Coronavirus Reading Comprehension Activities
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Description
Use these coronavirus reading activities with rap song to educate your students about COVID-19 while teaching reading skills.
Based on our Prevent COVID-19 rap song, these activities will keep your students engaged using song lyrics as a reading passage while they practice 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's 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
- with an engaging reading passage based on a rap song!
The song for these activities presents information about COVID-19, exploring its origins, its effects on health, and what can be done to prevent its spread.
Listen to the song with subtitles here! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the video.)
Everything in this bundle is listed below. Click the links above for more details.
- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
- 18 fill-in-the-blank, listening comprehension questions based on the song lyrics
- 6 multiple-choice, synonyms questions with the answer key
- 6 multiple-choice, antonyms questions with the answer key
- a brief lesson on syllables and tips on how to count them in words
- 14 "How many syllables?" activity questions where students will listen to and read the song lyrics to determine how many syllables are in specific words from the song
- 12 "Syllable hunt!" activity 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
- 12 "Divide the syllables" activity tasks where students will separate words that they have found into their syllabic parts
- a "Syllables on Beast Mode!" challenge activity where students will find a rare 5 syllable word in the song lyrics and write it correctly separated into its syllabic parts.
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Copyright © 2020 Rap Opera for Kids. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Images and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY.
*Source https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/2019-ncov-factsheet.pdf
*Photo by CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM - This media comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library (PHIL), with identification number #23312. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86444014
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