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Kentucky - Literacy Activities
This section contains numerous Kentucky-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.
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.
Comparing and Contrasting States - Kentucky and Tennessee
Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with Kentucky, Tennessee, both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.
Kentucky Correct-me Passage
Description: This activity requires students to read a paragraph about Kentucky 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.
Kentucky Sentence Surgeons
Description: This activity requires students to correct poor spelling, grammar, and punctuation from three Kentucky-themed sentences. The program gives immediate feedback.
Daniel Boone Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Daniel Boone 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 Daniel Boone, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
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.
Abraham Lincoln Letter to Fanny Mccullough - Primary Source Analysis
Description: This printable activity requires students to analyze a famous condolence letter written by Abraham Lincoln to a teenage girl after her father was killed in the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 565 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Muhammad Ali 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.
Muhammad Ali Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Muhammad Ali Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Muhammad Ali Cloze Reading
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Muhammad Ali Quotes
Description: This activity requires students to interpret three of Muhammad Ali's greatest quotes.
Muhammad Ali - World Venues
Description: This awesome activity requires students to categorize the many locations of Ali's fights into their correct continents. For example, Ali's fight in Tokyo, Japan, in 1972, took place in Asia. Great activity for categorizing nations by continent.
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.
Vent Haven Museum Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.

