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New Style! This recently updated set of cards features a colorful rainbow theme and clear text against a white background. As requested, there are now full-page posters for each music term!

This bundle is a comprehensive collection of reading comprehension passages designed to engage students during Hispanic Heritage Month. It includes:

1. Hispanic Heritage Month Music and Dance Styles Reading Comprehension Passages: This set explores the rich and diverse music and dance styles of Hispanic culture, enhancing students’ understanding and appreciation.
2. Hispanic Heritage Month Reading Comprehension Passages|Multiple Choice Questions: These passages cover a range of topics related to Hispanic heritage, accompanied by multiple-choice questions to test students’ comprehension.
3. Mexican Independence Day Reading Comprehension Passages|Multiple Choice Questions: This set provides insight into the historical significance of Mexican Independence Day, with multiple-choice questions to reinforce learning.
4. Mexican Music Instruments Reading Passages|Hispanic Heritage Month|Questions: This set delves into the unique musical instruments of Mexico, offering students an engaging way to learn about this aspect of Hispanic heritage.
5. Spanish/Mexican foods Reading comprehension passages with short answer questions. This set of passages highlights traditional dishes from Hispanic culture, allowing students to improve their reading skills while exploring cultural heritage.
6. **Music Bingo Game -**This bingo game is a fun and interactive way to celebrate Hispanic and Latinx music in your classroom.

Each passage is designed to not only improve reading skills but also educate students about the rich cultural heritage of Hispanic communities.

The multiple-choice questions and answer keys accompanying each passage further enhance reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

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Welcome to MsNerdWood's Classical Music Escape Room!

Want to introduce your students to the Classical music era in a fun and engaging way? Need a supply teacher activity? I've got you covered!

Introduce your students to the elegance and refinement of the Classical music period with this engaging and interactive escape room activity! Ideal for grades 6-8, this escape room will immerse your students in the world of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven (and more) while they work together to solve challenges and unlock clues.

Key Features:

• Engaging Content: Students will explore the Classical period (1750-1830), learning about key composers, musical forms, and the cultural context of the era.
• Interactive Challenges: Includes a variety of puzzles and activities designed to reinforce knowledge while keeping students actively engaged.
• Flexible Grouping: Can be completed in pairs or small groups, making it perfect for collaborative learning.
• Minimal Setup: Easy to use with minimal preparation, making it an excellent option for regular classroom use or as a go-to activity for substitute teachers.
• Versatile Use: Ideal for introducing the Classical music period or as a review activity. It’s a great fit for music history units, general music classes, or cross-curricular lessons involving history and the arts.

Why You’ll Love It:

• Student-Centered Learning: Promotes critical thinking, teamwork, and problem-solving skills in a fun and interactive way.
• Easy for Teachers: With clear instructions and all materials included, you can focus on facilitating rather than preparing.
• Great for Substitutes: The ready-to-go format ensures that substitute teachers can seamlessly continue instruction with engaging content.

What’s Included:

• Detailed Teacher’s Guide with step-by-step instructions
• Printable student worksheets and challenge cards
• Answer keys and optional extension activities included!

Bring the Classical period to life in your classroom with this escape room activity that’s sure to captivate and educate your students!

Elevate Your Theatre Production Experience with Our Editable Audition & Production Information Template!

Step into the spotlight with our dynamic Google Doc template, designed to bring your theatre production’s key information to auditioners! Perfect for directors, producers, and theatre educators, this customizable template is your go-to resource for organizing and sharing essential production details with ease.

Why Choose Our Template?

• Fully Editable & Customizable: Tailor the design to match your theatre’s unique aesthetics and branding. Whether you’re directing a classic play or an avant-garde performance, this template adapts seamlessly to your style.
• Comprehensive Information Hub: Includes dedicated sections for the production team, crucial audition and rehearsal dates, audition preparation guidelines, and more. Keep everyone on the same page with clearly outlined information.
• Versatile Usage: Copy and paste the information directly to your production’s website for instant access, or print it out for quick reference. It’s designed to fit your needs, whether you’re online or offline.
• Perfect Pairing: Combine it with our Character Description template to create a complete, informative package that ensures your auditioners are well-prepared and excited to join your production.

