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Levels of Understanding Posters
By HiggyBs Choir
Help your students self-assess their understanding with our Levels of Understanding Posters! Based on Robert Marzano's levels of understanding, these posters provide a clear and simple way for students to evaluate their knowledge and communicate it effectively.
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Empower your students to take charge of their learning with the Levels of Understanding Posters! Download now to create a classroom environment where self-assessment leads to growth and success.
By HiggyBs Choir
Bring music theory to life with Treble Clef Uno, a music-themed twist on the classic card game that’s perfect for reinforcing note reading and rhythm recognition in a fun, interactive way. This game is ideal for music students who are learning to read notes on the treble clef staff and understand note durations.
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With Treble Clef Uno, you can turn note reading and rhythm practice into an exciting game that students will love. Add this resource to your teaching toolkit and watch your students eagerly improve their music theory skills while having a blast!
By HiggyBs Choir
Turn note reading into a lively, competitive game with the Treble Clef Spoons Game! Based on the classic game of spoons, this activity helps students practice spelling and identifying notes in the treble clef while having fun.
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Add the Treble Clef Spoons Game to your teaching toolkit and watch your students eagerly master their note reading skills through fun and friendly competition!
By HiggyBs Choir
Bring music theory to life with Bass Clef Uno, a music-themed twist on the classic card game that’s perfect for reinforcing note reading and rhythm recognition in a fun, interactive way. This game is ideal for music students who are learning to read notes on the bass clef staff and understand note durations.
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With Bass Clef Uno, you can turn note reading and rhythm practice into an exciting game that students will love. Add this resource to your teaching toolkit and watch your students eagerly improve their music theory skills while having a blast!
By HiggyBs Choir
Turn note reading into a lively, competitive game with the Treble Clef Spoons Game! Based on the classic game of spoons, this activity helps students practice spelling and identifying notes in the treble clef while having fun.
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Add the Treble Clef Spoons Game to your teaching toolkit and watch your students eagerly master their note reading skills through fun and friendly competition!
Staff Spelling Bee - Bass & Treble Clef Practice
By HiggyBs Choir
Add a fun and educational twist to your music lessons with our Staff Spelling Bee! This engaging resource includes five different practice pages to help students master note names and improve their spelling skills using bass and treble clefs.
Each page comes with an answer key for easy grading or self-assessment. This versatile resource can be used as a fun classroom game, a targeted practice session, or a valuable homework assignment. Perfect for reinforcing note reading and spelling in a creative and interactive way!
Enhance your students' musical skills and make learning fun with the Staff Spelling Bee!
By HiggyBs Choir
This Key Signature Speed Test product is a great tool for helping students quickly identify key signatures. It includes three different tests, each with a focus on different types of key signatures, and comes with answer keys for easy grading:
Designed to measure how quickly students can identify key signatures or see how many they can correctly identify within a set time, these tests are ideal for tracking progress. They can be used repeatedly throughout the year to help students improve their key signature recognition speed and accuracy.
By HiggyBs Choir
This Note Name Speed Tests product on TeachShare is perfect for helping students master note identification. It includes three different tests, each with 45 questions per page, along with answer keys for easy grading:
Designed to measure how quickly students can identify notes or see how many they can correctly identify within a set time, these tests are ideal for tracking progress. They can be used repeatedly throughout the year to help students improve their note-reading speed and accuracy.y students can identify notes or see how many they can correctly identify within a set time, these tests are ideal for tracking progress. They can be used repeatedly throughout the year to help students improve their note-reading speed and accuracy.
Rhythm Note Duration Speed Test
By HiggyBs Choir
Enhance your students' rhythm skills with Rhythm Note Duration Speed Tests, a fun and effective way to reinforce note duration knowledge! This product includes two different types of speed tests designed to help students quickly and accurately identify the number of beats each note and rest receives, building their confidence and fluency in music reading.
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With Rhythm Note Duration Speed Tests, you’ll give your students the tools they need to become rhythm masters. Plus, with the included answer key, you’ll save time and ensure accurate grading. Add this resource to your teaching toolkit and watch as your students' speed, accuracy, and confidence with rhythm notation soar!
Intervals Speed Test - Music Theory
By HiggyBs Choir
Help your students master intervals with the Intervals Speed Test! This engaging and challenging resource is designed to reinforce interval recognition, ensuring that students can quickly and accurately identify both the interval number and its quality.
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With the Intervals Speed Test, your students will develop the skills they need to recognize intervals quickly and accurately. The included answer key makes it easy to assess progress and ensure accurate learning. Add this resource to your teaching toolkit and watch as your students' interval recognition skills soar!
Solfege Practice Worksheet/Time Test
By HiggyBs Choir
Enhance your students' solfege skills with this comprehensive practice resource designed to reinforce note reading and pitch recognition in the keys of C, F, and G. This product includes a set of practice sheets, each featuring six lines of exercises per page.
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Students are given the starting solfege syllable (Do) at the beginning of each line and are provided with spaces to write in the correct solfege syllables for each note. An answer key is included for easy grading or self-assessment.
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Whether for individual practice, in-class exercises, or homework assignments, this resource is ideal for building and reinforcing solfege skills in a structured and sequential manner.
Get your students confident in their solfege practice with this targeted and effective tool!
By HiggyBs Choir
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.
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Bring excitement to learning note names and piano key locations with Piano Bingo!
