Ohio - 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.
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 Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a short passage and five multiple choice questions.
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.
Cleveland, Ohio Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a short passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Cincinnati Red Stockings Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage on the Cincinnati Red Stockings and four multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. LEXILE LEVEL: 710; WORD COUNT: 108
Comparing and Contrasting States - Michigan and Ohio
Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with Michigan, Ohio, both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.
French and Indian War 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
Great Lakes Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
LeBron James 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.
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
Pontiac's Rebellion Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. ARTICLE LENGTH: 456 Words; LEXILE: 1010
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
State Tunes by Rocknoceros
Description: Click on a state to hear its song as performed by the world-famous kids' band Rocknoceros.
State Tunes by Rocknoceros Scavenger Hunt
Description: This is designed for use with the State Tunes by Rocknoceros Interactive Map
Tecumseh Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Thomas Edison Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a biographical 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.
Thomas Edison Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Thomas Edison Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Thomas Edison 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 Thomas Edison, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
The Worst Rule Ever - Royal Proclamation of 1763
Description: This fun prompt requires students to relate to how the colonists must have felt after the passage of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, by writing about the worst rule they've ever had to follow.
Ulysses S. Grant Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a score report. PASSAGE LENGTH: 421 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Ulysses S. Grant Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.
Ulysses S. Grant Fact or Fiction - Printable
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Ulysses S. Grant passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Sequencing the Life of Ulysses S. Grant
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Ulysses S. Grant passage and then, to sequence eight events of his life from earliest to latest.
Ulysses S. Grant Activities Bundle - Eight Printable Ulysses S. Grant Activities from MrNussbaum.com
Description: This packet contains all of the printable Ulysses S. Grant activities on MrNussbaum.com
War of 1812 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.
War of 1812 Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
In Between a Rock and a Hard Place - The American Position before the War of 1812
Description: This writing/drawing prompt describes the American position in regards to France and England before the War of 1812. It then challenges students to think of a situation in which they were similarly in between a rock and hard place and to describe and draw the situation.
The Interior Lowlands Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and six multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF. PASSAGE LENGTH: 316 Words; LEXILE: 1010