Classroom Applications:

• Student Productions: Guide students through the production process by assigning them roles within a mock or real theatre production. Encourage creativity and organizational skills as they customize their own templates.
• Theatre Education: Use this template to teach students the intricacies of theatre production management, from casting to technical rehearsals. It’s an engaging way to bring theory into practice, especially when paired with our other production templates.
• Project-Based Learning: Allow students to create their own hypothetical theatre productions, using the template to plan and present their ideas. This hands-on approach fosters teamwork, communication, and leadership skills for future directors, producers, and stage managers alike.

Get ready to inspire, organize, and engage your creative community with our Audition & Production Information Template today!

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This product is delivered via a file download. You will receive links to access the Google Doc template. If you have trouble with the file please email me at classroomtocurtain@gmail.com.

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Key Features:

• Concise 4-Paragraph Format: Breaks down topics into manageable sections for maximum understanding. Written at a 7th grade ESOL student level but suitable for a wide range of learners.
• Four Comprehension Questions: Encourages critical thinking and tests knowledge effectively.
• Answer Key Included: Simplifies grading and ensures accurate evaluation.
• Multi-Purpose Use: Ideal for lessons, homework, assessments, or review activities.
• Wide Topic Range: This is one assignment from a series of 10. Buy different topics to use for group projects / study guides and more.

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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.

Creating & Editing Audio and Music in Audacity gives students an opportunity to learn how to create and edit audio and music files for use in projects. A step-by-step tutorial for the program, along with three lessons are included in this unit. Additionally, resources including sites that offer free (non-copyrighted) music and sound downloads appropriate for student projects are included. Audacity is a free download.

Files Included with this Lesson

• Teacher Notes and Resources

• Tutorial Lesson

• 3 Project Lessons including rubrics

Middle schoolers LOVE music and the opportunity to create authentic projects. This is a great introductory lesson prior to introducing more sophisticated music creation tools (such as Garageband) as well.

This lesson is great for distance learning/remote learning. You can upload it to your school's learning management system (Google Classroom, Edmodo, Canvas, etc.) or share with students via Google Drive.

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This simple-to-use music program template is perfect for your school's upcoming Winter chorus, band, or recital and will create a wonderful keepsake! This booklet template is compatible with Google Slides™ and provides unlimited customization options. Add or remove pages to create a 4- or 8-page (or more) program booklet and recolor or move any design elements.

Features:

• Compatible with Google Slides™ to easily edit
• 11"x8.5" US letter size, landscape orientation, folds into a half-sheet 5.5"x8.5" booklet
• Print, save and share electronically
• Choose to print in black-and-white or color
• Includes instructions on recoloring any design feature
• All resources use Google Fonts™ and can be downloaded for free from fonts.google.com

Printing directions: Adjust your print settings to US letter size, landscape orientation. To print 2-sided, flip on the short edge. Printing one sheet front-and-back creates a 4-page folded booklet; printing two sheets front-to-back creates an 8-page folded booklet, and so on.

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With “Rhythms Around the Horn”, students will see four rhythm squares on the powerpoint (or PDF), all of them containing different rhythms.

For starters, have the entire class perform rhythm 1 (with instruments, vocalizing, clapping, patting, etc), then rhythm 2, then 3, and then finally 4.

After students understand the rhythms, then you can have the rhythms all be performed several different ways...

