Bass Reeves Reading Passage Activities with Biography with Rap Song
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This Black History Month ELA bundle let's you integrate Black history into every day with language arts activities and rap songs! Based on history rap songs, these ELA activities will keep your students' attention using song lyrics as reading activities while they practice a variety of reading skillPrice $140.00Original Price $204.00Save $64.00
Are you looking for engaging, Black History Month ELA activities? Rap songs are the solution! Based on history rap songs, these activities explore the lives of Black history heroes and their accomplishments. Keep your students' attention using song lyrics to practice a variety of reading skills. EasPrice $46.00Original Price $70.00Save $24.00
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Do you need a unique way to teach your students about Bass Reeves?
Rap music is the way to do it!
Based on our Bass Reeves, biography 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 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 life of Bass Reeves, a highly successful, Deputy U.S. Marshal, whose heroic career likely inspired the Lone Ranger character.
Listen to the song with subtitles here! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the video.)
Teach reading skills to your students in a way that they will enjoy!
Kids love music and will certainly enjoy learning about Bass Reeves and his action-packed career as a Deputy U.S. Marshal while practicing important reading skills such as sequencing events, identifying figurative language, and using context clues with these song lyrics. Read below for details about additional activities.
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 sequencing graphic organizer 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
- 1 main idea and supporting details, graphic organizer writing activity with 3 sections
- 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, discussion activity where students discuss other professionals who are examples of excellence in a particular field of work
- 6 multiple-choice, figurative vs. literal language questions based on the song lyrics with the answer key
- 6 multiple-choice, identify the meaning of figurative sentences questions based on the song lyrics with the answer key
- 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 the 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 rare 5 syllable words in the song lyrics and write them correctly separated into their syllabic parts.
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