Description
Ancient Mesopotamia Color by Number, Reading Passage and Text Marking
This Ancient Mesopotamia Color by Number and Text Marking activity is the perfect way to bring life to the topic! Students read a non-fiction passage and search for answers while marking evidence from the text. Perfect reading comprehension activity.
Topics include: Ancient Mesopotamia, Sumer, Assyrians, Babylon, Akkadians, Hammurabi, Persian Empire.
Students complete a “before reading” anticipation guide, read about Ancient Mesopotamia, answer questions, mark the text for evidence, color the picture according to their answer, and complete the “after reading” anticipation guide.
This is a great cross curriculum activity that also practices Language Arts skills and citing evidence. You can use this activity to assess prior knowledge. You can use this activity as a unit review. Lastly, you could use the student worksheet as a quiz or formative and then let them color as a reward! You choose what works best for you.
This is a fun, colorful activity that allows students to show mastery while relaxing, learning and coloring in their answers. This is also perfect for emergency sub plans! Hang the finished product in the hall for teachers and students to stop and admire.
What’s Included:
•1 Word design
•12 questions
•1 Reading Passage ( 2 pages – front/back)
•1 Anticipation Guide
What do you need?
Crayons, markers or colored pencils
The following colors will be used: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green,
Blue, Brown, Purple
(all standard colors)
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Emily Baker –
My students love doing these activities! They are fun and engaging. This was an entertaining assignment.
Sarah W. –
My students have really enjoyed this activity! It was high interest passages that kept my students engaged throughout the lesson.
Tnia F. –
The Ancient Mesopotamia Color by Number, Reading Passage and Text Marking activity is a fun and refreshing twist on traditional reading passages! My students love the mix of reading and coloring—it keeps them engaged while reinforcing key content. It’s super easy to prep, and I always have students find their answers directly in the text, which helps build close reading skills.
Kendra W. –
My students loved this resource! It was very easy to use.
Whitney Ward –
Easy to use, clear instructions, and it saved me so much time. Thank you!
Jayme K. –
Students really loved the coloring format! I really liked the informational story- not too challenging or too easy!
Sandra R. –
fun for my kids, like to use as an extra credit opportunity
Middle School Migraines –
This was a great resource to use as sub plans. Thank you!
Mikelyn D. –
My students loved using this resource! I used this as Leap Review and they stayed engaged! Thank you! :0)
Jennifer W. –
Fun and easy to use extension activity for my students
Andrea P. –
I used this with my 7th period, who are ahead of all my other classes by a full day. They really loved this activity and helped them review the material we’ve gone over in class and help with their reading comprehension skills.
Robbilyn M. –
Good review before a test or even a activity to leave for a sub.
Laura C. –
My students loved completing this!
Lisa C. –
Thank you
Sheila H. –
The students really liked this.
Jennifer W. –
I teach at a special needs center and I just finished the whole activity with my classes. It did take two days to do it with them. My students were engaged the whole time we started reading the short passage. They were volunteering to read the questions when it was time to start with text marking. As soon as they left, I purchased more of these!
Cindy N. –
My students enjoyed doing this. It was a fun piece of work to learn something and yet color. My kids love to color.
Epiphany Brown –
My students loved this activity!