Vocal Music Assessment (by date, oldest first)

We've got another interactive game you can use with your students on your teaching screens!

Our SCHOOL SUPPLIES WORD RHYTHMS INTERACTIVE GAME is a great way to not only review beats and rhythms at the start of the year, but tie in technology as well!

This interactive resource is intended to be used in tandem with our School Supply Word Rhythms Packet but can be used on its own! (We will have a bundle with both resources coming soon!

The file is a presentation software fomat that you can upload and use with popular presentation applications such as Google Slides, Mac Keynote, and Microsoft PowerPoint, and you can try to upload this to Google Classroom as well.

School Supply Word Rhythms uses icons, notation, and words to review Quarter Notes, 8th Notes, 16th Notes, and 1 8th-2 16th patterns. There is also a set of slides in the file for you to review or introduce the icons and their words with the number of sounds.

In the presentation file, you will have the following slides after the title and direction slides:

• Pencil Icon
• Pen Icon
• Highlighter Icon
• Colored Pencil Icon
• Pencil Icon with the word
• Pen Icon with the word
• Highlighter Icon with the word
• Colored Pencil Icon with the word
• Pencil Icon with the word and number of sounds
• Pen Icon with the word and number of sounds
• Highlighter Icon with the word and number of sounds
• Colored Pencil Icon with the word and number of sounds
• Quarter and 8th Notes as icons: Pens and Pencils
• Quarter Notes, 8th Notes, 1 8th-2 16ths as icons: Pens, Pencils, and Highlighters.
• Quarter Notes, 8th Notes, 1 8th-2 16ths, and 16th notes as icons: Pens, Pencils, Highlighters, and Colored Pencils.
• Quarter and 8th Notes as notation.
• Quarter Notes, 8th Notes, 1 8th-2 16ths as notation.
• Quarter Notes, 8th Notes, 1 8th-2 16ths, and 16th notes as notation.
• Quarter and 8th Notes as wrods: Pens and Pencils
• Quarter Notes, 8th Notes, 1 8th-2 16ths as words: Pens, Pencils, and Highlighters.
• Quarter Notes, 8th Notes, 1 8th-2 16ths, and 16th notes as words: Pens, Pencils, Highlighters, and Colored Pencils.

To play the game, simply select the slide you'd like to use with your kids, drag the icons, notes, words to the blank squares on the slide and you've composed your own rhythm! It's that easy! Everything else is locked down so the only moveable objects in the slides are the icons/notes/words to compose with. You are also welcome to move the slides around as you see fit for your classes.

We hope that you have fun and have a great experience with this interactive resource!

If you find that you enjoy this resource, be sure to leave a review and rating here so other teachers can find the resource! Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated!

Catalog: MTP-SWRI-DG

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Tap away your finger number problems with these tapping pages we call FINGER TAPZ!

Finger Tapz is a set of exercises you can assign students to work on learning their finger numbers as well as finger dexterity.

Finger Tapz Set 1 includes 125 exercises on 25 pages that all start with Finger 1.

Each page in the set features 5 rows each colored differently so students know which row to play. The fun of Finger Tapz happens when you choose a random starting point and tell students to play up and down, side to side, diagonally, or in whatever direction giving students a variety of ways to tap through the page.

Here's how the exercises work, you place the selected page(s) in front of the student and have them tap those fingers either on a solid surface, their lap, or even on the keys! You can also keep these digitally and pull them up on a tablet if you so choose!

A built-in bonus with these exercises is the possibility of using these to introduce composing with your students by having your students place their hands on different spots on the keyboard!

If this sounds like a solution you've been needing, be sure to download Finger Tapz today and get working with your students' fingers!

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated!

Catalog: MTP-FTS1-DG

© 2024 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Tap away your finger number problems with these tapping pages we call FINGER TAPZ!

Finger Tapz is a set of exercises you can assign students to work on learning their finger numbers as well as finger dexterity.

Finger Tapz Set 4 includes 125 exercises on 25 pages that all start with Finger 4.

Each page in the set features 5 rows each colored differently so students know which row to play. The fun of Finger Tapz happens when you choose a random starting point and tell students to play up and down, side to side, diagonally, or in whatever direction giving students a variety of ways to tap through the page.

Here's how the exercises work, you place the selected page(s) in front of the student and have them tap those fingers either on a solid surface, their lap, or even on the keys! You can also keep these digitally and pull them up on a tablet if you so choose!

A built-in bonus with these exercises is the possibility of using these to introduce composing with your students by having your students place their hands on different spots on the keyboard!

If this sounds like a solution you've been needing, be sure to download Finger Tapz today and get working with your students' fingers!

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated!

Catalog: MTP-FTS4-DG

© 2024 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Tap away your finger number problems with these tapping pages we call FINGER TAPZ!

