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Frederick Law Olmsted: Parks for Everyone

Read a short biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, who helped plan Central Park, then ask and answer questions with details from the text.

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students answer questions about a biography using details stated in the text.
Students decide whether a question can be answered from the text.
Students connect two parts of a biography using text details.

How to use

Read the biography together, then have students reread each paragraph as they answer. For the sorting task, ask them to point to the sentence that answers each question before they place it.

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Common Core standard covered

RI.3.1

Ask and answer questions to show understanding of an informational text, using the text itself as the basis for the answers.

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Frederick Law Olmsted: Parks for Everyone

Read a biography and answer questions with details from the text.

Read the biography

Read about the life of Frederick Law Olmsted. Each paragraph has a number.

Frederick Law Olmsted: Parks for Everyone

1Have you ever played in a big city park full of trees, ponds, and grassy fields? Parks like these do not just happen. Someone has to plan them. One of the most famous park planners in American history was Frederick Law Olmsted.

2Olmsted was born in 1822 in Hartford, Connecticut. As a boy, he loved to wander through woods and fields. His family also took long trips together to see beautiful places.

3As a young man, Olmsted tried many different jobs. He worked in a store, sailed on a ship to China, ran a farm, and wrote for newspapers. On a trip to England, he saw a park that was open to everyone, rich or poor. He never forgot it.

4New York City was planning a huge new park, and a contest was held to choose the best plan. Olmsted and an architect named Calvert Vaux made a plan together. In 1858, their plan won! It was used to build Central Park.

5Olmsted wanted the park to feel like the countryside in the middle of the city. He wanted a place where all people could rest and enjoy nature. Workers moved huge amounts of rock and soil and planted many trees and bushes. The two men also planned roads that dip below the walking paths. That way, carriages could cross the park without getting in the way of people on foot.

6Olmsted went on to plan many more parks, such as Prospect Park in Brooklyn and a chain of parks in Boston called the Emerald Necklace. Today, he is often called the father of American landscape architecture. Landscape architects plan outdoor places for people to use and enjoy.

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