Fun ELA Close Reading Passage Activities with Rap Music for Middle School
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Hip Hop and rap music + history songs = fun ELA activities for middle school with close reading passages!
Based on rap songs, these activities will keep your students' attention using song lyrics as reading passages while they practice a variety of skills!
- easily incorporate them into independent activities
- complete them together as a class lesson
- spread them throughout your curriculum to keep your students engaged all year long!
Students will listen to the songs then use the song lyrics as reading passages to complete the activities detailed below.
These activities are:
- no prep to save you time
- super simple and easy to use
- high-interest reading passages based on clean, school-appropriate rap songs!
The songs for these activities explore how Hip Hop culture began in the Bronx, New York City as a way for inner-city youth to cope with the challenges of urban life. The songs also highlight the accomplishments of Hip Hop and rap music and the pioneers and artists that have been influential in the urban art. This bundle is an excellent Hip Hop curriculum to use with students who are fans of Hip Hop and rap music and students in general!
*Listen to the songs with the video preview above!*
Teach reading skills to your students in a way that they will enjoy!
Kids love music and will certainly enjoy learning about the history of Hip Hop and rap music while using the song lyrics to practice important reading skills such as:
- identifying the main idea and supporting details
- making inferences about Hip Hop history and musicians
- and using context clues to define words from the song lyrics.
A variety of reading activities with the answer keys!
This bundle includes everything listed below and includes all of the activities in our Hip Hop History Lessons 1, 2, and 3. Click the links above for more product details.
- the song lyrics for use as reading passages
- links to listen to the songs with subtitles for students
- sequencing graphic organizer activities
- sequential paragraph activity writing activities that utilize the graphic organizer with a word bank of transitional words for student use
- timeline activities
- multiple-choice, comprehension questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, compare and contrast questions with the answer key
- a compare and contrast graphic organizer, writing activities
- multiple-choice, context clues questions with the answer key
- short-response, writing activities where students will define any word of their choice from the song lyrics using context clues in the text
- multiple-choice, synonyms questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, antonyms questions with the answer key
- short-response, writing activities where students will produce a synonym and antonym for any word of their choice from the song lyrics
- multiple-choice, making inferences questions with the answer key
- main idea graphic organizer, writing activities
- multiple-choice, identify the main idea questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, identify the supporting details questions with the answer key
- "personification or not" questions based on the song lyrics
- multiple-choice, identify the meaning of figurative sentences questions based on examples of personification in the song lyrics
- multiple-choice, figurative vs. literal language questions based on the song lyrics with the answer key
- multiple-choice, identify the meaning of figurative sentences questions based on the song lyrics with the answer key
- a brief lesson on syllables and tips on how to count them in words
- "How many syllables?" activities questions where students will listen to and read the song lyrics to determine how many syllables are in specific words from the song
- "Syllable hunt!" activities questions where students will read through the song lyrics, finding words that have 1, 2, 3, and 4 syllables and write them in the corresponding columns
- "Divide the syllables" activities tasks where students will separate words that they have found into their syllabic parts
- "Syllables on Beast Mode!" challenge activities where students will find a rare 5 syllable word in the song lyrics and write it correctly separated into its syllabic parts
- a follow-along, Hip Hop dance brain break to get your students up and active!
Get this bundle now to keep your students engaged with reading!
You can also get the Google Forms, self-grading activities for this resource here!
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