Music Composition Assessment (by date, latest first)

Accelerate your students' music theory skills with the Music Theory Speed Tests Bundle! This comprehensive collection of speed tests is designed to reinforce essential music theory concepts, helping students improve their speed, accuracy, and confidence in identifying key elements of music notation.

What’s Included:

1. Note Naming Speed Tests:

• Treble Clef and Bass Clef note identification.
• Students quickly name notes on the staff, building fluency in reading music.

1. Intervals Speed Tests:

• Two levels of difficulty: Interval Number and Interval Number with Quality.
• Covers all intervals from Perfect Unison to Perfect Octave.

1. Rhythm Note Duration Speed Tests:

• Two types: Single Note Duration and Combined Note Duration.
• Students identify and calculate the beats for notes and rests, including quarter, eighth, half, dotted half, and whole notes and their corresponding rests.

1. Key Signature Identification Speed Tests:

• Covers both Major and Minor key signatures.
• Students quickly identify key signatures, reinforcing their understanding of scales and tonality.

Bonus:

• Answer Keys Included for All Tests: Each speed test comes with a comprehensive answer key, making it easy to check students' work and provide immediate feedback.

How It Works:

• Engaging Practice: These speed tests are perfect for quick drills, timed quizzes, or competitive games, making music theory practice fun and dynamic.
• Comprehensive Coverage: This bundle covers a wide range of music theory topics, ensuring that students develop a well-rounded understanding of essential concepts.
• Flexible Use: Ideal for classroom activities, private lessons, or at-home practice, with tests that can be used as warm-ups, assessments, or challenges.

Why You’ll Love It:

• Builds Speed & Accuracy: Designed to help students quickly and accurately identify notes, intervals, rhythms, and key signatures—essential skills for any musician.
• Simple & Effective: Easy to integrate into any music curriculum, with clear instructions and a focus on critical theory concepts.
• Versatile Resource: Suitable for students at various levels, from beginners to more advanced learners who need a quick refresher or extra practice.

Perfect for:

• Music Classrooms: A great tool for reinforcing music theory skills in a group setting, encouraging friendly competition and rapid learning.
• Private Lessons: Use these speed tests as a quick warm-up or challenge to keep students engaged and focused.
• At-Home Practice: Parents can use these resources to support their child's music education in a fun and interactive way.

With the Music Theory Speed Tests Bundle, you’ll have everything you need to help your students master the fundamentals of music theory. The included answer keys ensure that grading is quick and easy, allowing you to focus on helping your students excel. Add this bundle to your teaching toolkit and watch your students' skills soar!

Elevate your piano teaching with our comprehensive Accelerated Piano Adventures Bundle! This all-in-one bundle includes everything you need to guide your students through Books 1 and 2 of the Accelerated Piano Adventures series, offering a structured, engaging, and effective learning experience.
Bundle Includes:

1. Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 1: Comprehensive Student Guide & Vocabulary Review

• Detailed unit-by-unit instructions
• Vocabulary and review pages for reinforcing key concepts
• Designed to be used alongside the Theory, Performance, Sightreading, and Lesson Books

1. Free Progress Tracking Poster

• Visual tracking system for Books 1 and 2
• Students place stickers to track their progress, keeping them motivated and engaged
• Matches the design of other products for a cohesive classroom look

Key Benefits:

• Structured Learning: Provides clear, step-by-step guidance for each unit, helping students understand and master key concepts.
• Enhanced Engagement: The progress tracking poster motivates students by visually representing their achievements and encouraging them to advance at their own pace.
• Seamless Integration: All resources are designed to work together, offering a complete teaching toolkit that aligns with the Accelerated Piano Adventures series.
• Motivational Tools: Includes practical classroom tools like the progress poster and stamp system to boost student morale and track progress effectively.

Perfect For:

• Group piano classes
• Individual piano lessons
• Teachers looking for a cohesive set of resources to support students through the Accelerated Piano Adventures series

Invest in this bundle to streamline your teaching process, keep students motivated, and create a productive learning environment. Download the bundle today and provide your students with everything they need to succeed in their piano adventures!

