Determining Meaning of Unknown Words with Context Clues Passages Practice

Are you looking for engaging context clues reading passages practice for determining the meaning of unknown words for 5th and 6th grade? Rap music is your solution!

Based on Black history rap songs, these activities will keep your students' attention using song lyrics to practice determining the meaning of unknown words. Easily incorporate them into independent activities or complete them together as a class lesson.

Students will listen to the songs then use the song lyrics as reading passages that have many content-vocabulary words for practicing context clues skills.

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!

A mix of fun topics that kids will love!

These context clues passages and songs cover:

- analysis of a comicbook hero's origins

- the history of Hip Hop and rap music

- women's rights activist and abolitionist, Sojourner Truth

- and many other engaging topics.

Click here to listen to the songs with subtitles! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the videos.)

Teach reading skills to your students in a way that they will enjoy!

Kids love music and will certainly enjoy inferring the meaning of vocabulary words in these songs and activities. These activities also feature simple explanations of what context clues are and highlight clues from the passages to guide students' comprehension.

Multiple-choice questions with answer keys!

All of these context clues activities 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 questions.

We've also 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.

This bundle includes everything listed below. Click the product links above for individual product details.

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

- links to the songs (see above)

- multiple-choice, context clues questions for defining content-vocabulary words from the song lyrics 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.

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