Abraham Lincoln Literacy Activities
This section includes numerous literacy activities involving Abraham Lincoln. Use the filters on the left side of the page to isolate activities by grade level or format (online or printable).
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln's Childhood Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Abraham Lincoln's Childhood Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Middle Years Part 1
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Middle Years Part 2
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Middle Years Part 3
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Middle Years Part 1 - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Middle Years Part 2 - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Middle Years Part 3 - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 1
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 2
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 3
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 4
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 1 - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 2 - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 3 - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 4 - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
The Election of 1860 Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.
Lincoln-Douglas Debates Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading comprehension passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 341 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Emancipation Proclamation Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 270 Words; LEXILE = 1110
I'll Always Remember Where I Was.... (Emancipation Proclamation)
Description: This historical prompts requires students to imagine the earth-shaking effect the news of the Emancipation Proclamation had on Americans in 1862. In the spirit of the Emancipation Proclamation, students must write about the biggest news event of their lives and describe its impact.
Lincoln's Letter to Fanny McCollough - Primary Source Super Comprehension
Description: These primary source comprehension activities guide students through close reading of authentic historical texts. By working across three skill-focused tabs—Main Idea; Details, Inference, and Contextual Vocabulary—students develop a deeper understanding of the passages and strengthen essential literacy skills. The interactive tools and structured layout help readers analyze, annotate, and interpret the text with clarity and confidence.
Laura Keene - Making History with a Dying President Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Laura Keene - Making History with a Dying President Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Mary Todd Lincoln Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Ms. Laura Keene - Deep Thought Questions
Description: The printable narrative that describes the role Ms. Laura Keene played after Lincoln's assassination. It includes three short-answer questions regarding the main ideas of the article content, critical thought about the content, and vocabulary from the passage.
Lincoln Memorial Cloze Reading
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Abraham Lincoln Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Abraham Lincoln in a single resource. Students can conduct research , fill out graphic organizers and Venn diagrams, write e-books with pictures, conduct interviews, determine fact or opinion, play games, and much, much more! If you're teaching about Abraham Lincoln, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
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