Worksheets and No Prep Teaching Resources
Worksheets and No Prep Teaching Resources
Reading Comprehension Worksheets
The 2000's
2004 Elections
What If? (The 2000 Presidential Election)

The 2000's
The 2000's

What If? (The 2000 Presidential Election)
Print What If? (The 2000 Presidential Election) Reading Comprehension with Fifth Grade Work

Print What If? (The 2000 Presidential Election) Reading Comprehension with Sixth Grade Work

Print What If? (The 2000 Presidential Election) Reading Comprehension

Reading Level
     edHelper's suggested reading level:   grades 5 to 7
     Flesch-Kincaid grade level:   5.57

Vocabulary
     challenging words:    president-elect, fairest, punches, leads, mislead, especially, between, speech, announce, schools, deadline, presidential, court, opponent, early, vote
     content words:    George Bush, Al Gore, Election Day, United States, Benjamin Harrison, Electoral College, White House, More Democrats, More Republicans

What If? (The 2000 Presidential Election)
By Sharon Fabian 		  
1     The presidential election of 2000, between George Bush and Al Gore, was one of the closest elections ever. It was so close that no one was sure who won until weeks after the election!
 
2     November 7, 2000, was Election Day. The Democrats and the Republicans knew that it would be a close race. Everyone watched as TV stations announced updates of the vote so far. When a certain number of votes from each state had been counted, the stations announced their projection for who would win that state. A few states were especially important since winning in those states could mean winning the whole election. This was because the election is determined by counting the number of electoral votes assigned to each state, not by counting the total number of individual votes.
 
3     Florida was one of those key states, and the TV stations projected that Gore would win Florida. Then, early the next morning, they had to announce that they had been wrong. Now they said that Bush had won. Al Gore called George Bush and congratulated him on his win.
 
4     Then the TV stations found out that they had made another mistake! The final tally was not in yet, and as more votes were counted, Gore began to catch up. He called George Bush back to tell him that it was not over yet!
 
5     As it turned out, it wasn't over for five weeks! Problems with the ballots began to show up. Florida voters had used punch card ballots. Some of the punches, called "chads," hadn't punched all the way through. Some ballots had no choice punched for president. The ballots were counted and recounted. Even though millions of people had voted, the difference was down to about 300 votes! Lawyers for both candidates went to court and argued about the details of the recount. Judges had to decide how long the recount would go on and when the vote would be final.

Paragraphs 6 to 11:
For the complete story with questions: click here for printable
Weekly Reading Books

          Create Weekly Reading Books

Prepare for an entire week at once!

Feedback on What If? (The 2000 Presidential Election)
Leave your feedback on What If? (The 2000 Presidential Election)   (use this link if you found an error in the story)

The 2000's
             The 2000's

2004 Elections
             2004 Elections

More Lessons
             Election 2008: United States Elections

United States
             United States


    American Government  
 
    Black History and Blacks in U.S. History  
 
    Children in History  
 
    Government Careers  
 
    Hispanic Heritage  
 
    How Can I Help?  
 
 
    Immigration  
 
    National Parks and Monuments  
 
    Native Americans  
 
    Presidents of the United States  
 
    Women's History  
 

United States History
    A Nation Divided
(1840-1861) 		 
 
    A New Nation
(1776-1830) 		 
 
    After the Civil War
(1865-1870) 		 
 
    American Revolution  
 
    Cold War
(1947-1991) 		 
 
    Colonial America (1492-1776)  
 
    Lewis and Clark
(1804-1806) 		 
 
    Pearl Harbor  
 
    Spanish American War (1898)  
 
    The 1890's  
 
    The 1900's  
 
    The 1910's  
 
    The 1920's  
 
    The 1930's  
 
 
    The 1940's  
 
    The 1950's  
 
    The 1960's  
 
    The 1970's  
 
    The 1980's  
 
    The 1990's  
 
    The 2000's  
 
    The Civil War
(1861-1865) 		 
 
    The Great Depression
(1929-1945) 		 
 
    The United States Grows
(1865-1900) 		 
 
    The War of 1812  
 
    Wild, Wild West  
 
    World War I
(1914-1918) 		 
 
    World War II  
 

50 States

             Fifty States Theme Unit

Document Based Activities
      Document Based Activities



Copyright © 2018 edHelper