Winter Holiday Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Winter holiday reading comprehension worksheets + history rap songs = awesome fun! Agree?
Then these reading activities are perfect for you and your students!
Based on our “History of Winter Holidays” rap song, these activities will keep your students’ attention using song lyrics while they practice a variety of skills. Easily incorporate them into independent activities or complete them together as a class lesson.
Students will listen to the song then use the song lyrics as a reading passage to complete the activities detailed below.
The song for these activities explains the origins and traditions of the four winter holidays, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s Day. Give your students a fun, holiday season using rap music to teach holiday history while incorporating reading skills!
Listen to the full song with here! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the video.)
A variety of reading activities with the answer keys!
The activities in this bundle are listed below. Click the links above for more details.
– the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
– a compare and contrast, graphic organizer writing activity
– 10 multiple-choice, compare and contrast questions with the answer key
– a compare and contrast text structure, paragraph writing activity with a word bank of transitional words for students to use
– 7 multiple-choice, context clues questions about content vocabulary with the answer key
– 6 multiple-choice, synonyms questions about content vocabulary with the answer key
– 6 multiple-choice, antonyms questions about content vocabulary with the answer key
– a brief lesson on syllables and tips on how to count them in words
– 14 “How many syllables?” activity questions where students will listen to and read the song lyrics to determine how many syllables are in specific words from the song
– 12 “Syllable hunt!” activity questions where students will read through the song lyrics, finding words that have 1, 2, 3, and 4 syllables and write them in the corresponding columns
– 12 “Divide the syllables” activity tasks where students will find and separate words in the lyrics into their syllabic parts
– a “Syllables on Beast Mode!” challenge activity where students will find a rare 5 syllable word in the song lyrics and write it correctly separated into its syllabic parts.
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