Europe - Literacy Activities
This section contains online and printable literacy activities regarding Europe and its history. Use the filters on the left side to isolate activities by grade level or format.
Christopher Columbus Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Christopher Columbus 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.
Christopher Columbus Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight 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.
Christopher Columbus Reading Comprehension Details Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Christopher Columbus Reading Comprehension Main Idea Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Christopher Columbus Reading Comprehension Sequencing Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Christopher Columbus Reading Comprehension Contextual Vocabulary Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Christopher Columbus Correct-me Passage
Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about Christopher Columbus that has ten factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.
Christopher Columbus Fact or Fiction
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Christopher Columbus passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Christopher Columbus Fact or Fiction - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Christopher Columbus passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Christopher Columbus - Virtual History Teacher
Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about Christopher Columbus. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Christopher Columbus biography for reference.
Christopher Columbus Topic Sentence and Supporting Details
Description: This printable activity requires students to select sentences from a series of sentences that fit under the given topic sentence, and to construct a paragraph based on the logical order of the selected sentences.
Was Christopher Columbus Overrated in History?
Description: This writing prompt requires students to consider an argument that Christopher Columbus was overrated in history. It then asks students to write about something they consider overrated.
Christopher Columbus Activities Bundle - All of the Printable Christopher Columbus Activities on This Site
Description: This bundle includes all of the printable activities related to Christopher Columbus on MrNussbaum.com
Christopher Columbus Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Christopher Columbus 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 Jacques Cartier , you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Ponce de Leon Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Ponce de Leon Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Ponce de Leon Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Francisco Coronado Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 578 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Francisco Coronado Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 578 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Michelangelo Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Michelangelo 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.
Tim Berners-Lee (Inventor of the World Wide Web) 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.
Tim Berners-Lee (Inventor of the World Wide Web) Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Jacques Cartier Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 490 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Jacques Cartier Fact or Fiction
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Jacques Cartier passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Jacques Cartier Fact or Fiction - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Jacques Cartier passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. It gives immediate feedback.
Jacques Cartier - Virtual History Teacher
Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about Jacques Cartier. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Jacques Cartier biography for reference.
Comparing and Contrasting Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain
Description: This activity requires students to compare and contrast Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain. Students must evaluate ten statements to determine if each is associated with Cartier, Champlain, or both.
Jacques Cartier Activities Bundle
Description: This packet includes all eight printable activities related to Jacques Cartier on MrNussbaum.com
Jacques Cartier Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Jacques Cartier 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 Jacques Cartier , you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Castles (the Carcasonne) Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Captain James Cook Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage on Captain James Cook and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.
Kayla Visits the Eiffel Tower Narrative Fiction Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This interactive reading activity requires students to read a passage and answer five multiple choice comprehension questions. It gives immediate feedback and a printable performance document. It also has an option for narration and highlighting.
Eratosthenes Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 437 words; LEXILE: 1210
Eratosthenes Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH = 437 words; LEXILE: 1210
Galileo 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. PASSAGE LENGTH: 446 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Sir Francis Drake 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. PASSAGE LENGTH: 590 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Sir Francis Drake Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Galileo Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a short passage and four multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 130 Words; LEXILE: 710
Galileo Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 446 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Galileo Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a short 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.
Franz Joseph Haydn Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Franz Joseph Haydn Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Marquis de Lafayette 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.
The History of Pizza Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 303 Words; LEXILE: 910
The History of Pizza 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. PASSAGE LENGTH: 303 Words; LEXILE: 910
The History of Swiss Chocolate Reading Comprehension
Description: This interactive reading activity requires students to read a passage and answer seven multiple choice questions. The system gives immediate feedback and a printable performance report. Students can also choose to have the passage narrated with text highlighting.
Marquis de Lafayette Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. *New - if you need an easier version of the Marquis de Lafayette reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".
Marquis de Lafayette 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.
John Locke 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.
Maddie Tours the Louvre Narrative Fiction Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This interactive reading activity requires students to read a passage and answer five multiple choice comprehension questions. It gives immediate feedback and a printable performance document. It also has an option for narration and highlighting.
Baron Charles de Montesquieu 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.
Sir Henry Morgan Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Mt. Vesuvius and the Lost City of Pompeii 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.
Palace of Versailles Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Marco Polo Virtual History Teacher
Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about Marco Polo. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Marco Polo biography for reference.
Marco Polo Topic Sentence and Supporting Details
Description: This printable activity requires students to select sentences from a series of sentences that fit under the given topic sentence, and to construct a paragraph based on the logical order of the selected sentences.
Marco Polo and the Silk Road Correct-me Passage
Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about Marco Polo that has seven factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.
Marco Polo and the Silk Road Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 170 Words; LEXILE: 810
Marco Polo Fact or Fiction - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Marco Polo passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Marco Polo Fact or Fiction
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Marco Polo passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Marco Polo and the Silk Road Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight 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: 170 Words; LEXILE: 810
Pythagoras Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 336 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Pythagoras Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 336 Words; LEXILE: 1210
John Smith Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on John Smith 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 John Smith, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Stonehenge Cloze Reading
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Stonehenge Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions.
United Kingdom Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading 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.
Ludwig Van Beethoven Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 467 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Ludwig Van Beethoven Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 467 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Ferdinand Magellan 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 = 534 Words; LEXILE = 910
Ferdinand Magellan Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 534 Words; LEXILE = 910
Ferdinand Magellan Fact or Fiction
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Ferdinand Magellan passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Ferdinand Magellan - Virtual History Teacher
Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about Ferdinand Magellan. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Ferdinand Magellan biography for reference.
Ferdinand Magellan - Main Idea and Supporting Sentences
Description: Below are three headings at the beginnings of paragraphs. Below the chart are the associated supporting detail sentences. Which sentences would appear under which heading? Use the numbers before the sentences so you don’t have to write the entire sentence. Order matters!
Sequencing the Life of Ferdinand Magellan
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Ferdinand Magellan passage and then, to sequence ten events of his life from earliest to latest
Ferdinand Magellan Correct-me Passage
Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about Ferdinand Magellan that has ten factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.
Ferdinand Magellan Fact or Fiction - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Ferdinand Magellan passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. It gives immediate feedback.
Ferdinand Magellan Activities Bundle
Description: This packet includes all eight printable activities related to Ferdinand Magellan on MrNussbaum.com
Ferdinand Magellan Reading Comprehension for Google Classroom
Description: This modified google quiz form allows you to collect data and scores using this reading comprehension exercise as part of your google classroom. These are designed for you to customize, add to, subtract from, and change . PLEASE MAKE A COPY AND DO NOT TYPE ON THE ORIGINAL.
