Hispanic Heritage Month Reading Comprehension Passages for 5th and 6th Grade

Are you looking for engaging, Hispanic Heritage Month reading comprehension passages for 5th and 6th grade?

Rap songs are your solution!

Based on biography rap songs, these activities will keep your students engaged using song lyrics to 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 songs then use the song lyrics as reading passages to complete the activities detailed below.

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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 using the links below! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the videos.)

- Cesar Chavez biography rap song

- Cesar Chavez, civil rights song

- Dolores Huerta biography rap song

- Frida Kahlo biography rap song

Bring biographies to life for your students using music!

The biography songs in this bundle cover Frida Kahlo, Cesar Chavez, and Dolores Huerta, noting their accomplishments and historical impact. With catchy songs and Latin grooves, kids are sure to be engaged with what they are learning!

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A variety of reading activities!

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

- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage

- short-response, comprehension questions with the answer key

- multiple-choice, comprehension questions with the answer key

- an identifying American rights activity based on the song's lyrics with the answer key

- multiple-choice, context clues questions for defining content-vocabulary words with the answer key

- a timeline activity with a graphic organizer

- a sequential paragraph, writing activity that utilizes the timeline

- a cause and effect, graphic organizer writing activity

- multiple-choice, cause and effect questions based on the song lyrics with the answer key

- a character-traits, graphic organizer activity

- multiple-choice, character traits questions based on the song lyrics with the answer key.

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*Note: We recommend beginning with the Cesar Chavez, Civil Rights activity because it provides a good overview of Chavez's life. You may then follow this activity with the Cesar Chavez, Cause and Effect activity as it is far more in-depth. Beginning with the Civil Rights activity provides a good introduction to the more detailed content in the Cause and Effect activity.

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