Below you’ll find 5 fresh, easy-to-do Black History Month ideas for 2025 that are fun for you, your students, and your whole school community! You’ll also find a video to help you challenge the idea of Black History Month with a more inclusive approach. 1. 📚Black History Songs for Language Arts Activities🎶 Use Black history …
❄️ Are you looking for a compare and contrast Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s Day activity that your 5th and 6th graders won’t stop talking about? Rap music is here to save the day! 🎧✨ Introducing the “History of Winter Holidays” Rap Bundle:A no-prep, high-energy, and super-effective way to teach reading skills while exploring the origins …
Use rap music for a twist on spooky reading comprehension stories! Engage your students with the Literal Monster rap song, a story where a teenage girl’s figurative jokes and comments become literal in a scary way! The song is integrated into exciting, skill-based reading activities designed to grab your students’ attention and are perfect for Google Classroom. …
Need an exciting way to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month? Use a biography rap song with Frida Kahlo reading comprehension PDF activity to engage your students with music! In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, below is rap song skit that teaches about the life of Frida Kahlo! Use it to give your students ideas for making their own …
As educators, we know that the start of a new school year sets the tone for months to come. An engaging back-to-school presentation for students and parents is crucial, and what better way to do that than with a captivating rap song? Imagine your back-to-school night slideshow filled with fun and vibrant rap lyrics and …
Need engaging summer Olympics reading comprehension worksheets for your kids? These activities about the Hip Hop dance commonly called “breakdancing” is the solution! For the first time ever, the Hip Hop dance, breaking, will be in the Olympics! This is an amazing opportunity to get your students reading about the dance and the Olympics during …
If you’re looking for a fun change of pace, Hip Hop language arts activities for your middle school students is the way to go! To get you and your students, I’ve turned a clean freestyle rap into a fun ELA activity! This activity features the entire freestyle for students to read and complete ELA activities …
Using rap song lyrics as reading passages = fun end of year ELA activities for middle school! Imagine your classroom filled with the rhythm of rap songs and the excitement of pop culture themes while students review ELA skills! That’s what these end of year activities will bring to your students! Use song lyrics as …
Have you had a student like Lekayla? Hip Hop pedagogy with ELA instruction was the only thing that worked with her. She was a bit of a rough student. You know the drill: referrals, suspensions, fights, etc. Added to that, she struggled with reading and needed lots of help in English language arts (ELA). By …
Looking for engaging Cesar Chavez reading comprehension worksheets that’ll keep your middle schoolers hooked? Do it with these biography rap songs!d These reading activities are based on Cesar Chavez biography rap songs that’ll have your students vibing while they level up their language arts skills. Your students will use rap lyrics as reading passages while …