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Common Core W.7.3 songs
Black History Month Reading Comprehension Activities Middle School Bundle
Are you looking for engaging, Black History Month reading comprehension activities for middle school? Rap songs are your solution! Based on history rap songs, this bundle will keep your students' attention using song lyrics 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 songs then use the song lyrics as reading passages to complete the activities detailed below.These acti
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5th - 7th
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"Christmas Lights" A Socratic Seminar Unit of Study Featuring Coldplay
Join your kids in the holiday merriment through this fun, engaging, meaningful unit of study on a unique holiday song, "Christmas Lights" by Coldplay. Students will work to analyze lyrics, build connections, explore figurative language, and engage in a collaborative dialogue through Socratic seminar. Your students will build reading comprehension, language, speaking, listening and writing skills through this unit and build classroom community through collaboration as well!
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Holiday Song Lyric Analysis
"Glorious"- A Socratic Seminar Unit of Study
You know your middle school kids are singing the song already...Why not engage them in meaningful analysis and conversation, too? This unit of study features the hit by rapper Macklemore, focusing on the beauty of a new day and the power of a positive mindset. Students will deepen reading comprehension and fluency through the study of these lyrics. Activities include vocabulary enrichment, lyric analysis and journal writing prompts, partner work, and the opportunity for students to write a narra
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6th - 8th
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Also included in:Â Coaching Our Students' Literacy Skills Through Inspirational Song Lyrics
Narrative Poetry Put to Music
Let’s write a Narrative Poem… (♪ ♪ and let’s put it to music ♪ ♪ )I play my students the song, ‘One Piece at a Time’ by Johnny Cash.This song tells a great story… much like a narrative poem tells a story.I provide them with the lyrics to ‘One Piece at a Time’ so they can reference how a story flows AND so they can see how I want them to structure their poem.Their assignment is to write their own narrative poem telling about their summer vacation and be able to sing it/say it/rap it to the tune
Holiday Song Lyric Analysis
Engage your students during the trickiest of seasons through these creative units of study! Your 4th-8th grade students will have opportunities to build reading, writing, critical thinking, speaking and listening skills through this compilation of resources.These units of study include: ♪copies of song lyrics for student and teacher use♪Sketch to stretch invitations♪Vocabulary enrichment activities♪Building Background nonfiction reading and written responses♪Student writing prompts♪Text dependen
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4th - 8th
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"To Love Them, To Leave Them" A Socratic Seminar Unit of Study
Your middle school students' hearts will appreciate this unit of study, featuring popular songs "Yours" by Russell Dickerson and "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Taylor Swift! Activities include developing mental pictures, lyric analysis, opinion and narrative writings, text-to-text and text-to-self connection building, figurative language study, background study of song inspiration, authors' purpose writing, and collaborative conversation through Socratic seminar. The stage will be
"Bringing the Magic of Music to Your Middle School Classroom"
Engage your middle school students in meaningful text dependent analysis writing, creative expression, and collaborative conversation using the beautiful song lyrics of "Lost Boy" by Ruth B. This week long unit features multiple writing prompts that offer students the stage to share not just what they think, but why they think what they think, using specific text evidence. Students are also presented the opportunity to connect these song lyrics to their own personal life experiences. The story b
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