Indiana - Literacy Activities
This section contains numerous Indiana-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.
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
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.
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
Battle of Vincennes Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.
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.
Civil War Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 492 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Great Lakes Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Market Street Catacombs Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Larry Bird Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Comparing and Contrasting States - Illinois and Indiana
Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with Illinois, Indiana both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.
Comparing and Contrasting States - Indiana and Michigan
Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with Indiana, Michigan, both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.
Comparing and Contrasting States - Kentucky and Indiana
Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with Kentucky, Indiana, both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.
Indiana Correct-me Passage
Description: This activity requires students to read a paragraph about Indiana 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.
The Indiana Map - Fact or Fiction
Description: This activity requires students to analyze eight statements about the Indiana map and determine whether each is fact or fiction.
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