Fun Back to School Reading Skills Activities
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These fun back to school reading skills activities are based on rap songs and helps your students review timeline, comprehension, context clues, sequence of events, synonyms and antonyms, fiction vs. nonfiction, and problem and solution reading skills.
Students will listen to the songs then use the song lyrics as reading passages to practice the reading skills 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!
Listen to the songs with subtitles using the song links below! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the videos.)
The activities in this bundle are listed below. Click the product links above for more details.
Kids' Movie Review, Passage Activities
- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
- multiple-choice comprehension questions with the answer key
- a compare and contrast writing activity about a movie's depiction of the Maui character versus the islander and Polynesian's historical account of Maui with a graphic organizer
- multiple-choice, compare and contrast questions based on the song with the answer key
- a compare and contrast, text-structure writing activity with transitional words for student use
- multiple-choice root words, prefixes, and suffixes questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, context clues questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, synonyms and antonyms questions with the answer key.
Listen to the kids' movie review song with subtitles here! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the video.)
Fiction vs Nonfiction, Comicbook Hero History, Reading Activities
- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
- multiple-choice, comprehension questions with the answer key
- fiction vs. nonfiction questions about the fictional comic story and the real-world story behind the comic with the answer key
- a multiple-choice, context clues activity for defining content vocabulary words in the song with the answer key.
Listen to the comicbook hero, history song with subtitles here! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the video.)
Problem and Solution, Comicbook Hero Parody Activities
- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
- multiple-choice, comprehension questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, synonyms and antonyms questions with the answer key
- a problem and solution multiple-choice activity based on the Black Panther movie and comic book characters in the song with the answer key
- a writing activity for identifying problems and solutions in the song
- a problem and solution, text-structure writing activity
- a creative writing activity that challenges students to think of solutions to real-world, environmental problems.
Listen to the comicbook hero, parody song with subtitles here! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the video.)
History of Jazz Music Reading Passage Activities
- short-response, comprehension questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, context clues questions for defining figurative phrases in the song with the answer key
- short-response, context clues questions:
- students will define jazz music terms and other content-vocabulary words using context clues in the song lyrics
- a timeline graphic organizer activity
- a sequential paragraph, writing activity that builds on the timeline activity.
Listen to the jazz history song with subtitles here! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the video.)
Phillis Wheatley, Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes Passage Activities
- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
- short-response, comprehension questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, root words, prefixes, and suffixes questions with the answer key
- a short-response writing activity with prompts that challenge students to think about Wheatley's unique position as a woman, slave, and author, as well as her interactions with General Washington.
Listen to the Phillis Wheatley song with subtitles here! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the video.)
Marie Curie, Biography Passage Activities
- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
- multiple-choice, comprehension questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, context clues questions for defining content-vocabulary words with the answer key
- a timeline graphic organizer activity
- a sequential paragraph, writing activity that utilizes the timeline.
Listen to the Marie Curie song with subtitles here! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the video.)
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