South Dakota - Literacy Activities
This section contains numerous South Dakota-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.
Louisiana Purchase Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Dynamic Duo - Lewis and Clark
Description: This printable exercise requires students to compare Lewis and Clark to other "dynamic duos" in literature, movies, or even sports.
"The Climb" - Lewis and Clark
Description: This printout requires students to consider a time when they thought they were at the cusp of finishing something great, only to learn there was MUCH more work to do - ALA Miley Cyrus.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Main Idea Focus
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Sequencing Focus
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Contextual Vocabulary Focus
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Details Focus
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 395 Words; LEXILE: 1110
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Main Idea Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Sequencing Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Details Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Contextual Vocabulary Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Sacagawea 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.
Sacagawea - the Unsung Hero
Description: This activity explains the idea of Sacagawea as an unsung hero. Students must then write about an unsung hero they select from movies, literature, sports, or their own lives.
Sacagawea Fact or Fiction
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Sacagawea passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
The Lost Journal Pages of Meriwether Lewis
Description: When Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the vast Louisiana Territory, he had visions that they’d find exotic creatures such as wholly mammoths and undiscovered landforms such as mountains made of salt. While Lewis and Clark discovered over three hundred species of animals and plants, and even sent a magpie and prairie dog as pets to Thomas Jefferson, they never found the kind of creatures that legends are made of (though they did find massive grizzly bears). What if Lewis and Clark actually did discover an unworldly plant, animal, and landform, but those pages were somehow lost from Lewis’ journal forever when their keelboat capsized? In the spaces provided below, use your imagination to name, draw, and describe these lost discoveries.
Discoveries from the Journal of Meriwether Lewis
Description: The section provides an introduction to the journal of Meriwether Lewis along with excerpts of his notes regarding observations of various birds and animals.
Comparing and Contrasting Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Description: This activity requires students to compare and contrast Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Students must evaluate ten statements to determine if each is associated with Lewis, Clark, or Both.
Meriwether Lewis Fact or Fiction
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Meriwether Lewis passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Discoveries from the Journal of Meriwether Lewis - A Primary Source Digital Scavenger Hunt
Description: This activity requires students to use the excerpts from the journal of Meriwether Lewis to answer the scavenger hunt questions.
William Clark Fact or Fiction
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a William Clark passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
Mount Rushmore Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading passage about Mt. Rushmore and five multiple choice questions. It is suitable for kids in grades 4 and up. WORD COUNT: 111 LEXILE: 910
Mount Rushmore Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage about Mt. Rushmore and five multiple choice questions. It is suitable for kids in grades 4 and up and gives immediate feedback. WORD COUNT: 111 LEXILE: 910
Crazy Horse 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: 378 Words; LEXILE: 910
Crazy Horse Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. 378 Words; LEXILE: 910
Crazy Horse Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Crazy Horse 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 Crazy Horse, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Sitting Bull 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: 610; LEXILE: 1110
Sitting Bull Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 610; LEXILE: 1110
Sitting Bull Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Sitting Bull 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 Sitting Bull, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Sioux (Lakota) Nation Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 524 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Sioux (Lakota) 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. PASSAGE LENGTH: 524 Words; LEXILE: 1010
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.
Great Plains Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a short passage and four multiple choice questions.
Great Plains Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a short 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.
Comparing and Contrasting States - Minnesota and South Dakota
Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with Minnesota, South Dakota, both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.
Buffalo Hunters 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. WORD COUNT: 173;. LEXILE LEVEL: 1010
Buffalo Hunters Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. WORD COUNT: 173;. LEXILE LEVEL: 1010
Tornadoes Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a descriptive passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 265 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Tornadoes Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a descriptive passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 265 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Tornado Alley Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Tornado Alley Cloze Reading
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
