FREE ELA READING LESSON Memorial Day vs Veterans Day: What's the Difference?

NOW WITH A DISTANCE LEARNING VERSION (Google Slides) YET STILL FREE! WOW! Your students (deep down inside lol) are wondering what the difference is between Veterans Day and Memorial Day. And those truly inquisitive students are wondering why Veterans Day doesn't have an apostrophe (deep down inside lol). But, what they're wondering the most is "when is school gonna be out?" And you teachers want them to do some interesting informational text reading that compares and contrasts. PDF or Google.

So, here you go! A one-page FREE informational text passage with writing connections that compares and contrasts Veterans Day and Memorial Day based on carefully researched historical info. Comes with writing connections. You can also just have them make a venn diagram, write their own compare/contrast paragraph, look up some of the challenging vocabulary words, simply write a summary, etc. So many possibilities!

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