Finger Tapz is a set of exercises you can assign students to work on learning their finger numbers as well as finger dexterity.

Finger Tapz Set 3 includes 125 exercises on 25 pages that all start with Finger 3.

Each page in the set features 5 rows each colored differently so students know which row to play. The fun of Finger Tapz happens when you choose a random starting point and tell students to play up and down, side to side, diagonally, or in whatever direction giving students a variety of ways to tap through the page.

Here's how the exercises work, you place the selected page(s) in front of the student and have them tap those fingers either on a solid surface, their lap, or even on the keys! You can also keep these digitally and pull them up on a tablet if you so choose!

A built-in bonus with these exercises is the possibility of using these to introduce composing with your students by having your students place their hands on different spots on the keyboard!

If this sounds like a solution you've been needing, be sure to download Finger Tapz today and get working with your students' fingers!

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated!

Catalog: MTP-FTS3-DG

© 2024 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

ap away your sightreading problems with these pages we call NOTE TAPZ!

Note Tapz is a set of exercises you can assign students to work on sightreading.

Note Tapz Set 5 includes 80 exercises on 16 pages that all use the notes A-B-C.

Each page in the set features 5 rows each colored differently so students know which row to play. The fun of Note Tapz happens when you choose a random starting point and tell students to play up and down, side to side, diagonally, or in whatever direction giving students a variety of ways to tap through the page.

Here's how the exercises work, you place the selected page(s) in front of the student and have the student read the notes on the page as you have directed them to do so.

A built-in bonus with these exercises is the possibility of using these to introduce composing with your students by having your students pick their own path to compose a simple three-note song!

If this sounds like a solution you've been needing, be sure to download Note Tapz today and get working with your students' sight-reading!

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated!

Catalog: MTP-NTS4-DG

© 2024 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Tap away your sightreading problems with these pages we call NOTE TAPZ!

Note Tapz is a set of exercises you can assign students to work on sightreading.

Note Tapz Set 4 includes 80 exercises on 16 pages that all use the notes D-E-F.

Each page in the set features 5 rows each colored differently so students know which row to play. The fun of Note Tapz happens when you choose a random starting point and tell students to play up and down, side to side, diagonally, or in whatever direction giving students a variety of ways to tap through the page.

Here's how the exercises work, you place the selected page(s) in front of the student and have the student read the notes on the page as you have directed them to do so.

A built-in bonus with these exercises is the possibility of using these to introduce composing with your students by having your students pick their own path to compose a simple three-note song!

If this sounds like a solution you've been needing, be sure to download Note Tapz today and get working with your students' sight-reading!

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated!

Catalog: MTP-NTS4-DG

© 2024 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Tap away your finger number problems with these tapping pages we call FINGER TAPZ!

Finger Tapz is a set of exercises you can assign students to work on learning their finger numbers as well as finger dexterity.

Finger Tapz Set 2 includes 125 exercises on 25 pages that all start with Finger 2.

Each page in the set features 5 rows each colored differently so students know which row to play. The fun of Finger Tapz happens when you choose a random starting point and tell students to play up and down, side to side, diagonally, or in whatever direction giving students a variety of ways to tap through the page.

Here's how the exercises work, you place the selected page(s) in front of the student and have them tap those fingers either on a solid surface, their lap, or even on the keys! You can also keep these digitally and pull them up on a tablet if you so choose!

A built-in bonus with these exercises is the possibility of using these to introduce composing with your students by having your students place their hands on different spots on the keyboard!

If this sounds like a solution you've been needing, be sure to download Finger Tapz today and get working with your students' fingers!

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated!

Catalog: MTP-FTS2-DG

© 2024 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Tap away your finger number problems with these tapping pages we call FINGER TAPZ!

Finger Tapz is a set of exercises you can assign students to work on learning their finger numbers as well as finger dexterity.

Finger Tapz Set 5 includes 125 exercises on 25 pages that all start with Finger 5.

Each page in the set features 5 rows each colored differently so students know which row to play. The fun of Finger Tapz happens when you choose a random starting point and tell students to play up and down, side to side, diagonally, or in whatever direction giving students a variety of ways to tap through the page.

Here's how the exercises work, you place the selected page(s) in front of the student and have them tap those fingers either on a solid surface, their lap, or even on the keys! You can also keep these digitally and pull them up on a tablet if you so choose!

A built-in bonus with these exercises is the possibility of using these to introduce composing with your students by having your students place their hands on different spots on the keyboard!

If this sounds like a solution you've been needing, be sure to download Finger Tapz today and get working with your students' fingers!

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated!

Catalog: MTP-FTS5-DG

© 2024 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Tap away your sightreading problems with these pages we call NOTE TAPZ!

Note Tapz is a set of exercises you can assign students to work on sightreading.

