Illinois - Literacy Activities
This section contains numerous Illinois-themed 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.
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 - 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.
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.
Futility Versus Immortality - The Ineffective Presidents in Office before Abraham Lincoln
Description: This activity requires students to analyze the qualities of poor leaders such as Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan and contrast them with a leader such as Abraham Lincoln.
Oh Captain, My Captain! - An elegy to Abraham Lincoln by Walt Whitman
Description: The printout describes Walt Whitman’s famous Oh Captain! My Captain! elegy to President Lincoln and then asks students to think of their own hero and to write a similar poem.
Abraham Lincoln's Dream
Description: This printout describes Abraham Lincoln’s famous dream about his own assassination and then requires students to describe and draw a scene from a powerful dream they’ve had.
Cardinals Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a short passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 114 Words; LEXILE: 710
Cardinals Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a short passage and five multiple choice questions.
Cardinals Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Cicada Overload 2024 - Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage about the mass cicada emergence of 2024 and five multiple choice questions. It is suitable for kids in grades 5 and up. WORD COUNT: 233 LEXILE: 1010
French and Indian War 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 = 423 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Great Lakes Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
The Interior Lowlands Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and six multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF. PASSAGE LENGTH: 316 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Lincoln-Douglas Debates Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading comprehension passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 341 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Michael Jordan Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a biographical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 756 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Michael Jordan 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: 756 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Michael Jordan Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Michael Jordan vs LeBron James - Compare and Contrast Reading Comprehension
Description: This reading comprehension exercise requires students to read both sides of an argument concerning who was the better basketball player: Michael Jordan or LeBron James. The activity requires students to answer five multiple choice questions that focus on comparing and contrasting. PASSAGE LENGTH: 382 Words; LEXILE: 910
Michael Jordan Cloze Reading
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Michael Jordan Correct-me Passage - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the life of Michael Jordan 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.
Michael Jordan Fact or Fiction - Printable
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Michael Jordan passage and then, to sort 12 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Michael Jordan Fact or Fiction - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Michael Jordan passage and then, to sort 12 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. It gives immediate feedback.
Michael Jordan Main Idea and Supporting Detail Sentences
Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are eight total sentences.
Sequencing the Life of Michael Jordan
Description: This activity requires students to read a Michael Jordan passage and then sequence ten events in his life from his earliest to the latest. Great standardized test preparation!
Michelle Obama Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage on Michelle Obama and four multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. LEXILE LEVEL: 710; WORD COUNT: 184.
Mississippi River 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.
Pontiac's Rebellion 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. ARTICLE LENGTH: 456 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Pontiac's Rebellion Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. ARTICLE LENGTH: 456 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Black Sox Scandal - Article
Description: This article explains the Black Sox Scandal and the involvement of the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson.
The Worst Rule Ever - Royal Proclamation of 1763
Description: This fun prompt requires students to relate to how the colonists must have felt after the passage of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, by writing about the worst rule they've ever had to follow.
Ulysses S. Grant Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a score report. PASSAGE LENGTH: 421 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Ulysses S. Grant Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.
Ulysses S. Grant Fact or Fiction - Printable
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Ulysses S. Grant passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Ulysses S. Grant Activities Bundle - Eight Printable Ulysses S. Grant Activities from MrNussbaum.com
Description: This packet contains all of the printable Ulysses S. Grant activities on MrNussbaum.com
Sequencing the Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Ulysses S. Grant passage and then, to sequence eight events of his life from earliest to latest.
War of 1812 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.
War of 1812 Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
In Between a Rock and a Hard Place - The American Position before the War of 1812
Description: This writing/drawing prompt describes the American position in regards to France and England before the War of 1812. It then challenges students to think of a situation in which they were similarly in between a rock and hard place and to describe and draw the situation.
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