Tea Party Cloze

This worksheet helps students in Grades 4 and 5 strengthen reading comprehension, vocabulary application, historical understanding, and context-clue skills through a focused cloze passage about the Boston Tea Party. Students read a clear summary of the event and fill in missing words from a word bank, using surrounding text to accurately apply key terms connected to revolutionary causes and consequences.

Learning Goals

• Events Leading to the American Revolution (Grades 4-5) – Students review key ideas connected to colonial protest and growing resistance.
• Vocabulary in Context – Learners use context clues to select correct academic and historical terms.
• Cause and Effect Understanding – The activity reinforces how the Boston Tea Party led to British responses and increased tensions.
• Reading Comprehension – Students demonstrate understanding by completing a meaningful informational passage.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to align with elementary social studies and ELA standards.
• Integrated Reading & Vocabulary Practice – Combines content knowledge with literacy skill-building.
• Flexible Classroom Use – Works well for independent practice, guided reading, homework, or review.
• Supports Developing Readers – Cloze format encourages close reading and thoughtful word choice.
• Low-Prep Printable – Ready for classroom or homeschool use with no extra materials needed.

This Tea Party Cloze worksheet helps students better understand the causes and consequences of a major revolutionary event while strengthening vocabulary and comprehension skills. By applying context clues and historical knowledge, learners build confidence with key terms related to colonial protest and independence. It’s a practical, engaging resource for both classroom and homeschool instruction.

This worksheet is part of our The Boston Tea Party Worksheets collection.