Fun End of Year Packet Worksheets ELA Reading Activities for Middle School
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Are you looking for fun end of year packet worksheets for middle school? Rap songs are the answer! Based on Hip Hop, rap, and jazz history rap songs, these ELA activities will keep your students engaged using song lyrics as reading passages while they practice a variety of skills! Easily incorporate them into independent activities or complete them together as a class lesson.
Students will listen to the songs then use the song lyrics as reading passages to complete the reading activities detailed below.
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These activities are:
- no prep to save you time
- super simple and easy to use
- high-interest reading passages based on clean, school-appropriate rap songs!
*Listen to the songs with video preview above!*
The Hip Hop and rap history songs and activities explore:
- the lives of two founding fathers and a mother of Hip Hop and their contributions to the urban art
- how Hip Hop developed as a way for urban youth to cope with their inner-city challenges
- and the accomplishments of Hip Hop and rap music, beginning in the 1970s through 2018.
The jazz history songs and activities explore:
- the roots of jazz music beginning with its African heritage in the Congo Square of New Orleans
- the "Jazz Age" with Louis Armstrong
- and the careers of four jazz musicians, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Herbie Hancock.
A variety of reading activities with the answer keys!
The Hip Hop reading activities with songs include:
- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
- multiple-choice, comprehension questions with the answer key
- a timeline activity for each passage
- a sequential paragraph, writing activity for each passage
- decoding multisyllabic words activities for each passage
- multiple-choice, compare and contrast questions with the answer key
- a compare and contrast, paragraph writing activity with a graphic organizer
- multiple-choice, context clues questions with the answer key for each passage
- multiple-choice, making inferences questions with the answer key for each passage
- multiple-choice, synonyms and antonyms questions with the answer key for each passage
- "personification or not" questions based on the song lyrics
- multiple-choice, identify the meaning of figurative sentences questions based on examples of personification in the song lyrics
- 6 multiple-choice, figurative 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 per passage
- multiple-choice, main idea and supporting details questions with the answer key and a writing activity with a graphic organizer
- a follow-along, Hip Hop dance brain break to get your students up and active!
The Jazz Music History Reading Activities with Song include:
- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
- short-response, comprehension questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, context clues questions based on the song lyrics
- 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 activity with a graphic organizer
- a sequential paragraph, writing activity that utilizes the timeline.
The History of Jazz Musicians Reading Activities with Song include:
- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
- multiple-choice comprehension questions with the answer key
- a compare and contrast, graphic organizer activity
- multiple-choice, compare and contrast questions with the answer key
- a compare and contrast text-structure, paragraph writing activity with transitional words for student use
- multiple-choice synonyms questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice antonyms questions with the answer key.
The Jazz Age of History Reading Activities with Song includes:
- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
- decoding multisyllabic words activities
- multiple-choice, context clues questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, making inferences questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, synonyms questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, antonyms questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, figurative vs. literal language questions based on the song lyrics with the answer key
- multiple-choice, identify the meaning of figurative sentences questions based on the song with the answer key
- a main idea and supporting details, graphic organizer writing activity
- multiple-choice, identify the main idea questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, identify the supporting details questions with the answer key
- a "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
- a Turn and Talk, discussion activity where students discuss other styles of music or art forms that have influenced various cultures.
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