Enhance your piano classroom with our Free Progress Tracking Poster designed to complement the Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 1 & 2: Comprehensive Student Guide & Vocabulary Review! This engaging poster is perfect for tracking student progress through Books 1 and 2 of the Accelerated Piano Adventures series.

Features:

• Visual Tracking: Students place a sticker on the poster each time they complete a unit, providing a clear visual representation of their progress and motivating them to advance through the books.
• Matching Design: The poster’s design complements the other products in my store, creating a cohesive look in your classroom.
• Easy to Use: Simply print and display the poster where students can easily see it. The sticker tracking system is simple and effective for keeping students engaged and motivated.

Benefits:

• Motivates Students: The visual progress tracking encourages students to keep moving forward and take pride in their achievements.
• Supports Organization: Helps both teachers and students keep track of which units have been completed and which are upcoming.
• Free Resource: This poster is a complimentary addition to your teaching toolkit, designed to work seamlessly with the paid guide.

Download this free poster today and give your students a fun and motivating way to track their success through the Accelerated Piano Adventures series!

Help your students confidently bridge the gap between reading music and playing it on the piano with this engaging "Connect the Staff to Piano" worksheet activity! Designed specifically for beginners, this resource provides a fun and interactive way for students to practice identifying notes on the staff and matching them to their corresponding keys on the piano.

What's Included:

• Treble Clef Worksheet: Notes on the staff on the left side, with a piano keyboard on the right. Students connect each note to its correct key.
• Bass Clef Worksheet: Similar format, focusing on notes in the bass clef.
• Answer Keys: Provided for both treble and bass clef worksheets to make grading easy and efficient.

This activity is perfect for individual practice, homework assignments, or as a classroom learning station. It reinforces note recognition and keyboard geography, laying a solid foundation for future music reading and playing skills. Whether you're teaching piano lessons or general music classes, this resource will help students build essential connections between written music and the piano keyboard.

Product Description: Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 1: Comprehensive Student Guide & Vocabulary Review
Elevate your group piano lessons with our meticulously crafted guide for Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 1. This product is designed to provide your students with clear, step-by-step instructions to ensure their success while keeping the learning process engaging and manageable.
What’s Included:

• Unit-by-Unit Student Instructions: Each unit in this guide outlines precisely what students need to do to grasp key concepts, making it easier for them to follow along and stay on track.
• Vocabulary and Review Pages: At the end of each unit, students will find vocabulary and review pages to reinforce their understanding and ensure they retain the important terms and concepts.
• Unit Cover Pages: I have found that what works best for me and my students is to organize the papers in separate binders based on units. I use these binder covers provided to make it clear to students where they can find their correct papers.

Essential Books: To maximize the effectiveness of this guide, you will need the

following books:

• Theory Book
• Performance Book
• Sight Reading Book
• Lesson Book

These books provide a comprehensive approach to piano instruction, and our guide complements them by focusing on core concepts without overwhelming students. For additional support, you can draw on the extensive resources found in these books.
Supplemental Materials: For added motivation and variety, we recommend having popular repertoire and Christmas books on hand. These resources can offer students a refreshing break and keep them inspired throughout their learning journey.
Classroom Tips: In my classroom, I use a progress tracking poster where students place a sticker for every unit they complete. This visual aid motivates them to advance at their own pace. Each time they complete a portion, they receive a stamp as a symbol of their achievement. This system has proven incredibly effective in helping students progress at their own speed, ensuring they gain mastery without feeling rushed.
Note: While this guide does not cover every aspect of the supplementary books, it provides a solid foundation for understanding the key concepts. For students needing extra help, the additional materials in the listed books will offer further practice and support.
This Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 1 guide is the perfect tool for group piano classes, combining structured guidance with flexibility to accommodate each student's unique learning pace.

