World Leaders
Learn about social studies and history with these fascinating biographies that explore the lives of some of the world’s most famous (or infamous) leaders. Timeline Posters, Comprehension Quizzes, and Activity Sheets provide additional opportunities to engage students and measure their understanding.
Why Use World Leaders
The World Leaders collection provides highly engaging biographies to help students learn about these influential people. Each historical figure represented in the collection has books of varying text complexities. The books and ancillary resources will help students meet ELA standards and various social studies standards.
At each grade range you will find support resources for the collection:
- Teaching Tips
- Activity Sheets
Each title is accompanied by book-specific support resources as well:
- A Focus Question to engage students in the reading process
- Connections activities to extend learning with writing, art, science, math, or social studies
- Comprehension Quiz
- A Timeline Poster that provides the major events in the leader’s life along with engaging photos
How to Use World Leaders
The variety of resources available in the series allows for flexibility in your instructional approach.
- Follow suggestions in the Teaching Tips for classroom activities using Activity Sheets.
- Use the Comprehension Quizzes to check for understanding.
- Select books to assign for independent reading or to use for small-group instruction.
- Review the Timeline Posters to get students excited to learn about each leader.
- Have students complete the Connections activities in each book to extend learning with writing, art, science, math, or social studies.
- Have students write about the topic of the collection, using the books from the collection as models.
- Assign a research project related to one of the books in the collection.