Henry Box Brown Reading Comprehension Activities with Rap Song

Are you looking for engaging, Henry Box Brown reading activities?

Rap music is the solution!

Based on our 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.

*Note: This bundle contains digital, Google Forms reading activities for use in Google Classroom.

If you would like the paper-based activities, click here.

These activities are:

- no prep,

- super simple and easy to use,

- self-grading to save you time,

- with an engaging reading passage based on a rap song!

The song for these activities explores Henry Brown's life as a slave, his motivation for escape, his daring "mail-myself-to-freedom" plan, and his successes and challenges as an inspiration for the abolitionist movement.

Listen to the song with subtitles here! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the video.)

Accommodate your students using audio!

Do you teach EL/ESL or SPED students/SWDs? Have them use the song as a read-aloud with subtitles. Students can also slow down the song to make listening and comprehension easier. Instructions are embedded into the activities for students.

A variety of self-grading, reading activities!

The activities in this bundle feature everything listed below. Click the links above for more details.

- the Google Forms link for copying the activity to your Google Drive

- the song with subtitles embedded into the Google Form

- the song lyrics embedded into the Google Form

- self-grading quiz format with the answer key

- 7 multiple-choice, context clues questions with the answer key

- a short-response, writing activity where students define a word of their choice from the song using context clues

- 6 multiple-choice, synonyms questions with the answer key

- 6 multiple-choice, antonyms questions with the answer key

- 1 short-response, writing activity where students will produce a synonym and antonym for any word of their choice from the song lyrics

- brief explanations about what root words, prefixes, and suffixes are

- 5 multiple-choice, identifying root words questions with the answer key

- 5 multiple-choice, identifying prefixes questions with the answer key

- 5 multiple-choice, identifying suffixes questions with the answer key

- 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 short-response, writing activity where students will provide their own figurative sentence and then write a literal sentence that explains it.

How to Use This in Google Classroom: Click here for a quick tutorial!

Use the link in the download to copy our Google Form to your Google Drive. Assign the Google Form to your students by sharing a link, sending an email, or using Google Classroom.

*Google Forms are paperless and self-grading. Grades and data are collected automatically once students complete the quiz. You can view individual student responses or see how students did as a class, letting you know how many questions were answered correctly or incorrectly.

Get this bundle now and keep your students engaged!

With Rap Opera for Kids, when the music stops, the learning doesn't.

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*Note: If you have already purchased the paper-based version of these activities and would also like the Google Forms version, simply email us your order number at RapOperaforKids@gmail.com, and we will email you an access link for these Google Form activities.

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