Middle School Basketball Reading Comprehension Activities with Rap Song
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Based on a basketball rap song, this fun end of year worksheets packet for 5th and 6th grade will keep your students engaged using song lyrics as a reading passage while they practice a variety of ELA skills. Easily incorporate them into independent activities or complete them together as a class lePrice $21.00Original Price $31.50Save $10.50
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Looking for engaging and rigorous, basketball reading comprehension activities for middle school? Rap music is the solution!
Based on our "NBA Gamechangers" history rap song, these activities will keep your students' attention using song lyrics as a reading passage while they 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 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 a high-interest reading passage based on a clean, school-appropriate rap song!
The song for these activities explores the accomplishments of Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson, and Stephen Curry, detailing how each player transformed the NBA and the sport of basketball with their unique playing styles. This bundle is sure to engage fans of the sport and students in general!
*Listen to the song with the video preview above!*
A variety of reading activities with the answer keys!
The activities in this bundle feature everything listed below. Click the links above for more details.
- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
- TPT and YouTube links to listen to the song with subtitles for students
- 7 multiple-choice, context clues questions with the answer key
- 6 multiple-choice, making inferences questions with the answer key
- a "Turn and Talk" and writing activity that challenges students to infer which companies their favorite athletes or celebrities would endorse
- 6 multiple-choice, synonyms questions with the answer key
- 6 multiple-choice, antonyms questions with the answer key
- a compare and contrast, graphic organizer activity
- a compare and contrast, paragraph writing activity with a word bank of transitional words for student use
- 10 multiple-choice, compare and contrast questions with the answer key
- a main idea and supporting details, graphic organizer writing activity
- 6 multiple-choice, identify the main idea questions with the answer key
- 3 multiple-choice, identify the supporting details questions with the answer key
- 1 "Main Idea on Beast Mode!" challenge activity where students will identify the main idea of the entire song using their main idea and supporting details graphic organizer
- 1 "Turn and Talk" activity that challenges students to identify and discuss professionals that have transformed their field of work
- 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 each 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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Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA - Stephen Curry, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47043116
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