President's Day Lesson

As part of our President's Day unit, the 3rd graders in my class last year learned how to retrieve information from two articles, one about Abraham Lincoln and one about George Washington (I got the articles off www.abcteach.com). We used yellow highlighters to highlight important information, pink to highlight unfamiliar words, and green to highlight text to self connections.

Once finished reading and highlighting the articles, I passed out Venn Diagrams to the students. I did a mini lesson on how to use Venn Diagrams to compare and contrast two items. We then placed information from the articles onto the Venn Diagram to compare and contrast two Presidents.