Native Americans Literacy Activities
This section contains numerous literacy activities involving Native Americans and Nations. Use the filters on the left side of the page to isolate activities by grade level or format (online or printable)
Buffalo Hunters Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. WORD COUNT: 173;. LEXILE LEVEL: 1010
Buffalo Hunters 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. WORD COUNT: 173;. LEXILE LEVEL: 1010
Categorizing Sioux (Lakota) vs Iroquois
Description: This "containers" exercise requires students to drag and drop the different terms to either the "Iroquois" container or the Sioux (Lakota) container. It gives immediate feedback.
Choctaw Stickball Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This activity requires students to read a passage on Choctaw Stickball and answer seven multiple choice question. It gives immediate feedback and a printable score report.
Crazy Horse Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. 378 Words; LEXILE: 910
Crazy Horse 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: 378 Words; LEXILE: 910
Crazy Horse Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Crazy Horse 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 Crazy Horse, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Iroquois Nation Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a detailed historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 521 Words; LEXILE: 1110
Iroquois Nation Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 521 Words; LEXILE: 1110
Iroquois Online Scavenger Hunt
Description: This scavenger hunt includes a reading passage on the Inuit. It has eight questions and gives immediate feedback.
Iroquois Printable Scavenger Hunt
Description: This scavenger hunt includes a reading passage and eight questions on the Inuit.
Iroquois Sentence Surgeons - Online
Description: This innovative activity requires students to correct the flawed spelling, grammar, and punctuation. The online versions show the numbers and types of errors. As students check their answers, they can see how many of each type of error still need to be corrected.
Sacagawea Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
King Phillip's War Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. 333 Words; LEXILE: 1210
King Phillip's War 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. You can also print out detailed results. PASSAGE LENGTH: 333 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Navajo Code Talkers - Fact or Fiction Online
Description: This activity requires students to read a passage about the Navajo Code Talkers. Then, the student must evaluate ten fact or fiction statements. The program gives immediate feedback.
Navajo Code Talkers Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.
Navajo Code Talkers Correct-me Passage - Online
Description: This activity requires students to read a paragraph about the Navajo Code Talkers 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.
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.
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
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 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 United States Postage Stamp Coloring Page
Description: This is a coloring page that features a United States postage stamp honoring Sacagawea.
The Long Lost Drawing of Sacagawea - Lewis and Clark
Description: Did you know that there are no known drawings of depictions of Sacagawea? All of the images you see of her today are simply guesses. This activity shows three different depictions of Sacagawea and challenges students to author their own "authentic" sketch of Sacagawea.
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.
Sequoyah Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a biographical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 199 Words; LEXILE: 750
Sequoyah 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: 199 Words; LEXILE: 750
Sequoyah Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Sequoyah 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 Sequoyah, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Sioux (Lakota) Nation Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 524 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Sioux (Lakota) Nation 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: 524 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Sitting Bull 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: 610; LEXILE: 1110
Sitting Bull Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 610; LEXILE: 1110
Sitting Bull Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Sitting Bull 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 Sitting Bull, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Tecumseh Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Trail of Tears 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: 339 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Trail of Tears Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 339 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Categorizing Natural, Human, and Capital Resources
Description: This "containers" exercise requires students to drag and drop the resources to different containers depending on their type. It gives immediate feedback.
