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Early Humans Reading Passages

KNOVA - A free reading app with curriculum-aligned passages on History & Science

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First Humans - reading educational content
First Humans
This engaging history reading passage explores the evolution of early humans, tracing the journey from the earliest homi...
CA HSS 6.1RH.6-8.1RH.6-8.2W.6.2
Neanderthals - reading educational content
Neanderthals
This engaging history reading passage explores the fascinating world of the Neanderthals, our ancient relatives who live...
Origins of Human Language - reading educational content
Origins of Human Language
This engaging history reading passage explores how early humans developed language and complex ideas, transforming their...
Prehistoric Cave Art - reading educational content
Prehistoric Cave Art
This passage explores the significance of cave paintings and early symbolic art, examining how ancient humans used these...
6.1.16.1.26.1.3RI.6.1
Cognitive Revolution  - reading educational content
Cognitive Revolution
This engaging reading passage explores the Cognitive Revolution, a major turning point in human history that occurred ar...
CA HSS 6.1CCSS.RI.6.1CCSS.RI.6.2CCSS.RI.6.4
Neanderthals and Denisovans - reading educational content
Neanderthals and Denisovans
This comprehensive history reading passage explores the fascinating story of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other ancient...
CA HSS 6.1.1TEKS 6.2BCCSS.RH.6-8.1CCSS.RH.6-8.2
Discovery of Fire - reading educational content
Discovery of Fire
This history reading passage explores the revolutionary impact of fire on early human societies. Students will learn how...
Early Human Migration - reading educational content
Early Human Migration
This comprehensive history reading passage explores the Out of Africa movement and how early humans migrated across cont...
CA HSS 6.1.1CCSS RH.6-8.1RH.6-8.2RH.6-8.4
Stone Age Tools and Technology - reading educational content
Stone Age Tools and Technology
This comprehensive history reading passage introduces students to the development of tools and technology during the Sto...
Ancient Humans Adapt to Different Climates - reading educational content
Ancient Humans Adapt to Different Climates
This engaging ancient history reading passage explores how early humans adapted to different climates, especially during...
Hunter-Gatherers - reading educational content
Hunter-Gatherers
This engaging history reading passage explores the ways early humans survived and spread across continents by foraging, ...
End of the Ice Age - reading educational content
End of the Ice Age
This passage explores the dramatic effects of climate change at the end of the last Ice Age, focusing on how shifting en...
How Paleolithic People Changed the Environment - reading educational content
How Paleolithic People Changed the Environment
This passage explores how Paleolithic people, or early humans, shaped their environment through the use of fire, hunting...
Paleolithic Cultures Around the World - reading educational content
Paleolithic Cultures Around the World
This passage explores Paleolithic cultures around the world, focusing on the regional differences in tools, food, clothi...
Early Stone Tools - reading educational content
Early Stone Tools
This engaging history reading passage explores Early Paleolithic Stone Tools, focusing on how early humans crafted sharp...
Paleolithic Tools - reading educational content
Paleolithic Tools
Explore the world of Paleolithic spearheads and bone tools in this detailed ancient history reading passage. Learn how e...
CA HSS 6.1.1CCSS.RH.6-8.1CCSS.RH.6-8.2CCSS.WHST.6-8.2
Paleolithic Shelters - reading educational content
Paleolithic Shelters
Explore how early humans in the Paleolithic Era built shelters such as caves and huts to survive harsh climates. This pa...
CA HSS 6.1CCSS.RI.6.3CCSS.RI.7.1CCSS.RI.8.2
Paleolithic People Adapt to Different Landscapes - reading educational content
Paleolithic People Adapt to Different Landscapes
This passage explores how Paleolithic people adapted to a variety of landscapes, including coastal regions, mountains, p...
Neolithic Tools - reading educational content
Neolithic Tools
This passage explores the profound impact of new stone tools during the Neolithic period, focusing on how these innovati...
Neolithic Pottery - reading educational content
Neolithic Pottery
This engaging history reading passage explores how early humans invented pottery to solve the problem of long-term food ...
