Make learning vibrant and engaging with our Change Sings activities. This educator-created pack is specially designed to seamlessly blend literacy with Black History. Crafted to spark curiosity and foster a deeper understanding, each activity is a stepping stone towards appreciating each community member’s profound contributions. 

Our Change Sings activities are a comprehensive toolkit designed to bolster literacy skills in a fun and engaging way. By incorporating activities such as forming letters and making connections, it lays a strong foundation for early literacy. The pack encourages creativity and linguistic mastery through rhyme and identifying parts of speech. Writing sentences and defining vocabulary with nuanced meanings enhance language proficiency.

Moreover, the activities improve reading comprehension skills and foster critical thinking. This is done through the interpretation of quotes, identification of themes, and inference of the author’s purpose. Literacy is further enriched by writing an acrostic poem and honing speaking skills through the provided prompts. 

As a result of the included activities, students will be able to:

• Form letters.
• Make connections.
• Rhyme.
• Identify parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
• Write sentences.
• Define vocabulary and their shades of meaning.
• Practice reading comprehension.
• Interpret quotes.
• Identify and infer themes.
• Identify and infer the author’s purpose.
• Writing an acrostic poem with included writing prompts.
• Practice Speaking Skills with included discussion prompts.
• Develop Fine Motor Skills with included tracing, illustrating, cutting, gluing activities.
• Design a mural. 
• Use digital tools to learn about and analyze Amanda Gorman’s poems. 

Our Change Sings activities promise to delight, inspire, and educate!

💙 Discover a world of resilience and empowerment through our full range of book activities, each crafted to bring the stories to vivid life. Turn every page into an opportunity for growth and inspiration!

💙 Delve deeper into the Change Sings story by pairing your read-aloud with the moving soundscape in your Novel Effect app. Transform each page into a multisensory adventure, where every word is accompanied by a symphony of sounds!

About the Book

In this stirring picture book by inaugural poet and activist Amanda Gorman, readers discover that anything is possible when our voices join together. As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes in the world, in their communities, and in themselves. 

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