Fun Summer School Reading Activities Using Rap Songs

Keep your students engaged with these fun summer-school reading activities based on educational rap songs about pop-culture! Superheroes, Disney movies, and Hip Hop and rap history are sure winners for an exciting, summer-school reading curriculum.

Engage your students using song lyrics as reading passages while they practice a variety of reading skills. These activities can set a theme for your summer program or give students a fun break from the standard reading curriculum. These activities are also available as self-grading, Google Forms activities to save you time or as paper-based, printable worksheets.

Nothing says summer like Hip Hop and rap! These reading activities are based on songs about Hip Hop and rap music history and how the culture and music developed.

Students will use song lyrics as reading passages while they practice a range of skills such as identifying the main idea and supporting details, figurative language, contexts clues, and several others. Click here to get the paper-based activities or get the self-grading, Google Forms activities here!

Get the mega, Google Forms reading bundle to engage your students all summer long! Cover topics such as the Black Panther superhero, the history behind Disney’s Moana movie, and how Hip Hop and rap music developed.

All of this while teaching main idea and supporting details, context clues, figurative language, synonyms and antonyms, and dozens of other skills! Click here to get the bundle now!

Get the paper-based activities for the bundle above using the following links: Disney movie and superhero activities and Hip Hop and rap activities

If your students are into superheroes and Disney, this is the perfect solution! Cover a variety of skills such as story elements, problem and solutions, root words and affixes, and many more usings songs about popular superheroes and movies such as Disney’s Moana and Marvel’s Avengers. Get the paper-based activities here or the self-grading, Google Forms AND paper-based, combined bundle!

If you’re looking for more pop-culture themes, click here to check out more of our Pop Culture vs. History reading activities for other ideas for some fun, summer-school reading activities!

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