Hip Hop Reading Comprehension Worksheets PDFs

Use these Hip Hop reading comprehension worksheets to engage your students all year long with a variety of reading skills!

Based on our Hip Hop and rap music, history songs, these activities will keep your students’ attention using song lyrics as reading passages while they practice important reading skills! Easily incorporate these activities into independent work 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 high-interest reading passages based on rap songs!

The songs for these activities explore how Hip Hop culture began in the Bronx, New York City as a way for inner-city youth to cope with the challenges of urban life.

Listen to the songs with subtitles below! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the videos.)

The songs also highlight the accomplishments of Hip Hop and rap music and the pioneers and artists that have been influential in the urban art. This mega bundle is an excellent Hip Hop curriculum to use with students who are fans of Hip Hop and rap music!

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

Kids love music and will certainly enjoy learning about the history of Hip Hop while practicing important reading skills such as identifying the main idea and supporting details and using context clues based on the song lyrics.

A variety of reading activities with the answer keys!

This bundle includes:

– the song lyrics for use as reading passages

– multiple choice, comprehension questions with the answer key

– multiple-choice, compare and contrast questions with the answer key

– a compare and contrast graphic organizer, writing activities

– multiple choice, context clues questions with the answer key

– short-response, writing activities where students will define any word of their choice from the song lyrics using context clues in the text

– multiple choice, synonyms questions with the answer key

– multiple choice, antonyms questions with the answer key

– short-response, writing activities where students will produce a synonym and antonym for any word of their choice from the song lyrics

– multiple-choice, making inferences questions with the answer key

– main idea graphic organizer, writing activities

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

– multiple-choice, identify the supporting details questions with the answer key

– “personification or not” questions based on the song lyrics

– multiple-choice, identify the meaning of figurative sentences questions based on examples of personification in the song lyrics

– 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 lyrics with the answer key

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