Bessie Coleman Reading Comprehension Activities with Rap Song

Are you looking for engaging, reading activities about Bessie Coleman?

Rap music is the solution!

Based on our Bessie Coleman, biography rap song, these activities will keep your students' attention using song lyrics as a reading passage while they practice a variety of reading skills. Easily incorporate them into independent activities or complete them together as a class lesson.

Students will listen to the song then use the song lyrics as a reading passage to complete the activities detailed below.

These activities are:

- no prep to save you time

- super simple and easy to use

- self-grading to save you time

- with an engaging reading passage based on a rap song!

The song for these activities explores the life of Bessie Coleman, the first licensed, Black American pilot who moved to France to pursue a career in aviation and then returned to the U.S. where she gained success as a stunt pilot.

*Listen to the song with the video preview above!*

Accommodate your students using audio!

Do you teach EL/ESL or SPED students/SWDs? Have them use the song as a read-aloud with subtitles. Students can also slow down the song to make listening and comprehension easier. Instructions are embedded into the activities for students.

A variety of self-grading, reading activities!

The activities in this bundle feature everything listed below. Click the links above for more details.

- the song with subtitles embedded into the Google Form

- the song lyrics embedded into the Google Form

- self-grading quiz format with the answer key

- 7 multiple-choice, context clues questions with the answer key

- 6 multiple-choice, synonyms questions with the answer key

- 6 multiple-choice, antonyms questions with the answer key

- brief explanations about what root words, prefixes, and suffixes are

- 5 multiple-choice, identifying root words questions with the answer key

- 5 multiple-choice, identifying prefixes questions with the answer key

- 5 multiple-choice, identifying suffixes questions with the answer key

- 6 multiple-choice, figurative vs. literal language questions based on the song lyrics with the answer key

- 6 multiple-choice, identify the meaning of figurative sentences questions based on the song lyrics with the answer key

- 1 main idea and supporting details, graphic organizer writing activity with 3 sections

• (linked in the Google Form)

- 6 multiple-choice, identify the main idea questions with the answer key

- 3 multiple-choice, identify the supporting details questions with the answer key

- 1 "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

- 1 Turn and Talk, discussion activity that challenges students to identify and discuss people throughout history that have been outstanding examples in their field of work.

*Note: This bundle contains digital activities. If you would like the paper-based activities, click here.

How to Use This in Google Classroom: Click here for a quick tutorial!

Use the link in the download to copy our Google Form to your Google Drive. Assign the Google Form to your students by sharing a link, sending an email, or using Google Classroom.

*Google Forms are paperless and self-grading. Grades and data are collected automatically once students complete the quiz. You can view individual student responses or see how students did as a class, letting you know how many questions were answered correctly or incorrectly.

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