Synonyms and Antonyms Worksheets and Passages for Middle School
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Do your students need a break from traditional, synonyms and antonyms worksheets? Rap songs are your solution!
Based on history and reading rap songs, these activities will keep your students' attention using song lyrics as reading passages while they practice synonyms and antonyms skills. Easily incorporate them into independent activities or complete them together as a class lesson. The song lyrics for these activities are used as reading passages and have many content-vocabulary words from the song lyrics for students to practice identifying synonyms and antonyms with.
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Listen to the songs with subtitles using the links below! (Click here if you have trouble viewing the videos.)
- Bessie Coleman, biography rap song
- Chinese New Year, legend and history rap song
- Coronavirus/COVID-19, history rap song
- "Grinch vs. Santa Claus," parody rap song
- Lion King vs. History, parody song
- "NBA Gamechangers," history rap song
- Spooky Personification, rap song
Teach reading skills to your students in a way that they will enjoy!
Kids love music and will certainly enjoy identifying synonyms and antonyms for words in the song lyrics. These activities also feature simple explanations of what synonyms and antonyms are to guide students' comprehension.
Multiple-choice questions with answer keys!
All of these synonyms and antonyms activities have multiple-choice questions with answer keys for easy grading.
Everything included in this bundle is listed below. Click the product links above for more details.
- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
- 6 multiple-choice, synonyms questions with the answer key per passage
- 6 multiple-choice, antonyms questions with the answer key per passage.
How to use these activities:
- Explain the concept of synonyms using the instructions on page 1.
- Ask students to give a few examples of words that are synonyms.
- Next, have students listen to each song for the corresponding reading passage while following along with the lyrics on pages 3 and 4.
- Guide students through answering question 1 as a class. Review with them as necessary.
- Students will now answer the remaining 5 multiple-choice, synonyms questions.
- Repeat the above steps with the antonyms questions.
- The answer keys for the questions are located on pages 5 and 6.
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What's Included
Everything included in this bundle is listed below. Click the product links above for more details.
- links to each song for free
- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage
- 6 multiple-choice, synonyms questions with the answer key per passage
- 6 multiple-choice, antonyms questions with the answer key per passage.
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