Help your students master chord identification and construction with these Chords/Triads Speed Tests! This product includes 4 different testing options to fit your music theory curriculum:

• Option 1 & 2: Students can either write their own Major and Minor chords or identify provided chords.
• Option 3 & 4: Students will tackle a broader range, including Major, Minor, Augmented, and Diminished chords, either by writing their own or identifying the given chords.

These tests provide a fast-paced and engaging way for students to improve their knowledge of triads, and answer keys are included for easy grading. Designed to match other products in your store, they follow the same cohesive color palette and style for a unified classroom experience. Perfect for reinforcing music theory concepts and building confidence in chord recognition!

Product Description: Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 2: Comprehensive Student Guide & Vocabulary Review
Elevate your group piano lessons with our meticulously crafted guide for Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 2. This product is designed to provide your students with clear, step-by-step instructions to ensure their success while keeping the learning process engaging and manageable.
What’s Included:

• Unit-by-Unit Student Instructions: Each unit in this guide outlines precisely what students need to do to grasp key concepts, making it easier for them to follow along and stay on track.
• Vocabulary and Review Pages: At the end of each unit, students will find vocabulary and review pages to reinforce their understanding and ensure they retain the important terms and concepts.
• Unit Cover Pages: I have found that what works best for me and my students is to organize the papers in separate binders based on units. I use these binder covers provided to make it clear to students where they can find their correct papers.

Essential Books: To maximize the effectiveness of this guide, you will need the

following books:

• Theory Book
• Performance Book
• Sight Reading Book
• Lesson Book

These books provide a comprehensive approach to piano instruction, and our guide complements them by focusing on core concepts without overwhelming students. For additional support, you can draw on the extensive resources found in these books.
Supplemental Materials: For added motivation and variety, we recommend having popular repertoire and Christmas books on hand. These resources can offer students a refreshing break and keep them inspired throughout their learning journey.
Classroom Tips: In my classroom, I use a progress tracking poster where students place a sticker for every unit they complete. This visual aid motivates them to advance at their own pace. Each time they complete a portion, they receive a stamp as a symbol of their achievement. This system has proven incredibly effective in helping students progress at their own speed, ensuring they gain mastery without feeling rushed.
Note: While this guide does not cover every aspect of the supplementary books, it provides a solid foundation for understanding the key concepts. For students needing extra help, the additional materials in the listed books will offer further practice and support.
This Accelerated Piano Adventures Book 2 guide is the perfect tool for group piano classes, combining structured guidance with flexibility to accommodate each student's unique learning pace.

Make learning note names and their locations on the piano fun with Piano Bingo! This engaging activity is perfect for helping students begin to connect notes on the staff with their corresponding keys on the piano.

What’s Included:

• 6 Bingo Cards:
  • 2 Cards with Treble Clef, Piano, and Rhythm/Vocab: One with 25 spaces and one with 16 spaces.
  • 2 Cards with Bass Clef, Piano, and Rhythm/Vocab: One with 25 spaces and one with 16 spaces.
  • 2 Cards with Treble Clef, Bass Clef, Piano, and Rhythm/Vocab: One with 25 spaces and one with 16 spaces.

How It Works:

• Fill in the Blanks: Students fill in the blank spaces on their Bingo cards with note names, piano keys, or rhythm durations, based on the teacher's prompts.
• Play Bingo: The teacher calls out notes, piano keys, or rhythms, and students mark their cards. The first to get a line, full house, or pattern wins!
• Reinforce Learning: This activity reinforces the connection between the notes on the staff and their corresponding keys on the piano, while also helping students practice rhythm recognition.

Why You’ll Love It:

• Interactive Learning: Turns note identification and piano key location into a fun, interactive game.
• Flexible Use: The variety of cards allows for different combinations of treble clef, bass clef, piano keys, and rhythms, and vocab words making it adaptable for various learning levels.
• Engaging for All Ages: Suitable for beginners and young students who are just starting to learn how to read music and identify notes on the piano.

