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Pennsylvania - Literacy Activities
This section contains numerous Pennsylvania-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
Pennsylvania 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. PASSAGE LENGTH: 231 Words; LEXILE: 910
Pennsylvania Colony Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 231 Words; LEXILE: 910
William Penn 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.
Pennsylvania Colony 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.
Pennsylvania Colony Paragraph Paramedics
Description: Find and correct the spelling, punctuation, and usage errors in the paragraph. Click on the error and then type in the correction. Immediate feedback is given.
Philadelphia Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Benjamin Franklin 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.
Benjamin Franklin Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice and fill-in-the-blanks questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Benjamin Franklin Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 177 Words; LEXILE = 810
Benjamin Franklin Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Benjamin Franklin Cloze Reading
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
The Franklin Shield
Description: This fun social studies activity requires students to create a Franklin family shield based on the many accomplishments of Benjamin.
The Last Conversation Between Ben and William Franklin
Description: This activity requires students to pen dialogues between William (Ben's loyalist son and royal governor of New Jersey) and Benjamin (a Patriot). Students should demonstrate their knowledge of Loyalist and Patriot sentiments through the dialogue.
Declaration of Independence Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This American Revolution/Revolutionary War 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 = 267 Words; LEXILE = 1110
Declaration of Independence Reading Comprehension
Description: This American Revolution/Revolutionary War resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 267 Words; LEXILE = 1110
The Secret Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence
Description: This American Revolution/Revolutionary War parody on the Declaration of Independence require students to fix the spelling, grammar, and punctuation of the "rough" draft of Thomas Jefferson's declaration.
Declaration of Independence 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.
Is Recess an Unalienable Right? - Declaration of Independence
Description: This writing prompt requires students to understand the concept of unalienable rights and then to form a persuasive essay on whether recess is a right or privilege that teachers should be able to take away.
Valley Forge Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 359 Words; LEXILE: 1110 NEW - For an easier version of this reading comprehension exercise, scroll to the bottom of the page and click it.
Winter at Valley Forge Reading Comprehension Printable - Easier
Description: This is a simpler version of the Winter at Valley Forge reading comprehension exercise. Lexile: 900
Valley Forge 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: 359 Words; LEXILE: 1110
Valley Forge Writing Prompt - Role Play as a Continental Soldier
Description: This activity requires students to play the role of a soldier camped during the dreadful winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge. Students must use their knowledge of the conditions and morale at Valley Forge to pen a letter to a friend or family member describing the misery.
Freemasons Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH = 367 Words; LEXILE = 1010
Freemasons Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.
The Freemasons 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.
Phillis Wheatley Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 420 Words; LEXILE: 810
Phillis Wheatley Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 420 Words; LEXILE: 810
Phillis Wheatley Fact or Fiction
Description: These activities are interactive Fact or Fiction reading comprehension exercises that combine informational text with critical thinking questions. Students read a historical passage, then determine whether each statement is factual or fictional, using tools like text highlighting, annotation, read-aloud, and printable score reports to enhance engagement and understanding.
Phillis Wheatley Fact or Fiction - Printable
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Phillis Wheatley passage and then, to sort 11 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Phillis Wheatley Main Idea and Supporting Detail Sentences - Printable
Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are seven total sentences.
Analyzing Poetry - Phillis Wheatley's Poem to King George III
Description: This activity requires students to analyze the poem: To the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1768 written by Phillis Wheatley to King George III. The poem was meant to praise him for repealing the Stamp Act. Students must complete short answer questions about the poem.
Analyzing Primary Sources - George Washington's Letter to Phillis Wheatley
Description: This activity requires students to analyze a letter from Washington to Phillis Wheatley and to complete short answer questions about it.
Phillis Wheatley Activities Bundle - All the Phillis Wheatley Activities on this site.
Description: This bundle contains five printable activities on Phillis Wheatley in a single bundle. It is free for subscribers to MrN365.com. You can also buy it on Teachers Pay Teachers for $2.25
A Prelude to the Battle of Gettysburg - Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.
The Battle of Gettysburg Day One - Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF. PASSAGE LENGTH = 432 Words; LEXILE = 1210
The Battle of Gettysburg Day Two - Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF. PASSAGE LENGTH = 605 Words; LEXILE = 1410
The Battle of Gettysburg Day Three - Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.
The Battle of Gettysburg Day One - Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a detail score report. PASSAGE LENGTH = 432 Words; LEXILE = 1210
The Battle of Gettysburg Day Two - Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a detail score report. PASSAGE LENGTH = 605 Words; LEXILE = 1410
The Battle of Gettysburg Day Three - Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback and a detail score report.
The Battle of Gettysburg (Day 1) 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 Battle of Gettysburg (Day 2) 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 Battle of Gettysburg (Day 3) 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.
Time Terms Relative to the Gettysburg Address
Description: This activity investigates time words such as "score," fortnight, and sesquicentennial and requires students to figure out important dates by performing calculations with those amounts.
Forgiveness - A Civil War Writing Prompt
Description: Following the ill-fated infantry charge known as Pickett's Charge, on the last day of Gettysburg, Confederate Major General George Pickett was said to have harbored a life-long bitterness toward Robert E. Lee, who ordered the charge. This writing prompt requires students to think about the concept of forgiveness and describe the process he or she goes through when deciding whether or not to forgive someone.
Pennsylvania Sentence Puzzles
Description: This fun online activity requires students to re-arrange the words and punctuation to form a coherent sentence about Pennsylvania. There are three total sentences. immediate feedback is given.
Mr. Rogers Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage on Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers) and four multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. LEXILE LEVEL: 610; WORD COUNT: 162
Penny Debate (Denver and Philadelphia Mint) 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 = 297 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Penny Debate (Denver and Philadelphia Mint) Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 297 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Comparing and Contrasting States - Delaware and Pennsylvania
Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with Delaware, Pennsylvania, both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.
Comparing and Contrasting States - Maryland and Pennsylvania
Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with Maryland, Pennsylvania, both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.
Roberto Clemente Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 485 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Roberto Clemente Correct-me Passage - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the life of Roberto Clemente 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.
Roberto Clemente Fact or Fiction - Printable
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Roberto Clemente passage and then, to sort 12 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Sequencing the Life of Roberto Clemente
Description: This activity requires students to read a Roberto Clemente passage and then sequence ten events in his life from the earliest to the latest. Great standardized test preparation!
Virtual History Teacher - Grading a Roberto Clemente Test
Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about the life of Roberto Clemente. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Roberto Clemente biography for reference.
Roberto Clemente Fact or Fiction - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Roberto Clemente passage and then, to sort 12 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. It gives immediate feedback.
Roberto Clemente 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 nine total sentences.
Honus Wagner and the T206 Baseball Card Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 318 Words; LEXILE: 910
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.
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