CA HSS 6.1.1CCSS RH.6-8.1CCSS RH.6-8.4
Life in the Neolithic Age - reading educational content
Life in the Neolithic Age
This engaging passage explores what life was like during a typical day in the Neolithic Age, a pivotal era in ancient hi...
CA HSS 6.1CCSS RH.6-8.2CCSS RH.6-8.4
Neolithic Villages - reading educational content
Neolithic Villages
This passage explores how the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to Neolithic villages marked a turning point in ...
Bronze Age - reading educational content
Bronze Age
This passage explores the transformative era of the Bronze Age, focusing on how the discovery and use of bronze revoluti...
Homo Erectus - reading educational content
Homo Erectus
This engaging history reading passage explores Homo erectus, one of the earliest human species known for its remarkable ...
Neolithic Revolution - reading educational content
Neolithic Revolution
This comprehensive history reading passage explores the Neolithic Revolution, focusing on how early humans transitioned ...
CA HSS 6.1CCSS RH.6-8.2CCSS RH.6-8.4CCSS RH.6-8.7
Domestication of Animals - reading educational content
Domestication of Animals
This engaging reading passage explores the significance of the Neolithic Revolution, focusing on the domestication of an...
Introduction to the Paleolithic Age - reading educational content
Introduction to the Paleolithic Age
This engaging passage explores the lives and achievements of ancient humans during the Paleolithic Age, focusing on thei...
CA HSS 6.1.1CCSS RH.6-8.1CCSS RH.6-8.2CCSS RH.6-8.4
Oldowan Tools - reading educational content
Oldowan Tools
This engaging history reading passage explores the emergence of the first stone tools, known as Oldowan tools, around 2....
Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens - reading educational content
Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens
This reading passage explores the fascinating interactions between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in ancient Europe, focu...
Early Humans Reach Australia - reading educational content
Early Humans Reach Australia
This reading passage explores the journey of early humans who reached Australia by crossing the ocean over 60,000 years ...
CA HSS 6.1CCSS RH.6-8.1CCSS RH.6-8.4CCSS RH.6-8.7
Early Humans in Europe and Asia - reading educational content
Early Humans in Europe and Asia
This passage explores the arrival of early humans in Europe and Asia around 40,000 BCE, highlighting their migration, ad...
CA HSS 6.1.1CCSS RH.6-8.1CCSS RH.6-8.2CCSS RH.6-8.4
Paleolithic Hand Axe - reading educational content
Paleolithic Hand Axe
This engaging ancient history passage explores the development and significance of Acheulean hand axes, one of the earli...
CA HSS 6.1.1CCSS.RI.6.1CCSS.RI.6.4CCSS.W.6.2
Paleolithic Migration by Land and Sea - reading educational content
Paleolithic Migration by Land and Sea
This passage explores the migration of Paleolithic humans from Africa to the rest of the world, focusing on the routes t...
6.1RH.6-8.1RH.6-8.2RH.6-8.4
First Americans - reading educational content
First Americans
This comprehensive history reading passage explores how the first humans migrated to the Americas over 12,000 years ago,...
CA HSS 6.1CCSS RH.6-8.1CCSS RH.6-8.2CCSS RH.6-8.4
Paleolithic Clothing - reading educational content
Paleolithic Clothing
This passage explores the fascinating world of Paleolithic clothing, focusing on how early humans used animal skins and ...
CA HSS 6.1CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.1CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.4
Nomads to Farmers - reading educational content
Nomads to Farmers
This engaging passage explores the two major ways of life practiced by early humans: nomadic hunter-gathering and settle...
CA HSS 6.1.1CCSS RH.6-8.2
Origins of Social Classes - reading educational content
Origins of Social Classes
This engaging history reading passage explores how the rise of farming and the spread of pastoral nomads across the Eura...
6.2.2RH.6-8.1RH.6-8.2RH.6-8.4
Rise of Early Civilizations - reading educational content
Rise of Early Civilizations
This reading passage explores the critical transformation from early human hunter-gatherer societies to the development ...
CA HSS 6.1CCSS.RI.6.1CCSS.RI.6.3CCSS.RI.6.4
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