New York- Literacy Activities
This section contains numerous 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.
New Amsterdam Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a detailed historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
New Amsterdam Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Fort Ticonderoga Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Fort Ticonderoga Reading Comprehension Printable - Easier
Description: This is a simpler version of the Fort Ticonderoga reading comprehension exercise. Lexile: 800
Fort Ticonderoga 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 = 466 Words; LEXILE = 1110
Noble Train of Artillery Reading Comprehension (Henry Knox's miracle)
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 478 Words; LEXILE: 1010 * New - IF you need an easier version of the Noble Train of Artillery Reading Comprehension, scroll to the bottom of the page and click it.
Noble Train of Artillery Reading Comprehension Printable - Easier
Description: This is a simpler version of the Nobel Train of Artillery reading comprehension exercise. Lexile: 800
Noble Train of Artillery Reading Comprehension (Henry Knox's miracle) - 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: 478 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Battles of New York Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a detailed historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 444 words; LEXILE = 1210 * New - IF you need an easier version of the Battles of New York in 1776 Reading Comprehension, scroll to the bottom of the page and click it.
Battles of New York in 1776 Reading Comprehension Printable - Easier
Description: This is a simpler version of the Battles of New York reading comprehension exercise. Lexile: 800
Battles of New York 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 = 444 words; LEXILE = 1210
Battle of Saratoga Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 423 Words; LEXILE = 1210
Battle of Saratoga Reading Comprehension Printable - Easier
Description: This is a simpler version of the Battles of Saratoga reading comprehension exercise. Lexile: 800
Battle of Saratoga 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 *New - if you need an easier version of the Battle of Saratoga reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".
Battle of Saratoga Reading Comprehension ONLINE - Easier
Description: This is a simpler version of the Battle of Saratoga reading comprehension exercise. It gives immediate feedback and a score report. Lexile: 800
Turning Point - The Battle of Saratoga
Description: This activity requires students to understand how the Battle of Saratoga was the turning point in the war and to think of explain turning points in their own lives, in sports, or in the lives of literary characters.
Alexander Hamilton Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Alexander Hamilton Scavenger Hunt
Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the Alexander Hamilton biography.
Alexander Hamilton 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.
Alexander Hamilton Correct-me Passage - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the life of Alexander Hamilton that has eight factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.
Alexander Hamilton Fact or Fiction - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to read an Alexander Hamilton passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. It gives immediate feedback.
Alexander Hamilton Fact or Fiction - Printable
Description: This fun activity requires students to read an Alexander Hamilton passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Alexander Hamilton Main Idea and Supporting Sentences
Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are eight total sentences.
Alexander Hamilton Text Elements - Paragraph Headings
Description: This printable activity requires students to match seven different headings to their correct paragraphs.
Alexander Hamilton Writing Prompt: Settling the Score
Description: This prompt requires students to help Hamilton and Burr find a more productive way to settle their differences instead of staging a duel.
Alexander Hamilton Activities Bundle - All of the Hamilton Printable Activities on This Site
Description: This bundle includes all of the printable Alexander Hamilton activities on this site.
Theodore Roosevelt Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
"Teddy Bear" Roosevelt Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a short passage and four multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 172 Words; LEXILE: 750
"Teddy Bear" Roosevelt Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a short passage and four multiple choice questions. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 172 Words; LEXILE: 750
Statue of Liberty Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 140 Words; LEXILE: 710
Statue of Liberty 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. PASSAGE LENGTH: 140 Words; LEXILE: 710
Interview with the Statue of Liberty
Description: This fun activity requires students to pretend they are interviewing the Statue of Liberty! In the interview, there are four scripted questions that the student has to answer as the Statue. Two questions are fun and two are serious. The student comes up with the last question and answer. Students can use the Statue of Liberty of informational passage as a reference.
Virtual History Teacher - Grading a Statue of Liberty Test
Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about the Statue of Liberty. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Statue of Liberty historical passage for reference.
The Statue of Liberty Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
The Statue of Liberty Reading Comprehension for Google Classroom
Description: This modified google quiz form allows you to collect data and scores using this reading comprehension exercise as part of your google classroom. These are designed for you to customize, add to, subtract from, and change . PLEASE MAKE A COPY AND DO NOT TYPE ON THE ORIGINAL.
The New Colossus - by Emma Lazarus
Description: This activity requires students to analyze the famous sonnet The New Colossus (which is a casting on the base of the Statue of Liberty's pedestal). Students must then compare and contrast, provide examples of its symbolism and analyze the meaning of the poem.
Sojourner Truth Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Sojourner Truth 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 Sojourner Truth, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Track 61 Reading Comprehension (New York Subway)
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Millard Fillmore 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.
Millard Fillmore Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Millard Fillmore Scavenger Hunt
Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the Millard Fillmore biography.
Bluebirds Reading Comprehension (Compare and Contrast)
Description: This resource includes a compare and contrast chart , a short passage, and five multiple choice questions.
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 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.
Iroquois Printable Scavenger Hunt
Description: This scavenger hunt includes a reading passage and eight questions on the Inuit.
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.
Babe Ruth Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a detailed historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Babe Ruth Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a detailed biographical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Babe Ruth Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Babe Ruth's Called Shot Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This Reading Comprehension Exercise includes a passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 488 Words; LEXILE: 810
Babe Ruth Correct-me Passage
Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the life of Babe Ruth that has eight factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.
Babe Ruth Fact or Fiction - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Babe Ruth passage and then, to sort 12 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. It gives immediate feedback.
Babe Ruth Fact or Fiction - Printable
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Babe Ruth passage and then, to sort 12 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Babe Ruth Activities Bundle: All of the Printable Babe Ruth Activities on This Site
Description: This bundle includes all of the printable Babe Ruth activities on mrnussbaum.com
The Curse of the Bambino Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This Reading Comprehension Exercise includes a passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 460 Words; LEXILE: 1110
Babe Ruth Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Babe Ruth 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 Babe Ruth, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Mickey Mantle Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 482 Words; LEXILE: 810
Mickey Mantle Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a detailed biographical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 482 Words; LEXILE: 810
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