Women's History Month Reading Comprehension Passages for Middle School
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Are you looking for engaging, Women's History Month reading comprehension passages for middle school?
Rap songs are the solution!
Based on history rap songs, these activities will keep your students' attention using song lyrics while they practice a variety of reading skills.
- easily incorporate them into independent activities
- complete them together as a class lesson
- plan out two full weeks of reading activities about influential women
- or spread them throughout your lessons to incorporate women's history all year long!
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 engaging reading passages based on rap songs!
The songs for these activities explore the lives, challenges, and accomplishments of six influential women in history.
Listen to the songs with subtitles using the links below! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the videos.)
- Dolores Huerta, civil rights activist for Hispanic and women's rights
- Maggie Walker, the first female bank president
- Marie Curie, female scientist and two-time Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Phillis Wheatley, accomplished poet and the first published Black American
- Phillis Wheatley's communication with General Washington during the American Revolution
- Pocahontas and her contributions to and experiences with the Jamestown colony.
A variety of reading activities with the answer keys!
This bundle includes everything listed below. Click the product links above for more details.
- the lyrics for each song (see above)
- multiple-choice and short-response comprehension questions with the answer key.
*Some resources include additional activities that are listed below:
- multiple-choice, context clues questions for defining content-vocabulary words in the song with the answer key
- timeline graphic organizer activities
- sequential paragraph writing activities that utilize the timeline
- inferencing activities
- multiple-choice, identifying root words activity with the answer key
- multiple-choice, identifying prefixes activity with the answer key
- multiple-choice, identifying suffixes activity with the answer key
- a short-response writing activity with prompts that challenge students to think about Phillis Wheatley's unique position as a woman, slave, and author, as well as her interactions with General Washington.
- performance activities that involve students writing their own songs or dance using the music available on YouTube.
*This bundle also includes a bonus, Movie vs. History context clues activity.
Get this bundle now to keep your students engaged with reading!
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