Iowa - Literacy Activities
This section contains numerous Iowa-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.
Effigy Mounds, Iowa Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage about Effigy Mounds and five multiple choice questions. It is suitable for kids in grades 4 and up and gives immediate feedback. WORD COUNT: 95 LEXILE: 910
Effigy Mounds, Iowa Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage about Effigy Mounds and five multiple choice questions. It is suitable for kids in grades 4 and up WORD COUNT: 95 LEXILE: 910
Robert Sieur de la Salle Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Louisiana Purchase Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Dynamic Duo - Lewis and Clark
Description: This printable exercise requires students to compare Lewis and Clark to other "dynamic duos" in literature, movies, or even sports.
"The Climb" - Lewis and Clark
Description: This printout requires students to consider a time when they thought they were at the cusp of finishing something great, only to learn there was MUCH more work to do - ALA Miley Cyrus.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Main Idea Focus
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Sequencing Focus
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Contextual Vocabulary Focus
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Details Focus
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 395 Words; LEXILE: 1110
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Main Idea Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Sequencing Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Details Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Contextual Vocabulary Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
William Clark Fact or Fiction
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a William Clark passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Meriwether Lewis Fact or Fiction
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Meriwether Lewis passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Comparing and Contrasting Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Description: This activity requires students to compare and contrast Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Students must evaluate ten statements to determine if each is associated with Lewis, Clark, or Both.
Discoveries from the Journal of Meriwether Lewis - A Primary Source Digital Scavenger Hunt
Description: This activity requires students to use the excerpts from the journal of Meriwether Lewis to answer the scavenger hunt questions.
Sacagawea Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Sacagawea 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.
Sacagawea Fact or Fiction
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Sacagawea passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Sacagawea - the Unsung Hero
Description: This activity explains the idea of Sacagawea as an unsung hero. Students must then write about an unsung hero they select from movies, literature, sports, or their own lives.
Sacagawea Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Sacagawea 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 Sacagawea, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Mr. Polk's War - A Debate Over Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War
Description: This captivating printable requires students to understand the concept of manifest destiny and to conduct a mock interview in which they answer tough questions in the role of Abraham Lincoln (against the Mexican-American War) and in the role of President James K. Polk (in support of the war).
Manifest Destiny 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: 218 Words; LEXILE: 1310
Manifest Destiny Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 218 Words; LEXILE: 1310
Iowa Sentence Surgeons
Description: This activity requires students to correct poor spelling, grammar, and punctuation from three Iowa-themed sentences. The program gives immediate feedback.
Iowa Correct-me Passage
Description: This activity requires students to read a paragraph about Iowa 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.
Comparing and Contrasting States - Iowa and Wisconsin
Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with Iowa, Wisconsin, both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.
Comparing and Contrasting States - Iowa and Minnesota
Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with Iowa, Minnesota, both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.
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
Tornadoes Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a descriptive passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 265 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Tornadoes Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a descriptive passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 265 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Tornado Alley Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Tornado Alley Cloze Reading
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
