Ruby Bridges Reading Passage Activities with Rap Song
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Description
Are you looking for an engaging, Ruby Bridges reading passage with activities?
Rap music is your answer!
Based on our history rap song, these activities will keep your students engaged using song lyrics 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 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 an engaging reading passage based on a rap song!
The song for these activities explores the history and circumstances surrounding Ruby Bridge's first day as the only Black student to attend an all-White school during the desegregation of Lousiana public schools.
Listen to the song with subtitles here! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the video.)
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
- a timeline activity
- a sequential paragraph, writing activity
- 7 multiple choice, context clues questions with the answer key
- 6 multiple choice, synonyms questions with the answer key
- 6 multiple choice, antonyms questions with the answer key
- 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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