Teach CCSS with How Far I'll Go Song from Moana | Reading Literature

Teach CCSS with How Far I’ll Go from Moana! Use this short 3 minute song to teach a ton of CCSS standards. Compare how Moana sees her future and how her people see their future. Discuss the meaning of the words horizon, role and roll. Explore the concept of motivation and also students are as adventurous as Moana. Finally, identify visuals in the music video to help improve understanding of the lyrics.

This song by Auli’i Cravalho, along with the lyrics on screen, can be found on YouTube here.

(Note: I do not own this link, if it changes, search ‘How Far I’ll Go Moana lyrics’ and another video should be available.)
The full movie, Moana, is available for streaming on Disney + here. and the song can be found from the 16:15 minute mark.

This resource consists of 8 high quality questions that target Reading Literature CCSS.

This product consisting of 8 PDF pages:

• A Teacher Lesson Plan (1 page)
• An Answer Key (2 pages)
• CCSS alignment indicating standards met (1 page)
• A PDF with link to a Google Slides version (1 page)
• A Student Movie Guide Print Version (2 pages)
• An About TeacherTravis Intro (1 page)