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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
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!
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
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:
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!
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.
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!
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.
This resource is versatile and can be used in several ways:
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
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.
The Elements of Pop! (*Distance Learning Approved!*)
By Jason Litt
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 :)
The Elements of Pop! (*Distance Learning Approved!*)
By Jason Litt
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 :)
By Jason Litt
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!
Rhythm and Rest (30 sight reading rhythms w/ quarter and half rests)
By Jason Litt
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
Quarter Rests and Half Note Rests with Quarter Notes
Adding in Eighth Notes
Six beat patterns
Twos Company - Part I (Duet Rhythmic Warmups with mp3s)
By Jason Litt
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!
Identify Form in Pop Music - Part EIGHT!
By Jason Litt
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!
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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
NOTE TAPZ - 16 Sight reading pages using F, G, and A
By ZS Music Publishing
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.
NOTE TAPZ - 16 Sight reading pages using G, A, and B
By ZS Music Publishing
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.