Black History Month Reading Passages for 5th and 6th Grade
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Are you looking for engaging, Black history month reading passages for 5th and 6th Grade? Rap songs are your solution!
Based on history rap songs, these activities will keep your students engaged using song lyrics to practice a variety of reading skills. If you're looking to add some music and excitement to your Black History Month reading activities, you've found it!
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,
- with engaging reading passages based on clean, school-appropriate rap songs!
Listen to the songs with subtitles below! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the videos.)
- Hip Hop and Rap Music History song
- Frederick Douglass biography song, part 1
- Frederick Douglass biography song, part 2
- Black Heroes of the American Revolution song
- George Washington Carver song
Include Black history all month long while teaching critical reading skills!
This bundle will help you include Black history in your lessons while teaching class content. Easily incorporate these activities into independent work or complete them together as a class lesson.
A variety of reading activities with the answer keys!
The activities in this bundle include everything listed below. Click the product links above for more details.
- the lyrics for each song for use as a reading passage
- multiple-choice and short-response comprehension questions with the answer key.
*Other resources include additional activities that are listed below.
- multiple-choice, comprehension questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, context clues questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, synonyms and antonyms questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, main idea and supporting details questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, compare and contrast questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, making inferences questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, root words, prefixes, and suffixes questions with the answer key
- multiple syllable activities for numbering, finding, and dividing words using the song lyrics
- timeline activities with graphic organizer
- sequential paragraph, writing activities that utilize the timeline
- compare and contrast, paragraph writing activities with graphic organizer
- turn-and-talk, discussion questions
- performance activities that involve students writing their own songs or dramatizing the song with acting or dance using the music available on YouTube.
Hasn't this already been done? There are TONS of educational songs out there, but none of them are fully integrated into reading activities based on the song lyrics. With Rap Opera for Kids, when the music stops, the learning doesn't.
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