Determining Meaning Context Clues Worksheets Middle School Vocabulary Activities

Based on history rap songs, these vocabulary activities will keep your students engaged using song lyrics as reading passages while they are determining the meaning of unknown words with context clues worksheets. These activities have multiple-choice answers that target content-vocabulary words from the songs.

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

Multiple-choice questions with answer keys!

All of these context clues worksheets have multiple-choice questions with answer keys for easy grading. *Note: the History of Jazz Music and Frederick Douglass activities feature multiple-choice and short-response, context clues questions.

Also, we've included our context clues, graphic organizer which easily turns any passage into an extra activity. Use it for early finishers or just to give your students additional practice.

Listen to the songs for these activities using the links below! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the videos.)

- Cesar Chavez, biography rap song

- Comicbook Hero, history rap song

- Dolores Huerta, biography rap song

- Frederick Douglass, biography rap song, part 1

- Frida Kahlo, biography rap song

- History of Hip Hop and Rap Music song

- Jazz music history, rap song

- Marie Curie, biography rap song

- Molly Pitcher, biography rap song

- Movie vs the Maui Folktales, parody song

- Pocahontas biography song

This double-bundle includes everything listed below and is a combination of our context clues bundle #1 and context clues bundle #2. Click the product links above for individual product details.

- the lyrics for each song for use as a reading passage

- links to each song (see above)

- simple explanations of what context clues are and highlight clues from the passages to guide students' comprehension

- multiple-choice, context clues questions for defining content vocabulary words in the song with the answer keys

- short-response and multiple-choice, context clues questions for the Frederick Douglass and History of Jazz Music activities with the answer keys

- a context clues, graphic organizer with visuals and lines for the following activities:

• identifying context clues in the text for unknown words
• creating a kid-friendly definition for the unknown words
• the dictionary definition for the unknown words
• writing the unknown words in a sentence.

*This bundle contains a bonus, Pocahontas biography, context clues activity.

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