• Assign an instrument to each number and have them repeat their rhythm
• Example: #1 will be shakers, #2 will be tambourines, #3 will be hand drums, #4 will be guiros
• Example: #1 will be bass xylo, #2 will be soprano xylo, #3 will be alto xylo, #4 will be glockenspiel
• Example: #1 will be C and D boomwhackers, #2 will be E and F boomwhackers, #3 will be G and A boomwhackers, #4 will be B boomwhacker
• Assign an instrument to each number and have them rotate throughout the numbers (1, 2, 3, 4)
• Assign an instrument to each number and have them repeat the rhythm 2 times, 4 times (or however long you wish) and move to the next number to do the same thing
• Assign all instruments to start at the beginning, but at different times (a canon or a round).
• Example: Instrument 1 will play #1 first, then #2 consecutively, then the second instruments begin on #1 when the first are on #2, and so forth
• Go backwards, 4, 3, 2, 1
• Or maybe a free for all – have students pick their favorite number and repeat

There are 4 levels of rhythms all with increasing difficulty

• Quarters and Eighths
• Half Notes
• Eighth Note Rests
• Triplets

Have a great time with this!

Inspirational quotes about music by famous authors and composers, with a zen-tangle style abstract coloring background, printable bookmarks for kids, teens, and adults, DIGITAL DOWNLOAD coloring page. These bookmarks could be used as personalized gift tags or cards for students, teachers, friends, or family, could be used as a fun coloring activity at a party, in the classroom, given out as party favors, or done as a homeschool activity, or relaxing family activity.

For best results print them on thick cardstock paper.

YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE:

• Music Quotes Doodle Coloring Bookmarks SET#2
• Watercolor bookmarks with music quotes

Files include:

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US-letter size pages 8.5” by 11”.

Large bookmarks measure about 8.25" by 2.5",

and smaller set 7" by 2".

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Back by popular demand is the next listening calendar! We've been taking your suggestions and have made adjustments for the October 2020 listening calendar! For this spooky time of year, we have filled this month's calendar with some tricks and treats!

We're trying a new format where you can share this digital PDF to students and they can click on the song and be taken directly to our YouTube playlist.

You do have permission to share this with your students as needed. Please direct your colleagues here to purchase their own calendar.

Thank you for your interest in our calendars!

Looking for a way to incorporate the Little Blue Truck books into your music classroom or jazz up your reading time of the Little Blue Truck series? These songs written for the Little Blue Truck books summarize what happens in the book while using the almost the same exact melody. Once your students have learned the first melody for Little Blue Truck, the melody stays mostly the same but the lyrics change with each different Little Blue Truck book that you own. This makes it easier to plug into future lessons involving these books. Included in this collection are Little Blue Truck, Little Blue Truck Time for School, Little Blue Truck's Halloween, Little Blue Truck's Christmas, Little Blue Truck Makes a Friend, Good Night Little Blue Truck, and Little Blue Truck's Valentine's Day. For grades PreK-2nd grade. Ukulele chords included for accompaniment purposes.

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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.

New Style! This recently updated set of cards features a bright & bold rainbow theme and clear text against a white background. As requested, there are now full-page posters for each music term!

This set of 7 Hispanic Heritage Month Music and Dance Styles Reading Comprehension Passages is a vibrant collection that celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the Hispanic community.

Each passage focuses on a different music or dance style, providing an engaging exploration of its history, significance, and influence.

The passages cover a variety of styles, including:

• Flamenco
• Salsa
• Mariachi
• Tango
• Cumbia
• Merengue
• Bachata

Each passage comes with a set of written response questions that encourage students to delve deeper into the text and reflect on what they’ve learned. These questions are designed to test comprehension, stimulate discussion, and promote a deeper understanding of the material.

To assist in grading and provide clear feedback, each passage also includes an answer key. This allows for quick and easy assessment of students’ understanding and helps guide future instruction.

You May Also Like:

• Mexican music instruments reading comprehension passages
• Hispanic Heritage Month Reading Comprehension Passages
• Mexican Independence Day reading comprehension passages
• Hispanic Heritage Month music bingo game
• Hispanic Heritage Month Mexican/Spanish Food Reading

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Are you looking for something fun and different for your students? Maybe you need some extra activities for early finishers...well look no further!

