History of Jazz Music Reading Passages with Worksheets
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Would you like to keep your students engaged with Jazz history reading comprehension activities? Do it with rap music!
Based on our jazz history rap songs, these activities will keep your students' attention using song lyrics to 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 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
- with engaging reading passages based on rap songs!
The songs for these activities explore the origins of jazz music beginning in Africa, traveling through the Roaring Twenties while analyzing the history and culture surrounding the Jazz Age, ending with biographies of influential jazz musicians such as Billie Holiday and Herbie Hancock.
*Listen to songs with 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 jazz history while practicing important reading skills such as identifying figurative language and supporting details and using context clues with these rap songs.
A variety of reading activities with the answer keys!
This mega bundle contains all of the activities listed below. Click the links above for more details.
- the song lyrics for each song for use as a reading passage
- multiple-choice and short-response, reading comprehension questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice and short-response, context clues questions for defining content-vocabulary words with the answer key
- multiple-choice, synonyms questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, antonyms questions with the answer key
- multiple-choice, making inferences questions with the answer key
- a timeline activity with a graphic organizer
- a sequential paragraph, writing activity that utilizes the timeline
- a compare and contrast, graphic organizer writing 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
- 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
- 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.
Get this bundle now to keep your students engaged with reading!
With Rap Opera for Kids, when the music stops, the learning doesn't.
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