Integrated Social Studies and ELA Passage Activities with Rap Songs

Do you want to integrate more Black history reading passages into your reading lessons?

Rap songs are your solution!

Based on Black history rap songs, these activities will keep your students engaged using song lyrics as reading passages while they practice a variety of reading skills!

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 high-interest 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.)

A mix of fun topics that kids will love!

The passages and songs in this bundle cover:

- the history of the Black Panther superhero, comicbook

- the life and accomplishments of abolitionist, Frederick Douglass (part 1 and part 2)

- the history of Hip Hop, jazz music, and jazz musicians

- the life and accomplishments of the first African-American author, Phillis Wheatley (song 1 and song 2)

- and the life and accomplishments of women's rights activist and abolitionist, Sojourner Truth.

Include Black history while teaching critical reading skills!

This mega 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!

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

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

- multiple-choice, comprehension questions with the answer key

- multiple-choice, fiction vs nonfiction 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 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 graphic organizer activities

- sequential paragraph, writing activities that utilize the timeline

- compare and contrast, graphic organizer activities

- compare and contrast, paragraph writing activities with a word bank of transitional words for student use

- turn-and-talk, discussion questions

- performance activities that challenge students to write their own songs.

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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