Middle School Fun End of Year Review ELA Worksheets and Activities Packet

Based on pop culture and history rap songs, this fun end of year ELA review worksheets packet for middle school will keep your students engaged using song lyrics as reading passages while they practice a variety of skills.

- easily incorporate them into independent activities

- complete them together as a class lesson

- use them throughout the new school year to introduce reading skills in a fun and unique way!

Students will listen to the songs then use the song lyrics as reading passages to complete the activities detailed below.

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 subtitles using the links below! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the videos.)

You and your students had a long year - do something different!

Have fun during your last few weeks of school with these reading activities. These activities use rap songs to teach ELA skills in an engaging way using pop-culture themes. These songs cover:

- the history behind a popular kids' movie

- the history of the a comicbook hero

- the history of Hip Hop: the Four Eras of Rap

- the history of Hip Hop and Rap: Then to Now

- the history of Mother's Day

- a parody of a comicbook hero as he teaches character traits

- warrior women in history compared to comics

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This bundle includes everything listed below. Click the product links above for more details.

- the lyrics for each song for use as a reading passage

- multiple-choice, context clues questions for defining content-vocabulary words in the song with the answer key

- multiple-choice, synonyms questions with the answer key

- multiple-choice, antonyms questions with the answer key

- multiple-choice, nonfiction vs. fiction questions with the answer key

- multiple-choice, making inferences questions with the answer key for the Hip Hop history song

- "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

- 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 lyrics with the answer key

- brief explanations of what character traits are

- a character traits graphic organizer, writing activity

- a word bank of adjectives to help students describe the characters in the songs

- multiple-choice, character traits questions based on the song lyrics with the answer

- a compare and contrast, graphic organizer

- 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

- 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

- "Turn and Talk" activities based on the song lyrics

- a sequencing graphic organizer activity

- a sequential paragraph, writing activity with a word bank of transitional words

- a timeline graphic organizer activity

- a brief lesson on syllables and tips on how to count them in words

- "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

- "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

- "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 a rare 5 syllable word in the song lyrics and write it correctly separated into its syllabic parts.

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