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Texas - Literacy Activities
This section contains numerous Texas-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.
Robert Sieur de la Salle Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Francisco Coronado Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 578 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Francisco Coronado Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 578 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Francisco Coronado Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.
Louisiana Purchase Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Manifest Destiny 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: 218 Words; LEXILE: 1310
Manifest Destiny Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 218 Words; LEXILE: 1310
Mr. Polk's War - A Debate Over Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War
Description: This captivating printable requires students to understand the concept of manifest destiny and to conduct a mock interview in which they answer tough questions in the role of Abraham Lincoln (against the Mexican-American War) and in the role of President James K. Polk (in support of the war).
Sam Houston Reading Comprehension- Online
Description: This resource includes a reading 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: 405 Words; LEXILE: 1250
Sam Houston Reading Comprehension- Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 405 Words; LEXILE: 1250
Sam Houston Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Sam Houston 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 Sam Houston, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Comparing and Contrasting States - Louisiana and Texas
Description: This activity requires students to categorize statements into a chart with Louisiana, Texas, both, or neither. Two short passages about each state are included.
Dallas Cowboys Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Dallas Cowboys 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.
The Bats of Austin Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. LEXILE LEVEL: 1010; WORD COUNT: 313
The Bats of Austin Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Dallas Cowboys 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Mockingbird Printable Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a descriptive passage and seven multiple choice questions.

