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Connecticut - Literacy Activities

This section contains numerous Connecticut-based literacy activities including reading comprehension exercises, cloze reading exercises, sentence surgeons, writing prompts, and much more. Use the filters on the left side of the page to isolate activities by grade level or by interactive or printable format.

Connecticut Colony Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This is an interactive reading comprehension exercise with a passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Connecticut Colony Reading Comprehension

Description: This activity requires students to read a short biography and then answer ten multiple choice questions.

Colonial New Haven Reading Comprehension

Description: This activity requires students to read a short passage and then answer seven multiple choice questions.

Colonial New Haven Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This interactive exercise features a reading 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.

Thomas Hooker (Connecticut) Cloze Reading - Online

Description: This online cloze reading exercise requires students to type the words from the word bank into the correct fields in the paragraph. It gives immediate feedback.

Thomas Hooker Digital Centers - by Computer Mice

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Thomas Hooker 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 Thomas Hooker you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

Charter Oak Writing Prompt

Description: This writing prompt describes Connecticut's legendary Charter Oak and then requires students to relate a great hiding spot of their own.

Sybil Ludington Reading Comprehension - Printable

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 385 Words; LEXILE: 910

Sybil Ludington Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a reading 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. You can also print out detailed results.

Benedict Arnold Reading Comprehension Exercise and Question Set

Description: This activity requires students to read a short biography and then answer ten multiple choice questions

Benedict Arnold Reading Comprehension Printable - Easier

Description: This is a simpler version of the Benedict Arnold reading comprehension exercise. Lexile: 800

Benedict Arnold Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This is an interactive reading comprehension exercise with a passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Remaking Benedict Arnold

Description: This prompt requires students to examine the life of Benedict Arnold and to write a letter than attempts to redeem him in American history. The prompt ENCOURAGES students to use hyperbole, perspective, and to downplay facts not favorable to Arnold in this argument. Use the Benedict Arnold biography for background information on the steps that led Arnold to reason.

Benedict Arnold - the Ultimate Antagonist

Description: This social studies activity requires students to compare Benedict Arnold to their favorite antagonist from literature or the movies through written expression and drawing.

Benedict Arnold's Attempted Conquest of Canada

Description: This is a description of what happened before, after, and during, the Arnold's attempted conquest of Canada during the Revolutionary War.

Benedict Arnold Digital Centers - by Computer Mice

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Benedict Arnold 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 Benedict Arnold , you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

Nathan Hale Reading Comprehension

Description: This activity features a short biographical passage followed by seven multiple choice questions. *New - if you need an easier version of the Nathan Hale reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".

Nathan Hale Reading Comprehension Printable - Easier

Description: This is a simpler version of the Nathan Hale reading comprehension exercise. Lexile: 800

Nathan Hale Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This activity features a short biographical passage on Nathan Hale followed by seven multiple choice questions. - It gives immediate feedback.

Holy Land, Connecticut Reading Comprehension

Description: This activity features a brief description and history of the Holy Land, Connecticut, amusement park and five multiple choice questions.

Comparing and Contrasting States - Connecticut and Massachusetts

Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with Connecticut, Massachusetts, both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.

Comparing and Contrasting States - Connecticut and Rhode Island

Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with Connecticut, Rhode Island, both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.

Connecticut Correct-me Passage

Description: This activity requires students to read a paragraph about Connecticut and to correct the incorrect facts. Students must click on the words in the paragraph that are incorrect and select the correct answer from the menu that appears. The program gives immediate feedback.

Connecticut Sentence Surgeons

Description: This activity requires students to correct poor spelling, grammar, and punctuation from three Connecticut-themed sentences. The program gives immediate feedback.

Connecticut Digital Centers - by Computer Mice

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Connecticut 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 Connecticut, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

Connecticut Cloze Reading

Description: This exercise requires students to read the paragraph and write the missing words. Word bank is provided.

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