Using this simple worksheet, your learners will have the opportunity to practice reading timelines while learning about key events during the civil rights movement in the United States.

Concepts

the civil rights movement, martin luther king jr., timelines, sequence of events

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• As a follow-up activity, have pupils consider other ways that they might prefer events in a sequence to be organized (i.e. vertically? with arrows? color-coded? etc.)

Pros

• Includes answer key
• Directly applicable to Common Core standards

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.5.3 RI.6.3 RI.7.3 RI.8.3