Landmark Riddles

This worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 review important U.S. landmarks through engaging riddle-style clues. Students read each descriptive hint, analyze details about location, appearance, or historical importance, and use inference to identify the correct landmark. The activity reinforces geography and history knowledge while strengthening reading comprehension and critical thinking.

Learning Goals

• U.S. Landmarks and National Symbols (Grades 4-6) – Identify major monuments and landmarks across the United States.
• Using Clues and Inference – Interpret descriptive hints to determine the correct answer.
• Reading Comprehension of Descriptive Text – Extract meaning from short, clue-based passages.
• Geographic Recognition – Connect landmarks to places and regions within the U.S.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to support social studies and ELA standards.
• Engaging, Game-Like Format – Riddles increase motivation and participation.
• Strengthens Recall and Reasoning – Combines content knowledge with inferential thinking.
• Flexible Classroom Use – Works well for review lessons, centers, independent practice, or enrichment.

This printable worksheet helps students deepen their understanding of U.S. landmarks by encouraging them to think critically about descriptive clues. By solving riddles tied to national monuments and places, learners build confidence in geographic knowledge, historical awareness, and inference skills. It is a simple, no-prep resource for classroom and homeschool settings that strengthens social studies literacy and analytical reading.

This worksheet is part of our United States Worksheets collection.