Note Tapz Set 1 includes 80 exercises on 16 pages that all use the notes C-D-E.

Each page in the set features 5 rows each colored differently so students know which row to play. The fun of Note Tapz happens when you choose a random starting point and tell students to play up and down, side to side, diagonally, or in whatever direction giving students a variety of ways to tap through the page.

Here's how the exercises work, you place the selected page(s) in front of the student and have the student read the notes on the page as you have directed them to do so.

A built-in bonus with these exercises is the possibility of using these to introduce composing with your students by having your students pick their own path to compose a simple three-note song!

If this sounds like a solution you've been needing, be sure to download Note Tapz today and get working with your students' sight-reading!

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated!

Catalog: MTP-NTS1-DG

© 2024 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Tap away your sightreading problems with these pages we call NOTE TAPZ!

Note Tapz is a set of exercises you can assign students to work on sightreading.

Note Tapz Set 2 includes 80 exercises on 16 pages that all use the notes F-G-A.

Each page in the set features 5 rows each colored differently so students know which row to play. The fun of Note Tapz happens when you choose a random starting point and tell students to play up and down, side to side, diagonally, or in whatever direction giving students a variety of ways to tap through the page.

Here's how the exercises work, you place the selected page(s) in front of the student and have the student read the notes on the page as you have directed them to do so.

A built-in bonus with these exercises is the possibility of using these to introduce composing with your students by having your students pick their own path to compose a simple three-note song!

If this sounds like a solution you've been needing, be sure to download Note Tapz today and get working with your students' sight-reading!

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated!

Catalog: MTP-NTS2-DG

© 2024 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Tap away your sightreading problems with these pages we call NOTE TAPZ!

Note Tapz is a set of exercises you can assign students to work on sightreading.

Note Tapz Set 3 includes 80 exercises on 16 pages that all use the notes G-A-B.

Each page in the set features 5 rows each colored differently so students know which row to play. The fun of Note Tapz happens when you choose a random starting point and tell students to play up and down, side to side, diagonally, or in whatever direction giving students a variety of ways to tap through the page.

Here's how the exercises work, you place the selected page(s) in front of the student and have the student read the notes on the page as you have directed them to do so.

A built-in bonus with these exercises is the possibility of using these to introduce composing with your students by having your students pick their own path to compose a simple three-note song!

If this sounds like a solution you've been needing, be sure to download Note Tapz today and get working with your students' sight-reading!

Your support of a small business is greatly appreciated!

Catalog: MTP-NTS3-DG

© 2024 ZS Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

We're BACK and for 2022 in the follow-up to the #1 selling "Identify Form in Pop Music" series, we now bring you....

Part EIGHT!

Kids love their pop music, right? Want to integrate it into your classroom? This is great lesson to do with 4th and 5th graders that lets them listen to their favorite pop music (as always, kid friendly 100% CLEAN!) while learning about musical form!

The lesson begins with an introduction to popular music and how the music is formulated by the artists songwriters. We talk about the intro, verse, chorus, bridge, and outro, and include the collision and the channel and then go onto our activity.

I cut out cards... a whole bunch of intros, verses, chorus, bridges, outros, channels, and collisions (or you can do it with a whiteboard/marker, or even as a unison class response) and give them to each student, then have have the kids sit on the floor. I then play an mp3 of a song which has 10 second clips of each of the sections (there is about a 2-4 second gap in between each clip and all clips are safe for little ears -- no profanity!) and have the students identify them by spelling them out on the floor in front of them. This works great if you're putting kids into groups of 2 or 3 as they try to figure out the form of the song.

It's a great compromise to having your kids listen to their music and still satisfy a 4th and 5th grade standard in identifying the structure of music!

The 2022 hit list:

• Enemy, Imagine Dragons
• Something in the Way, Nirvana (from The Batman)
• Good 4 U, Olivia Rodrigo
• We Don't Talk About Bruno, Encanto
• Easy on Me, Adele
• Butter, BTS
• Cold Heart, Dua Lipa/Elton John
• Ghost, Justin Bieber
• Heat Waves, Glass Animals
• Bad Habits, Ed Sheeran

If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment email me at jasonlitt@gmail.com

Have fun, kids LOVE this!

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All the previous versions can be found here:

Identify Form in Pop Music

Identify Form in Pop Music PART TWO

Identify Form in Pop Music PART THREE

Identify Form in Pop Music PART FOUR

Identify Form in Pop Music PART FIVE

Identify Form in Pop Music PART SIX

Identify Form in Pop Music PART SEVEN

In "Twos Company" students will see two 4-beat rhythmic examples on the powerpoint and will split amongs their peers as a duet and read the rhythms down, with instruments, vocalizing, or however you please!

Students can be the "1" part or the "2" part or you can call individuals to sight read, or split it up any way you wish.