Foldable Poetic Element Analysis of Woodstock by Joni Mitchell
By The Red-Haired Reader
This product will allow your students to easily understand and analyze the poetic elements in Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" by breaking it down line-by-line!
Instruct your students to fold the paper in half the long way, and to cut along the black lines into the midline of the paper. They will end up with a long, skinny version of the poem on the front of the flaps, and analysis question inside.
As they read the poem, they will peel back the flap to reveal questions that ask them to analyze the song lyrics for theme, symbolism, characterization, allusion, format, simile, and metaphor.
This foldable includes an answer key! Please ask if you have any questions!
The Greatest Night in Pop (2024) movie analysis questions! We Are the World!
By The Red-Haired Reader
On January 28th, 1985, dozens of the time period’s most popular musicians gathered in Los Angeles to record a charity song for African famine relief. Setting stylistic differences and egos aside, they collaborated on a song that would make history. This documentary, which debuted at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, examines how the song came to be, who was involved, and the implications of the recording.
This Doc (printable OR digital) asks students 9 thought-provoking questions for during and after viewing the film. This is NOT a guided viewing assignment; it's a series of thought-provoking questions that asks them to consider the film as a whole and to synthesize what they might already know about these musicians and the event with what they saw in the film. They are asked about the title, the lyrics to "We Are The World", the impact of the event, who planned the event and why, the artists who participated, the arrangement of the recording, the public's response, the impact of the song during this particular time period, etc.
I use this with my high school elective "Lyrics as Literature" with 9-12th graders, but I'd feel comfortable using it with upper middle school students as well.
The "Big Kid" Rhythm Bundle (Grades 3-6) **30% OFF!**
By Jason Litt
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!
Lightning Violin - Learn How to Play Violin
By Jason Litt
This is a curriculum I use in grades 3, 4, and 5. We have a full set of violins at our school and we learn notation, rhythms, and notes through an original curriculum called "Lightning Violin". The students all learn the songs together and then an individual student plays the song by themselves for assessment. If they play it correctly, I give them a "bolt" on their chart. It gets very competitive and the students really respond well and practice as hard as they can to get their next bolt. You can make a powerpoint chart or a physical chart and draw a bolt or create one in powerpoint. Included with this are the mp3 files accompaniment files that go along with the powerpoint. Please email me after purchase and I will send you the mp3 files! jasonlitt@gmail.com Enjoy!
Articulation - Staccato and Legato
By Jason Litt
Teaching your kids about articulations and note lengths? This activity teaches them about the history of note lengths by using a parallel with morse code. I ask the students to draw 8 quarter notes on their whiteboards (or if you have clip boards or pieces of paper, that will suffice as well)! We then play 7 examples of notes with various articulations and the students have to write the staccatos and legatos below the notes as they hear them. The initial slide has plain quarter notes, but then after the example is played, you scroll through the animations and the articulations begin appearing as the students check their work. Kids love it! This can be used from K-5 and you may play each example as many times as you wish. For older kids, play the example on a few times for a harder challenge. Included in the .zip file are the powerpoint, the fonts for the powerpoint, and the mp3 files for the examples at the end
By Jason Litt
This is a competitive solfege naming game in powerpoint format. The learning goal is for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students to name solfege hand signs as fast as they can. We usually play this game 'around the world' style. We start off on the left side or right side of the the room and the first two people stand up and you flash a note on the screen.The student who gets the note correct gets to move onto the next child in the class while the other student sits. Despite the previews, the solfege symbol has a blank below it, and on the next animation it will appear. That student has to make their way through the entire class before being deemed champion... but they could be beat at ANY TIME! You can mix it up, left side, right side, boys/girls, etc. Kids get ultra competitive, especially in 5th grade.
By Jason Litt
Reviewing the four families of instruments with your kids? This may be the game format you're looking for! An authentic jeopardy game board with categories for Brass, Percussion, Woodwinds, and Strings on the title slide. Students can elect to pick $200, $400, $600, $800, or $1000 answers. After clicking on the amount, the answer will appear on the next slide. A text answer will first be visible, but if you advance the animation, the instrument will enter the slide if your kids need a hint. Students (keeping in true Jeopardy! fashion) can answer in the form of a question "What is a Bassoon?" "What is a Trumpet?" "What is the Timpani?" After the money is awarded (You can split sides of your class, boys vs girls, class vs class, however you want it!), there is a link in the bottom right hand corner to go back to the title screen and game board. After extracting the ZIP file, make sure to install the Jeopardy! font included, or else you'll see random characters all over -- not good eats! Email me at jasonlitt@gmail.com or leave a comment if you have any questions. Happy Jeopardy...ing!
Catch Wind of it! - Identifying Woodwind Instruments
By Jason Litt
Learning about Woodwinds but don't have a lot of music examples to test the kids? Here's your answer! After a short introduction video about woodwinds, students will learn about the 5 main woodwind instruments, flute, clarinet, oboe, saxophone, and the bassoon. After they hear the timbre of each instruments, they will have to identify each instrument after hearing it played. You can do this a few ways! You can print a blank template from the powerpoint, laminate it, distribute to students, and have them mark as they go along and erase after they answer is revealed Alternatively, you can run the entire powerpoint (or PDF) and have them guess after the example is played. When their answer is ready, you will advance in the slide and the answer will be revealed! Included in the ZIP folder: All 15 mp3 files with woodwind examples are included (with 4 introduction examples) Font and instructions (there are very important so you don't have crazy characters all over!) Woodwind introduction video If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me! jasonlitt@gmail.com