Middle School Main Idea and Supporting Details Passage Worksheets Mini Lessons
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Description
Do you need engaging, main idea and supporting details passage worksheets for middle school? Rap songs are your answer!
Based on rap songs, these mini lessons will keep your students' attention using song lyrics as reading passages while they practice main idea and details 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.
These activities are:
- no prep to save you time
- super simple and easy to use
- 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.)
- Claudette Colvin, "the Original Rosa Parks" song
- Hamilton the Musical vs. the historical account of Hamilton song
- NBA Gamechangers throughout history song
- the truth about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott song
A variety of reading activities with the answer keys!
This bundle includes everything listed below. Click the links above for more details.
- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
- graphic organizer activities
- multiple-choice, identify the main idea questions with the answer key per passage
- multiple-choice, identify the supporting details questions with the answer key per passage
- "Main Idea on Beast Mode!" challenge activities where students will identify the main idea of the entire song using their main idea and supporting details graphic organizers
- 3 "Turn and Talk" activities that challenge students to discuss the themes and lessons of each reading passage.
How to use these activities:
- Read and discuss the "What's the Main Idea?" section of the activity on page 1 with students.
- Have students preview the song lyrics on pages 3 and 4 to understand how the song lyrics are sectioned.
- Play the song for each activity and have students follow along with the lyrics.
- Pause the song after Verse 1A is finished.
- Complete the graphic organizer on page 1 together as a class for Verse 1A as a practice activity. Ask students for supporting details to complete the graphic organizer. Brainstorm together as a class to summarize the main idea as one sentence based on the chosen supporting details.
- Play the remainder of the song and have students complete the remaining graphic organizer activities. Review student answers as a class when students are finished.
- Have students complete the remaining activities listed above independently. Review as needed or refer students to the instructions on page 1 for help.
- The answer keys are located on the final pages of each activity. (Click the product links above for more details)
- Students will then complete the "Turn and Talk" activities. Students may work in groups or individually for this activity.
Get this bundle now to keep your students engaged with reading!
You can also get the self-grading, Google Forms reading activities for this bundle here!
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