Claudette Colvin Reading Passage Activities Using Rap Song

Are you looking for an engaging way to teach your students about Claudette Colvin?

Rap music is the answer!

Based on our "Claudette Colvin, the Original Rosa Parks" 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's lyrics as a reading passage to complete the activities detailed below.

These activities are:

- no prep to save you time

- super simple and easy to use

- an engaging reading passage based on a rap song!

The song for these activities explores Claudette Colvin's bravery as a fifteen year old who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus before Rosa Parks and the events surrounding Colvin's actions.

*Listen to the song with the video preview above!*

Teach reading skills to your students in a way that they will enjoy!

Kids love music and will certainly enjoy learning about the importance of Claudette Colvin while practicing important reading skills such as identifying the main idea and supporting details and using context clues with these song lyrics.

A variety of reading activities with the answer keys!

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

- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage

- a timeline activity

- a sequential paragraph, writing activity

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

- multiple-choice, synonyms and antonyms questions with the answer key

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

- 14 "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 each song

- 12 "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

- 12 "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

- a main idea and supporting details, graphic organizer writing activity

- identify the main idea, multiple-choice questions with the answer key

- identify the supporting details, multiple-choice 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 that challenges students to identify and discuss people throughout history that have contributed to important historical events but have often been overlooked.

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