Black History Month Inventors Reading Passage Activities with Rap Song
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Do you need a unique way to teach your students about Black History Month inventors? Rap music is the way to do it!
Based on our Black Inventors 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 accomplishments of:
- Marie Van Brittan Brown who invented the first security system,
- Lisa Gelobter who brought animation to the internet,
- and Garrett Morgan who invented an early version of the modern-day gas mask.
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
- 10 multiple-choice, context clues questions with the answer key
- 1 "Find and Define" activity where students will find an unknown word in the text, write the context clues for the word, and then define the word
- 6 multiple-choice, synonyms questions with the answer key
- 6 multiple-choice, antonyms questions with the answer key
- a compare and contrast, graphic organizer
- 10 multiple-choice, compare and contrast questions with the answer key
- a compare and contrast text structure, paragraph writing activity with a word bank of transitional words
- 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
- 2 multiple-choice, identify the supporting details questions with the answer key
- 1 multiple-choice, "Which Detail Does Not Belong" question
- 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 inventions that they use every day, who invented them, and why they were invented
- 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
- a "Finding Figurative Language" activity that challenges students to find three additional figurative language sentences in the song lyrics, and then write the literal meanings for the figurative sentences
- a "Figurative Language and You" activity that challenges students to choose a literal sentence from the song lyrics and write their own figurative sentence for the sentence they chose
- 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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