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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

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Read each text, then answer the questions.

1.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Alexander Graham Bell

An information text written for this worksheet. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland in 1847. He moved to North America and taught deaf students in Boston. In 1876 he got a patent for the telephone. His first telephone call was to his helper, Thomas Watson, in the next room. Soon people could talk to each other across a town, and later across the country.

  1. 1. How did the telephone change the way people talk?
  2. 2. Where was Thomas Watson during the first call?
  3. 3. What did Bell get a patent for in 1876?
2.Read the text, then answer the questions.

Abraham Lincoln

An information text written for this worksheet. Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Kentucky in 1809. He went to school for only about one year, but he read many books. He became a lawyer in Illinois. In 1861 he became the 16th President. He led the country during the Civil War. In 1863 he signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It said that enslaved people in the states fighting the Union were free.

  1. 1. How did Lincoln learn when he had little school?
  2. 2. When did he become President?
  3. 3. Where was Lincoln born?

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Answer key — Reading About Famous Americans

Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. People could talk to each other across a town or the country. 2. In the next room. 3. The telephone.
  2. 2.1. He read many books. 2. In 1861. 3. In a log cabin in Kentucky.

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