer to the graphic organizer after they read when they’re writing or discussing text.

Learn more: Venn Diagram Printables and Summary Graphic Organizer Printable

3. Build a Comprehension Cootie Catcher

Remember how to fold a cootie catcher? You can turn these into reading comprehension tools by writing questions on each section of a folded cootie catcher. Include questions about character, plot, setting, problem, solution, and their opinion of what they read. Then, after each chapter or silent reading time, students can quickly pair up and use the cootie catcher to ask each other questions.

4. Practice determining importance

Have you ever asked a student to summarize a story, only to hear them include every little detail? Or maybe they only retell a small part of the text, excluding important characters or events. These readers need to be able to discriminate between what is and what isn’t important in a story or text. To do this, have students write the details from a text on strips of paper. Then, they put each detail through a “funnel” to determine its importance. The detail only stays if it is one of the most important. This forces students to evaluate each detail against the main idea and ask the question: If this detail weren’t included, would the meaning of the text change? 

5. Play a round of Roll and Retell

Set up a Roll and Retell. Create six questions, either open-ended questions that can be asked about any text (What was the main idea, etc.) or questions about a specific text. Assign each question a number from 1 to 6. Students either work with a partner or independently to roll a di and choose the question that matches the number they rolled.

6. Activate background knowledge

Third graders have a lot of knowledge they’ve gained from books they’ve read and experiences they’ve had. That background knowledge can help them understand what they read. So, teach them what background knowledge is and how to use it. A KWL (Know, Want To Know, Learned) chart is a classic way to engage kids’ background knowledge as they complete the Know column. 

7. Build knowledge with current events

Today’s 3rd graders are living in a world of information, so the question is how do we engage them with new information, like news articles, without overwhelming them? Help them build background knowledge one article at a time, and use graphic organizers to help them organize and analyze what they’re learning. A graphic organizer like the one above also helps them focus on the most important information in a text. 

Learn more: Current Events Worksheets

8. Text feature scavenger hunt

Third grade text expands the type of text features students will see. As they’re learning text features, use this text resource and connected scavenger hunt to introduce students to common text features. 

Learn more: Text Feature Scavenger Hunt

9. Focus on predictions and inferences

Making predictions and inferring is a key skill for 3rd grade. Model how to make inferences, using information from the text combined with your own knowledge to infer what the author is trying to communicate. Start by using wordless picture books to describe what students notice, then add their own ideas to make a prediction or inference. 

Learn more: Predictions and Inferences Printable

10. Make a connections paper chain

Good readers make connections as they read. First, have students write the connections they make (text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world) on a strip of paper. Next, students fold the strips to create a chain of connections. Links can be added as you read through a longer text or read new texts. 

11. Use story maps

Story maps give students a framework to record their thinking before, during, and after reading. From the beginning-middle-end map to the roller coaster, help students organize what they read and learn story grammar with story maps. 

Learn more: Free Printable Story Maps Graphic Organizer Bundle

12. Summarize with signal words

Teach students to be on the lookout for signal words like “first,” “next,” and words that answer the questions who, what, where, why, and how. Then have students mark where they see these words as they’re reading. After they read, they can return to their sticky notes and record the information they noted. They create a summary using their notes. 

13. Play question ball

Write different questions for students to answer about the book they are reading with a marker on a beach ball. Make sure questions hit on different elements such as character, problem and solution, setting, connections, and predictions. Then, throw the beach ball. Students answer the question they see when they catch it. 

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14. Nonfiction relay race

When you have a fidgety class, kinesthetic activities are the way to go. Conduct a comprehension relay race. Break students into teams and head to the gym or outdoors. Set up a racecourse, for instance 100 yards marked off by flags or one lap around the track. The first student on each team will run the course, and once they return and before the next student in line can run, they must repeat one fact they learned from the reading or answer a question about what they’re reading. The first team to have all runners complete the course wins.

15. Book Character Day

Kids love Book Character Day! It gives them a chance to show how much they know about one of their favorite story characters. Students dress as a character and are ready to answer questions. Set aside time for each student to tell their classmates about the character they chose and why.

Learn more: Book Characters Every Child Should Know

16. Retell with rocks

Retelling still applies in 3rd grade. Have students retell a story using pictures they’ve painted on stones to create a path from start to finish.

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17. Create a game show

Questions are a key reading skill for students to master. Create a Jeopardy-style game show of comprehension questions to help students practice answering questions. For more complex questions, have students talk about the answer before they respond. You can use Kahoot to set up the game, or use one of the many alternatives.  

18. Track thinking with sticky notes

Teach 3rd graders the start of annotation by teaching common annotation marks: 

• LOL means this is a funny part.
• An asterisk (*) means this is important. 
• ! means this is surprising.
• A heart indicates that the reader liked this part.
• ? means that they have a question or that this is confusing. 

Have students place mini–sticky notes with each annotation mark on their text to show their thinking as they read. 

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19. Be a word detective

Before you read, choose up to five words that are unfamiliar to most of your students. Then, as they read, have students find these words and try to infer the meaning by reading around the word. If they can’t infer the meaning, or to check their definition, have them look up the word in a dictionary. 

Learn more: Vocabulary Worksheets

Looking for more ways to work on 3rd grade reading comprehension? Check out our list of 60 3rd Grade Books To Add to Your Classroom Library .

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Engage your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade class with this year long bundle of biography reading comprehension passages! Get your students excited about learning with this comprehensive year-long bundle of 50 biography reading passages with questions featuring famous figures of various ethnicities and backgrounds.

Each biography reading comprehension passage comes with five engaging questions, answer keys. Best of all? No prep necessary! You can choose from a simple print-and-go or assign the digital version in Google Slides.

These biography reading comprehension passages are designed to partner with heritage months throughout the year. For example, you can read the Famous African Americans passages during Black History Month and Famous Native Americans during Native American Heritage Month. But of course you can use them year-round!

This bundle of biography reading comprehension passes will bring your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade classroom to life with engaging, culturally responsive materials. Learning becomes more meaningful as students learn about famous people of different ethnicities who have made a significant impact on history. Students will not only increase their reading comprehension skills but gain a greater understanding and appreciation for other cultures.

Whether you're looking for a way to supplement your classroom instruction or to provide additional support for remote learning, this bundle is the perfect resource to help you create a more inclusive and culturally responsive learning environment. This year-long bundle ensures your 3rd, 4th, or 5th graders are consistently engaged and inspired by biographies throughout the school year.

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✱Read about the lives and impacts of famous people from a variety of cultural backgrounds

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• Famous Women (12 passages) for Women's History Month (March)
• Famous Asian Americans (6 passages) for Asian American and Pacific Islander / AAPI Heritage Month (May)

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