Entertain your class while integrating music and language with Music Wordle! This resources includes 46 Music Wordles that you can assign to your students or play together as a class. You could even hold a competition to see who can solve each Worldle first! There is lots of flexibility on how you can use this resource. I created this in Google Sheets. Your Music Wordle Google Sheet will include links to each of the 46 Music Wordle Puzzles. I've included a solutions tab as well as a table that includes puzzle hints, if you choose to share with your students. Each hyperlink is set up for you to make a copy of the Music World Puzzle before you play.

Key Features:

• Concise 4-Paragraph Format: Breaks down topics into manageable sections for maximum understanding. Written at a 7th grade ESOL student level but suitable for a wide range of learners.
• Four Comprehension Questions: Encourages critical thinking and tests knowledge effectively.
• Answer Key Included: Simplifies grading and ensures accurate evaluation.
• Multi-Purpose Use: Ideal for lessons, homework, assessments, or review activities.
• Wide Topic Range: This is one assignment from a series of 10. Buy different topics to use for group projects / study guides and more.

Visit my store today for bundle deals on this series and discover other engaging, ready-to-use assignments for your classroom needs!

Elevate your autumn musical events with this versatile fall leaves concert program template. Perfect for chorus or band concerts, this colorful design showcases a beautiful border of autumn leaves, bringing the warmth and beauty of the season to your school performances. Compatible with Google Slides™, we've taken the guesswork out of the design so you can focus on your event, and most importantly, your students!

Features:

• Compatible with Google Slides™
• 11"x8.5" US letter size, landscape orientation, folds into a half-sheet 5.5"x8.5" booklet
• Print, save or share electronically
• Choose to print in black-and-white or color
• Includes instructions on recoloring any design element
• Easily add important information like your school name, date, location, and time
• All resources use Google Fonts™ and can be downloaded for free from fonts.google.com

Printing directions: Adjust your print settings to US letter size, landscape orientation. To print two-sided, flip on the short edge. Printing one sheet front-and-back creates a 4-page folded booklet; printing two sheets front-to-back creates an 8-page folded booklet, and so on.

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A game that will keep your 4th and 5th graders entertained, engaged, and competitively charged, here's INSTRUMENT IMPOSTER inspired by "Among Us"!

In Instrument Imposter, you will see 2 or 3 "crewmates" assigned with different woodwind, brass, percussion, or string instruments

A musical example will be played where all of the crewmates will play their assigned their instruments (either separated or together).

During the example, You, along with your students, will soon find out that the one of the instruments was the the wrong instrument played (the FLUTE crewmate shown actually played the CLARINET... or maybe the SNARE DRUM crewmate played the XYLOPHONE)

Your task is to decide which crewmate is the IMPOSTER by selecting the one crewmate instrumentalist who didn't play the correct instrumenr). Advance the slide and check your answer and go through the rounds!

Included in this resource are

• Mp3 examples embedded in each question
• A printout where you can replicate and cut out cards (if you want the students to place on the floor or hold up to show which one was the imposter)
• 3 levels of rhythms with 2 and 3 imposters (last one is a duet!) :)

Have a terrific time with this while your kids study timbre and the instrument families!

Early finisher or sub plans addition bookmarks/cards with inspirational quotes about music with musicians and doodle swirls to color, these could be used as student rewards or calm activity.

Could also be used as personalized gift tags or cards for students, teachers, friends, or family, could be used as a fun coloring activity at a party, in the classroom, given out as party favors, or done as a homeschool activity, or relaxing family activity.

For best results print them on thick white cardstock paper or colored cardstock.

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Music Quotes Coloring Bookmarks SET #1

Files include:

1 Pdf 2 pages

US-letter size pages 8.5” by 11”.

Large bookmarks measure about 8.25" by 2.5",

and smaller set 7" by 2".

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