Inside: Use this Women’s History Month Emergent Reader to focus on and learn about amazing women during Women’s History Month in March.
It took me longer than I care to admit when I realized not every girl is proud to be a girl. Not every girl was told she could do anything or be anything. Not every girl had empowering role models.
I did know that not every girl is confident or self-assured because as like all young people, my confidence and self-esteem were shaky…especially when I was in middle school.
But the good news is, if kids don’t have the role models at home or the message at home, we can still make the message loud and clear: there are incredibly talented, driven, powerful women all around us who can help lift us up and push us forward so we can be whatever we want to be.
Celebrating and honoring Women’s History Month in March is one way we can help our young girls and our not so young girls surround themselves with uplifting and empowering stories about other girls and women.
You can use this Women’s History Month Emergent Reader to introduce our youngest kids to some of the most incredible women in history: Anne and Malala and Kamala and Sonya and Anne and Helen and Serena and Jane.
Other Ways to Celebrate and Honor Women’s History Month with Kids
Women’s History Month has been celebrated in America since 1987 and International Women’s Day was first celebrated in March 1911.
To celebrate famous women we can of course turn to books to learn about women-both living and deceased-and their accomplishments, trailblazing, and ceiling shattering records.
Here are a few of our favorite books about amazing, inspiring, iconic, women:
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
Sheroes: 15 Fierce and Fearless Women Who Shaped Black History
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
Change Sings by Amanda Gorman
We also read this Women in History Emergent Reader that focuses on these famous women:
1.Serena Williams, tennis player
2.Marie Curie, physicist and chemist
3.Malala Yousafzai, activist, author, speaker
4.Helen Keller, activist, author, speaker
5.Anne Frank, author
6.Kamala Harris, first female VP of USA
7.Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Sonia Sotomayor, second and third women on Supreme Court (and first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice)
8.Simone Biles, gymnast and Olympian
9.Jane Goodall, biologist, primatologist
10.Mae Jemison, first African American astronaut in space
11.Georgia O’Keefe, painter
12.Diana Ross, singer and actress
How to Use the Women’s History Emergent Reader
1. Purchase and download the Kind Women in History Emergent Reader Book.
2. Print out the version you wish to use: color or black and white and cut them apart. I swear by my paper cutter I bought my first year teaching because I can’t cut a straight line.
If you use the black and white version, use these skin color crayons so students can color in the people.
3. On the last page, kids can illustrate and write/dictate the last page. They can choose another woman to put in their book. If the person is still alive, they’ll circle “is,” if the person is deceased, they’ll circle “was.”
Learn more about the people your students find most interesting. Then learn about female trailblazers and history makers not in this book (we were limited by clipart, but there are hundreds more amazing people to know!)
5. Students can write or dictate about what they know about with one of 2 writing prompts that are printed on lined paper and dot lined paper.
And then keep celebrating women all month and all year long.
Ready to get the Kind Women in History Emergent Reader Set?
Get the Kind Women in History Emergent Reader here.
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