Perfect for:

• Piano Teachers: A fun way to reinforce note reading and piano key identification in lessons or group classes.
• Classroom Use: Great for music teachers looking to add a hands-on, engaging activity to their curriculum.
• Practice at Home: Parents can use this as a fun tool to support their child’s music education at home.

Bring excitement to learning note names and piano key locations with Piano Bingo!

Included in these rhythm bundle are 25 resources that you can utilize in grades 3-6. Games, dictation, worksheets, races, and more are in this bundle as the resources discuss longer rhythmic patterns, sixteenth notes, triplets, and long durations of rests.

Definitely a semester filler in here, terrific for reinforcing your 2nd half of the year with some of your upper grades, and with 30% off when bundled together, it's a sale you can't beat!

It's the end of the year... and we're in survival mode. Need no prep solutions to make sure your 5th graders haven't checked themselves out and need engaging games and activities for some of your other students? Check out the EOY Survival Kit, 10 hand picked and proven resources to keep your kids busy during the last few weeks of the year... and when purchased in the bundle here, you get 15% off of each one! Feel free to peruse the resources and use them as you wish either for the end of the year or even anytime of the year. Have a great time, you'll get through this! :)

We reinforce tons of Sol-Mi patterns in early elementary music. How about the kids dictate it through Sol-Fish? Each student receives a "Fishing for Solfege" printout which is a fish bowl with 2 spaces - the top space reserved for the SOL and the bottom space reserved for the MI Ten examples will be played and students will have to decipher where the sol's and mi's are after listening to them. They do this by putting bingo chips on the Sol or Mi spaces. After students lock in their guess, advance the slide to reveal the answer! You may do this through the printouts, or you can make it an interactive game with your whiteboard, the possibilities are endless! All sound files are embedded in, so you'll need to manually click each "speaker" icon to play each example. Have a great time with this, and let me know if you have any questions or concerns!

Learning the values of quarter and eighth notes are a good solid foundation to start off, but when it gets to rests, understanding a beat of silence is a little different! In "Give it a Rest!" students are introduced to the quarter rest, which is a note, but a note of silence. They watch "Give it a Rest!" from Music K-8 and then are given an activity -- try to decipher where the rest occurs in a musical example. The students will be told how many beats are in the example and then a four beat percussive introduction is played. Students will be asked to dictate the quarter notes AND quarter rests in the musical example. The teacher can play this again for reinforcement (but for kids in upper grades, playing it only ONCE can be a challenge!). There are 12 examples, each one getting a little more difficult than the last! You can run this activity in many ways: - Student can write on whiteboards with dry erase markers - Pairs of students can team up in a race to spell it out - Use as a whiteboard/smartboard/IWB activity - Print out cards of quarter notes and rests and have them line it up on the floor - Any other way you find creative! Enjoy this with your class and as always, if you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment!

In Stick it to the Rhythm, we used popsicle sticks to identify quarter and eighth note notation in our classrooms. What happened if we didn't give the kids a blank slate and they had to use eyes, ears, and minds? In this follow-up, "Stick it to the Rhythm Part II", students are instructed to put a number of sticks on the floor (6 to 12 'quarter notes') and will listen to a musical example made up of quarter and eighth notes. They are then to interpret that example and use the last sticks and place them where they think they heard the eighth notes... In essence, they are taking the quarter notes at the end of the phrase and making them into eighth notes by beaming the quarter notes together -- this will really get your kids thinking! There are 10 examples (all with an 8 beat count off to establish tempo) and the examples range from easy to difficult with the mp3 embedding into the file. Have a great time and let me know what you think in the comments :) As always, any questions or concerns, you know where to find me!

4/4, 3/4, 2/4, the whole clan! What splits those evenly between measures, bar lines of course! In this interactive game, I have boys vs girls (side one, side two, class A, class B, however you want to do it!) go against each other as they see a long measure of rhythms. Their job? Split it in half and affix a bar line to the interactive whiteboard! The first kid who gets it right gets a point! You can do this with flash cards, use this as printables, or any other creative way you wish! The answers are on the following slide highlighted in green. Included is an intro video in the folder from Quaver's Marvelous World of Music to start your kids off on the right... foot ;) (You'll see in the video!) Have a fun time with this!

