Indiana State History Mini Unit Bundle RT Script Mini Readers Grades 3-5

Bring Indiana State History to life with a complete Grade 4 Reader’s Theater and differentiated Mini Reader bundle covering geography, First Peoples and Native homelands, French trade and Vincennes, Revolutionary-era Indiana, treaties and Tippecanoe, statehood, transportation, freedom seeking and the Civil War, industrialization and migration, government, symbols, and modern Indiana.

This ten-lesson mini unit gives students three ways to access the same essential content: Reader’s Theater scripts for oral fluency and discussion, Original Mini Readers for independent reading, and Accessible Mini Readers for supported Grade 3-level reading without losing the assessed history.

10 Complete Indiana State History Lessons

1. 1. Regions, Rivers, and Resources — Indiana geography, glaciers, rivers, regional landforms, resources, and human-environment relationships.
2. 2. First Peoples and Native Homelands — Archaeology, Native nations, homelands, river corridors, movement, and present-day continuity.
3. 3. French Traders and Vincennes — French trade, Vincennes, the Wabash corridor, Native agency, exchange, and changing imperial control.
4. 4. Clark and Revolutionary Indiana — George Rogers Clark, Vincennes, Fort Sackville, Revolutionary-era strategy, local participation, and changing control.
5. 5. Tippecanoe, Treaties, and Territory — Treaties, Native sovereignty, Prophetstown, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, Tippecanoe, territorial expansion, and removal.
6. 6. Statehood in 1816 — Northwest Ordinance, Indiana Territory, the 1816 Constitution, Corydon, statehood, and the move to Indianapolis.
7. 7. Roads, Canals, and Railroads — Roads, the National Road, Michigan Road, canals, internal improvements, railroads, markets, and Indiana’s crossroads identity.
8. 8. Freedom Seeking and Civil War Indiana — Freedom seeking, antislavery networks, Black agency, Indiana’s Civil War participation, Morgan’s Raid, and emancipation.
9. 9. Factories, Migration, and a Changing Indiana — Industrialization, the gas boom, manufacturing cities, immigration, the Great Migration, the Great Depression, and wartime production.
10. 10. Government, Symbols, and Modern Indiana — Indiana constitutional government, state symbols, civil rights, transportation, modern industry, technology, and global connections.

Perfect For

• Indiana State History units and Grade 4 social studies
• Mixed reading levels in grades 3–5
• Reader’s Theater, Mini Readers, fluency, and content-area literacy
• Whole-class lessons, small groups, sub plans, review, intervention, and enrichment
• Teachers who want a connected state-history sequence with shared assessment structures

Flexible Differentiation

• Reader’s Theater scripts support collaborative oral reading, fluency, and discussion.
• Original Mini Readers provide fuller independent-reading explanations.
• Accessible Mini Readers preserve the same essential evidence with shorter, more supported language.
• Every lesson includes shared vocabulary, comprehension questions, challenge questions, quizzes, and answer keys.

Skills Addressed

• Reading fluency and collaborative reading
• Vocabulary in context and comprehension
• Chronology, cause and effect, and change over time
• Historical thinking, text evidence, and perspective taking
• Geography, government, economics, migration, and civic connections
• Discussion and concise written response

Standards Alignment

The ten Teacher Guides identify Indiana Grade 4 Social Studies standards in history, geography, civics, and economics. The student tasks also provide CCSS-compatible literacy practice through informational reading, vocabulary, fluency, evidence-based discussion, and written response; the final Indiana Teacher Guides do not print separate CCSS code numbers.

What’s Included

• 10 complete Teacher Guides
• 10 Reader’s Theater scripts
• 10 Original Mini Readers
• 10 Accessible Mini Readers
• 100 vocabulary words in context across the bundle
• 100 two-part Short Answer questions
• 50 two-part Challenge Questions
• 10 twenty-question multiple-choice quizzes
• Self-grading Google Forms quiz support
• Teacher answer keys and discussion support

Text Summary

Students move through Indiana history from physical geography and Native homelands to French trade, the Revolution, territorial conflict, statehood, transportation, the Civil War, industrialization, migration, government, civil rights, and the modern economy. Across the sequence, students repeatedly connect people, places, choices, consequences, and change over time.