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Free 8th grade english language arts songs
"Mean" by Taylor Swift: Similes, Inferences, Imagery with Anti-Bullying Message
Using Taylor Swift’s award-winning song, “Mean,” you can teach and solidify for students what is
1. Simile
2. Inference
3. Imagery
I have also included an anti-bullying message or a random acts of kindness activity for students to complete. This can be reported on through discussion, journal writing and/or a short essay. Enjoy this timely lesson with your students and please check out my store for more lesson plans.
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5th - 12th
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Bell Ringer Work for Middle School ELA Classroom Journal Prompts
This download includes...
~five question of the day/journal prompts
~Corresponding Songs & Artists
This is a fun and engaging way to get your students focused at the beginning of class!
Enjoy :)
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6th - 9th
Chance the Rapper Reading passage and study questions.
A great informational worksheet on some of the up and coming African American singers, rappers, and etc. Great for reading comprehension, main idea, fluency reading and a motivational reinforcement to enforce literacy to the new generation with their current music genre.
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1st - 12th
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Christmas SongLibs
12 Days of Christmas; Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Jingle Bells
MadLibs for familiar Christmas songs. Useful for grammar, articulation, language, and other uses.
For articulation: have students fill in the blanks with appropriate words with their sound.
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1st - 8th
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Lyric Analysis: any song
This lyric analysis sheet was created by Literary Sherri specifically for use with our songs. Huge hug of appreciation, Ms Sherri!
Music teachers: use this lyric analysis sheet to cover required standards in music class.
General ed teachers: use this lyric analysis sheet to promote critical thinking, for rainy days, brain breaks, sub plans, gifted learners, early finishers, poetry study, encouraging kindness and loyal attitudes, and to support any anti bullying program.
copyright 2016 by Lit
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3rd - 9th
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Teaching Theme with Songs
Want to attract middle school students to the idea of theme? Try using two different genres of songs with the same message!
Product includes song lyrics and instructions for analyzing song lyrics and writing about theme using lyrics as textual evidence.
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5th - 9th
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Determining Meaning Context Clues Worksheets Middle School Vocabulary Activities
Based on a song about the history of Hip Hop and rap music, this vocabulary activity will keep your students engaged using song lyrics as a reading passage while they are determining the meaning of unknown words with context clues worksheets. This activity has multiple-choice answers and targets content-vocabulary words from the song. Students will listen to the song then use the song lyrics as a reading passage to complete the activities detailed below.The song for this activity takes an in-dep
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6th - 8th
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Poe's The Raven - Using Music to Better Understand Literary Terms
Guiding Question: What do poetry and music have in common?
Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem, “The Raven,” is noted for its lingering rhythms, sonorous rhymes, and Gothic themes. Sounds musical, doesn't it? But these are literary devices that were used in creating the mood in his poem. Note that both writers and composers have similar guidelines to follow and techniques to use.
Poe declared in his essay, "The Poetic Principle": "It is in Music, perhaps, that the soul most nearly attains the
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Comma Commercials Project | Grammar Review | Group Project | Print + Digital
This is a fun, engaging, and standards-driven group project that gets students of all kinds of learning style excited about COMMAS! My 5th grade students had a hard time grasping the many comma rules we learn, and using them when needed in their writing. We did worksheets, scavenger hunts, edited paragraphs, etc. but they never really caught on until we did this project in small groups! :)►► GET THE COMMAS DIGITAL ASSESSMENT HERE!This is a great end-of-unit project about commas, and tends to be
Christmas songs crossword puzzle
Solution in another document
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Spanish Folk Song Lyrics (Free)
This is a free collection of printable lyrics to traditional Spanish folk songs. These lyrics can be used as shared reading for young students in a bilingual classroom, or to teach vocabulary and grammar in a Spanish class.
To check out the music I use with these lyrics, click {here}.
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By: Learning At The Primary Pond with Ms. Lilypad
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PreK - 12th
A Rap Song for Teaching Public Speaking
"Public Speaking" teaches presentation skills and how to give a speech. The song pack includes four versions of the song, lyrics, worksheets, and answer keys.
Song preview: http://soundcloud.com/educationalrap/sets/public-speaking
The song is useful for persuasive speech, toastmasters, oral classroom reporting, and for getting over a fear of public speaking by offering simple public speaking tips. Teachers have also used it for teaching related topics, such as Ancient Greece, where public ora
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6th - 9th
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Poetic Devices with Taylor Swift
This worksheet provides examples of alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme, and repetition using lyrics from Taylor Swift songs.