This will sure to get your class energized and all you need is about 8 hula hoops! We group all the boys on one side and all the girls on another side (or you can do team A + team B) In front of the teams will be 4 hula hoops (representative of 4 beats of music). Kids will be called up in groups of 2, 3, 4, or more and listen to the musical example. After they hear the example, they have to act as the quarter and eighth notes in the example and spell it out from left to right! It's a hot mess, but it sure gets the kids to work together! As soon as the first team gets the right rhythm, advance the slide and show the answer! Each slide will contain how many students will be in the group, the musical example, and the hoops shown. Up to 2 students (2 eighth notes) can be in a hoop, 1 student (will represent a quarter note) alone in a hoop, or a blank hoop (0 students) for a rest. Have a great time with this the KIDS LOVE THIS!!!!!!

Working on rhythms with your kids and need to hammer in those note lengths? Beat me to it may be the trick! Students will see a box on the board displaying rhythms made of quarter, half, and whole notes. They will see a set of number below that will match the amount of beats in that rhythm above. Which number is the correct answer? I usually do this boys vs girls or team vs teams in the class and have a circle magnet that the kids both possess. They run to the board and put the magnet on the answer they think, and all I do is advance the slide and the answer appears in green! Beats go from 1 to 16 and answers change all throughout the presentation! You can use this as an assessment any way you like (kids call it out, kids write it on their lapboards, multiple choice, however you wish). Have fun and let me know how it goes!

A great end of the year (or maybe even beginning of the year!) assessment for some of your kids in the older grades, "Identify Musical Parameters" takes you through 11 musical elements (tempo, meter, dynamics, articulation, and tonality) that you typically discuss in class with the kids!

Students will hear a musical example of a parameter and will have to decide which element of music they heard with a multiple choice answer for each example given. You can do this as a class activity, boys vs girls, in groups, or however you wish!

Advance the slide to show the answer highlighted in green. Have a great time with this and let me know how it goes in the comments! ;)

Listening to Popular music isn’t just for enjoyment. It contains critical pieces of musical composition that makes it sound the way it does!

In "The Elements of Pop", students will be given 8 short examples of pop music (about 30-45 seconds long all mp3s included and embedded into the powerpoint) and will be see a multiple choice selection of elements that described the pop music being played

It's mostly broad terminology you teach in your music class: Rhythm, Tempo, Major/Minor, Instrumentation, Vocal ranges, etc!

This is great assessment to do as a class, individually, or even through distance learning! Have your cake and eat it too!

Pair this with the Identify Form in Popular Music series and you got yourself engaging lesson material!

Let us know how it is goes in the comments :)

Listening to Popular music isn’t just for enjoyment. It contains critical pieces of musical composition that makes it sound the way it does!

In "The Elements of Pop", students will be given 8 short examples of pop music (about 30-45 seconds long all mp3s included and embedded into the powerpoint) and will be see a multiple choice selection of elements that described the pop music being played

It's mostly broad terminology you teach in your music class: Rhythm, Tempo, Major/Minor, Instrumentation, Vocal ranges, etc!

This is great assessment to do as a class, individually, or even through distance learning! Have your cake and eat it too!

Pair this with the Identify Form in Popular Music series and you got yourself engaging lesson material!

Let us know how it is goes in the comments :)

A great end of the year (or maybe even beginning of the year!) assessment for some of your kids in the older grades, "Identify Musical Parameters" takes you through 11 musical elements (tempo, meter, dynamics, articulation, and tonality) that you typically discuss in class with the kids!

Students will hear a musical example of a parameter and will have to decide which element of music they heard with a multiple choice answer for each example given. You can do this as a class activity, boys vs girls, in groups, or however you wish!

Advance the slide to show the answer highlighted in green. Have a great time with this and let me know how it goes in the comments! ;)