5th and 6th Grade Main Idea and Supporting Details Nonfiction Passage Worksheets
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Are you looking for engaging, middle school main idea and supporting details worksheets with passages? Rap songs are your solution! Based on history rap songs, these activities will keep your students' attention using song lyrics while they practice main idea and details skills. Easily incorporate tPrice $10.00Original Price $15.00Save $5.00
Are you looking for integrated social studies and ELA passage activities? Rap songs are your answer! Based on history rap songs, these activities will help you add more history into your ELA curriculum. Easily incorporate these activities into independent work or complete them together as a class lePrice $27.50Original Price $42.00Save $14.50
Learning Objective
Students will learn to identify the main idea and supporting details in a passage while learning about the life and contributions of Sacagawea.
Description
This main idea and supporting details passage for 5th and 6th grade is a nonfiction text based on our Sacagawea biography rap song. This resource includes multiple-choice questions, worksheet activities, and a graphic organizer.
Students will listen to the song then use the song lyrics as a reading passage to complete the activities detailed below.
The song for this activity is clean and school-appropriate and tells the historical account of Sacagawea's life, exploring her youth, her involvement with and contributions to the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the controversy regarding her impact on Native Americans.
Listen to the song with subtitles here!
This resource includes:
- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
- a main idea and supporting details, graphic organizer writing activity
- 6 identify the main idea, multiple-choice questions with the answer key
- 3 identify the supporting details, multiple-choice questions with the answer key
- a "Main Idea on Beast Mode!" challenge activity where students will identify the main idea of the entire song using their main idea and supporting details graphic organizer
- a "Turn and Talk" activity that challenges students to discuss the meaning of a Native American, Shoshone proverb, and how it relates to real-life situations.
How to use this resource:
- Read and discuss the "What's the Main Idea?" section of the activity on page 1 with students.
- Have students preview the song lyrics on pages 3 and 4 to understand how the song lyrics are sectioned.
- Play the song and have students follow along with the lyrics.
- Pause the song after Verse 1A is finished.
- Complete the graphic organizer on page 1 together as a class for Verse 1A as a practice activity. Ask students for supporting details to complete the graphic organizer. Brainstorm together as a class to summarize the main idea as one sentence based on the chosen supporting details.
- Play the remainder of the song and have students complete the remaining graphic organizer activities. Review student answers as a class when students are finished.
- Have students complete the remaining activities listed above independently. Review as needed or refer students to the instructions on page 1 for help.
- The answer key is located on page 10.
- Students may then complete the "Turn and Talk" activity. Students may work in groups or individually for this activity.
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