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Three Levels of Government WorksheetThree Levels of Government Worksheet
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K12 Reader
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Three Levels of Government

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Help your learners work their way through a reading assignment for informational text. Using context clues, they answer five comprehension question based on a short passage about the three levels of government: local government, state government, and federal government.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

the three branches of government, the united states government, local government, state government, the federal government, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, context clues, informational texts

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Use in a social studies lesson to enhance your kids' reading comprehension for informational texts
  • Include in a language arts assessment for incoming learners
  • Have kids research the different levels of government, or a specific bill as it makes its way through the system

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  • Includes an answer key for simple assessment

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Common Core

RI.3.1

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