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Virginia - Literacy Activities
This section contains numerous Virginia-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.
Jamestown Colony Reading Comprehension Part 1
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 530 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Jamestown Colony Reading Comprehension Part 2
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 570 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Jamestown Colony Reading Comprehension Part 3
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
Jamestown Colony Reading Comprehension 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. PASSAGE LENGTH: 530 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Jamestown Colony Reading Comprehension 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. PASSAGE LENGTH: 570 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Jamestown Sentence Surgeons
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.
Jamestown Colony Correct-me Passage - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the history of Jamestown that has ten factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.
John Smith Meets 21st Century Symbols and Lingo
Description: This fun writing activity requires students to role play as John Smith, writing a summary of his experiences in Jamestown to an editor writing a book. The fun part for students, is that they are encouraged to use 21st century lingo such as "sus," "bro" and symbols and abbreviations such as LOL, SMH, and #.
John Smith Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on John Smith 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 Smith, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Pocahontas Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Pocahontas 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 Pocahontas you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
Pocahontas Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage on Pocahontas and four multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. LEXILE LEVEL: 710; WORD COUNT: 148.
Pocahontas Bridge Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage on the Pocahontas and four multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. LEXILE LEVEL: 710; WORD COUNT: 148.
House of Burgesses 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: 199 Words; LEXILE: 1010
House of Burgesses Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 199 Words; LEXILE: 1010
Tobacco in the Southern Colonies 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.
Tobacco in the Southern Colonies Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Siege at Yorktown Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 548 Words; LEXILE: 1110
Siege of Yorktown Reading Comprehension Printable - Easier
Description: This is a simpler version of the Siege of Yorktown reading comprehension exercise. Lexile: 800
Siege at Yorktown 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: 548 Words; LEXILE: 1110
Siege of Yorktown 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.
George Washington Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
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 - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
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 Mason 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.
Patrick Henry Digital Centers - by Computer Mice
Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Patrick Henry 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 Patrick Henry, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.
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 Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 250 Words; LEXILE: 810
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 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 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 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 Activities Bundle -Ten Printable James Madison Activities from MrNussbaum.com
Description: This packet contains all of the printable James Madison activities on MrNussbaum.com
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.
Belle Boyd Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions about the Civil War's most infamous female spy.
Robert E. Lee 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: 711 Words; LEXILE: 1410
Robert E. Lee 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: 711 Words; LEXILE: 1410
Robert E. Lee Activities Bundle - Ten Printable Robert E. Lee Activities from MrNussbaum.com
Description: This packet contains all of the printable Robert E. Lee activities on MrNussbaum.com
Stonewall Jackson 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: 343 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Stonewall Jackson 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: 343 Words; LEXILE: 1210
Stonewall Jackson - How Emphasis on Words Changes Meanings of Sentences
Description: This fun activity requires students to analyze how emphasis can change the meaning of identical sentences, and describe what Bernard Bee may have meant by uttering the famous words "there is Jackson standing like a stone wall." Was he inspired or angry? See how emphasis changes the meaning of his words.
Famous Last Words
Description: This activity describes Stonewall Jackson's famous last words after being shot at the Battle of Chancellorsville and challenges students to pen their own final words, or, those of a character in movies or literature.
A Perfect Day for a Picnic - First Battle of Bull Run
Description: This requires students to consider the mentality of the "spectators" at the First Battle of Bull Run and conduct a mock interview.
First Battle of Bull Run Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.
The Second Battle of Bull Run: The Sequel
Description: This activity requires students to compare and contrast the two battles of Bull Run in the same manner they’d compare an original book or movie with its sequel. Check out Battles of the Civil War for detailed descriptions about both battles.
The Battles of Bull Run Text Structure Reading Comprehension
Description: This activity requires students to read through four Bull Run-themed paragraph and to identify the text structures as: cause and effect, problem-solution, chronological, and compare and contrast
First Battle of Bull Run Fact or Fiction - Online
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a First Battle of Bull Run passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. The program gives immediate feedback.
First Battle of Bull Run Fact or Fiction - Printable
Description: This fun activity requires students to read a First Battle of Bull Run passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.
First Battle of Bull Run Correct-me Passage
Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about the First Battle of Bull Run 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.
Battle Breakdown: First Battle of Bull Run
Description: This awesome printable helps students to essentially diagram battles! It requires students to write the cause, the players in the battle, the victor, and the effects of the battle. It comes with a descriptive narrative about the battle that students can use.
First Battle of Bull Run Activities Bundle - All of the Printable First Bull Run Activities on the Site
Description: This activity includes all of the printable First Battle of Bull Run activities on the site.
Battle of the Ironclads Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 555 Words; LEXILE: 1110
The Battle of Chancellorsville 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 = 730 words; LEXILE = 1210
The Battle of Chancellorsville Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback .
Lee's Greatest Victory at Chancellorsville - Writing Prompt
Description: This activity requires students to relate to Lee's "Greatest Victory" at Chancellorsville, by describing their greatest moment at sports, music, dance, or even video games.
Lee's Dilemma - Difficult Choices
Description: This handout requires users to think about the difficult decision that faced Robert E. Lee at the onset of the Civil War – take the command of the Union Army, or, fight for the Confederacy? Students then must relate a similar experience where he or she had to choose one side or the other and the associated opportunity cost.
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.
Terms of Surrender at Appomattox - The Dialogue Between Lee and Grant - Primary Source Analysis
Description: This printable activity requires students to analyze the actual conversation between Lee and Grant that led to the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Great Ironies of the Civil War: The Story of Wilmer McLean
Description: This activity describes the ironic situation of Wilmer McLean, whose claim to fame was the Civil War "started in his front yard and ended in his front parlor." This activity requires students to make a comic about the situation.
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.
Cardinals Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a short passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 114 Words; LEXILE: 710
Cardinals Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a short passage and five multiple choice questions.
Cardinals Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Cardinals Sentence Surgeons
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.

