Maya Worksheets

Practice poetic devices and annotation with this worksheet, which includes Maya Angelou's "Four Foot Feat" on the left side. The right column is for comments or questions that your students might have. The activity is open for you to decide how to use it, as it would work for poetry analysis, a poetry writing activity, or to start a prose essay.

In this famous person activity, students read a passage about Maya Angelou and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and scrambled sentences.

For this astronomy worksheet, learners locate and highlight 18 key terms associated with Maya, science and mathematics in a word search puzzle.

In this literacy worksheet, students read a short story entitled, "Maya and the Missing Pudding." They use the reading to solve the mystery and answer 4 comprehension questions.

In this online interactive reading comprehension activity, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

In this Maya activity, students fill out a web diagram about the rise and fall of Maya civilization, write a short answer with support about the disappearance of the Maya city-states, and write about how key people and terms relate to Maya civilization.

In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Maya Angelou. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.

In this triangle inequalities worksheet, students examine the angle measurement of given triangles and then identify the longest and shortest side of the triangle.  This page contains 6 questions.  Secondly, kids write given numbers in Mayan numerals.  This page contains 14 questions.  Finally, students solve inequalities.  This page contains 8 questions.  Altogether, this three-page topical worksheet contains 28 problems.

In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a selection about the Mayan civilization and respond to 1 further research question. Students also read a fact sheet regarding the Maya.

In this synthetic elements worksheet, students read a selection, "Maya Lin's Civil Rights Memorial," then decipher the main ideas. Students are asked to support their main ideas with notes and phrases that prove their understanding of the topic.