Human Body - Literacy Activities
This section includes numerous literacy activities related to the human body - mostly diseases and sicknesses. Use the filters on the left side of the page to isolate activities by grade level or format (online or printable).
Is it the Flu or a Cold? - Compare and Contrast Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and five multiple choice questions.
Is it the Flu or a Cold? - Compare and Contrast Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and five multiple choice questions. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Scurvy Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 214 Words; LEXILE: 1110
Scurvy 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: 214 Words; LEXILE: 1110
Scurvy - A Simple, But Elusive Explanation
Description: This activity requires students to write about a modern mystery that they think will be solved by humans in the future - in the same way that the cause of Scurvy was a mystery for hundreds of years.
Scurvy 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.
Lyme Disease Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Lyme Disease 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.
Bacteria Cloze Reading
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Vaccinations 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.