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5th - 11th
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I Heart Allusions Freebie - Identifying Allusions in Song Lyrics
With this resource, students can identify and understand
allusions in song lyrics while having fun! Included are the following pages:
*Allusion poster
*Allusion chart
*Song page for writing lyrics with allusions
*Lyrics for “Pearl” by Katy Perry
*Lyrics for “Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult
*Lyrics for “Wrapped Around Your Finger” by the Police
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5th - 8th
THEME PowerPoint: Notes & Activities using Songs
This PowerPoint presentation on THEME includes notes on theme as well as engaging activities that help students identify themes in literature. I have included the lyrics of three songs, as well as the short story, "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs," by Jon Sciezska.
This could be used as an introduction or refresher lesson for students on the topic of THEME.
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7th - 10th
Text Structures Rap (Iggy Azalea Parody)
Many of my students were struggling with learning and recognizing the differences between the six nonfiction text structures. So, I rewrote Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" to include information about cause and effect, question and answer, description, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and chronological order/sequence. Enjoy!
Also, I changed "I.G.G.Y." to M.U.L.E because our school mascot is the mule. You could change that part to any four letter word or team you'd like.
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5th - 12th
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Think It Out - A test prep song to the tune of Shake It Off
***This FREEBIE includes the lyrics to "Think It Out" and a link to a YouTube video where your class can sing along with mine!***
This winter, the song “Shake It Off” has been on repeat through my students’ minds… And their humming! I took advantage of this catchy tune and started drafting test-prep lyrics to match it.
In Ohio, we are taking the math PARCC assessments and our state reading assessment (the OAA) one more time before fully implementing PARCC ELA assessments. These lyrics will ma
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3rd - 12th
Change Sings- Amanda Gorman A Lesson of Poetry & Music
The book Change Sings along with video of poetry by Amanda Gorman and interview. A connection lesson writing poetry and creating music.
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2nd - 12th
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Intermediate Religion - Happiness Project
This project accompanies the topics of true happiness, living in the Kingdom of God, and the Beatitudes. I created it as a project linked to pages 104-117 in the "Believe in Me" textbook for Grade 7 Religion; Appendix 4: Advent Supplement, We Believe in... Jesus our Lord. However, it can be applied to many teachings within the Religion and Family Life subjects. You will see and hear some really wonderful things from students with this one. Enjoy!
Figurative Language in Music
This is a fun and engaging way to review figurative language devices and sound devices. It also helps students understand why writers use figurative language to enhance their songs. It includes a series of figurative language questions over songs from different genres: You will need to provide song lyrics for students.
Literary devices covered: Metaphor, Simile, Allusion, Symbolism, Theme, Assonance, Rhyme scheme, Internal Rhyme, Hyperbole, Alliteration
BONUS!! Follow up activity included! T
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8th - 11th
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Hip Hop/Rap music with song & lyrics
This is a Hip Hop cultural worksheet and listening activity. IT INCLUDES:-Page 1: an introduction to Will Smith and hip hop followed by some mini exercises. The mini exercises include: brainstorming words associated with hip hop, modal verb sentence writing, vocabulary and definition matching of the characteristics that define hip hop and finally, easy-to-follow instructions for preparing lyrics with fill in the blanks.-Page 2: Answer Key to the vocab and definition matching.This is perfect for
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8th - 12th
Animal Farm by George Orwell--Beasts of England Re-Write
While reading George Orwell's "Animal Farm," students will encounter the "Beasts of England" song. This activity requires the students to apply the song to their own life by re-writing "Beasts of England" about an issue or cause in their own life. There is also a short teacher sample song for the teacher to sing to get the students excited about the project. This activity promotes higher level thinking about the issues in "Animal Farm," helps develop writing and poetry skills, and also can be us
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8th - 12th
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Thriller Mini Lesson
Just in time for Halloween, students will love interacting with Michael Jackson's classic "Thriller" as they:
•Make inferences from the text and cite textual evidence to support inferences.
•Analyze the development of theme through the analysis of plot, setting, characters, and conflict.
CCSS.RL.8.1
CCSS.RL.8.4
Please check my store for the full lesson in which students cite textual evidence, identify conflict, analyze theme development, and complete a music video analysis.
Creative Commons
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6th - 9th
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Teaching Irony with Song Lyrics! "Ironic" Alanis Morissette
Hello! Thank you for checking out my resource!Here are a few tips to put it to use:o Be sure to go over the definitions of figurative language or literary devices before introducing the activity. I have a Google slide presentation that I use, and I can share that if you are interested in seeing it! o There is a minor swear in the song that I have not included in the lyric sheet, so be mindful of that when deciding the age group for this activity.o I focus on the acronym “ISHAMPOO,” which include
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7th - 10th
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