Hip Hop Language Arts Activities

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 for.

And in case I didn’t say it already, the rap is 100% clean and school-appropriate! No embarrassing moments, talks with your admin, or nervous sweating with this one! I’ve searched the internet for the cleanest but still coolest freestyle rap to use so don’t have to.

The video for the freestyle rap performance is linked in the activity for your students to watch as well!

Use it to show your students the positive side of Hip Hop and how hard AND smart work pay off as the artist showcases his skills.

This resource includes:

• the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
• a link to watch the freestyle rap performance
• activities for:
  • context clues
  • editing and proofreading
  • figurative language
  • main idea and supporting details
  • multisyllabic words
  • root words
  • synonyms and antonyms

Use this resource as:

• a fun review
• a class activity
• independent work
• extra practice for early finishers
• a high-interest passage for a nice change of pace

And if you enjoy this activity, you’ll LOVE the Hip Hop Language Arts Academy!

I used the strategies and principles from the Academy to create it.

If you’d like more activities like this or want to learn how to make these activities yourself using clean, school-appropriate rap songs, click here to join the Academy now!​

The Academy is an at-your-own-pace course with done-for-you resources designed to help language arts teachers get high student engagement with cultural relevance using Hip Hop and rap songs.

The Academy will help you:

• address local and state standards
• incorporate your students’ interests
• convert song lyrics into content-based ELA activities
• get high student engagement using Hip Hop and rap songs
• find school-appropriate songs with our ROK database
• plan faster using strategies and done-for-you resources!

Click here to join the Academy now!​

​Click here to get the freestyle rap, ELA activity for free!​

Thanks as always for reading!

Sincerely,

Ken with Rap Opera for Kids

When the music stops, the learning doesn’t!