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Reading About Famous Americans is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on finding facts about a famous American in a text, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D3.1.K-2. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Reading About Famous Americans

D3.1.K-2

NameDate

Read each text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Clara Barton

An information text written for this worksheet. Clara Barton was born in Massachusetts in 1821. She was a teacher, and later a clerk in Washington, D.C. During the Civil War, she brought food and bandages to hurt soldiers. Soldiers called her the Angel of the Battlefield. In 1881 she started the American Red Cross. The Red Cross still helps people after floods, fires and storms.

  1. 1. How does her work still help people today?
  2. 2. What did Clara Barton bring to hurt soldiers?
  3. 3. What did soldiers call her?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Thomas Edison

An information text written for this worksheet. Thomas Edison was born in Ohio in 1847. He had a lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where many workers helped him. In 1877 his team made the phonograph, a machine that could record and play back sound. In 1879 his team made a light bulb that could glow for many hours. He got patents for more than 1,000 inventions.

  1. 1. Why was a bulb that could glow for many hours useful?
  2. 2. Who helped Edison in his lab?
  3. 3. What could the phonograph do?

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Answer key — Reading About Famous Americans

Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. The Red Cross still helps people after floods, fires and storms. 2. Food and bandages. 3. The Angel of the Battlefield.
  2. 2.1. People could have light for many hours after dark. 2. Many workers. 3. Record and play back sound.

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D3.1.K-2 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.