Presidents - Literacy Activities
This section contains hundreds of literacy activities dedicated to the presidents. Use the filters on the left side of the page to isolate activities by grade level or format/
George Washington Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
George Washington Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
George Washington Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical 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 = 173 Words; LEXILE = 810
George Washington Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 173 Words; LEXILE = 810
George Washington Cloze Reading
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
George Washington Paralaugh
Description: Create a hilarious story about George Washington by adding nouns, verbs, and adjectives. This is the Mr. Nussbaum version of a mad lib.
George Washington Myths Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and five multiple choice questions.
Virtual History Teacher - Grading a George Washington Test
Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about the life of George Washington. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the George Washington biography for reference.
George Washington Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
George Washington Reading Comprehension Main Idea Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
George Washington Reading Comprehension Sequencing Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
George Washington Reading Comprehension Contextual Vocabulary Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
George Washington Correct-me Passage - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about George Washington that has nine factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.
George Washington Digital Center - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on George Washington 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 George Washington, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
John Adams Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a biographical passage and seven multiple choice questions PASSAGE LENGTH: 448 Words; LEXILE: 1110 *New - if you need an easier version of the John Adams reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".
John Adams Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 448 Words; LEXILE: 1110
John Adams Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on John Adams 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 James Madison, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Thomas Jefferson Cloze Reading
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph or paragraphs/
Thomas Jefferson Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 250 Words; LEXILE: 810
Thomas Jefferson 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: 250 Words; LEXILE: 810
Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia 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.
Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates 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.
Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Virtual History Teacher - Grading a Thomas Jefferson Test
Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about the life of Thomas Jefferson. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Thomas Jefferson biography for reference.
Comparing and Contrasting Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
Description: This activity requires students to compare and contrast Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Students must evaluate ten statements to determine if each is associated with Jefferson, Madison, or both.
Thomas Jefferson Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Thomas Jefferson 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 Jefferson, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
James Madison Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 343 Words; LEXILE: 910
James Madison 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: 343 Words; LEXILE: 910
James Madison 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.
Sequencing the Life of James Madison
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a James Madison passage and then, to sequence eight events of his life from earliest to latest.
James Madison Correct-me Passage
Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about James Madison 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.
James Madison Fact or Fiction - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a James Madison passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. It gives immediate feedback.
James Madison Fact or Fiction - Printable
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a James Madison passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
James Madison Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on James Madison 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 James Madison, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
James Monroe 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.
Andrew Jackson Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 125 words; LEXILE = 1010
Andrew Jackson Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 125 words; LEXILE = 1010
Andrew Jackson 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 = 367 words; LEXILE = 1010
Andrew Jackson Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a biographical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 367 words; LEXILE = 1010
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.
Futility Versus Immortality - The Ineffective Presidents in Office before Abraham Lincoln
Description: This activity requires students to analyze the qualities of poor leaders such as Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan and contrast them with a leader such as Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination 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.
Abraham Lincoln's Childhood Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Abraham Lincoln's Childhood 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.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Middle Years Part 1
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Middle Years Part 2
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Middle Years Part 3
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Middle Years Part 1 - 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.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Middle Years Part 2 - 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.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Middle Years Part 3 - 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.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 1
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 2
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 3
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 4
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 1 - 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.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 2 - 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.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 3 - 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.
Abraham Lincoln Reading Comprehension - The Presidential Years Part 4 - 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.
Abraham Lincoln 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.
Oh Captain, My Captain! - An elegy to Abraham Lincoln by Walt Whitman
Description: The printout describes Walt Whitman’s famous Oh Captain! My Captain! elegy to President Lincoln and then asks students to think of their own hero and to write a similar poem.
Abraham Lincoln's Dream
Description: This printout describes Abraham Lincoln’s famous dream about his own assassination and then requires students to describe and draw a scene from a powerful dream they’ve had.
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.
Grover Cleveland Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a detailed biographical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Grover Cleveland Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a detailed passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Theodore Roosevelt Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a detailed biographical 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.
Theodore Roosevelt Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Theodore Roosevelt Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Theodore Roosevelt 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 Theodore Roosevelt , you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
"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
Harry S. Truman Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Harry S. Truman 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 Harry S. Truman, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Franklin D. Roosevelt 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 Franklin D. Roosevelt, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
John F. Kennedy Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on John F. Kennedy 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 John F. Kennedy, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Lyndon B. Johnson Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Lyndon B. Johnson 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 Lyndon B. Johnson, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Jimmy Carter Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Jimmy Carter 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 Jimmy Carter, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Richard Nixon Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Richard Nixon 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 Richard Nixon, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
