Looking for Veterans Day activities that go beyond coloring pages? This Veterans Day Mini Unit for 2nd and 3rd grade includes engaging ELA and math resources designed to help students learn the meaning of Veterans Day while practicing key Common Core skills.

Your students will read a kid-friendly nonfiction passage, identify the main idea and supporting details, and solve themed word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, all while celebrating real-world heroes!

Perfect for whole-group instruction, small groups, early finishers, or substitute plans, this low-prep unit makes it easy to combine literacy and math with patriotic learning.

What’s Included

• Nonfiction Mini-Book: All About Veterans Day (student-friendly reading passage)
  
• Main Idea & Details Worksheet (RI.2.2 / RI.3.2)
  
• “What’s It Mostly About?” Comprehension Page (multiple-choice main topic activity RI.2.2)
  
• Idea & Supporting Facts Writing Page (W.2.2 / W.3.2)
  
• ELA + Math Integration:
  
  • One-Step and Two-Step Word Problems (2.OA.1)
    
  • Multiplication & Division Problems (3.OA.3)
    
  • Answer Keys for all pages
    

  Skills Covered

  • Identifying main idea and key details
    
  • Writing informative/explanatory text
    
  • Using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in context
    
  • Reading comprehension with nonfiction text features
    
  • Real-world math problem solving with Veterans Day themes
    

  Standards Alignment

  ELA: RI.2.2, RI.3.2, W.2.2, W.3.2
  Math: 2.OA.1, 3.OA.3

  Perfect For

  • November reading and math centers
    
  • Cross-curricular lesson plans
    
  • Veterans Day classroom celebrations
    
  • Early finisher packets
    
  • Homework or morning work