Worksheets and No Prep Teaching Resources Reading Comprehension Worksheets The Great Depression (1929-1945)

Alphabet Soup II - Roosevelt's New Deal The Great Depression (1929-1945)

---

Alphabet Soup II - Roosevelt's New Deal
Print Alphabet Soup II - Roosevelt's New Deal Reading Comprehension with Fifth Grade Work

Print Alphabet Soup II - Roosevelt's New Deal Reading Comprehension with Sixth Grade Work

Print Alphabet Soup II - Roosevelt's New Deal Reading Comprehension

Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 5 to 7
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	4.78

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		burdened, nitrate, tariff, speculation, recovery, launched, investors, gamble, based, further, dealt, region, fraud, european, sales, banned
	content words:		New Deal, Hundred Days, Emergency Banking Act, Glass-Steagall Banking Act, Glass-Steagall Act, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Securities Exchange Act, Exchange Commission, Trade Agreements Act, During World War

---

Alphabet Soup II - Roosevelt's New Deal By Toni Lee Robinson

---

¹     President Roosevelt's first three months in office were busy. Things had to be done quickly to help needy people. The president had called Congress to special session. The leaders worked together on the New Deal. Laws were passed to bring healing to an ailing nation. This time was later called the "Hundred Days."
 
²     The Emergency Banking Act had ended the banking crisis. But there was more work to be done. The next step in Roosevelt's plan was reform. Laws were needed to change parts of the U.S. system.
 
³     People had thought banks a safe place to put their money. But the Depression had made it clear that some things were badly wrong with banks. Thousands had lost all they had when banks failed. The system on which banks were based needed to be fixed.
 
⁴     Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Banking Act. Under this law, banks were divided into types. Regular banks were separated from banks that dealt with stocks and bonds. That meant that the money of regular bank patrons would not be used for big gambles in the stock market. The Glass-Steagall Act also limited speculation. In other words, banks couldn't gamble with money entrusted to them. Their investments had to be safe.

Paragraphs 5 to 14:
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 Alphabet Soup II - Roosevelt's New Deal

Leave your feedback on Alphabet Soup II - Roosevelt's New Deal   (use this link if you found an error in the story)

---

The Great Depression
(1929-1945)

The Great Depression (1929-1945)

---

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 © 2025 edHelper