There are 25 different examples with inflections, style, and background grooves to keep you going (at different tempi if you'd like)

In this resource, it encompasses quarter notes, quarter rests, half notes, dynamics (forte and piano), and repeat signs into a canon exercise (to be repeated 4 times)

You can play these on boomwhackers, classroom percussion, Orff, recorders, or whatever you'd like.

Part II coming soon with extended rhythms and more!

This resource Rhythm and Rest is terrific for your kids as an introduction to quarter and half rests or just as a warmup for whichever instrument you may be practicing (recorder, orff, handbells, voice, etc!)

30 slides with 3 different levels

1. Quarter Rests and Half Note Rests with Quarter Notes

2. Adding in Eighth Notes

3. Six beat patterns

Looking to start (or end your year) with a few fun Bucket Drumming resources... and at 20% off when purchased as a MegaPack right here? Say no more and try out BUCKETS of BUCKETS!

Included in this are 4 great resources for your bucket drumming kids:

• Super Bucket Drumming Bros.
• Stick it to the Buckets! (Sticking Patterns for Bucket Drums)
• Bucket it, DYNAMICALLY! (60 Dynamic Exercises for Bucket Drums!)
• Poison Bucket Patterns! (Poison Patterns/Poison Rhythms)

Check out the resources by clicking above and decide if this is right for your students who can benefit from the lessons. Each resource includes a powerpoint file and PDF file and satisfies assessment requirements for your students in game, practice, and sequential formats

Want your kids to have their cake and eat it too? Turn pop music into an engaging and fun lesson with "Identify Timbre in Pop Music!"

Before your begin this lesson, make sure your kids have an understanding of the four families of instruments, Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion, and Strings and know multiple instruments in each family as they will utilize their aural skills during this activity.

As we know, timbre is the quality of sound an instrument makes. Students will listen to 11 examples of popular music and be given 3 multiple choice answers of instruments in the song example. They will then have to choose answer 1, 2, or 3 after listening to the example.

Advance the slide to illuminate the correct answer (in light blue) and assess from there! You can play this individually, as a class, have students write it down, or even play it as a race to see who can get the answer correct first!

All mp3 files are embedded into the slides -- just extract right to your desktop and they should link up and play.

Song examples included:

• High Hopes, Panic! at the Disco

• Hotline Bling, Drake

• 24k Magic, Bruno Mars

• Believer, Imagine Dragons

• Perfect, Ed Sheeran

• Levitating, Dua Lipa

• Into the Unknown, Panic! at the Disco

• Old Town Road, Lil Nas X

• BANG!, AJR

• Don't Start Now, Dua Lipa

• Watermelon Sugar, Harry Styles

  Have a terrific time with this!

In this AMONG US themed MEGAPack, you will get 8 custom games that are ALL ABOUT AMONG US!

Content Covered:

• Major and Minor Tonality
• Meter/Time Signature
• Instrument Families
• Notes of the Treble Cleff Staff
• Solfege
• Instrument Timbre (Aural Theory)
• Rhythm
• Rhythm Reading (to complete tasks)

You can check out the individual lesson content by clicking each link below, but buying them all together here you will receive a 15% discount

One "Minor" Imposter ("Among Us" theme chord quality identification)

Meter Imposter ("Among Us" theme Time Signature practice!)
Among Instrument Families

Staff Imposter ("Among Us" themed Treble Clef Staff practice!)

Solfege Imposter ("Among Us" themed solfege lesson!)
Instrument Imposter ("Among Us" theme timbre lesson!)

Rhythm Imposter ("Among Us" theme Aural Theory!)

Among Rhythm ("Among Us" themed Rhythm Practice)

In this MEGAPACK of Jeopardy, you will get everything you need run a Jeopardy! style game of review with 5 different games with 4 categories each game!

Instrument Jeopardy

Woodwinds
Brass
Percussion
Strings

Percussion Jeopardy

Pitched Percussion

Unpitched Percussion

Percussion FX

Percussion Techniques (How to Play)

Solfege Jeopardy

Give me a Hand - A description of the hand sign and students will have to guess which syllable
Take a Look - Students will see the sign and have to guess which syllable
Scale it - The following and preceding notes in the solfege scale

Extended Solfege - Lowered and raised versions of common solfege

Notation Jeopardy

Level 1 - Easy
Level 2 - Medium

Level 3 - Medium Difficult
Level 4 - Difficult

Notation Jeopardy 2.0

Spell it out! (Spelling words with treble clef notation)

Add it up! (Adding notation values up to arrive at an answer)

Give it a rest! (Questions about rests, rest names, and durations)

Duration nation (Identify duration of notes)

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. Students (keeping in true Jeopardy! fashion) can answer in the form of a question

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!

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 :)