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The Wright Brothers Take Flight

Grade 2 informational reading: a short biography of the Wright brothers with who, what, where, when, why and how questions.

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions about a biography.
Students find the key details in a text that answer a question.

How to use

Read the biography aloud once, then have students reread it on their own. Before each answer, ask them to point to the sentence that proves it.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RI.2.1

Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions to show understanding of an informational text's key details.

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The Wright Brothers Take Flight

Read a short biography and answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions.

Read the biography

A biography tells about a real person's life. Read about the Wright brothers.

The Wright Brothers Take Flight

1Wilbur and Orville Wright were brothers. They lived in Dayton, Ohio, more than one hundred years ago. When they were boys, their father gave them a small flying toy. It used a rubber band to fly up into the air. The boys loved it.

2When they grew up, the brothers opened a bicycle shop in Dayton. They fixed bikes and built new ones. But they never stopped thinking about flying.

3The brothers studied birds to learn how they turn and balance in the air. Then they built gliders. A glider is a flying machine with no engine. The brothers tested their gliders again and again.

4They tested their machines near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. They chose this place because it had strong, steady winds and soft sand for landing.

5On a cold morning in December 1903, the brothers tried their new airplane with an engine. Orville lay on the bottom wing and steered while Wilbur ran beside it. The airplane rose into the air! The flight lasted only about 12 seconds. It was the first successful flight of an airplane with an engine.

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