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Nebraska - Literacy Activities

This section contains numerous Nebraska-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.

Louisiana Purchase Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.

Chimney Rock, Nebraska Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a reading passage about the Chimney Rock and five multiple choice questions. It is suitable for kids in grades 3 and up. WORD COUNT: 142 LEXILE: 1010

Chimney Rock, Nebraska Reading Comprehension - Printable

Description: This resource includes a reading passage about the Chimney Rock and five multiple choice questions. It is suitable for kids in grades 3 and up. WORD COUNT: 142 LEXILE: 1010

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 Cloze Reading

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

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.

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 - 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 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.

The Lost Journal Pages of Meriwether Lewis

Description: When Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the vast Louisiana Territory, he had visions that they’d find exotic creatures such as wholly mammoths and undiscovered landforms such as mountains made of salt. While Lewis and Clark discovered over three hundred species of animals and plants, and even sent a magpie and prairie dog as pets to Thomas Jefferson, they never found the kind of creatures that legends are made of (though they did find massive grizzly bears). What if Lewis and Clark actually did discover an unworldly plant, animal, and landform, but those pages were somehow lost from Lewis’ journal forever when their keelboat capsized? In the spaces provided below, use your imagination to name, draw, and describe these lost discoveries.

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.

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.

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.

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

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 218 Words; LEXILE: 1310

Kansas-Nebraska Act Reading Comprehension - Causes of the Civil War

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 217 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Kansas-Nebraska Act Reading Comprehension - Causes of the Civil War - Online

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 217 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Great Plains Reading Comprehension

Description: This resource includes a short passage and four multiple choice questions.

Great Plains Reading Comprehension - Online

Description: This resource includes a short 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.

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.

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