United Kingdom - Literacy Activities
This section contains online and printable literacy activities regarding the United Kingdom and its history. Use the filters on the left side to isolate activities by grade level or format.
United Kingdom Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading 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.
John Locke 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.
John Cabot Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.
John Cabot Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on John Cabot 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 Cabot, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Sir Francis Drake Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Sir Francis Drake 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. You can also print out detailed results. PASSAGE LENGTH: 590 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Sir Henry Morgan Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Captain James Cook Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage on Captain James Cook and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.
Stonehenge Cloze Reading
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Stonehenge Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions.
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
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.
Stamp Act Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution 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: 338 Words; LEXILE: 910
Stamp Act Reading Comprehension
Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 338 Words; LEXILE: 910 *New - if you need an easier version of the Stamp Act reading comprehension passage and question set, scroll to the bottom and click "easier".
Stamp Act Vitriol - Causes of the Revolutionary War
Description: This activity illustrates the famous Emblem of the Effects of the Stamp and requires students to make their own “dreaded” stamp that could serve as a protest to homework.
Ada Lovelace Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 385 words; LEXILE LEVEL = 1210
Ada Lovelace Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 385 words; LEXILE LEVEL = 1210
Tim Berners-Lee (Inventor of the World Wide Web) 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.
Tim Berners-Lee (Inventor of the World Wide Web) Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
