North Carolina - 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.
North Carolina Colony 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.
North Carolina Colony Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 297 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Lost Colony at Roanoke 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: 426 Words; LEXILE: 910
Lost Colony at Roanoke Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 426 Words; LEXILE: 910
Sir Walter Raleigh Online Reading Comprehension
Description: This passage gives a printable score report, allows for narration, and offers customization options such as highlighting and text controls. Apx. Grade Level: 5 | Lexile Level: 980 | Word Count: 324
Cherokee Nation Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Roanoke Island - the Anatomy of a Mystery
Description: This fun writing prompt requires students to analyze the mystery of the Lost Colony before detailing a mystery in their own lives, or, another mystery they're familiar with in history, literature, movies, video games, or current events.
Roanoke Island - Supplies for Survival
Description: This fun critical thinking exercise requires students to role play as a Roanoke settler, who has the magical power to warp to the future to garner modern supplies. There are rules, however, that students must follow in selecting three supplies that they would bring to Roanoke that would help the colony survive.
Cherokee 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.
Great Smoky Mountains Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a detailed passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 198 Words; LEXILE = 1010
Great Smoky Mountains Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a 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 = 142 Words; LEXILE = 810
Great Smoky Mountains Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a passage and four multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 142 Words; LEXILE = 810
Great Smoky Mountains Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a descriptive passage ands even 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 = 198 Words; LEXILE = 1010
Great Smoky Mountains 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.
North Carolina Sentence Puzzles
Description: This fun online activity requires students to re-arrange the words and punctuation to form a coherent sentence about North Carolina. There are three total sentences. immediate feedback is given.
Judaculla Rock Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five 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: 181 Words; LEXILE: 810
Judaculla Rock Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 181 Words; LEXILE: 810
Venus Fly Trap Reading Comprehension
Description: This is a printable reading comprehension passage and multiple-choice question set. There are seven questions.
Cardinals Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a short passage and five multiple choice questions.
Cardinals Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a short passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 114 Words; LEXILE: 710
Cardinals Sentence Surgeons
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.
Cardinals Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Michael Jordan Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a biographical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 756 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Michael Jordan 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: 756 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Michael Jordan 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.
Michael Jordan Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Michael Jordan vs LeBron James - Compare and Contrast Reading Comprehension
Description: This reading comprehension exercise requires students to read both sides of an argument concerning who was the better basketball player: Michael Jordan or LeBron James. The activity requires students to answer five multiple choice questions that focus on comparing and contrasting. PASSAGE LENGTH: 382 Words; LEXILE: 910
Michael Jordan Cloze Reading
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Michael Jordan Correct-me Passage - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the life of Michael Jordan that has ten factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.
Sequencing the Life of Michael Jordan
Description: This activity requires students to read a Michael Jordan passage and then sequence ten events in his life from his earliest to the latest. Great standardized test preparation!
Michael Jordan Main Idea and Supporting Detail Sentences
Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are eight total sentences.
Michael Jordan Fact or Fiction - Printable
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Michael Jordan passage and then, to sort 12 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Michael Jordan Fact or Fiction - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Michael Jordan passage and then, to sort 12 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. It gives immediate feedback.
Michael Jordan Activities Bundle - All of the Michael Jordan Printable Activities on This Site
Description: This bundle contains all of the printable Michael Jordan material on MrNussbaum.com.
The Atlantic Coastal Plain Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and six multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.
Atlantic Coastal Plain 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 Appalachian Mountains Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and six multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.
Carolina Parakeet Online Reading Comprehension
Description: This interactive reading comprehension activity allows students to read a passage, annotate text with highlights, adjust font settings, and listen to the passage using a built-in text-to-speech feature. It includes multiple-choice questions with navigation options, a “See All Questions” mode, and a printable, color-coded score report showing elapsed time and detailed feedback.
Carolina Parakeet Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.
College Mascots
Description: This activity challenges students to dream up meanings for four iconic college mascots - the North Carolina Tarheel, Oklahoma Tarheel, Kansas Jayhawk, and Arkansas Razorbacks.
